Virtus.pro set themselves a goal to get at least in the top 3 at WePlay AniMajor 2021
Ihor MatusMaincast interviewed one of Virtus.pro players, Danil 'gpK ~' Skutin, in which he spoke about the team's morale before the start of the AniMajor playoffs, the preparation for the championship, as well as the state of the professional scene in Dota 2 and other things...
Skutin believes that the mentality in Europe is fundamentally different from what can be observed in the CIS:
In teams, your mentality decides. In Europe, it is completely different. They are increasingly treating it as a job. And in the CIS, everything is different: here[play]friends, "lost - tiltanuli", called each other, like that.
There are few mixed squads[in Dota 2 in our region], because the olds don't want to play with newbies, and newbies don't want to join them either. Among the players of the "new school" for the transfer, I would take a closer look at the depressed kid from Team Empire, the boy plays very well. I advise tier-1 teams to look behind him.
According to gpK ~, Virtus.pro noted the mistakes of the last Major tournament and are now ready to show the maximum result:
At the last Major, the preparation let us down, but we are working on ourselves, so we are more confident in ourselves now. We want to enter at least the top 3 major, this is our goal now. The absence of a coach does not bother us. We understand that there may be[problems]in the team. You just need everyone to be mentally prepared for this. I would say that Evil Geniuses are favorites at this Major, and it will be interesting to see how they play for the Chinese teams.
According to Danil Skutin, only one mid lane can compete with gpK ~, Sumail 'SumaiL' Hassan:
In general, there are no mid-livers who are directly annoying me. But it is always very sweaty to stand against SumaiL. Life, of course, is possible, just to run to the base once is too lazy.[And then you can leave at 0/3]. He's still a world-class player who can take a team to The International.
Full version of the interview
WePlay AniMajor 2021 began on June 2 and will end on the 13th. The Wild Card stages and the group stage are left behind. The championship has a total prize pool of $ 500,000 and 2,700 DPC points.
Vikin.gg player Maurice 'KheZu' Gutmann recently criticized the prize money model and said it is unfair that teams playing 30+ matches will not receive any reward.