Puppey on the home-based tournament format at BetBoom Dacha: “It was too commercial there.”

I’d say that the two teams that look very strong right now—and perhaps aren’t being given much of a chance to prove themselves—are LGD Gaming and Rune Eaters. As for all the teams that made it here through the qualifiers, they usually didn’t get very far.

People want a tournament where we’re just being ourselves. We show up in the midst of some chaos and play. BetBoom Dacha tried to do it in that format, but I feel like it wasn’t possible to pull it off that well there. There were also tournaments like that in America called Beyond the Summit. People sit on the couch there; casters sometimes come by, talk, eat—it’s like a reality show the whole time, so to speak. I know people want this, but it’s not happening right now. BetBoom tried it, but it was too commercial there.