Interview with YapzOr: 芦TI has his own meta禄 - YouTube

Channel: StarLadder Dota 2

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hey guys nothing interview from the
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press day of Ti 18 now clear with really
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absorb from team secret hi dude state
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I'm fine thank you tell me a little bit
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about the preparations before the TI was
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is something special or just the same
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old photos we every year before TI we go
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to Nvidia headquarters and they give us
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a bootcamp but this time is a bit more
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special because we had we went to
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Corsair before and we extended the
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bootcamp bootcamp went great and
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everything was fine and hope thankfully
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we're doing ok after the latest roster
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changes you guys been doing really good
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had some pretty good results tell me a
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little bit about the chemistry with him
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it was more like four four I don't
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consider myself a veteran but like Fatih
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and poppy are veterans and we just got a
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switch is like a new player
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I am aya was a semi new player and we
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were just very the team's only goal was
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to win and thankfully we've won some
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tournaments but then we after we started
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after we won we started falling off but
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that's just how it goes but you think
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about the season overall was it intense
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for you was it difficult to do maybe
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some at some point felt a little bit
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tired yes for sure it was very intense
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because we just travelled non-stop but
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at the same time it was fun like we went
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to more than 20 tournaments I think last
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year
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and it was very hectic all over the
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world but at the same time we
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appreciated being able to travel all
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over the world so it's fine did you have
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account counted how many countries did
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you visit maybe nothing okay this year
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not mmm I know I've never counted but
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like sometimes when you have to fill the
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form yeah visa form you have to say like
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the countries you've been to in the past
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six months or something and then it's
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just images there are some visas where
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you need to follow of all the countries
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doing all the countries for the past
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five years so that can be a big big
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moment maybe there is some country you
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want to visit still but still didn't
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have a chance to yes
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Japan Japan yeah I don't know we don't
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have a lot of free sports any eSports
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time yeah yeah it's pretty sad yeah
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hopefully you only have one day visit
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Japan um so what do you have to do not
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to lose it to to save some strength and
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to be prepared for which I after such
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and difficult season I think a big
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something very important was to take a
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break because you can't just constantly
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think of daughter and play Dora and all
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Dora Dora Dora you need you need a break
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so you can recharge and think properly
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when you go back to the land also be
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more more ready and more prepared for
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the game mentally how do you feel about
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group stage and what can you say I think
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like last year the same thing happened
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to us but we were a bit late but this
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year they say what happens is we come
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into TI we have some strategies ready
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because of the bootcamp we discover that
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some of the strategies do not work some
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do work you know everybody TI has its
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own metal so like everybody learns from
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each other and also like in order for us
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to get used to the tournament atmosphere
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of Ti atmosphere we have we we lose some
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games here and there
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but luckily this time we had a rough
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like day 1 day 2 but already after that
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we fixed our stuff and we were able to
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come back in the groups and make it to
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the upper bracket as you said TI has
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always there it's all meta what do you
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think of TI 8's meadow no ah who are the
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most I don't know
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successful heroes most peaks of ants who
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surprised or mainly I don't think
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anything surprised us because we played
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a lot before TI so nothing really
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surprised us but if there's one like
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combo it's maybe whispered I roll like
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it's unbelievable how strong they can be
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and we didn't expect them to be that
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good so yeah I think s that's the one
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and hold the players did you save some
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strategies or that's for the main event
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I can say who is the first arrival on
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the main stage eg eg so what do you
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think about the team because they are
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being treated right into the stage yeah
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they did really great we watched a lot
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of their games we still have today and
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tomorrow to prepare we play on Tuesday
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and we haven't played them maybe in over
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half a year maybe the last time we
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played them was in January and it's a
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different roster it's different time
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different meta different everything so
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it's like it's been so long since we
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played them and so we actually don't
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know what to expect I think we'll we'll
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see what witness a great show at least
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and the beautiful game can you say that
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eg is the biggest threat for secret
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right now all maybe have team that you
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want to specifically you know
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against mmm I think maybe the biggest
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threat for us would probably be LGD
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actually eg it's like I can say because
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we haven't played them in so long we
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played them maybe just once in our
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bootcamp but that's it and LGD we know
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is a very scary team one there and top
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one so they're probably the team to look
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out for the most they thank you very
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much have a good games on the playoff
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maybe you want something to say to you
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all the secret and the observer friends
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thank you everyone for supporting us
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especially through the rough early group
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stage thankfully we made it to the upper
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bracket thank you for my sponsors my
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team and my captain all right have a
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good day thank you guys for watching
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stay tuned