Middle East Closed Minor Qualifier

Honestly, I don't know where to begin.



You have a total of 8 teams (4 from Israel, 2 from Jordan, 1 UAE, 1 Pakistan).

Technically speaking, Israelis and Jordanians have good ping to EU servers while UAE and Pakistan get 120-140. It might be a problem for the Pakistanis but in my opinion, they shouldn't be even invited to this qualifier due to a recent roster change and not even having any good results lately.



As for NASR, I am 100% they could manage to travel to Jordan or any nearby country from MENA to play this qualifier to get low ping as it is a worthy trip to accomplish their goals.



But ESL or whoever organized or planned this tournament thought it would be best to use Tel Aviv and Dubai servers. The only advantage of using Tel Aviv servers only goes to the Israelis and the only advantage of using Dubai servers goes to Portal and NASR. While FATE and FIREMIX will get high ping to both.



So the way it went was, You pick the map we pick the server and 3rd map is just complete bullshit. You pick side, we pick server.. First half ends, server switches.



It ruined the competitive experience for the players, the viewers, the casters and organizations that wait for such an opportunity for months to have it go do down like that. It is no surprise that FATE, NASR and Portal lost 1-2, 1-2 and 1-2..



I am just really disappointed mostly due to this issue reoccurring time after time for Middle East. Due to ISP routing issues, we can't have a server that pings fairly to everyone in the region but to me, EU will remain the fairest. It's a struggle for a team from UAE to travel to one of the LEVANT countries to get lower ping but it's a worthy risk.



The qualifiers will continue on the same basis with the same teams on the same servers and nothing will be done.

This applies to all the teams participating even the Israelis as they have a disadvantage each time they play on Dubai servers.

I don't see any reason why to still continue watching this shitshow and suffer as a viewer and a supporter to teams from our region.

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