I break down Valve's invites to The International 2017 as well as the new 18 team tournament structure. Overall I think what Valve did makes a tremendous amount of sense, both in preserving about the same regional representation we saw for the Kiev Major as well as expanding the TI7 Group Phase to 18 teams instead of Wildcards as in previous years.

As for qualifiers, the Chinese and SEA quals are ridiculously loaded, and the NA and CIS fields look to be extremely competitive at the top. I'm hoping to release a few more videos in the next several days recapping some of the action at The Summit 7 and Galaxy Battles as well as predicting the regional qualifiers, but we're moving and things will be fairly hectic.

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