Dota 2 Tournament Threatened By Donald Trump


Despite being debated and challenged his rivals in the government of the United States, the new US immigration rules, announced Donald Trump is still a very serious discussion in various industries, do not miss the gaming industry. One of the opponents are Valve.

Valve become one of the global gaming industry players who express opinions related to immigration rules announced by the new US president who served it. According to Valve, there are two areas that are identified will be affected as a result of this policy.

The first is the international tournament Dota 2 is annually held in the superpower. With the policy Trumo, participants feared that compete will have difficulty obtaining a visa, given the tournament was followed by champion Dota 2 from across the world.

"Any pressure to obtain an entry visa to the US makes us worried," said senior Valve, Erik Johnson, quoted from Gamespot, Monday (02/13/2017). According to him, this kind of experience has often happened in the past championship.

Due to strict visa rules, there are players who can not get to the US, either because of age or because the e-sports (electronic sports) itself is not so familiar among the people there, in this case the layman.
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Indeed, for the moment, as stated by Johnson, many of these challenges will not stop it held a tournament Dota 2. Even so, there is potential for the tournament will be moved outside of the US.

"We're going to continue with this event. Ideally, one held in Seattle because it was close to our office. But the event will continue to be held. If you experience problems, we will find a way out," said Johson.

The second point of course referring to the Valve employee freedom to travel abroad freely. "We have employees at Valve who can not return home. They've been here for years. They pay taxes," he concluded.

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