Hello, friends! This is Oleg "prb" Bulavko. I work as an Online Marketing Manager in Na'Vi organization.
This is the first video blog from the International 2014.
Today I will speak about the events of the tournament, including the contests and lotteries.
I will also tell you inside information about Na'Vi Dota 2 team, its new coach and his plans.
I'll share with you places where you can watch the International apart from your home.
My first story will be about Dendi, who could have missed the International. The entire story took place in Amsterdam's airport.
The team came there from Cologne, Germany, and waited for their flight to Seattle.
As you know they participated in ESL One and had a bootcamp before and after the tournament. So back to Amsterdam.
The guys were heading from one gate to another in the airport, when Alexander "XBOCT" said he wanted to go to WC.
The team decided to wait for him and sat on the nearby seats.
Some of them held their belongings in their hands, while others weren't comfortable with them, i.e. Dendi.
He took his passport from his pocket and put it on the seat with reach.
Having completely forgotten about it, he joined the team, when they headed to their gate for a flight to Seattle.
There Dendi found that the passport was gone. Needless to say he was shocked and frightened
to be in the middle of a huge international airport without passport and with a grand tournament awaiting for his team.
He went towards the place where he presumably had dropped his passport, however there was no passport there.
Instead of the passport they found a Russian speaking woman who had found that passport and seen the photo of Dendi.
As she recognized him, she approached him to say it is bad to leave the passport behind.
Unfortunately she couldn't return him the passport, as she had already gave it to the airport employee.
The employee promised to take it to the information desk. There were many information desks in the airport.
However the manager, Eugene Dubravin was sure that the problem was solved. Dendi had an opposite opinion.
Together they went to the information desk just to find out that there was no passport there.
That moment Dendi said: "I do not trust that lady".
The situation was slowly escalating, when luckily we heard the loudspeaker informing about the passport and the place we could take it back.
This is the end of the story, a very happy one.
As per moment all the team players are in Seattle. They stay in The Westin Bellevue Hotel.
Here the group stage of the International 2014 will be held.
My next story is about the new coach for Na'Vi Dota 2 team. Arthur 'Goblak' Kostenko.
I'll try to explain you why this solution was expedient and if it will be efficient.
Who and why needed this solution to be done.
First, Arthur will act as both analyst and coach.
He is capable to watch the games of the team, detect the mistakes of the players and inform the players about their mistakes in a right way.
What does "inform the players about their mistakes in a right way" implies? This implies not to harm the ambience of the team.
Frankly speaking, when one player speaks out any opinion or criticism or complains about anything
his teammates can understand this information on a interpersonal level as a constructive criticism
or they reject accepting it at all.
Any team player can consider such words as bullshit. He might think that he knows better than others how to play.
When such information will be transmitted to a player by a coach providing an official point of view and reasonable groundings,
the information will be perceived differently.
So the coach will act as a buffer, defusing the situation and transmitting information.
As per moment I cannot tell you about Arthur's role in a strategic aspect of the team's performance.
I mean how many stuns are to be taken for a game and things like that.
Anyway we will interview him and he will speak about his work in detail.
Additionally we will ask him the questions of Na'Vi fans, which were posted in the comments to the official press release.
I would also like to speak about our plans, our reports and places where you can watch them.
First of all, you can watch an official report on our website: navi.gg or navi-gaming.com.
We will publish many videos, interviews, informal videos, photos.
You can also watch videos on our youtube.com channel, so do not forget to sign up for it.
Additionally, we will organize a contest for all Na'Vi fans, I will speak about its terms later and it will be announced on our website.
I will speak about the prizes. As soon as TI is the greatest tournament, a historic event,
everybody wants to get there and have a particular souvenir of the event.
In this connection the prizes will be the deposits of the Secret Shop.
The deposits will not be large; however the winners will obtain opportunity to order smth from the Secret shop
And we will bring it or send it to him.
So sign-up for our youtube channel, store our website in your bookmarks and be informed about the terms of the contest.
Now I will speak about watching TI. As you know some active guys in their cities are organizing pubstomps.
Visit official Dota 2 website to see the list of pubstomps around the world.
If the list hasn't been posted yet, see the list of pubstomps for CIS region on Na'Vi official website (Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and RF)
If you organize a pubstomp, be free to write to the e-mail, specified in the respective news, and your pubstomp will appear on our list.
Official Na'Vi's pubstomp will be open in Kyiv. It will be held in the Kronverk Cinema, SkyMall on the final days of TI, 20-21 July.
We will publish an official announcement about the pubstomp soon. We suggest buying the tickets as soon as the event is announced.
As per moment we have many people writing to us and requesting to buy a ticket in advance. Unfortunately, we cannot do it.
Our first TI blog is over now. Thank you very much!
Like our news. Write to us. Tell us what events of TI you wish to see and we'll try to record them for you.
Thank you very much! Let's support Na'Vi! See you soon.