First of all, we need to distinguish between the "sponsors" and the "organisers"

Sponsors are the ones forking out the cash who made all this possible. Without them, this whole "E-sports" and "Dota tournament" stuffs that we come to love will not be possible.

Organisers are the ones who try as hard as they can in limited circumstances to make a sponsored event a success. And yea, organisers are bound to the wishes of the Sponsors. Normally, these are the guys who do the most work and bears the most brunt from the ever passionate "public".

As an ever-passionate organiser, cries of fairness within the scene are always heard and fought for within our circles. We do all we can to make those "fairness" things happen, but given a choice of shutting down a whole tournament and the alternative, the obvious choice will be picked. And even if the not-so-beautiful choice is picked, we still do all we can to make it a level playing field for everyone involved.

As someone who does not get a dime from all this, I can safely say that everyone involved in organising these events can sleep soundly at night knowing that we did our very best to ensure our so-called "Esport Dream" is still kicking in certain parts of the country. For those who encourage the public to boycott our tournaments, we can tell them that "we rather run a "not-so-perfect" event than running a "picture perfect" one with 0 sponsors and almost 0 support from the community." If you can run a better one (which I doubt you would or even could) you are free to do so and I will personally send my thanks to you.

The whole point of joining a tournament is to win no matter the participating opposition. I voiced my concern of the community's collective decision to start banning teams 1 year earlier and these concerns has really come to bite us in the back now. Community participation has gone down drastically with basically a much lesser pool of players wanting to be the best, preferring instead to remain amateurs to win in an ever-shrinking pro-scene. Even the "amateur" scene is currently dominated by the same pool of players nowadays. The "Win" most amateur players trying to achieve turns out to be a big "Loss" for the large part of the community.

With the current sick climate we are having, the organisers are doing all they can to keep our collective "E-sport" dream alive. you can criticise us and your thoughts are noted, but to the haters out there, at least credit the organisers for all the shit they have gone through just to present an opportunity for the community to play in a tournament. I am sure they are working on something to make the last 2 tournaments a greater success than the ones before in all aspects, for the sponsors, for the players and the community as a whole.

Coming from someone who has some knowledge in these intricacies especially from the organisers point of view, I think they did a pretty good job in the last 2 tournaments. Sponsors are happy with the turnout, a promise that a tournament is there is kept, the community took the effort to form teams and joined with a fee of RM100 and most important of all : another weekend with LAN Dota tournament action somewhere in Malaysia (making the E-sports scene vibrant?).