Insider Gaming spoke to Muhammad Rizky ‘inYourdreaM’ Anugrah at ESL One Birmingham following their elimination in the Group Stage.
The roster had put Indonesian Dota back on the map, but after a bruising 2-15 game record at ESL Pro League, the roster now has to find ways to compete with Tier 1 competition.
Unfortunately, you left this competition at the group stage. What’s your first impression after the event?
It’s kind of sad because we have high expectations throughout the tournaments, but we ended up not playing well enough.
Maybe in the first days we played better against BEDBOOM, but the rest of the day was not really good.
You said you had high expectations, so what were you wanting to show at this tournament?
Maybe something like not getting beaten up around 20 to 25 minutes. [laughs]
Actually, we could have just played better.
What would you say were the mistakes that you made?
I think the team realised that we’re making a lot of individual mistakes.
We do a lot of mistakes individually, so we make the early game hard, so we cannot play throughout the game like we used to.
You’re getting to the stage where you’re qualifying for a lot of Tier 1 events. Is there any help or assistance you need in terms of improving and getting better results?
I think it’s about the team itself and also the players because we need to adapt because the meta in the SEA and Europe is so different.
Europe is a strong region, right, because they have a lot of strong Tier 1 teams.
That’s why we have to adapt to the situation. We cannot use the same strategies that we use in the qualifiers against these teams.
Are you able to take some time and practice in Europe?
Before the tournament, we bootcamped for about a week in Sheffield before we came here, and it wasreally good because we had decent pubs and we scrimmed a lot of good teams.
But in the end, the result is still not what we wanted. So maybe we just gotta like play better next time.
Obviously, there was a patch during this tournament. Have you had a chance to look at the patch, and are there any first impressions?
I do. The good thing is they nerfed Largo, and they removed Facets.
Maybe it’s kind of unusual because they patched it when the tournament is still ongoing, but I have not read like the entire patch, so we are still figuring out some things.
Rekonix plays a lot of off-meta heroes, so do you think that kind of favours you in the sense that this patch might bring some heroes that aren’t typical into the meta?
Maybe not so much. Actually, when the tournament begins and after the patch, the heroes are still kind of the same.
People are still figuring out what’s good and what’s bad. Maybe Rekonix will figure it out also for their upcoming tournament, what heroes should be good.
As you mentioned, Facets were removed. Do you feel like they were a good thing in the game, or do you feel like they kind of served their purpose?
I think Facets allowed teams to do different kind of playstyles because Facets can actually make matchups from a losing matchup to a winning matchup for some heroes, in some lanes.
This patch, they removed Face,t but they turned it into Aghanim’s Shards, so the facet removal is not really a big deal for me.
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Darragh is an Esports Journalist for Insider Gaming specialising in Counter-Strike. He loves to explore how esports teams work, or why they very often do not.
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