YaLLa moves Compass Qatar from LAN to online

YaLLa have taken the decision to move their event from LAN to online "in response to unexpected scheduling constraints."

YaLLa has announced that the YaLLa Compass Qatar 2025 event has been changed from a LAN to online event, set to be played on European servers.

In their announcement YaLLa said the move was approved by Valve, and that the event would remain ranked and feature a $300,000 prize pool, down from the original $600,000.

"This decision was made after extensive efforts to preserve the original LAN format and navigate the increasingly congested international tournament calendar," YaLLa's statement read.

"With multiple events now overlapping in close proximity, the pressure on teams and operations made a full-scale offline execution no longer viable without compromising the quality or fairness of the competition."

YaLLa Compass Qatar's main issue was that it clashed with the MRQs for BLAST.tv Austin Major, meaning a vast number of teams set to attend the event would likely have withdrawn in order to remain in their regions and attempt to qualify for the Major. Astralis, BetBoom, Complexity, Nemiga, ENCE and 9 Pandas, literally half of the Compass Qatar team list, are set to compete in the MRQs.

Whether or not this move to an online competition will preserve the YaLLa Compass Qatar team list is unclear, although YaLLa have said that "match timings are also being reviewed to minimize overlap with other tournaments, including the MRQ, in order to support player availability."

As the tournament is set to take place on European servers, and the North American MRQ will take place on NA servers, it is also unclear whether Complexity will still participate in the YaLLa event.