Dosia on his emotions after winning the Major: “I stand up like this, and it’s like, ‘We’re done,’ we hug each other, but honestly, it feels empty.”

So I stand there—we’d all hugged each other—and, honestly, I felt empty. Just like a squeezed lemon—empty. I really, really wanted a cigarette. And then we did another lap, and they handed us the trophy. I walk out like this—I smoked three cigarettes in a minute. And that was it; that’s when it all hit me. But the real emotions still hit me—you know—the next day, when you log in like this and start reading the public posts and stuff. That’s when—yeah, that’s when you realize: “*** [wow], I beat the game.”

The reaction… Well, it was exciting, but the real kicker was that the guys started arguing: “That’s my graffiti,” “No, that’s my graffiti.” And they were getting emotional themselves—you might have thought they said, “You’ve got a hash there” or “Drop a hash.” But as I recall, they just told me, “You’ve got a hash.” And I don’t remember who said it—whether it was Rus [mou. — Ed.] or Adren. One claims he said it, the other claims he said it. It’s easier to just say that nobody said it, and I came up with it myself. But in fact, the action itself was in my head—I came up with it myself—but that is, they told me, “You’ve got a haeshka,” and I put two and two together, went over, and threw it. But you could see everything on his face right away—his reaction.

As captain? No, I guess the only difficulty was earning the guys’ trust. That’s the only thing where you feel a certain discomfort, I guess. I mean, you make a call, and you can really feel that they don’t like it—that someone doesn’t like it. But by and large, CS is the kind of game where you can pull off a B-site play fifteen times, and it’ll all work out. You can even pull off a two-for-four, as long as you’re, roughly speaking, confident in your victory and believe in yourself. So I don’t know—in terms of calls, I had some super simple ones; I could just say, “Let’s go take down Fnatic on Inferno.” Remember, it’s like this—we just go mid on the shift, send a smoke to the right, run to the left, split A—basic calls like that, no fuss, no nonsense. At the same time, everyone has freedom of speech—meaning everyone could call out their own plays.