July 15 coach Natus Vincere Andrey Mag Chipenko conducted a 2.5-hour broadcast on Twitch, during which he told how things are in the Dota 2 roster. Talking to the audience, he explained why the captain left Akbar SoNNeikO Butaev and what prevented the team from performing well in qualifying for The International 10… During the broadcast, Chipenko also answered why he believes in Roman RAMZES666 Kushnareva and Alika V-Tune Sparrow, and also pointed out the important role that the team plays Vladimir No[o]ne Minenko… Cybersport.ru chose the most interesting answers for the broadcast and collected them in one article.
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According to Mag, support and roster captain Akbar SoNNeikO Butaev left the team for personal reasons. There was no conflict between the players.
“We played, and there was no such thing that the players were among themselves *** or something else. We just finished the quals, we didn’t fulfill our mission. In fact, Akbar originally came to the team to play qualifiers at The International and go to TI. He wanted to go free swimming for a personal reason, he parted with all the players normally.
Yes, perhaps we had some misunderstandings between the qualifiers, but this is not directly directly related to his departure. Here there are more different views, different plans: Akbar loves to collect his trains, to be at the head. He may be interested in young players. This was the first time he had a team of such experienced guys, where he himself, as a captain, practically did not pull the blanket over himself. It was already difficult to insert a word there. It seems to me that it is more comfortable for him to play when he completely controls the process, shares responsibility with at most one person. He is more interested in gathering a team around a top organization.
Everything that is said about Akbar in the media – all sorts of NS and other people who do not personally know him and do not rummage around – this is all untrue. He is quite adequate as a teammate. I worked with him two years ago, and now I see that the person has progressed a lot. He became very sociable: you can talk to Akbar for Dota 2, and not for Dota 2 to sit down for a drink, to chat. Previously, this was not the case, it has changed for the better.
I would say that in this team he showed himself well, there was just a lot of pressure on the psychological level, we could not show the level of training that was directly in the clanwar, in the official it all evaporated. “
The NAVI coach also denied information from insiders about the salaries of the team’s players.
“Regarding 15k salary and this some insider from CYBERSLOVO … I just don’t know what kind of *** this is, such people amaze me. Sometimes you even want to see in person how such people look, how do they know these insiders […], the fact that SoNNeikO was not at the bootcamp.
The same insider says that RAMZES666 [зарплата] 15k. There is just *** on every word. All salaries at NAVI are the same, and there is no such concept that one has 15k and the other has less. This is really a meme. “
In addition, Chipenko announced that the organization plans to play with an updated roster at one of the online tournaments, which will take place before The International 10.
“By the next tour, larger than D2CL, where 50 thousand in prize money, I think the question of the composition will be completely resolved. You can put it this way: you can expect the new NAVI roster to play before The International. We just need a more interesting online tournament. ”
According to Mag, Vladimir RodjER Nikoghosyan did not deserve the hate that the community expresses in his address. The coach recalled that each decision on the reshuffle in the squad was made by the majority of the players, and not by just one.
“About [хейта в адрес] RodjER, it has more to do with all these kicks. Plus Bodyan [Iceberg]Fly [ALWAYSWANNAFLY] and Vitya [GeneRaL] got mad at him because of this situation, although about Alik [V-Tune] they say he is young and inexperienced. But the decisions were made by the majority of the players, and not so that one is against, one is not against. “
Chipenko also explained to the fans how the team makes decisions during the match. According to him, the mid lane plays a big role in this. Vladimir No[o]ne Minenko…
“RAMZES doesn’t call as much as you think. In general, Vovan[No[No[o]ne]a lot of calls. He is, in fact, like a leader too. He speaks a lot from the mid lane now, he is a very disciplined player, he has grown a lot. A very cool player in all aspects. <…> As for Vovan, I’ll even say more: everyone wants to play with him. He rested for two weeks, but now he is starting to get in shape again, and he is the kind of player everyone wants to play with. When you play with him for at least a couple of days, you understand what rank this player is, in all aspects. <...>
No.[o]ne is very tough. I played with him in Vega Squadron, and now in NAVI. This is a player like that – next-level in terms of mentality and understanding of the game, for his position, for the pool of heroes. This is a player who is ready to play on the big stage, ready to play in the finals of The International. Very strong. “
According to Mag, the team’s carry Alik V-Tune Sparrow was unable to reveal himself during the qualification for TI10 partly due to the peaks.
