I don’t have a following so to add context I am the current manager of EG, I previously managed Undying.
At TI10, Valve held a meeting with all the teams. After explaining to us the schedule of next years DPC, two points were very clearly made.
Valve sees TI as a passion project. They don’t gain much revenue from TI compared to the time out in, and when teams go straight to public platforms to complain about issues, it makes Valve less motivated to keep running TI.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/s24bw0/eg_manager_speaks_about_the_major_cancellation/