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Region-hopping players in NA dota

Discussion | Esports

In the 11 remaining CQ and Decider tournament teams in NA dota DPC, there are 19 foreign players out of a (supposed) maximum allowed of 22. 7 of the 11 teams have exactly 3 NA players and 2 foreign players, supposedly the most allowed. One (team serpent) has 3 foreign players from the same region, which unless one of them has dual citizenship in america or something, is afaik against the rules.

I understand wanting to give yourself the best competitive edge possible by playing in the weakest region, but it's honestly a bit sad the extent to which it's happening.

Posted Mar 2, 2022, 6:47 PM UTC

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UrsusRomanus:riki:•

Only Team Serpent isn't majority NA. That should be looked into, for sure, but this is also the CQs. We're really scraping the bottom of the bucket in NA anyway. Better this than nothing.

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rtyuuytr•

Team region has never been based on citizenship. The rules has never been explicitly written out but has been implied via Valve sanctions - 3 out of 5 players must be playing out of the region physically (Canada, Mexico, US).

Would need to do a ping check on Team Serpent to figure out their location.

NA is the weakest and largely a non-competitive region. Outside of 3-4 real teams, everyone else frankly just sucks. If your goals are just to play in DPC as tier 2, there isn't a better region. Aided by the fact that US East to EU ping is between 60-100, many Europeans can just play from home with 3 NA based teammates. You could do the same for SA, but ping from EU to SA is brutal.

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DanES104•

I don't remember the rules about citizenship. it's about where that player is playing

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eff1ngham:windranger:•

If they're OQ teams it's possible some of the players are students from other countries but are currently in the US or Canada. That was actually fairly popular a few years ago, not too sure if it happens any more

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Enigmanstorm:meepo:•

iirc valve doesnt care as long as they are based and playing in NA,just look at tsm,only 2 canadian

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