“As for V-Tune, I’ll say this: in training we played it, but in the official rooms it was somehow wrong. He was not allowed to open up. He has a pool of heroes ***, but he played on Gyrocopter five times in a row. Despite the fact that in training we took Gyrocopter only with Io, and he had only one game with Io … <…>
Alik did not go out, he was not allowed to open up. <…> V-Tune is one of the best carries in the region right now. During the season he is straight tough *** everyone. <...>
At his age, V-Tune is the coolest player I’ve ever worked with. He has a very cool mindset, he is very diligent and just a fun dude. I am directly inspired myself, looking at such a young nerd. I really want to play more myself. “
Chipenko responded to criticism from fans of the club, who accused him of poor work with the team. He explained in more detail what role he plays in preparing the team before the matches.
“Judging by the comments on Cybersport.ru from fans and fans, I am performing the function of a water carrier. This time. Second, I just sit on my salary. Purely brilliant *** of everyone – both Zolotarev and the players. Purely Vovan, Alik and Ramses sat on his ears, the compositions change, and I am purely *** just a genius of hypnosis, you know. I just own NLP, I hypnotize the players and inspire them that I am doing something, but I am just sitting *** with a beer in my hand ***, I threw my leg on the table, *** I don’t do it, but the salary is dripping!
It is obvious *** that I deal with important aspects in the team, if such players work with me, despite the fact that the rosters change, and the players still want to work with me. Somewhere I did more, somewhere less. Coaches perform different functions, but often a coach is a drafter. Because *** the player needs to play ten pubs a day, and the coach – you watch all the regions, watch the drafts, constantly think about it, communicate with the players, think about drafts with the first pick, the second pick, constantly about these drafts, about the first stage, about the second stage. I know how to set up a conceptual draft correctly. The players I played with got a lot of praise because I kind of do it pretty well.
Otherwise, as a coach, you watch from the outside, follow the communication. There are, again, different chips in this direction, which are used to help players sort out communication in certain moments, fights, etc. You personally help the players, on some meta heroes you track the games of other players. For example, Vovanchik[No[No[o]ne]played on someone, and there NothingToSay on the same nerd hero. Then I find all the games with him on this hero, from kval, from pubs, monitor everything and throw off Vova. There are a lot of points … I will not list everything, but there are decent points. At the same time, for this to work, you must have authority among the players, and you must earn it. No nickname will help you, even if you are Xiao8 or Puppey, it will not help you. People communicate with you and already in the course of work understand whether you are fumbling or not. And they start to trust you when you say really sensible things.
I scream most of all from these comments when people constantly write: “ Kick the Magician already. ” *** you know, I myself am burning with the fact that there are no results. Before that, we qualified for Int and played awesome there in the group. We just didn’t have enough to reach the upper bracket. “
As for the drafts during the qualifying for The International 10, Chipenko also took an active part in them. According to the coach, the team lost on some maps, where they had to win.
