"For me, it's just to keep focused and keep improving and work towards ," he says. Moving forward, Fly wants to see his team succeed both before and during The International 7. Should OG make it to the finals and win the the Boston Major, the finish would certainly make up for a botched performance at The International 6. Newbee and LGD look extremely strong, it's really hard for me to predict. It's hard to say and it's also a hard bracket. "It'd be cool to beat a former teammate, it'd make for a good grand final. "I would like to meet Digital Chaos ," he says. If the Greeks do make it to the final, Fly says he has another team in mind for his anticipated opponent. On the other side of the bracket, many of those teams aren't considered as highly skilled, but many have surprised their opponents, such as Ad Finem, who reverse-swept bracket favorite Newbee. Of course the matches are going to get harder as you go through If we do happen to win the next one, the next one after that will probably be harder, so I'm just looking forward to it really." I don't even think so much about who I'm afraid of, I'm only thinking about how I'm going to win. "The mentality that you have to go into a single-elimination is that you have to be ready to play everyone. "Honestly, I'd be happy to play ," he explains. Regardless of the outcome of the Evil Geniuses and Virtus.pro quarterfinal, OG's road to winning another major requires facing very challenging opponents in an unusually punishing tournament format. I think there are so many CIS teams, I'm very happy to see a good CIS team." But I mean it's a good thing for the scene to have a CIS team. I think they're going to keep doing well but someone is going to break their momentum eventually. Right now, it doesn't matter what strategies they use, they play it so well, they play it together, that every game feels smooth from them. "I think those players are amazing and they kind of have this huge momentum going for them. "I think Russia and the area, in general, has always had very good players, but they never really gelled the right players together," Fly says when asked about Virtus.pro. V.p's Dota 2 squad was dropped this past June due to poor results and then recreated after The International 6. Russian team Virtus.pro, for its part, has exploded onto the scene over the past few events. That's what I want the most: I want to play with good people who have similar values and get along well. All of the people on the team are good people. , he's a newcomer, but he's definitely gelling with the team I think he has a lot of potential and he's a good guy. "I know some of these guys from way back, especially, who I played with for a little bit on Team Secret. And while no majors have occurred since, the team recently took second to Virtus.pro in both The Summit 6 and the European qualifier for ESL One Genting. Several weeks after The International, in late August, his team made changes to three slots in its roster, bringing in players from Team Liquid, Invictus Gaming and Alliance into its ranks. I still haven't achieved everything I've wanted, so for me it's just more motivation to do better and to learn from my mistakes and hope it doesn't happen again." ![]() "I definitely felt like I could give more, but I was looking forward to a new year because I'm still not done with Dota. "After The International, it was very sad for me," he tells ESPN. Now, headed into another year of competition, Fly says that he wants to make up for their rough International placement. The European team took first convincingly at 2015's Frankfurt Major and 2016's Manila Major, proving their worth and earning themselves an invite at 2016's The International 6, where they, as a favorite, ultimately failed to make it higher than ninth-twelfth. ![]() ![]() OG and its Israeli captain Tal "Fly" Aizik are no strangers to Valve majors. Familiar teams have made it to the events bracket stage, but only one team can say it won in this exact situation two out of three times before. $3 million in prize money is on the line as the sixteen teams playing in the Boston Major have been competing for the grand prize of $1 million. Team OG's Fly: 'If you don't play to win, you shouldn't play at all'īOSTON - 3,600 people are gathered in the the City of Champions' Wang Theatre to watch a new year of Dota 2 kick off. You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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