Community reacts: Valve removes Major open qualifiers
社区反应：Valve 移除了 Major 公开预选赛

The latest change to the Major rulebook has caused quite a stir in the space.
主要规则书的最新变动在业界引起了轩然大波。

Valve made some significant changes to the Major circuit earlier on Friday, when they announced the complete removal of the open qualifiers in some regions. At the same time, Perfect World, the organizer of the Shanghai Major, announced the dates for the qualifiers and RMRs, which will be all played on LAN in Shanghai, China.
Valve 在周五早些时候对 Major 巡回赛进行了一些重大变更，他们宣布在一些地区完全取消公开资格赛。与此同时，上海 Major 的主办方完美世界宣布了资格赛和 RMR 的日期，这些比赛将全部在中国上海的 LAN 上进行。

While the latter change has been accepted positively, the removal of open qualifiers for the European and North American regions has been met with a raft of criticism and pushback, with the community even starting a petition to try and reverse the decision.
尽管后一项变更得到了积极的接受，但取消欧洲和北美地区的公开预选赛却引发了一系列批评和抵制，甚至社区发起请愿活动试图扭转这一决定。

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Open qualifiers removed in raft of Major rulebook changes
主要规则书变更中取消了开放资格赛

The main gripe with the decision is that the Major was previously open to anyone, which is no longer true. People have looked back at the Copenhagen Major, where ECSTATIC, KOI, and HEROIC were among many teams that made it to the main event after coming through the open qualifiers.
决定的主要抱怨是，Major 以前对任何人都是开放的，这不再是真的。人们回顾了哥本哈根 Major，ECSTATIC、KOI 和 HEROIC 等许多队伍在通过公开预选赛后成功晋级主赛事。

Even in earlier times, several teams had advanced impressively far into the Major after starting from the open qualifiers, with Spirit (PGL Antwerp 2022) and MOUZ (IEM Rio Major 2022) both making it to the semi-finals.
即使在早期，一些团队也在从公开预选赛开始后取得了令人印象深刻的进展，Spirit（PGL 安特卫普 2022）和 MOUZ（IEM 里约大师赛 2022）都进入了半决赛。

Many people have theorized that cheating is the reason for the change. Previous online qualifiers were clouded in controversy as many teams got disqualified due to unfair play, but community figures have expressed their disappointment at the way Valve is handling this matter.
许多人推测作弊是这种变化的原因。之前的线上预选赛因许多团队因不公平比赛而被取消资格而笼罩在争议之中，但社区人士对 Valve 处理此事的方式表示失望。

Other community members have spoken about the impact this will have on the calendar and how it can lead to player burnout as teams will fight for every ranking point available across the season.
其他社区成员已经谈到了这将对日历产生的影响，以及它如何可能导致球员过度疲劳，因为球队将在整个赛季争夺每一个可获得的排名积分。

Despite the majority of the reactions being negative, some have sided with Valve, saying that they understand the reasoning and that the change is a step in the right direction.
尽管大多数反应都是负面的，但也有一些人站在 Valve 这边，表示他们理解其理由，并认为这一变化是朝着正确方向迈出的一步。