I think about the budgeting has something to do with it and likely Valve gave that bare minimum and PGL set it up the way they've handled the budget. But let's still give it the benefit of the doubt since there will still be one final blow next week for the semis and finals.
As for those dramas about that we've seen, I think one co-owner or part of Fnatic has officially filed a complaint against it because of the admission of some players that they can hear the casters words like what runes the players taken in-game and those stuff so, let's leave it there.
Budget is a great excuse to dodge their responsibility for the failure to anticipant the sound leak. Like come on, just put some staff in, play some Dota2 games with their headset, turn on the arena's sound system and roar to the mic to see if staff can still hear the sound. How hard can it be? Or are you telling me they know about potential problems arising but because of 'much budget' so no decent headset or some piece of glass to make a soundproof booth? Irresponsibility.
The result of the Astralis vs HEROIC matchup in the grand final wasn't surprising at all in my opinion.
HEROIC were already the absolute favourite above all else. Their odd was like 1.30 and 2.95 was the odd given to Astralis. I assume many people tried their luck with Astralis after seeing their incredible rise in BLAST Premier Fall Showdown. They were unexpectedly solid until reaching this stage. However I was much closer to HEROIC here as their performance wasn't alike to even Vitality's. They were eager to be the winner of the tournament as much as Astralis. And they showed it by a solid 2-0 victory (22-20 on Ancient, 16-10 on Nuke).
TeSeS was very impressive especially on Ancient with 40 kills.
This was the most impressive round of him which he got 4 kills (2 with Deagle and 2 with Galil):
https://clips.twitch.tv/BlatantPlacidPassionfruitAMPEnergy-NijaNNj-CuI93gdQ?tt_content=url&tt_medium=clips_apiThe game ended 2-0. Damn, what a letdown and I was hoping for an intense 2-1 with map 3 to see Danish's inferno strats. Astralis almost could drag it to 2-1 if they can end the map 1 ancient instead of going to OT and slowly losing momentum against Heroic. But on the days blameF become a bottom frag in ancient, although 4 other players from Astralis have already tried their best, it was not enough.