The community on Team Yandex’s victory at BLAST SLAM VIII: “The team has officially won the transfer window.”
On October 11, Team Yandex became the BLAST SLAM VIII champion, defeating Team Spirit 3-1 in the final. Russian-speaking Dota 2 commentators on social media reacted to the second consecutive title for Ammar “ATF” al-Assaf’s team.
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Vladislav “BLACKARXANGEL” Ivashchenko praised Team Yandex’s victory and expressed his support for Team Spirit:
Team Yandex CHAMPIONS 3:1 🔥🔥🔥
That was really impressive; it’s a shame about Team Spirit, but they have their whole future ahead of them🥹
That’s all from me—thanks for watching!
Yernar “Mantis” Urazbaev named Alimzhan “watson” Islambekov’s team the new S-tier roster:
Yandex is the new S-tier team.
Let’s all go all out with the Watson combo tomorrow to celebrate the victory!
Dmitry “CrystalMay” Korchevinin noted Team Yandex’s second consecutive victory and also suggested that Team Spirit’s players were tired by the tournament finals:
Two tournaments in a row for Team Yandex!
What an epic battle! Ammar must be so happy!
Team Spirit is clearly exhausted—I’m tired just watching, and they were still going strong!
The king is down, but not out! YATOROGOD is still going to take down the little guys!
Rustam “Adekvat” Mavlyutov praised the “Geese’” start to the season and named Ammar “ATF” al-Assaf’s transfer as one of the key factors in the team’s success:
Kill the King!
Yandex double kill. They’ve dominated two lanes in a row—a strong start to the season.
PV, Spirit, and the rest will catch up—it’ll get more interesting. For now, let’s celebrate the brilliant signing of AMMAR
GG!
Dmitry “Mortalles” Arzhilovsky named Team Yandex the winner of the transfer window and highlighted four teams that, in his opinion, will compete for most of the trophies until the next The International:
Team Yandex — Blast Slam 8 Champion
Their second consecutive victory this season. The team officially won the transfer window by making just one targeted signing.
I’m not saying they’ll sweep every tournament, but this clearly isn’t their last. It’s just too routine.
Despite Spirit making it to the finals, I think PV could have put up more of a fight, but there are those August flashbacks.
Now we’ll get to see Liquid at full strength. But Yandex has already built up a solid lead after a couple of months of playing with their new roster.
I think these four teams will be the ones competing for most of the trophies until the next TI. The rest aren’t even close.
Daria “Eiritel” Morozova congratulated Yandex on their second consecutive title and praised the performance of Team Spirit’s revamped roster:
Yandex has claimed its second trophy since the start of the season!
It’s a shame that Yatoro didn’t get the title he wanted, but at least he saved some mana!
I was very impressed with Team Spirit’s lineup. Especially considering that Batyuk had to step in for a legend!
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Team Yandex coach Alexander “Accell” Litvinenko noted after the victory that his team “carried every game regardless of the draft,” and that ATF “once again proved that he was the best of all Team Falcons players.” Team Spirit mid-laner Denis “Larl” Sigitov stated that it would have been easier to draft and analyze post-game with Ilya “Illidan” Pivtsaev.
Photo by Igor Bezborodov, BLAST.
