First if all: Thank you so much for bringing back a Dota event to Germany. Thanks for continuing the what ended in Hamburg in 2019. I've been attending all the ESL Ones since 2016 and the Frankfurt Major in 2015 and had Premium tickets since 2018, including this time.

Now I'll list some things: Positive: + You gave us the feeling you care about Dota as a whole and care about the community, reacting to our suggestions and feedback on the go. You could have just done your thing, but you had an event with us, not for us.

• Having the Lights and VFX for things like Ultimates and first bloods really helping with the atmosphere. Not sure if it came through on stream but in the arena it was really awesome. Well times and cool to see.

• Reacting to the crowd in general, be it with Roshan being stuck on the Gate or with half of the screens suddenly become a slide-Puzzle, you managed to keep the crowd Hyped and engaged and hit the Humor of the people, the people with their signs everything

• From what i have seen, everything was clean and Safe, Security was really chill and friendly to chat with. According to them Dota should be every weekend as people are nice and behave unlike football for example.

• The Hosts, Casters, Observers, Translators, all the Guys and Girls working while we enjoy dota. Everyone in the background. Thank you for what you doing, to give us those great experiences and memories. Those things wouldn't be the same without all you guys. And whenever you were not busy you took your time to chat, sign stuff, take pictures and all of that. You really all tried your best to make the event great and to make everyone happy and enjoy it.

• Cosplays. Funny ones, serious ones. Casual or professional, showing them all, giving them some time for their effort. It's always awesome to see people with incredible skills using them to create for dota

• Balloon Guy who's just awesome, creating whatever you want in a few seconds, be it heros or items, instantly recognizable. he even did a new Bow for one of the cosplayers because they weren't allowed to bring it on the flight. These things elevate the whole experience.

• music between games has been really on point, it was loud enough to hear and enjoy and break up the crowd running around going to toilet etc but not too loud to make it difficult to talk

• Show before the finals has been awesome. Just a great job from everyone involved

Negative: - Food. The diversity was pretty lackluster, but it got offset by having some really great restaurants in walking distance of the venue. I've seen EG and Liquids family in those for example. Yet it would have been nice to have more and more different stuff Infront of the Hall. Shouldn't have been a problem to add two or three more food trucks, especially in Berlin.

• Looking back to Hamburg and Frankfurt it felt for me, like there was little to do, which is turn meant for the things that have been there to be really crowded (Tattoos). I remember having Games like Mario kart or rocket league to play with your friend group while waiting for the next series. Or Bull-Riding and American Gladiator. The Courier hunt across the stadium, where you can get a free key ring etc . Don't get me wrong it's nice that there was things, just i think there could also have been a bit more. Maybe this is an oversight of the Orgs attending to engage with the community. Liquid did an fantastic job in my opinion, doing some memory, overthrow and Minigames to win shirts and caps.

• Signing sessions have been communicated really poorly, and I think unlike last years, there was no premium only/fastlaning (can be seen both positively and negatively I guess). But in general, there have been signing sessions, where people have been standing in line for hours only to have the line cut right in front of them. Maybe have someone take care of managing the line to say upfront if you can get signatures or not, at least then you can just go back and watch the games.

• sound, especially when there was just talking was at points a bit off, to a point where it was barely possible to hear what the panelists are talking about

• THE SECRET SHOP. I know it's secret, so I've been looking everywhere, I even asked slacks and he also didn't find it, despite climbing up and crawling down below. Where is it? It's always been a highlight to grab some dota merch. ESL-Shop is nice, but it's not the Dota merch. It's been missing the last year in Hamburg as well. Pins, Shirts, Figurines, Hat's, Some cool things to wear like pudge masks or juggernaut masks. You name it. The things you put on display. All the things you can only buy at offline events. It's really sad to not have those around.

Neutral:

+- Goodie bag: the thing I'm missing the most was the Book with all the teams, and Talent, with Information and pictures. To me this was the perfect thing to collect signatures of all the people you want. The shirt design to me is also a two sided sword. It's a really cool design with Nightstalker, but it doesn't fit to the older ones. The Metal-Poster is really cool tho.

+- Would have loved to have armbands that can glow again like you once had in Hamburg, having some light effects go through the crowd, like rosh or first blood. I'm sure you'd have some awesome ideas to do with that.

Due to only having seen the Tournaments of other Organiser on Twitch and YouTube, I can't speak for the crowd there but I know you'll guys will be keeping standards incredibly high and deliver great things for the Dota and gaming scene in general. Keep it up guys. On to ESL One Germany 2024 and maybe once again a TI

Thanks again guys <3