Noticed on his expectations: “I want to either make a run or at least go on a winning streak in tournaments.”

Both Spirit and Yandex, I think. Those are the two teams that are playing better than anyone else in this tournament. OG is also worth mentioning. I wouldn’t say they’re quite at that level, but I think they’re the third team in this tournament that’s playing well.

Looking ahead—we just want to perform as well as possible at every tournament, which basically means trying to win as much as we can. But, again, it might work out, or it might not. We’re just working hard, drawing conclusions, fixing our mistakes, and trying to show perfect gameplay—that’s what will make everything happen. As for expectations—I thought about setting some for myself, but every year in every interview I say that I’d like to win absolutely everything. It’s probably better not to set any expectations for myself, so I don’t get discouraged and can keep moving forward anyway.

[Comment: “In one of your vlogs, you said that the team is now in a position where, before, we wanted to win at least one tournament—now we want to win everything in a row, and we can do it.”]

What Edgar said about just one tournament was back when he was just starting out in Tier 1. Obviously, now that each of us has already won tournaments, we want to either go on a winning streak or at least string together a series of tournament wins. And overall, anything is possible. I think we’ll be in really good form this season—why not try to make it happen?

I’d say Brewmaster or Dark Seer.

[Comment: “Dark Seer, just like Brewmaster, is in high demand for you. I’ve noticed that you don’t hesitate to pick Brewmaster even in public matches now, knowing that you’re an expert on him and will be super useful—and the hero is super strong right now.”]

I think [this is happening] because the hero is strong. I wouldn’t say I’m some kind of expert on Brewmaster. The hero just seems clearly overpowered—that’s how I’d put it. Because of the patch, Brewmaster is now stronger than Dark Seer overall—he requires fewer specific conditions in the game. But at the same time, Dark Seer doesn’t need many either, and Dark Seer has been in the meta for way too long. Overall, I think Dark Seer is the most in-demand hero in the entire history of Dota. If we’re really looking that far ahead, it’s probably best to just play Dark Seer for the rest of your life.

Within the current framework, I just try not to be toxic. I guess that’s it.

[Question: “We don’t say anything unnecessary during the game itself; everything is discussed after the match. Do we avoid spamming chat during the game?”]

Well, it does happen sometimes—let’s not pretend otherwise—but overall, this is exactly my principle: I set it for myself a long time ago, that I’ll try to view everything solely from my own perspective. Yes, sometimes it happens that you might not exactly snap at someone else, but say something or the like—but usually I try not to do that, or I’ll go over to apologize and say I was wrong.