RAMZES on 9Class: “He’s like the most *** [awesome] laner I’ve ever played with in the ‘top lane.’”

RAMZES: “Last question: if, back when you were still winning the DPC with 9Pandas, it had been gpk instead of kiyotaka, would the results have been better?” What do you mean? Back then, gpk was sucking *** [dick] off Gleb in every game. Except for Riyadh. That was the only time they beat us in Riyadh, and that’s it. As I see it, Gleb was *** [dominating] gpk in terms of skill back then, overall. He was in his prime. In fact, he was the best mid laner in the CIS at the time. Well, it didn’t last long. Gleb was in his prime for about 5–6 months, I think, but he was a straight-up Tier-S mid laner.

V-Tune: I think the meta just changed, and his gameplay stopped working.

RAMZES: Well, we played well at Riyadh, too.

V-Tune: No, after that, when you finished the season.

RAMZES: That match against Spirit in Riyadh—it’s not a given that it would have even happened, and it wasn’t like that match against the BBs. We could’ve faced Spirit there too, and it was really easy for us to play against them. We weren’t completely outclassed against them at all. If we’d beaten BB at that Riyadh tournament, who knows what might have happened.

RAMZES: “Is it okay to play the lane with Edgar?” Yeah, Edgar is a *** [great] laner. Like, the most *** [awesome] laner I’ve ever played with in the “top lane.” You don’t have to tell him anything; he generally knows everything on his own and just does his job. Edgar is a *** [great] support. I don’t believe he won’t be in PV. Whether they’re buying him or not—what’s the point?! Who should we even pick for the “fourth” spot? OneJey’s already been picked up by OG, so to speak, and yamich is still on some other team. <...>

RAMZES: <...> We’ll see after the first few rounds. Maybe they’ll even bring Glebasik [kiyotaka] into BB by New Year’s if they play *** [badly].

Iceberg: To the “four.”

RAMZES: No, Save- will just go back to “four” again, and they’ll put him in mid—that’s it, they’ll just sit and play. They have a lot of options.

V-Tune: Danyok [gpk] will be back by New Year’s.

RAMZES: I talked to Dan’yok. He told me he wants to take a break for about six months, and six months—that’s closer to April, or March. Yeah, I think Dan’yok will quickly *** [get bored with it].

V-Tune: Yeah, to be honest, we’ll have to see how BB does. Maybe they’ll just *** [dominate].

RAMZES: It’s like after three months off—you get the urge to play Dota again. Three months is enough, I think, to live IRL, stream, play some Dota, here and there. “Can you even talk about something like that?” About gpk? He said he might come back—or he might not. That’s up to him.

Iceberg: Honestly, I don’t know—even if Alik [V-Tune] had been drinking like a total scumbag for a week straight, he wouldn’t have played like…

RAMZES: He wouldn’t play on Viper, at least.

Iceberg: I’m just watching… I swear, *** [whatever], a drunk with three fingers on his hand would’ve played better. No offense, *** [whatever].

RAMZES: Bzm plays this one *** [badly] too, to be honest. It’s not just Shad here, Bodiasik.

Iceberg: Well, of course! He doesn’t die four times in the exact same spot.

V-Tune: No, this guy doesn’t know how to read the map at all.

Iceberg: He plays really *** [bad].

RAMZES: So he needs heroes... Well, Naix, Spectre—there he was, just sitting there *** [playing].

Afoninje: Viper is the perfect hero for him.

Iceberg: What do you mean, “you saw Alik in the official matches”? [Iceberg is replying to a chat message. — Ed.] What, did Alik play that *** [badly]?

RAMZES: “After ‘Tundra,’ which Tier 1 organizations invited you, and after VP, where were you invited?” After VP—I don’t remember; after ‘Tundra’... I was invited to VP after “Tundra,” along with Lorik [lorenof], to that roster. I was invited to a few other places too, but I don’t remember. But it wasn’t like any particularly good teams were inviting me to join them—there wasn’t anything like that