Puppey wants Valve to keep the Last Chance Qualifier for future iterations of The International
After starting from The International 2022 Last Chance Qualifiers, Team Secret are guaranteed a top-four finish in the tournament. The fact that they aren’t the only remaining LCQ team in TI11 goes to show how important this new qualification method has been for teams.
Though the LCQ has been absent as a format in recent years, it was once a part of the TI journey under the name of the “Wildcard Match,” which was played between the second-place finishers of the Western and Eastern qualifiers. Just like how the Wildcard system was scrapped, the LCQ might also share the same fate. But Team Secret’s Puppey would like to see more of the qualification system in the coming years.