Quinn: "B8 tricks the system and doesn't get penalized for it. I think it's a disgrace and a weakness"
Gaimin Gladiators' mid laner Quinn Quinn Callahan continues to criticize B8 Esports for participating in the North-American qualifiers for The International 12. The thing is that, according to Quinn, B8 has found weaknesses in Valve's system and is actively exploiting it. B8 now has 4 Ukrainians and 1 player from Bulgaria in the squad, no Americans.
On the other hand, according to Valve's rules, it is important that a certain number of players are in the region where they plan to play Qualifiers. Since all the B8 players are in Mexico, they have the opportunity to play qualifiers among teams from North America.
Quinn thinks B8 is cheating and getting away with it. In his words, the team should have been disqualified, but for some reason they are not. The Gladiators mid laner suggested that it could be because of respect for Danil Dendi Ishutin.
"B8 Esports didn't move to America. The team arrived for the DPC matches and then left immediately. This is confirmed by the data from matchmaking: you can look at the ping and see where the players were. None of them moved to North America. All of them were only here during the DPC. And during one of the tours five of them played with ping. B8 abuses the system, and it's incredibly creepy, the team should be disqualified. But it doesn't get disqualified because of bias, so I'm actively rooting for B8 to lose.
One time I did the same thing and got disqualified. My team got kicked off literally for doing what B8 is doing now because I didn't have the same credibility as Dendi and people who are now sympathized with around the world.
I really hate that B8 is abusing the system because I think it's a disgrace and a weakness. If B8 defeats a team from North America and makes it to TI, it will violate the principles of The International, a tournament that is based on representation from all regions."
Quinn will be happy to see that B8 Esports failed to earn a ticket to the main Dota 2 tournament, losing to nouns in the grand final of the qualifiers. Ishutin and company suffered a crushing defeat with a score of 3:0.
As Cyberscore previously reported, Azure Ray has won the Regional Qualifiers for China and will play at The International 12.