What's to blame for the lack of third party Dota 2 events?

The 2021-2022 Dota 2 season is in full swing, with the second tour of the DPC winding down, but since TI10 the events schedule has been lacking.

April 26, 2025 · 1 min · 56 words · Tiffany Day

It was thenmovedto Bucharest, Romania from October 7-17th.

Since then there have been onlySEVENtier1/tier 2 third-party events happening outside of the DPC leagues.

So with so little going on for third-party events, what is to blame?

In 2020 they adjusted things to introduce the regional leagues.

See where this is going?

So what is to blame?