We touched on Virtus.
You were on a bit of a break, before joining Virtus.pro.
It was about a year before you returned to active play.
What made you come back?
I don’t even remember what was actually the plan for me when I took the break.
I mostly took the break for mental and overall health stuff.
I needed to refresh, to recharge, things like that.
We are definitely happy about the work itself, but we are still not good enough.
TI12 was definitely a turning point for us.
Now, if we look at our BetBoom Dacha Dubai run, it’s kind of a disastrous one.
We have issues and we are trying to solve them.
To put it simply, we just need to play better.
We just make mistakes that we could have controlled better, unforced errors if you want.
I don’t say that if we smoke with more heroes, we will instantly win this event.
What I mean is that there are a lot of small details that we need to fix.
So, we also had to work on that after the tournament.
Also, the drafts were not the best in Dubai and we are now working on that too.
G joined you last year as well.
How important is it to have him in the team, and how is helping you guys?
Is he taking care of the drafts or is he more of an analyst?
Usually, when it comes to coaching, it’s hard to pinpoint what you do exactly.
As a coach, you do what the team needs from you.
That’s something G does a lot.
He is also monitoring how our communication works because we had an issue with that at TI as well.
For instance, I would ask G to look for macro game composition.
We had a balance patch a few days ago.
Are you happy with the changes from the 7.35c update?
What I like about this patch is that it doesn’t have super big changes.
That becomes very tiresome very quickly.
So, in that sense, it becomes a bit boring, but that’s just my personal opinion.
I would say that the biggest upgrade for this year is the amount of LANs we have.
On the other hand, we don’t really have room for the tier two scene.
In the DPC we had six leagues with 16 teams in every region.
