agreed

In the end better team qualifies so no problem

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First.

and i thought SEA is the worse region lol

good article ty

IP region lock with pub games. Russians play on Russia server. etc..

Region lock would be neat.
Different playstyles can be clearly felt between regions, and it can mess up the team play, not to mention communication

And here I am on SA server

It's amusing that Australia and New Zealand are literally never mentioned. We have servers of our own but I guess we fall, technically, into the SEA region?

That or we are just not good enough across the board.

I like the fact that WESG is attempting to bring Africa into the scene by flying teams out to lan in Dubai for the qualifiers.

Typed a MASSIVE STORY but deleted it because people will argue...

Anyway, MEA qualifiers for WESG are the best things to happen for African esports. It would be nice to see those in other premier events.
Yes, the skill cap in Africa is lower than most of the world but we are still very good. Teams here definitely deserve at least one qualifier spot in most major events. This skill difference is due to the lack of exposure to other regions. We just "pick up bad habits" from playing each other and easily beating low skill players and teams in the continent.
Another issue is the lack of ranked matchmaking happening in the South African server. You might find a ranked game after a few hours of searching if you're lucky. Most players in the country either calibrated and left it at that, don't play ranked at all, or play in EU with the ping. We've got a few players hitting leaderboards for a variety of things but none for MMR as far as I know. I do know that we have a lot of 4-6k players thanks to the International Ranked but it sort of died when that finished.
I don't know, I would just like to see more integration between Africa and the rest of the world when it comes to esports. We definitely need our own regional qualifiers because the only server (South Africa) is on the other side of the world to all of the closest servers.

Dota needs a region lock, I'm tired of people from other regions trying to play with high ping and ruining the game.

While we're at it, I personally would love an article explaining in more detail the above mentioned regional styles and their differences, i.e. How are Chinese, CIS and American teams different from each other. Please someone write one :-)

Just get peruvians who cant speak english out of na servers. thx.

^ agreed

WHAT REGION IN DOTA WHAT IS GAME COORDINATOR VALVE

@Sykys
this, I'm tired of being trash talked in spanish and portuguese.

There has been a huge influx of non-english speaking players on US East (and I think US West also). They can't coordinate anything with the english speakers on the team and will really frustrate everyone on the team.
They also tend to be a majority of the "practically afk player that jungles the whole game never helping the team". This can be a valid strategy in a evenly balanced game, or when the other team takes the same playstyle, but completely fails against an early hard hitting gank team on the other side. Not defending towers early causes your own team to lose a lot of space and is not a viable strategy.

azerbaijan 4ever

NA brokeBack

US East is a waste of time. Peruvian infestation is live and well.

I think the competition is lower in the US since Dota is not very popular. LoL has taken over.

Just let us report players who can't speak the language of the server

I do find it impressive that there are three other players from SA server's are posting here considering our relatively small player base but I do agree, what WESG did was great for our scene and I really hope more events will consider doing qualifiers for MEA as it will help grow our scene. we have some immensely talented people in the region, not just players but also talent, Look at Noxville and Scant.

all I can hope is that more events and people give us a shot.

nice post

plebs

What is CIS?

GO SA DOTA ! #Castaway is a LEGEND

WESG is more resemblant of the World Cup than the International. It requires all players of a team to be of the same nationality, it gives different qualifiers for each country/region, and it allots places for teams from all continents to the LAN finals. The International is more like the Club World Cup, or Champions League.

I believe they slowly have to find a way to unify servers, so that there is international exposure, not just region-locked styles of play, which as they mentioned leads to some regions lagging behind

why none cares about central america :(

PUTAMG INA MO

sometimes my playmate is from the same country IND
and sometimes i got English speaker with nice attitude.

korea and china should be together imo..

korea isn't even remotely near SEA lol

well the best solution is to GIT GUD. Honestly you cant forbid a team from joining another region's qualifiers. It's their choice to play in high ping in order to get a better chance qualifying

Consider what would region-block do to the in-between countries, in Europe for example - take Poland, Czech republic, Slovakia, Hungary etc. Probablity is that this countries would be locked in the east europe region. While lot of folks here can read cyrilics (to some extent)and are able to understand russian antics and style of gameplay, I would say that gameplay in this countries resembles western europe region more that eastern. And there is probably more situations like this worldwide (Im just talking about eastern europe from experience)

*Meanwhile / theyre speaking in their native language cause you guys are muted. And rage the fuck out of the mic. Well sometimes, people who doesnt speak play's morethan my mmr, it leads to communicate the simple action of this player; without even speaking to each other. A single ping would do it. Im actually pertaining to comments.

Well nice post! This is the most valuable post that i ever read , anyway i wanted aswell to see the difference of the playstyle by each region. It is really fact that if you are in SEA youll come worse flaming people. And whats the difference with other server? do they do it aswell? Thats not a playstyle but just a simple fact of difference between regions. MMR / Normal / ETC.

DC's TI6 squad did not have a Syrian player w33 is Romanian... Not sure how they get mixed up

P.S Also w33's dota quality is a B+ while the author of this article is an A. Good factually accurate stuff.

Look at Grand Prix F1. Each team consists of multi-national individuals - but then the team is registered in one country (team's choice) and from there they operate. So why can't DOTA implement the same?

sea is hard..

i'm in wuhan, i have <5 ping ever since they introduced wuhan server, center area of china, lots of universities, 430 among many other pros grew up here