Insania on Stariy_bog in Dota 2: “He’s incredibly brilliant on Io”

Insania: What happened in the secret bench?

Quinn: We had Korb3n in front of us.

Cap: Korb3n bought out the whole store.

Quinn: I think you know this meme: “55 burgers, 55 orders of fries, 55 milkshakes,” and so on. He walked up there and started ordering: “55 chess sets, 55 trophies, 55 logos,” and so on. And it literally took three people and two trips to carry it all out. He was carrying the chess sets on his shoulder. I don’t even know. It was crazy.

SVG: They ordered a huge amount of everything. They took photos with that mountain of stuff in the background.

Cap: It looked like a real treasure trove because everything was gold and yellow. It turned out to be a mountain of gold.

Quinn: The line came to a halt, and we were like, “What’s going on?” And then we saw this mountain of stuff. We thought, “Where on earth did this come from?” Turns out it was just Korb3n.

Cap: Yeah, they were just pulling all this stuff out, and it just kept going on and on. They kept bringing more and more of all kinds of junk from the warehouse. These guys really love chess and umbrellas.

Quinn: It rains a lot at boot camp.

Insnia: I know that when we played, we didn’t have friendly matches with the teams we were supposed to play later. But in theory, it’s kind of like an even exchange.

Quinn: I think that’s just weird.

Insania: Yeah, weird.

Quinn: I think that’s why people say, “I’d rather just play a regular game where we can be the better team,” because it’s like you have to be some kind of 9Class team to say: “Let’s play against each other right before the match, and then pull off something crazy, you know?” Because if you just want to play Dota 2 normally and well, you feel like you’re above that. I don’t think you want to pull off anything crazy.

SVG: I’ll play with anyone, anytime, anywhere—I really don’t care.

Quinn: You definitely didn’t have a practice match with the team you were playing against?

SVG: I wanted to, but they always turned me down.

Insania: Did you want to because you knew they’d turn you down just to look cool?

SVG: I believed you should always have a practice match with the strongest teams you can, or with teams from whom you think you can learn the most. Because I was always confident that I’d learn more from that practice match than they would. Because I’m confident of that, and no other factor matters.

Insania: It seems to me that sometimes, when we’d arrive at boot camps, at the start of the boot camp, Nisha would always say: “Let’s play against teams like Tier 17, just to build up our confidence, feel good, and mess with our opponents a little.” It’s like smurfing: smurfing a little.

Quinn: That’s normal.

Insania: Yeah. Because I feel like sometimes you play against a team, you’re in terrible form, and they just wipe you out in 15 minutes. And there’s nothing to learn from it. They beat us on the lanes, and the game is over.

Insania: He plays mid Io and just takes these huge drags, then blows smoke right into the camera. As a result, the entire camera screen is literally filled with smoke. He does this the whole time he’s playing. And he just plays Io. His mid-lane Io is something incredible—you’ve never seen anything like it.

Quinn: He’s the best Io.

Insania: He can go to the lane, die twice, and you think, “That’s it, his game is over.” He has zero minions, and then somehow he makes a couple of incredibly crucial plays, draws out the fight, teleports, and cuts off a wave of minions, and everyone’s like, “What the hell is he doing?” They try to kill him, but he somehow miraculously survives with one HP and creates massive space on the map. He’s incredibly brilliant on Io.