Making a big entrance!
Hi, there! The first bootcamp of the new season is coming to a close,
which means it's right about time to sum up this month,
talk about the results of the team and find out their plans for October.
Hold up, let me catch my breath.
Okay, I'm ready. It was quite a descent.
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All right, I'm done, so let's get started.
We've been bootcamping for about a month and we've gotten to know each other.
This is vital because it takes some time for me to get used to new people.
We started off not so well, as we had both good and bad games.
But every day, we've been analyzing more and more replays and discussing things together.
This bootcamp was essential in terms of team building,
establishing a friendship between the guys and helping them become a team.
I think at this point, we've partially accomplished the task.
They trust each other, trust their captain,
there's a pretty solid cooperation between the coach and the team,
between the coach and the captain, and thus between the players.
Very little of what we had planned really worked at the Major Qualifier.
The game against VP took a heavy toll on us, the first one that we lost,
we stopped believing in our strategies or I don't know,
and started coming up with something new on the fly.
Which didn't work out.
At the time, we weren't as prepared because we lacked strategies.
The ones we picked ended up being not as effective.
We were much better prepared for the Minor Qualifier and were able to secure the only slot,
and did so in a pretty convincing fashion.
We were confident nobody could stop us.
The second qualifier we played was the DreamLeague Minor one,
we were more thoroughly prepared for it, we'd started honing our strategies.
We did pretty well with TA, it was our signature hero,
thanks to which we made it through the qualifiers.
The next one was ESL Hamburg Qualifier.
Well, you could say teams figured us out.
Teams were more prepared for us, they had a better understanding of what to ban against us.
They didn't let us pick the same heroes we won the Minor qualifier with.
We didn't have time to practice anything else either, because we played ESL the next day after the Minor qualifier.
To be honest, we were unlucky, we played a Bo1 against TFT in the first round.
We've made some progress,
but our opponents are not sitting idly by, they're improving and preparing for us.
Also, we have our weaknesses like hero pool, and so on.
There are some aspects we need to work on, the players sometimes lack specific knowledge.
We've qualified for the DreamLeague Minor and have a chance to win it to make it to the Major.
Only hard work, team building and self-improvement will determine
whether the potential we've seen is there will be fulfilled or not.
No, Blizzy, you shouldn't have pulled there.
You could've asked and I would have sent you back to base.
I had a creep and level 2, you could engage anyone and we'd kill them.
I was getting low tanking creeps.
Everything went quite well.
We're going to the minor, hopefully, we'll be able to gain the much-needed experience and next time qualify for a Major.
We had a free day today which we spent very productively.
We played a lot of scrims, finally expanded our lacking hero pool.
As I've mentioned earlier, our previous strategies stopped working
because enemy teams started always banning Templar Assassin in the second phase,
the hero we've been doing well with.
The same is the case with Phantom Lancer.
Therefore, we've added some heroes to our pool.
The next tournament we're participating in is Maincast Autumn Brawl,
where I think we'll be able to put our new strategies to use.
Missile's following him.
Dazzle's going down.
The real one got stunned here!
Behind, behind! Killed him.
He's got no buyback?
Yeah, yeah.
Take down top tower.
We spotted PL.
I got heal, go for the top tower.
Obivously, 3 weeks isn't enough time to make definite conclusions.
Once the bootcamp is over, they will be given certain tasks by the coach and the captain.
I see that we're playing at a decent level, everyone's eager and highly motivated, and that's good.
I can say that the team has definitely made some progress over the course of the bootcamp.
The only problem so far is that it feels that these defeats heavily affect morale sometimes.
Sometimes emotions take over when you realize you've thrown a winning game,
or just lacked mechanical and tactical qualities that you were supposed to have.
Lately, I've been coming across negative comments on the web,
and it's really frustrating to read them, especially the ones towards our core position players.
Objectively, it's easier to spot mistakes from the sidelines
when a player on Storm Spirit, Enigma or a carry hero dies solo somewhere in a silly way,
or misses a spell, or something else.
However, I think this is wrong.
You need to remember that every player in the world makes mistakes,
so you shouldn't blame the guys for defeats as it is the team that loses, not individuals.
The bootcamp is wrapping up, we're going home for two weeks,
then we're getting together for another bootcamp to prepare for the Minor, to which we'll travel from here.
We're going home to get visas and play the Maincast online tournament.
On October 20, we'll gather for a one-week bootcamp,
then we'll play the Minor, win it, and 4 days later travel to Kuala Lumpur.
We're trying to get used to things together, we've gelled more as a team.
Everyone, including the newcomers and those who kept their place on the roster,
tries their best to prove that they deserve a spot on this team.
We're trying to concentrate on the game.