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Dota 2 Beyond The Summit is Cancelled

The new Dota 2 calendar of tournaments had eleven Dota 2 Major tournaments scheduled. That schedule also included Dota 2 Beyond the Summit. However, things have changed and this year, Dota 2 season will feature ten Major tournaments as it was announced that Beyond the Summit has been cancelled just a couple of days ago. In the last couple of years, Beyond the Summit has been one of the most interesting Dota 2 tournaments in the entire season and players loved this tournament.

However, this season, things will be different as the organizers had a lot of problems with finding partners for the organization of the event.

The Lack of Partners

Even though Beyond the Summit is a very strong eSports organization based in Los Angeles, they are not capable of organizing Dota 2 Major without big partners that have been contributing to the event in the last couple of years. According to some reports, the biggest issue appeared during the negotiations with Next Generation Esports or NGE. Currently, NGE is the biggest production company in eSports industry and they are currently the sole provider of the coverage of Rocket League official competitions.

David ‘LD’ Gorman, the co-founder of Beyond the Summit, has officially confirmed that there will be no Dota 2 Beyond the Summit Major tournament this season. According to his statement, both Beyond the Summit and Next Generation Esports have been in talks about organizing the Dota 2 Major in March next year. However, it turned out that the organization of that tournament did not make any sense for either company which seems a bit strange considering the popularity of Dota 2 competitions in the entire world.

It seems that the biggest problem was related to the financial aspect of the tournament. Both BTS and NGE did not see a point in organizing such an expensive tournament. The problem appeared when Valve decided to increase the number of Major tournaments which meant that organizers would have to secure much bigger prize pools.

The Reduction of Qualification Points

With the new system of competition, Valve has introduced the qualification points for The International 8. Considering that Major Dota 2 tournaments featured a huge number of those points, the cancellation of one Major will significantly impact the number of available points for the team. The importance of Major tournaments was demonstrated a couple of weeks ago when Virtus. pro won ESL One Hamburg Major and took the first place in the standings for the International 8.

So far, Valve has not commented on this issue and it is possible that there will be some other organizer who will be stepping in and taking over the dates that were reserved for Beyond the Summit. However, it seems that there are no interesting sides for the organization of Dota 2 Major at least at this time which means that there will be ten Dota 2 Major tournaments this year.

Beyond the Summit has announced that other eSports events that they will be organized will be organized according to the previously determined plans and that no other eSports will be cancelled by them.