“As regrettable as it may sound, but yes [пикал я]… I picked the first stage, and in the second stage the whole team was already connected. We didn’t have such a thing that I completely squeak, and everyone else is silent and no one even puts in five kopecks. The drafts are mine, and then it’s the second stage – I can discuss with the team somewhere in advance, but then everyone participates in the choice of heroes. <...>
Yes, it was possible to take other strategies, it’s just some kind of fail. Fig knows, I’m shocked myself. <…> As for Gyrocopter, I’m talking about it, we had a stratum with Io. About five games on clanwars – Mars + Lion + Io + Gyrocopter. I don’t know how it happened [что проиграли]… But it’s not like I just picked Gyrocopter, and that’s it. Somewhere Gyrocopter went well, somewhere we liked it and we thought that he was strong even without Io. Alik himself [V-Tune] offered it somewhere. Damn it, Gyrocopter and I were supposed to win games there. Like, for example, the second against Team Empire – it should have been won. The third is definitely not there, because we ourselves should have taken Invoker from them, and not gone to Io + Gyrocopter when they left us Invoker. There was definitely *** on the last map. In the rest, everything was plus or minus according to the plan, but the peaks could have been much better, that’s for sure. “
Chipenko disagrees that the team’s weak point is Roman RAMZES666 Kushnarevwho has little experience playing third position. He believes this can be easily fixed over time.
“About Romych [RAMZES666] I don’t understand this hate either. The man, in fact, two months before Intom just switched to the Troika. Prior to that, he was now playing for the carry season. And he played so well, it’s just that we are all ***, and they say that he *** played. Yes, he had bad games, but give the person more time. He’s young, he’s a nerd, he plays 15-20 games a day if necessary. He will pick up the shape. <...>
He played in Evil Geniuses for the whole season, and even then not a full season, but from autumn to spring. Then, when there was quarantine, he moved to the carry. In Just Error, he played the carry. That is, he moved to the offlane only when he came to our team. “
According to Mag, the team failed to show even half of the blanks that were in its arsenal, although the results in training were promising.
“On qualifiers it turned out the way it happened. In training we had a 70% win rate, we *** Evil Geniuses, *** PSG.LGD, just played well. Regarding Romych – you can watch the games themselves, half of him were good ones. Yes, maybe he didn’t finish somewhere, but other players didn’t finish it either. We are not looking for someone else as a scapegoat. We played poorly as a team, did not follow the general plan, and this is our common fault.
Again, about RAMZES on the Troika. As a player he is ***, he understands the game well and macro. The key problem here is that there was little time for preparation. If he played on the “ three ” for a year, he would have a super *** pool and a lot of experience in builds. And clanwar is a bad test, you know? We just lacked the experience of playing together in official games. Maybe even ESL should have played before qualifiers, ***. Even if burn the strata, just gain confidence. We had enough strat, ***, not even for one qualification, but for two, but we were simply mediocre *** and did not even show half of what we trained. Each position had *** 5-6 heroes played. On some of the signature signatures, they played 15 games each. <...>
I myself am most dissatisfied. I don’t care if the management is not happy. I don’t care if the fans are unhappy. First of all, I myself am dissatisfied, because I could not do better and more for the team to pass. During the game, I could not influence any moments. We lost a few cards we just won. “
As for the new position 5 player, it will be difficult to find him, according to Mag. As Chipenko noted, there are practically no young and promising performers in this role now.
“It will be seen what the team will say about this. They will also look for a young man, they will be considered. With ” fives ” deficit in the CIS.
<...> Yes, Ilyasa [Kingslayer] I was the one who called for the test, although none of the players rate it. He had a high MMR, although then they made a discount on the fact that he got MMR in his party with Nightfall and Save-. We played clanwar with him for two days, and the dude actually showed that he is really cool and has great potential. It’s hard to find such guys, because “fives” are a real deficit. You can see for yourself, but besides Ilyas, I can’t say that some other dude of the same kind has appeared recently.
When you open the top 100, there is Miposhka, SoNNeikO, and someone else. But there are very few young players, no-names without teams. Moreover, it is necessary that they are still adequate. Sometimes a dude can play well, but it is very important what he has in his head, what kind of mindset. There are a lot of different factors. It’s not just about skill and rank. Not everything *** in Dota 2 is determined by *** rank. There are many points and characteristics by which you evaluate a player. There are more than ten of these items *** ”.
Earlier it became known that the Natus Vincere Dota 2 roster has left Akbar SoNNeikO Butaevwho joined the team in May. Who will replace the departed player is unknown, but, according to Chipenko, the updated roster will be ready to play at the next major tournament, if such is announced before The International 10.
