Now on some less serious topics, what has been your most memorable moment in your Dota 2 career? China and Europe will probably still be the strongest but these kinds of isolations will probably also create their own metagames and then we’ll have to see whose metagame is the strongest when there’s LANs again. The stronger regions are still going to be stronger because of better practice, when you lose you start improving what you are doing and you get better but when you are winning you easily start to get complacent and you stop improving. Having played in various regions, what sort of impact do you think this isolation will have? Who will be the biggest winners and losers once we all come back to international LANs? The recent regionalization of the scenes could create even larger gaps of skill versus the rest of the world.
Ninjas in Pyjamas even moving back to Europe during ppd’s tenure to remain competitive on the global stage. There is currently a large focus on the EU/CIS scenes, being the most saturated with competitive talent. We also need a break to reset mentally because it’s very hard when you lose a lot of games in a row and it leads to you losing the mental game. We need to get some kind of system going so we’re feeling more comfortable when playing but right now I think we’re mostly just playing on instincts which makes it inconsistent. Right now what I feel is that we’re all over the place and we’re just playing randomly. We need time and we need to practice to play in a certain way.
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With all your experience on various teams, what is it that is missing? What does B8 need to fix to start securing wins in these series in your opinion? B8 has recently been trying out the Greek duo of SsaSpartan and Skylark, to change things up with the roster. Xcalbiur during his time on Fnatic with EE - copyright ESL I’m not really involved in the drafting process because we don’t want to mix ideas so I don’t think too much about it. We haven’t played much together and honestly all these official games we’ve played are more like scrims because we have not been able to scrim much so we’re not able to play our draft effectively. Sometimes the draft looks weak because we are not playing the drafts properly.
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I’m not sure if it’s true that we mostly lose on draft, I think it’s more that we don’t know how to play our draft perhaps. Do you feel the team could benefit from a coach, and in what ways would that help?
Vikin.GG most recent success weighed heavily of the drafting ability of their coach. Follow up to that, the broadcasting talent has mentioned that B8’s weakness seems to often be found in the draft and not in the inherent skills of the players. But with huge losses people loses trust in each other and you lose the mental game and it only gets worse. We had some pretty good games versus the good teams in the ESL tournament where we definitely had chances to beat them with some more practice. The problem with losing official games over scrims is that you start questioning things you believe in and we started doubting things that also helped us win games. We didn’t have the best results to begin with but then roster changes started happening and I guess it got worse. Xcalibur - We have unfortunately not been looking very good recently.
There is no question that players have strengths and weaknesses, so how do you feel B8 is measuring up to provide what you need to look better in game than before? Xcalibur with former team Fnatic - copyright ESLĭJWilma - In your interview with Zyori, you credited Fly and N0tail to why you looked good early in your career, being able to set you up with what you were good at.