This year, two Dota 2 legendary players Puppey and Kuroky compete with each other and problems in the modernised environment of the game, being former teammates. In 2020 and the following years, game patches introduced essential changes to strategies and forced an extensive amount of adaptation that twelve may experience more and more challenging to handle as they progress in the esports’ domain.
Puppey is an influential Dota 2 player who was paired with Team Secret in 2022 and got to the International tournament up for the final but lost to Tundra Esports 0-3. This is where Puppey reached his top, as he had always been among the leaders of Dota 2 competitive scene.
Nevertheless, the move of Nisha to Team Liquid in 2023 caused a lot of turbulence on Team Secret. Again, Nisha had been that indefatiguable factor, and it showed that the team was weak where he was. This was evident from the general performance from Team Secret over the past two years which has been worse than the previous year. In DPC WEU Division I, they have placed last, and the team has failed to qualify for Major tournaments frequently. Despite performances in the tournaments like DreamLeague S20 and DreamLeague S22, which are not sturdy.
The team’s best performance ever is in recent past where they mustered to 9th-12th place at the at a recently concluded Riyadh Masters 2023 which is a $15 million tournament anyway no matter how low ranked. Amortized costs include incremental and cumulative costs incurred by the performance obligation up to a particular period; however, recent performances have been dismal. Is Puppey’s Team was placed 11th-12th at DreamLeague Season 22, 17th-19th at Elite League Season 1 and 9th-11th at PGL Wallachia Season 1. It’s at 34 years old that the Internet Spacestation’s Puppey really feels like one of the oldest warhorses left in esports, and everyone wonders how much longer he’ll be relevant. This makes it impossible for him to be tired and possibly ready to retire unless he has something like Kuroky’s situation that may force him to stop moving forward.
Kuroky Nigma Galaxy come from battles from the time when the organization was fighting for a position among the top teams in 2020-2024.
His current team, Nigma Galaxy was not as impactful as Team Liquid and failed to deliver the same results ever since. The roster of the company is promising which indeed gives it a competitive edge but the performance of the team has not been up to mark. Notably, he ranked 5th-6th at Riyadh Masters 2022 and won WePlay! ) Other accomplishments of Nigma Galaxy have been rather humble at best of the year 2020 starting with Bukovel Minor.
The last time that Kuroky performed in The International was in 2019, and he is a part of Team Falcons playing from the MENA region; they exempt from the regional qualifiers because their skill level is considered superior. This, in theory, should help Nigma Galaxy to secure their places in worldwide tournaments but it still fails to do so in regional tournaments where it loses to PSG Quest that probably has less experienced players such as Ceb as compared to Kuroky and Miracle not to mention SumaiL.
In the ongoing process of Dota 2’s developing, it seems that even the casting heroes such as Puppey and Kuroky cannot stand on the top of the game in permanently As classic racing legends once said, ‘To maintain a high status of this racing, it is always necessary to change our strategies and try to find our direction as the population grows. ’ Whether this is the last chapter in their competitive gaming journeys or just a hiatus, it is clear that for some players, the rug has been pulled from under them, particularly due to the constantly evolving nature of the esports industry.
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