Dosia on s1mple: “Sanyok is just an awesome guy.”

Sanyok is just an awesome guy. No, listen, you could tell—in practice sessions and in every match, he showed that he’s seriously tough. You could tell he was lacking some experience or something else. And actually, there was even a moment when we hadn’t gathered for the LAN yet, but he was already on the team, and we were supposed to meet up there in literally a few days. And he starts messing with someone, basically. And he was really messing with Marik [markeloff. — Ed.], we had Marik, me, kUcheR, ANGE1, and yeah, Marik was there, for sure. And he starts really going after Marik, and Marik just takes it, you know? He doesn’t actually say anything—he just stays silent.

Something just wasn’t clicking for us again during the tournament—that’s what I call it. So, we’re getting together before the semifinals, I guess. Yeah, before the semifinals, we’re getting together in Zeus’s room. Zeus gathered us all together, but by then, you know, we were all just going through the motions at these meetings because—I don’t know—maybe it’s just our mentality, yeah, the CIS mindset. We were at boot camp for, I guess, about eight months straight without leaving the place at all until those trips to Atlanta, Austin, and so on. In the U.S., I think we spent about a month there. Well, we arrived, and then a month later we flew back. We played three tournaments. And so, we were all gathered in Zeus’s room—Zeus had us all there. And he says, “We need to change something.” Like, well, the team needs to change something—someone, or I don’t know, what to do, anyway. Anyway, so I say—I realize I didn’t play that great, or something like that—there was some drama. I say, “Okay, like, well, I’ll volunteer; let me just leave after the tournament and that’s it.” So, we finished that tournament, and I left the team. Everything was just *** [getting to me]—we were constantly fighting, and there was something else, *** [damn it]. Everyone was like, “That’s it, that’s it, that’s it.” And we went our separate ways, went to play the playoffs, ended up winning that tournament, I got MVP, and we forgot all about it for a little while.

There was some tournament—I think it was that one in Austin. In Austin, Luminosity approached us, just like that. Luminosity also wanted to poach us so we’d play for their organization. And at that point, things were already, well, heading toward us having to leave. <...> We decided we wouldn’t join Luminosity, and we’d already gathered a week before the Major for a boot camp in Kyiv. We were playing practice matches there, and we were totally terrible. I mean, out of thirty rounds, we’d win—God willing—maybe five or six, I guess.