Mira on Nightfall: “I think he’s one of the top 3 carries from our region.”

We’ll have a break for about two weeks. Well, you could call it a vacation, yeah. I’m going to the seaside in Berlin. I’ll relax for a couple of weeks, and then after that I’ll be playing a lot, sitting down and realizing that I need to be in my absolute best shape.

I’d say it’s a completely different team. You can’t say it’s better or worse than Spirit. It’s a totally different vibe, approach, and… the whole idea, so to speak, of how this team operates. It just looks different to me. It’s more laid-back; I can maintain a much better balance here between work and my personal life.

Because of that, I feel like I burn out a lot less. I mean, it’s just different. And at the same time, we have a good—I’d say—chance of winning some big events. Maybe in some ways it’s worse, in others it’s better. But I can’t say that if, say, TS asked me to come back right now, I’d go. I’d think about it very, very carefully, because I’m really happy and comfortable here with these guys.

It was a really great run—the best team I’ve ever been on. We had a great time there, but all these stories come to an end sooner or later. Right now, I’m at a new stage in my career. And I think that’s actually a good thing, because every story needs to have an ending.

If it had dragged on, and I’d say we were already on a steep decline, it wouldn’t have been as fun, even looking back on it all. With such a super-successful past, it was already clear that it was time to wrap up this chapter, because we need to change things up, mix it all up differently, and it’ll be better for me and for them. I think that Ilya [Yatoro] and Mage [Collapse] will also face this soon. It seems to me that at some point they’ll want to change their professional careers and try something new as well.

I did lose motivation; after all, I took a break for six months straight. I realized that our last year had turned out to be a real disaster. And I knew I didn’t have the drive to play anymore. I left, took a break, and thought I’d sit out the whole season, but then I saw that Ilya had come back. We spent a lot of time together this winter, talking about all sorts of things.

He went to a CS Major and got recharged with new motivation to play, too. After about four months on break, I started getting bored too. I was sitting at home, living my life in some kind of ordinary routine. And just at that moment, I got a call from Aurora. Yegor [Nightfall] messaged me, and I realized, “Oh, it’d actually be cool to play with him.”

I think he’s one of the top three carries in our region, and it turned out to be one of the best options I could have gotten during the off-season. And it was fun, of course—the first year was very, so to speak, tough with that roster. Very tough. I was actually in shock—how could it be any different? After Team Spirit, so to speak. Well, somewhere around that point, I regained my motivation, and after that, there was almost no slump. I tried to play and wanted to play all the time.