BetBoom Dacha 2023, held from December 5 to 10, 2023, can easily be considered the worst championship of the year. There are many reasons for this, which we will name in this article.
Championship viewers expressed their indignation throughout the tournament, but no measures were taken by the organizers. To save you from endlessly scrolling through social networks or Reddit, we have gathered the main points.
Major Delays in Broadcasts
What is most important for viewers watching a tournament? Correct - to get a range of positive emotions. But where to get positive emotions when almost every match at the championship had technical issues and matches could be delayed by 30 to 60 minutes.
In fact, even PGL looks very decent compared to FISSURE, who organized BetBoom Dacha 2023. What can we say if even the last map of the final had a technical pause for 25 minutes?
Fairness Violations
It sounds scary and unclear, but we will explain everything now. The main sponsor of the tournament is the Russian bookmaker Betboom. Moreover, the BetBoom team, which is funded by this bookmaker, also participated in the same tournament.
To simplify: Both Team Betboom and the BetBoom Dacha 2023 championship are sponsored by the same bookmaker. What does this tell us?
The championship organizers could have manipulated matches for the team to gain the best possible position and finish in the highest place. And all this so that the money allocated for the prize fund remained within the company.
By the way, such actions are strictly prohibited by Valve, namely having two interested parties in the victory of a certain team at a tournament, in our case, the tournament organizers and the team.
However, BetBoom still could not show a decent result and finished 3-4th, taking only $30,000 out of the total prize pool of $300,000. Moreover, there were rumors that through such events the bookmaker simply laundered money, but there is no clear confirmation of this.
Terrible HUD
The HUD is a song in itself. Just look at how it's made. First, the main information about the players is located at the top. When at all other championships, it is customary to make HUDs on the sides for better understanding and overview.
We are not against innovations; we are all for them. However, this HUD is terribly uninformative. For example, the number of assists given by a player you will never know, and the number of deaths and kills only after that player dies.
Moreover, it is not clear what weapon the player is holding at the moment. And generally, how many bullets are left in the magazine and how many in reserve we can only find out from the player the observer decides to follow at that moment.
Recouping Costs at Any Price
Somehow enjoying the broadcast of BetBoom Dacha 2023, you will still constantly have to watch ads from Twitch, which can pop up at the most inopportune moment.
And no, this is not a problem of Twitch, but a problem of the account settings from which the broadcast is conducted. After all, most often at truly large tournaments, Twitch ads appear only in the first second after the start of the live broadcast. Then you can watch as much as you like.
Moreover, the amount of advertising reached the point of absurdity, and some viewers were forced to watch three Twitch ads in the middle of a round, taking at least 1.50 minutes.
Is this a tournament or aggressive advertising of a betting office?
Many users complained about constant annoying ads from the bookmaker popping up in the middle of the screen. Moreover, it was also accompanied by very bad sounds.
With the bookmaker's advertising, they clearly overdid it, but they did work well on some animations, and they deserve credit for that.
Conclusion
All of the above only reveals a small part of the problems viewers faced while watching this broadcast. And this all once again emphasizes that BetBoom Dacha 2023 is the worst tournament of 2023.
The organizers have already announced that they want to hold two more such championships in 2024. Let's see if they can do a proper job of correcting their mistakes.
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