What is up there - Vitaliy\'v1lat\' with Volochay..

Failed to buy the rights to "PGL Dota 2 Major Arlington 2022" for coverage in Russian.

Vitaliy 'v1lat' Volochay
" I see a bunch of esports and media rights experts have come out in the information field. To help them not carry full game, I'll tell you how things are going on at the expense of PGL Dota 2 Major Arlington 2022.

Maincast owns the rights to ESL tournaments and Dreamhack until 2027, we also partnered with BTS and Perfect World, so all DPC seasons were on our channels.

The major is hosted by PGL and they sold the rights to it in different languages. We participated in the tender, but the amount offered by one of the Russian business and economic studios is absolutely surreal (about 2.5 times more than the market price), so we withdrew from the tender. There is no point in paying a lot of money for Dota tournaments now, this is not a CS, which has clear rules for distributing content, the interest of sponsors, and so on. In terms of economics, CS tournaments are 5-10 times more interesting and more expensive and more attractive than Dota tournaments. Therefore, we will not broadcast the major in Russian, we will use this time so that the talents can finally rest after the marathon of almost 8 months of non-stop broadcasts."