“I remembered how fun it is to play a competitive match”: antoha summed up his experience participating in the qualifiers for The International 2026

I also played qualifiers for The International, where I beat Star’s stack, a stack of Stoic’s Mikey (not from the CIS), and a stack of Topson’s Artiz with Seb and Koikva. Then on the second day, Modus knocked me out—respect to them, those were fun games (Botea, Mirele). I remembered how fun it is to play competitive—there’s this dumb animalistic part of me that thinks competing is fun + it’s fun to prepare for matches, etc. Basically, I remembered why I fell in love with competitive play so long ago. I also think it’s even more fun at Tier 1—anyway, that’s about it. <...>