It is no secret that a decent chunk of the competitive Dota 2 <\/em>community aren’t big fans of how Valve has set up the Dota <\/em>Pro Circuit system and its internal seasonal structure. This has been the case since the initial swap to a seasonal format for the 2021 DPC and many of those issues have only become more apparent with the expanded scope of the 2022 season.\u00a0<\/p>
You can turn on any professional player\u2019s stream or look on Twitter and potentially see some discourse about the DPC. But hearing an on-the-fly response from someone like Team Secret captain Clement “Puppey” Ivanov really hammers home how deep the dislike for the system runs.\u00a0<\/p>
Several hours after qualifying for his 11th straight iteration of The International out of the TI11 Last Chance Qualifier, Pupper outright said that he hated this season of the DPC for a number of reasons\u2014one of which being the overall format.\u00a0<\/p>
\u201cI don\u2019t think there is time. There is no time in these past DPC [seasons], you only have two chances,\u201d Puppey said<\/a>. \u201cEven if you qualify [for] and win the third Major, you\u2019re not even going to TI. Actually, get the hell out of here.\u201d<\/p>
\u201cIt\u2019s a bugged system. It\u2019s not that good,\u201d Puppey said<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s too stressful. Six weeks stuck somewhere plus two weeks of pre-boot camp or something like that, it\u2019s a bit of a yikes. Esports is fast, we\u2019re not morons who constantly work out for something. We don\u2019t need downtime and I don\u2019t understand what this bullshit is about esports needing some kind of downtime.\u201d<\/p>
