You are one of the few teams that stuck together after TI12, which is awesome to see.
But, when did you decide there will be no roster changes, before or after TI?
To be honest we didn’t really decide on anything until after TI was over.
We didn’t really have that talk before TI because I think everyone felt that it was not needed.
After having such a good year it doesn’t make that much sense to change anything.
Is there anything you would say you learned from this years TI experience?
Our lower TI12 lower bracket run is kind of a trademark for our team.
We lose a bit in the beginning and then we get stronger and stronger.
I think that we learn fast when we lose.
What is the motivation for starting the new season after a lot of dominance in the last season?
To begin with, it’s very important to get a break after having a really good result.
And we had a pretty long break, more than a month, which was quite nice.
So that was always a problem for us.
But having a month break, people come back fresh and they really want to play.
But there are also new interesting teams like Falcons.
I also see the Chinese teams doing pretty well, both G2.iG and Azure look pretty strong.
Oh yes, that was a crazy day because it started pretty rough, obviously.
That was almost like a team victory.
We prepared him well for that matchup.
I personally played 25 Shadow Fiend games against him before that matchup.
We also had some strategies that we talked about.
So, that was kind of nice.
Then we ended up winning the first playoff series and we suddenly got top 3.
That was a pretty hectic day, but a very nice day at the end.
For me it is quite nice because Quinn is quite good at 1v1, so the format favours us.
In that way, I like it.
But I personally like it, it’s entraining.
I liked Loda back in the day, so yeah, all the old-school carry players you could say.
I liked the Lima Major a lot.
That was the first Major that we won.
We always hung out in the pool, and we watched the other games from there.
We felt really good at that tournament.
Alright, we will wrap up our interview with this nice memory.
I hope you have a wonderful time here in Kuala Lumpur too.
Happy Holidays and thank you for your time, Ace!
Thank you and Happy Holidays to all the Dota 2 players out there and all Gaimin Gladiators fans!
