Here's my opinion about local scene,

Most aspiring tier 2 teams in Malaysia need these 3:

1.Place to live.
2.Food.
3.Computer with good internet connection.

As long as players have these 3, there's no excuse not to play dota full time. Other than Fnatic, no other teams in Malaysia deserves extra privileges like minimum graduate salary. Why? because they can't produce result. Just look at TI qualifier, Malaysia are getting weaker, while countries like Philippines and Korea are getting stronger.

Why are we getting shittier every year when have so many potential up and coming players? Because nobody were given chance. We have 4 Malaysian players born in 98(SPM this year) that have already achieved 6k mmr: Kiyik, Odee, Syeonix, Ahjit, and people still ask where is our sumail? Remember last year when people were obsessed with eXcalibur?

Nothing special about those young players in western scene, they just got lucky because someone were willing to give them chance. After thinking about it for a while, its so obvious that our society have high time preference, while western society have low time preference. In simple English, our local captains prefer older experienced players that already reached their limit over younger players that have the potential to yield much better results in 6 month time.

Sponsors and aspiring players that want to participate in the local scene need to understand this, the age of "experience" is fucking over, enough with that bullshit. You can already gauge the potential of newly formed  team before they even participate in any tournament. Some people don't believe this, some T2 players even talked behind my back because of my obsession in recruiting players with high solo mmr. The best argument they can come up with is, this 6k player can't win local LAN tournament. Of course la they can't win if they have to play with 4 other 5ks, FACEPALM. Mason the 4k player championed by dota mobs because he played for EG in TI4 was actually a top 6k player in NA leaderboards before threw away 1k mmr. I fully agree that MMR means nothing, but only players who have reached 6k have the right to say that.

Look at our local teams(the number of 6ks might be slightly inaccurate):

Invasion: 4x 6k players.
GGuard:  3x 6k players.
K2apes : 3x 6k players.
Sabun :  3x 6k players.
Who2bet : 2x 6k players.
team ICE : 2x 6k players before 2 of their players leave.