![]() What do you think about this trend towards player owned organizations? Do you think this is healthy? Or are there aspects of traditional organizations that you think are also important? You’ve been part of many organizations, Dignitas, EG, but also “modern” ones with DC and NP. I preferred crowdfunding, it made events feel bigger and more important. These 3rd party tournaments may be bigger now than they were before, they are still relatively smaller compared to TI. We have huge tournaments like Epicenter or DAC with 500,000 USD prize pools, which show that the scene has this potential for really big tournaments. Having Majors is good I suppose, but I’m not entirely sure either. In the Dota ecosystem, TI has become even more important. Right now though, only TI has crowdfunding, not even the Majors have crowdfunding. TI was like a 1.6 Million Dollar tournament and other tournaments were a lot bigger than they are now because they had crowdfunding. When asked about the lack of an invite for TI2 qualifiers, you said: “Despite TI being huge, it still is not the only tournament in the world.” - Would you still respond this way if you didn’t make it to TI or its qualifiers? In our last interview, you said something interesting. He has some really cool things he thinks about in a game.īut it’s difficult to answer this, because you play in a team, so you learn from everyone at the same time. The best thing ppd taught me was about your presence of mind, i.e. You learn a lot from every teammate you have, so it’s hard to specifically point out things. How much did playing with world class supports such as PPD or Pie change the way you play/perceive the support position? Are there things you picked up from them that you would’ve never thought of before? So I think it’s difficult for me to answer. All the way back to C9, I don’t think we ever played the 4 role similar to anybody else and I don’t think we’re doing that now either. Now that you’re back to the 4 position, how would you say has the role changed since all the way back when you first picked it up? ![]() I don't think na has ever looked better, so we won't underestimate them. And it's not because we don't think we're a strong team that's able to win, but because we think our opponents for this qualifier are super strong. I don't think we will have an overconfidence problem. Is there any concern of "overconfidence", considering the fairly strong performances and results recently and the fact that everybody looks towards NP as one of the favorites? He makes the second most in-game calls in the team. If I said he seems like the captain behind the captain, would you agree? I’ve listened to him on LAN and it always sounds like he is making a lot of calls. Personally, I didn’t think it was good for Envy to be mid and me to be carry on the same team.įata doesn’t get a lot of attention himself, but is often part of really successful teams. I knew something had to change, because we weren’t going to find any success.ĭid you moving back to the support role have anything to do with how the roster changes were made? When did Team NP decide to change its roster?įor me it was after DAC. But I’d say all the strengths and weaknesses of the players are still the same things. We’ve all gone to different teams where we’ve had some success, so we’ve all learned different things that we can now bring back to the team. To be honest, everyone’s sort of similar. How have Fata, Envy and pie changed the last time you played with them? Even though you can have some idea how well you’re going to work together, you can’t know for sure until you actually play. It’s nice to have a history together, but it’s been a long time since we’ve played together. I think our confidence mostly came from scrims. Coming into Summit I think we were a bit less confident-a bunch of people got sick after Manila/Zotac and the high amount of travel meant we weren't able to practice as much as we would have liked to.ĭo you think knowing each other so well contributed to the early results? 4/5 of your team’s players have played together before after all. It was a bit disappointing that we weren't able to win one of those tournaments. At the time we were performing very well in scrims and that gave us a lot of confidence. ![]() I think going into the first two events we expected to do very well. Did you expect to do this well going into these events and why did the results get worse towards the end? Hello Aui, you guys just came back from three tournaments, Manila Masters, Zotac Cup and The Summit, 3rd, 2nd and 4th place respectively. Ahead of the qualifiers for this year's International, we caught up with Team NP support player Aui_2000 to talk about the new/old team and his thoughts on the scene as a whole, especially with his insight on organizations and their dynamics.
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