Korb3n: “It was obvious right away that Satanic is a legend, that he’s super tough.”
Team Spirit manager Dmitry “Korb3n” Belov commented on Alan “Satanic” Gallamov’s transfer to PARIVISION during a stream and said that the return of Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov and Yaroslav “Miposhka” Naidenov to the roster would depend on their willingness. The clip was posted on the LEGENDWP YouTube channel.
On how to start a coaching career
To be honest, coaches aren’t really given a trial assignment anyway. What kind of trial assignment could there even be?! I don’t know, maybe someone gives one, but that’s a strange story. Obviously, a Tier 1 team won’t take you if you don’t have a background as a player, as a coach, and so on. Start with some really weak teams—Tier 4, Tier 5, from the bottom up. There are no other options. <...> You have only one path. You see, once you have a team with which you’ve achieved results, it’s like your portfolio. You can walk in and say: “Yeah, maybe I’m a nobody, but I have a team where I’ve achieved real results—give me a chance.”
About Satanic
Was it hard to let the kid go? It’s hard for me personally, of course. Of course it’s hard. Well, what?! What other options are there? There can’t be any other options.
[Question: “Did you expect Satanic to grow this much in two years?”]
Well, yes, of course I expected it. It was obvious right away that Satanic is a legend, that he’s super tough. Yeah, that’s exactly what I’ve always said. Just two years ago, people were laughing at me when I said he was a super tough guy. And in the comments, they called me a fool.
On the lack of a Plan B in case Collapse doesn’t return
Well, we don’t need a Plan B yet. Look at Bodyanich [Batyuk]—he’s killing it, as they say. Why would we need a Plan B?
On the likelihood of Miposhka and Collapse returning
It’s up to them. I’d say it’s unclear. Whether they come back or not—that depends entirely on them.
On contracts in the Dota 2 pro scene
In Dota, essentially, you can’t just specify the basics in a contract… you can put anything you want in a contract. There’s no such option, but you can write whatever you want. But, of course, they might not agree to it. One thing you definitely can’t stipulate is prohibiting a player from competing in head-to-head matches against your team, because that’s impossible—in Dota, there are no benches, there’s nothing. It’s simply impossible.
In April, Team Not suffered a technical loss in their North American qualifier match for DreamLeague Season 29 against GamerLegion—Luke “Yamsun” Won was unable to play against the club due to contractual obligations he had with them.
In mid-September, roster changes were announced for Team Spirit: Collapse went on leave, and Miposhka took a break from his career. They are being replaced by Bogdan “Batyuk” Batyuk and Ilya “Illidan” Pivtsaev, respectively. At the end of the month, it was also revealed that Satanic had been bought out from the “Dragons.” According to BetBoom Team manager Luka “Lukawa” Nasuashvili, this transfer set a record in the discipline.
Photo by Sebastian Pandelache, SC PGL Esports S.R.L.
