Announcements of major Dota 2 tournaments! Latest news from Gabe Newell

The big tournament operator ESL made everyone happy with good news. It is about the holding of two major LAN tournaments in Dota 2.

Tournament names will correspond to the seasons of the year – ESL One Summer and ESL One Winter. The prize pool for each tournament will be $ 400,000. The amount is impressive since this is practically the same prize pool as at the Major.

The summer tournament will be held without spectators, but access will already be open to visitors during the winter tournament. No other details have yet been received from the operator.

The next Dota 2 Major will be held in Singapore

After a recent leak from a major tournament organizer’s website, it became known that the first Major in 2021 will be held in Singapore. Other information was also indicated, where the tournament will take place and how many teams and regions will participate in it.

The announcement was immediately removed from the site, most likely because this tournament’s announcement was supposed to be meaningful and occur at the end of the Dota Pro Circuit, not just as a mention on the site. I will also immediately try to get ahead of the skeptics and say that most likely it was really not a mistake, and the first Major will be held in Asia since the situation with Covid-19 is already in order there.

Gabe shared his plans for the future. Valve will move to New Zealand? CS: GO, and Dota 2 tournaments will be held in New Zealand

But this is nothing compared to the news from New Zealand and Gabe Newell himself, the CEO of Valve. In an interview, Gabe said that due to the situation with Covid-19, he believes that there is no safer place to hold events for CS: GO and Dota 2, like New Zealand. And if you think about it, then it is. The International was going to be held in Sweden, but if the pandemic situation is still at the same high level, Gabe will most likely move the tournament to New Zealand. This is not just that, all because in this country, even now, stadiums are open, and mass events are allowed in connection with a deficient percentage of cases. In other words, Covid-19 has bypassed New Zealand. It’s no coincidence that Newell has been living there for almost a year.

In fact, this is great news, and in fact, Gabe will have no choice but to host The International in New Zealand since he will not be forgiven for postponing it for another year.

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