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Prestige World Wide Try To Scam Their Way Into 'Dota 2' Kiev Major, And Whiff Hard

Published Sun, 12 Mar 2017 08:45:50 -0500

People pull some stupid stunts from time to time in eSports to make it to the top. Some do massive trades of players, some do long-term gaming sessions devoid of human contact, and then there are those who travel. It isn't uncommon for a team to switch locations temporarily (like region in the U.S.) in order to qualify for a certain tournament because their potential bracket just sucks. But we've got a new record for an extreme case of moving with the latest Dota 2 tournament happening next month.

Prestige World Wide is a U.S. based team that temporarily relocated to an unknown location in Southeast Asia to register and compete for that region's cup. They were the sole team to do so (after winning automated battles to earn a spot), which gave them a high enough ranking and an automatic win into the qualifying rounds to play in the Kiev Major, which is boasting $3 million in prizes this year. The qualifying rounds for the entire tournament have been, at best, a clusterfuck, with multiple teams reporting issues in their rounds and arguing over results. (You'd think by now someone would come in a regulate this thing better by now, right?) But one of the few rounds currently not in dispute is those involving PWW, who whiffed hard and lost 0-9 in all of their matches.

Now while this kind of defeat isn't uncommon, it is the kind of defeat that is just making people involved with the sport laugh hard. The team basically went through an immense amount of work and expenses to cheat the system and get what they thought would be a cakewalk into the April tournament. All that effort for a lesson in Dota 2 that could have been learned at home. Remember kids, shortcuts only work if there's nothing in the way.

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