Not directly related to DOTA but still worth a read.

Article from focusplay.com
CS 1.6 or Source
What are we waiting for?
Guest writer, Chris "Spitty" Toby of Clan XQR rallies the CS 1.6 community to port over to CS:Source.
Full Story Here.

For you guys' information, "Source" above is referring to the latest Counter Strike version, 1.6 is the version prior to it.

About article shows how and why the majority of the gamers in Singapore are reluctant to move over to a new version of a game, and in this article the game it refers to is CS.

Most of the time it is always the case of "there is still tournament for the old version which I can have a chance of winning but moving to a new version I will risk losing" mentality. And for organisers they cater too much to the gamers current need and not looking far enough into the future, thus they tend to stay on the safe side and keep on running tournament base on the old version as long as there is sufficient demand by these gamers. That's really short sighted by both parties in my opinion.

I think right now it is really the right time that local gamers and organisers should try to change their current mentality and the current trend. Gamers should learn to be more daring in exploring new games or game versions. This is what the real professional gamers worldwide are doing, if local gamers are looking up to them and hoping to be like one of these real professional gamers one day, then they should start learning from them (example: fata1ity hailed as the most idolised pro of FPS genre) right now. Time really wait for no man, by the time you realised that you are being left behind then it might be just too late.

Oganisers should at the same time starts to have some farsighted plans to run events base on the new games, versions or alternative format. This will drive the gaming trend in Singapore to a new height, and maybe one day bringing attentions from all over the world to our little island because we are the fore runner of certain gaming trend.

So to end this post, I hope that organisers starts to hold tournament for DOTA version 6.XX soon. Even organising a small event or a side event is some healthy change for a start.