Leaving Dendi and General aside, Na'Vi reveals the cause of their Dota 2 team's poor performance

Indications that Na’Vi will soon change their Dota 2 roster turned out to be true. Na’Vi only leaves two players in their roster, namely Dendi and GeneraL. They will be rebuilding their new roster centered on these two players.

Not only that, in a new project called Na’Vi Inside which aims to show everything behind the scenes in the Na’Vi organization, the management of the Dota 2 Na’Vi team in an interview explained the reasons for this change, and why they chose these two players to play. stay.

After The International 2021 (TI6), Na’Vi decided that they would not change the roster at all for next season. Igor Sidorenko as the manager of the Dota 2 Na’Vi team said that despite having a bad result at TI6, Na’Vi’s performance in other tournaments before TI6 seemed to be getting better. That performance also earned them a direct invitation to TI6.

But there is no ivory that is not cracked, there is no perfect team. The Na’Vi players tend to be closed and do not want to express their opinions and thoughts openly. In short, they have communication problems internally.

Although initially not a serious problem and only in the form of pent-up dissatisfaction, all eventually piled up and resulted in a deteriorating performance, even after the manager tried to make changes such as bringing in a coach and psychologist.

In the end, they played badly and got very bad results in the Dota 2 Boston Major qualifiers a few weeks ago, and of course had to miss the Major.

Because of the bad results, they finally decided to make changes, including changing roster. Of all the players, only Dendi and GeneraL remained.

Eugene Zolotarev as Na’Vi’s Esports Director explained that among all players, Dendi is the most professional player. Meanwhile General, despite having some problems, is believed to be able to learn and change over time.

Unfortunately, it is not clear whether Sonneiko, DityaRa, and Artstyle were left out of the team, or decided to withdraw. But Igor explained that they all parted on amicable terms without any grudges at all. They agreed to see this incident as a valuable lesson and experience for the future.

In the full interview that you can watch above, both Eugene and Igor explain several other things, such as bootcamp, the possibility of recruiting Resolution who is currently playing for DC, and the search for a new roster is still ongoing.

There’s a lot you can learn about team dynamics and how difficult it is to manage a team of five, especially under a big name like Na’Vi. If you are serious about working in the world esports, I highly recommend watching the interview above to the end.

Lastly, I hope Na’Vi will soon get a solid new roster and be able to show off its spurs again.

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