I like drafting and captains mode. I have made friend over dotas plus who feel the same way and like to it a little more serious than ranked roles ( ie cohesive drafts).
For someone who looks foward to the (1) battlecup slot for my region, I find it incredible frustrating and honestly low quality work that the ability to find new teamates for BCUP has not been fixed for almost 2 years. (never mind that 1 slot per week on a saturday evening is just ridiculous)
If i told you the amount of times I've been with 3-4 people ready to q only to not find a fifth is ridiculous! BCUP is a time investment. Try polling your buddies on a Saturday evening and see how many of them want to play a stressful form of dota for 4 hours. It wasn't a problem when you could find randoms through the "find player" feature.
The BattleCup Chat itself is nonexistent. I don't know why they removed it but the spam was never bad for me and I was always able to use it find more people to play. I've been looking for region and user made bcup chats in the open chats. The fact that players have to make their own chats to cover up for a Valve fucked up feature is just dumb af and honestly shameless. For 1-2 weeks it would have been fine. Its been almost 2 years.. Does Valve even know??
IDC about smurfs in bcup. IDC about uneven matches in BCUP.
I just the ability to play with my squad, captains mode tourney, on a more consistent basis. Please fix this Valve. This is probably 75% of the reason I pay for dota plus, the other 25% is voicelines.
PS.. Even if I am able to play BCUP, it always displays "not enough players in the tier". Tier 5-6 USW/USE
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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/xn90kp/valve_its_been_almost_2_years_of_broken_battle/