Caster Moses explains why CSGO doesn\u2019t have its own International Counter-Strike: Global Offensive caster Jason \u2018Moses\u2019 O\u2019Toole has explained why CS:GO doesn\u2019t have its own International-style event like Dota 2, citing differences in developer and player opinions. Dota 2\u2019s The International is one of the biggest esports events of the year. Every August, regardless of what games people play, millions of people turn their attention towards the crown of Dota 2 and its mega prize purse. On the other hand, CS:GO trots along, with decently-sized prize pools every few weeks, but nothing major like The International. While some consider this a blessing, there could have been a world where CS:GO had its own Invitational, according to caster Moses. On the Tasteless podcast with Starcraft 2 caster Nick \u2018Tasteless\u2019 Plott, Moses explained that CS:GO players had the choice between the International, or a bevy of majors and smaller tournaments held across the year. \u201cI know we\u2019ve had a couple of conversations with them, especially earlier on in Counter-Strike, about whether we wanted an International, and pretty much unanimously the pros and the people involved in CS esports said no,\u201d he said. \u201cWho knows, that could have been a mistake.\u201d CS:GO\u2019s tournament format is split between multiple tournament organizers and regions, who try to not step on each other\u2019s toes. With a bulky calendar throughout the year, teams are playing in events, big and small, from January to December. Can\u2019t view the video? Follow this link and skip to 25:23. Not only that, but the developers in Valve have different takes on how they want to run their games, and their esports scenes. \u201cOne of the philosophies [the pro community] has always been told [is that] devs between Dota and Counter-Strike want to take different approaches and see what does better,\u201d he said. \u201cThey do things pretty different [between Dota 2 and CS:GO]. Dota has way more devs, like three to four times the developers that Counter-Strike has, and that fluctuates as well.\u201d While the Dota 2 system of esports revolves around one major event, thereby giving players more time off, the CS:GO system spreads the load across the year, and doesn\u2019t punish teams as badly for failing to make the International. At the end of the day though, both esports scenes want to be successful, and both have seemingly done that. \u201cSo, we have different ecosystems, different people working on the games, and different philosophies on how to achieve a similar goal,\u201d he said. Whether CS:GO esports would thrive under a Dota 2-esque model no one will really know, but the scene would look vastly different to how it does today. There\u2019s a chance that Valve might look at changing the model in years down the line, but for now, most are content with the way Dota 2 and CS:GO run their respective esports, and things looked locked in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Caster Moses explains why CSGO doesn\u2019t have its own International Counter-Strike: Global Offensive caster Jason \u2018Moses\u2019 O\u2019Toole has explained why CS:GO doesn\u2019t have its own International-style event like Dota 2, citing differences in developer and player opinions. Dota 2\u2019s The International is one of the biggest esports events of the year. Every August, regardless of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}