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Thank CTOnews.com netizens for not taking the lead in the delivery of clues from Big Brother and OC_Formula! CTOnews.com Sept. 16, DOTA2 officially announced that the Dota Professional Tour is over: 2023 is the last year of the DPC. Dota events have already started many years earlier than DPC, and will continue to develop for a long time. The International Invitational tournament will also continue-officials are already working on the 2024 International Invitational tournament, and there will be more talk about how the invitation mechanism will change next year.

It is understood that the DOTA2 Professional Tour aims to forge the core event system of the global DOTA2 professional ecology. Every season, there will be a six-week regional league, and the winning team will successfully enter the Major and TI tournaments.

CTOnews.com attached official original text:

We started the Dota Professional Tour in 2017 to answer an increasingly frequent question: how is the quota for the International Invitational tournament determined? Prior to this, most of the invited places were "golden tickets" issued by Valve, and a few were determined by regional qualifiers. Issuing these invitations is the most exciting time of the year for players, but it is difficult for professionals (and their fans) to know exactly how to enter the international invitational tournament. We understand that every invitation mechanism has its pros and cons, so we set out to create a clearer and transparent system.

In order to achieve this limited goal, we succeeded. DPC makes the criteria of the invitation mechanism no longer mysterious, and professionals can more easily understand how far away they are from the international invitational tournament. The downside is that DPC has brought a series of rules and regulations, and the price paid for complying with these rules has become more and more obvious over the years: Dota competitions around the world are not exciting or diverse enough, and the viewing is greatly reduced.

As the only official league, DPC has a firm grip on the annual event calendar. There is less and less innovation among event organizers, because that's what we ask of them: instead of competing for spectators and contestants by making fascinating and creative tournaments, they compete for how to comply with a long list of strict requirements of Valve (number of teams, live languages, competition system, etc.).

Relaxing these requirements will not help. Whether these requirements are set out of good intentions, or whether the organizers are trying to meet them, it gradually deviates from the original intention of the event: to display the Dota in a way that is as interesting as possible to attract contestants and spectators to watch. Our ideal situation is that the competition for the event organizers is not to attract our attention, but yours.

Before we introduced these restrictions, Dota events were healthier, more robust and more diverse than they are now. Previous competitions were less rigid, more creative, and more flexible. Everything is open and free to explore: event cycles, venue themes, teams and even the most basic event design. There was an unrestricted beauty at that time-casual family gatherings, with oysters set as competition bonuses, along with the Dota Asia Invitational and other one-off invitations. Dota events have slowly shifted from fun and creativity to today's boring, almost monotonous culture, and it's too absolute to blame DPC for all this, but the tremendous pressure and motivation generated by DPC played a role. The Dota community has more than a decade of grass-roots experience in creating creative and fun events, and now DPC is in the way.

With this in mind, the Dota Professional Tour is over: 2023 is the last year of the DPC.

Dota events have already started many years earlier than DPC, and will continue to develop for a long time. The International Invitational tournament will also continue-we are already working on the 2024 International Invitational tournament, and next year we will talk more about how the invitation mechanism has changed. But now let's turn our attention to this year's tournament-incredibly, it's only four weeks before it starts.

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