Genes1s: «TI was just postponed, right away in the minutes of the first difficulty»

Alexey «Genes1s» Romanov - media director of RuHub studio compared the work of Valve and Riot Game during the pandemic. He said that Valve just postponed The International 2020 as soon as it ran into difficulties.

You know, I’m watching Worlds 2020 and I, who’s now at the junction of two communities, is very disappointed that Riot Games was able to find a way to give fans the main event of the year in the hardest shock year, and Valve didn’t even try. The World Cup is some kind of wild mutant transformer: what you see on the English-language broadcast is the total work of teams in Berlin, Los Angeles, Seoul and Shanghai. Of course, nowadays you won't surprise anyone with remote production, but understand one simple thing: the more people are involved in the production pipeline, the more potential things have to go wrong, especially when these are different cities, different continents and different time zones.

The end of the year promises to be very cool in terms of esports content and this bitter feeling that TI was simply postponed (moreover, the compendium beat new records like clockwork, i.e. there was money at least to try to do something) right away moments of the first difficulty are annoyance. In such a shocking year, people all over the world need something that will return them to a sense of normalcy, a sense that there is something that they can rely on and where they can forget and that there is an opportunity for a second to escape from the horrors of the real world - this is very important.

It's very cool that we have major tournaments that replace TI, but we all understand - no matter how cool OMEGA League is and no matter how cool it will be at the end of the year, it's still not The International.