Should Valve have dropped LCQ from The International?

Which left many fans and members of the Dota 2 scene scratching their heads.

What are the Last Chance Qualifiers?

Twelve teams fell short of the highly coveted spot in The International 2022 group stage.

Only two teams would survive the battle and advance to the group stage.

However, the teams that didn’t advance didn’t receive any portion of the prize pool.

It easily made for quite the Cinderella, Dark Horse storyline.

Both fans and players alike supported the addition of the LCQ as part of The International circuit.

I think it’s really valuable for any of these teams.

The LCQ is an opportunity for a lot of teams to show what they actually got.

The LCQ is very important.

beastcoast and Thunderawaken had secured direct invites to the event via DPC points throughout the year.

Last year’s International spanned the course of three weeks.

LCQ started on October 8th and the Grand Finals were held on October 30th.

While there were breaks between various stages, it was a LOT of Dota 2.

This then would mean that the LCQ was seen as a secondary European qualifier.

Of course, there are also logistic and financial reasons that could be factored into the decision.

There is approximately a Majors worth of cost that went into hosting Last Chance Qualifiers.

So there still is hope.