Esse, former eSports player Jerax Vainikka opened up regarding her rivalry with the ‘golden’ team Virtus.pro on Dota 2. In an interview with Duncan Thorin He described to Shields what thoughts haunted him before the final The kyiv Major 2017 and how he perceived Alexey’s composition Solo Berezina and Romana RAMZES666 Kushnaryova.
To play once morest [“золотого” состава] VP was a nightmare. I didn’t like it to the point that I didn’t want to meet them at all. We won the kyiv Major 2017 final, but I think to get such a result it took a lot for us to beat them. It was a very scary lineup. I think they knew something special regarding the game and when you met them you had a lot of pressure. They were very good at snowballing. When they succeeded, it seemed like you had no control over anything. You just don’t feel like you can do anything, they just made you suffer while playing.
Plus, you sometimes understood some of the Russian words they wrote down during training. It wasn’t very pleasant sometimes. I don’t think the EG or VP guys liked us, at least some of them. And we didn’t like them. That’s not to say we hated them, but I felt like at times when they acted like that it was hard to just remain friendly. Somehow they still had something of a sense of their own greatness, and it felt very good to defeat them.
I will remember this day for the rest of my life [финал The Kiev Major 2017]. I didn’t think we had a chance. In terms of preparation, these guys were much stronger than us. They did things for which we had no answers. at this tournament. I think they had the strongest players in each role. And the only thing we had was the desire to unite. But it’s a disgusting feeling to realize that you are superior in everything.
The kyiv Major 2017 took place from April 24 to 30, 2017. VP reached the final without defeat, but in the decisive match OG, for which JerAx played, turned out to be stronger with a score of 3:2.
