Hello, everyone. The second day of the MarsTV Dota 2 League's final is over.
I'm with Eugene in the hotel in our room.
Tell me please if the guys had chance to show a worthy performance with a stand-in player today.
It is as it is. It’s no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted, as they say.
We could've shown a better performance, but we didn't do it.
It is hard to suggest how we could've played and if we could've ever played better or not.
However, the players performed as you saw it.
Was there an option to take at least an English-speaking player instead of Chinese?
It is very complicated system here in China. They arrange it so officially.
Their procedure of player replacement isn't as simple as ours.
They force us to arrange it with lots of institutions.
In order for us to get a player the following requirements should be met:
1. He shouldn't be a player of the league at any of its stages.
2. The player should be a member of Association of Chinese Esports.
3. Each team has to approve the player.
If any of the members of the chain would have denied, we couldn't have found.
Therefore, the initial term was that we needed a Chinese player, who hadn't participated in the League.
There was no option to quickly find a European player and take him to China.
That's why we were offered between a couple of Chinese players, that's it.
Do you think this is a right approach?
It's hard to say. In our case it turned out to be very bad and inconvenient.
However, from the point of the order and regulations it might be right.
It is hard for me to assess it. Chinese are hard for us to understand.
In my opinion, it's too complicated.
We could've taken a replacement, and the teams wouldn't have refused it.
Any adequate team should understand that a team with a stand-in is weaker, than a team with normal roster.
So nobody would've refused. Surely, we couldn't take a player of participating teams.
This is the only term we could understand and comply with.
As concerns the other terms, I think they are unnecessary in my opinion.
The thing is that Vania is a captain.
Absolutely. Without him the game didn't go at all. The guys seemed to play.
However, they couldn't demonstrate their game, couldn't coordinate their actions clearly.
They couldn't make right moves. In general, everything fell apart.
How did the guys take it? It's clear they were upset? What do you think?
Do you feel they've found strengths to play?
The first reaction was shock, when I told them Vania wasn't coming.
We still don't understand how this could've happened to us. I mean passport situation.
However, it happened. We were forced to take Chinese player.
The first reaction was like... there were confused. They were forced to play under such conditions.
Since we came here, we had 2 options: we either refuse participation in the tournament.
The question is then why we came here? So it wasn't logical at all, but we had such chance.
The second option was to play with a stand-in player, which we did.
The guys took it rather ambiguously. On the one hand they were reluctant to play.
On the other hand they decided to give it a try, to try obtaining something good of it.
As we see we haven't achieved anything good so far from the point of result.
However, from the point of experience, it is good,
notwithstanding, the experience seems to be very negative for us.
However, the guys felt the power of Chinese Dota.
And they felt how they could play, when they do it without coordination, and with particular barriers.
If they estimate the situation correctly, they can learn good lessons and become stronger.
Well, I wanted to ask about that, but you told it ahead of my question.
Before that tournament, the players achieved a great victory, They passed qualifiers.
This was a very positive event for team's morale and consolidation.
Now that they've failed, can it somehow change their emotionally? Like you know... failure.
[Eugene]: Can it influence them?
Can it influence the team and teambuliding somehow?
Surely it can influence them, if they think up something in their heads.
However, this shouldn't change them.
Instead it should motivate them and help them find their game. This is experience anyway.
It should be revised, reestimated, to talk it over once again, to make conclusions and to strengthen.
An importanT event is before us. We were qualified foR TI, this is the result.
However, we fought against the teams of lower level. Anyway, the level here...
As I've already told you, Chinese Dota is very powerful. It is different from our Dota.
We're not prepared to it, as we don't have opportunity to play with them.
We've come here within a short period of time before TI, we've tried playing.
Notwithstanding the experience is negative, but it is still the experience.
By the way, has Ivan received his passport at last?
Frankly speaking, I've just come back, so I don't know yet. I hope, he's got it.
However, it doesn't matter anymore.
The main thing is for him to get it before his departure to Sweden for Dream League.
Will there be a bootcamp before Dream League or the players will go home?
They'll come to Kyiv once again to play and train for 3 days. Everything is ready there.
Then, they'll go to Sweden.
Ok. After Sweden, they'll come back. It will be very close to TI in terms of time.
We'll take a small vacation of about 10 days after our trip to Sweden.
The guys will go home to have rest for new preparation process.
In about 3 weeks before the event, we'll begin intensive preparation at our base.
And then we'll fly to the US. During this time, we'll be arranging visas for Akbar.
He hasn't got visa yet.
I hope this experience will be positive.
I hope too. The guys gained such thrilling victory. Not going to TI would be really horrible.
I agree.
Thank you very much for the interview.
It's a tradition for the interviewed person to say something to the fans in the end of an interview.
What do you want to say? Any shoutouts to fans?
To fans?
Maybe you want to tell something to anyone?
I need to think for a while.
It's like a moment of fame, right? And I have an opportunity now.
Yes, you can say something that has bothered you for a while.
I'd like to speak to the fans, since you've mentioned them.
Don't pay attention to intermediary tournaments and results.
There have always been a lot of tournaments, and there will be a lot of tournaments.
We might fail at one tournament, and succeed at the other. It is always like that.
There are raises and falls.
The main thing is approaching it in the right way and understand it correctly:
Any team with right priorities should undergo the path of fails and successes. That's it.
I hope for adequacy and objectiveness of your attitude to us.
Anyway, we are grateful to you that you support us, watch us, cheer us and comment us.
Any comment is useful, even if it is negative. Since we understand at what level we are at the moment.
Don't judge us too harsh. Support us. Watch us. Thank you very much.
Thank you for the interview and your time. Bye-bye, everyone, see you soon!
Bye.