"The greatest tournaments and leagues are hosted by private sites like dota-league.com and mymym.com. Do you think DotA does miss some acceptance in the overall esport business?
Miracle: Yes, people think DotA is easy and I don't think that the admins of the bigger e-sport sites really understand how complex DotA is as a game.
Drayich: I think dota still is fighting for its "right" to be called a e-sports, eventhough it seems like we are winning this fight in the longrun we are still in need of more and bigger events. Eventhough we got Asus and Dreamhack, and now also ESWC I think we are still a bit behind. The prize money for Dreamhack this year was 35000SEK in total while CS for example had over 100.000SEK"
Miracle: Yes, people think DotA is easy and I don't think that the admins of the bigger e-sport sites really understand how complex DotA is as a game.
Drayich: I think dota still is fighting for its "right" to be called a e-sports, eventhough it seems like we are winning this fight in the longrun we are still in need of more and bigger events. Eventhough we got Asus and Dreamhack, and now also ESWC I think we are still a bit behind. The prize money for Dreamhack this year was 35000SEK in total while CS for example had over 100.000SEK"
You can find part one of the interview here and the second part of the article here.
i really like the latest additions
haha :D
Drayich: A shepherd can have up to 60 sheeps if he has a good dog. I think I can handle eight guys with a decent CAT."
Hahahaha, that's just an awesome answer :D Made me laugh!
GL mouz.
Btw even CS is more similar to dota than wc3 ladder...
The competetive scene of dota may not be very big but the public scene is HUGE. And i stopped playing CS because less and less people were active each day and it was getting boring imo :/
My point isnt that you can compare dota with cs or that the dota scene is as big as CS scene because i dont know how many ppl play each, noone does. But you can't say there are 10x more ppl playing CS, i think the difference isnt that big.
nyahaha..
my dad is drayich..xD
cOOL