Zai Interview: “The prize pool won't change how I feel about TI”

Team Liquidare heading into The International 2023 as clear favorites at the Aegis.

Team Liquid grouped up back in a bootcamp last month after taking some time off from Dota 2.

They were fresh from their second place achieved at Riyadh Masters 2023 and were preparing forDreamLeague Season 21.

But overall, I think this year was much better and that it was going in the right direction.

Both offlane and safe lane are in a pretty good place right now.

They changed up the dynamic quite a bit and it’s exciting.

You’ve just mentioned how the support hero pool has changed and this leads me to the next question.

I just have to say Miposhka.

After the Riyadh event, we started scrimming a bit and he is very annoying on the lane.

I don’t feel comfortable in that way and it’s very annoying.

We are towards the end of the competitive season.

To be honest, almost every big tournament that we played this year had some nice moments.

From Bali Major I don’t have anything special to remember, we just lost there.

TI will still be an amazing event regardless of the prize pool.

The last time TI was held in Seattle it was Team Liquid claiming the Aegis in 2017.

I hadn’t thought about it that way before you mentioned it.

You also have some revenge to take from this whole season as well.

Alright, thank you so much for your time Zai, and for sharing your thoughts with us.

Thank you, appreciate your thoughts and thanks to everyone who is supporting Team Liquid and cheering us on.

We will do our best to get to finals and maybe get first place this time.