The Bucharest Major at its end - A thank you to the community

Hello everybody,

While we are still loading up the production PC’s and rolling up cables like the aspiring pros we are, we wanted to take a moment to thank the community, the talent, the teams and everybody else involved that helped make The Bucharest Major come to life.

For this event, our first Major since the inception of the DPC, we wanted to go back to the basics. The focus of the event would be on starting the matches on time and moving seamlessly through the different series. While this may mean we had to make some compromises, the results speak for themselves.

The Bucharest Major wasn’t perfect by any means. There are lots of things we still need to work on, but the fact that we had almost NO technical pauses for the entire event and that we finished ahead of schedule rather than behind it on most days gives us a sense of accomplishment.

We did try some new things. For a substantial part of our crew this was their first esports tournament. And we believe all things considered, they performed exceptionally.

We worked with new talent that had never crossed our studio’s carpeted no-shoes-allowed floors. It is in part because we were so impressed with their skill and professionalism that we wanted the BO5 finale to include all of them.

Thank you to the new friends we made and the original friends that always had our back. Here’s looking at you Redeye. And thank you to the friends that made us laugh, but did so in a professional manner while the cameras were rolling. I mean of course, Slacks and Maly.

We are also grateful to our friends at Imba for not only being our co-organizers but also for transmitting our work to an audience that is hungry for quality games and quality production. We can’t forget how much help we received from partners and sponsors Twitch, Telekom, RedBull, SecretLab and Omen by HP.

And of course thank you to the teams who trusted us to uphold a certain standard of competition and hospitality. We hope we didn’t disappoint.

Lastly, thank you to the Dota community. While you may be a diverse, outspoken bunch, we know that whatever comes out of your mouths and keyboards is first spurned by a love of the game and not maliciousness of spirit. We hope our big/little event helped you love Dota a tiny bit more than you did before it.

That is or should be the real objective of any organizer.

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