Dota 2 Analyst Ben Noxville Steenuisen told how Valve could form a list of participants The international 2023 considering majors and minors canceled due to coronavirus. He proposed to give invites to the seven best teams of the current DPC rating, and play the remaining slots in the regional qualifiers and the general Wildcard qualification. Steenuisen tweeted about this.
Noxville proposed Valve the following format:
- Issue invites to the seven best teams of the current DPC rating – TNC Predator, Vici gaming, Team secret, Evil geniuses, Invictus gaming, Alliance and Team liquid.
- Conduct closed qualifiers for six regions in which to play one quota for the main tournament.
- Hold a Wildcard qualification with six teams (one from each region), where to play three more quotas for the main tournament.
In this format, Valve will be able to determine 16 teams to participate in The International 2023. Note that starting from 2017, the organizers invited 18 teams, two of which dropped out after the group stage.
Many users in the comments to the post agreed with the format of Steenizen, but some also offered to give an invite to the champion of last year’s tournament – the team Og.
Initially, the DPC format implies that the direct invites to The International 2023 will receive the 12 best teams of the season. The current rating looks like this:
- TNC Predator – 5,320;
- Vici gaming – 5,100;
- Team secret – 4,950;
- Evil geniuses – 4,450;
- Invictus gaming – 3,100;
- Alliance – 1 920;
- Team liquid – 1 820;
- business associates – 960;
- beastcoast – 820;
- Team aster – 440;
- Fnatic – 400;
- Chaos – 241.44.
The full list can be found here.
In March, Valve canceled three tournaments in the Dota Pro Circuit 2019/2020 season: ESL One Los Angeles 2023 and EPICENTER Major 2023 majors, as well as OGA Dota PIT major in Croatia. Until the end of the season, another major is scheduled to take place in Singapore, which is scheduled for June 20–28, but its holding is also under threat due to the fact that the country’s authorities imposed a restriction on mass events. Read more about this here.
