While another SEA team, Polaris had already chose not to participate in the TI qualifiers because they'll represent the country in the
IESF World championships.And on this tournament, I recognize some notable players that will play for their national team and that means that they won't participate as well on the TI qualifiers.
That's a good move for them when the chances of winning that one slot are too low, but in the IESF tournament, they have a decent chance of taking home a good amount of prize money.
Yes, the chance is truly slim for them to qualify that's why it's a good decision that they've made.
After checking the schedule, only the SEA and WEU teams are affected due to their qualifiers starting on August 27 and this is the second day of the IESF tournament. The other regions are lucky that their qualifiers don't overlap with the tournament.
Ohh, I haven't seen that. That means that some of these players could still participate in the TI qualifiers unlike in SEA and WEU players.
I've known most of them since when there have been div 2 games and these names have became familiar to me. It's like they're also good players but in terms of achievement in the pro scene, it's always that their team disbands.
Still, good luck to them.
They could maybe do a little push if they really want to go places. Most pros nowadays are just no-namers in the hey days of the old pros. They just grind and grind hard enough and eventually landed in an organization - or made their organization famous - by basically just sticking together and playing together. SEA region is a tough place for competition nowadays that I'll go so far as to say that it's cutthroat out here, but it's certainly doable.
True, those keep on grinding in the pubs as in everyday are also being scouted. Remember on how topson was scouted by notail through the pubs. And that's why there's always hope for those no name players if they want to be discovered.
Better compete for a tournament that only has some notable strong players than battle it out in the TI qualifiers and get dropped by stronger, more stable teams. That's a respectable move from Polaris, considering that the likes of BOOM, team SMG, and Execration are playing in that leg of the TI journey. They'd rather take their chances against other national teams and represent their country which is, IMO, a noble deed.
There's also Blacklist but I don't think that they'll be able to make it. But who knows, most of them are in scrimmage and totally trying to get into this update. So everyone has a chance still.
If it is a new tournament then it must be sponsored by really huge companies I think.
because besides Talon , SEA teams are really having a hard time to play Dota. Same goes for CHINA region , who top players and team are playing into SEA pubs because CHINA dota is maybe in the lowest rate of players. 
