Serious issues regading server locations in ESL One Rio Middle East qualifiers.

Hello ESL,



English isn't my native language so I will try to be as clear as possible.



There are some serious issues regarding server location for the ESL One Rio minor qualifiers (Middle East).



Basicly, there are two qualifiers, one of them will be played in European servers and one in servers located in Dubai.

The average ping from IL to Dubai is about 240, and that's only us. What about players from Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt etc. they should have about the same ping as Israeli players, which isn't fair at all. Of course they can basically fly to Dubai to play the qualifiers there, but that's not really a solution. You can't FORCE organizations to spend a lot of money just for a chance to qualify for a Minor, that's just stupid. Moreover, Israeli players can't really use that "solution" because we are not allowed to enter Dubai.

That means teams from the Middle East have one chance to qualify for the closed qualifier. ONLY ONE. We have atleast 3 Israeli teams who will probably sign for the open qualifiers, why do only 2 have the chance to actually qualify?



To make things worse, the closed qualifier is apparently going to be played on Dubai servers only, making it almost impossible to teams from the countries I listed above to qualify for it. Playing with 200+ms against players with 20 isn't ideal at all and shouldn't be an option in my opinion.

Most players from the Middle East are playing with 60-80ms in German servers, with the exception of players from Dubai who are forced to play with over a 100, but the difference between 60 to 150 and 20 to 200+ is quite large.



We had to deal with the same issue in IEM Katowice 2019 Minor qualifiers, where we were sometimes forced to play a bo3 with the 1st map being in Dubai, the 2nd in Israel and the 3rd was split (one half in Dubai and then we change to Israel). I think you can find a better solution than that.



When the Starladder Major came around they let us veto between Dubai, Egypt, France, Germany and Israel, that was a pretty good solution and I think ESL should use that instead, giving us a proper chance to qualify to the Minor.



I hope ESL address that issue this time to clear things up and issue a proper solution.

You can't always do what's best for everyone but you can atleast try to get the best outcome possible for everyone.



Retweets are very much appreciated.





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