CEO of Team Spirit named the reasons why magixx and zont1x returned to the club

The head of the esports organization Team Spirit, Nikita Cheshir Chukalin, explained why the club decided to return Boris magixx Vorobyov and Miroslav zont1x Plahotya to the CS2 roster. Chukalin shared his thoughts during a Q&A session on Telegram.

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Decisions on the return of Bori and Mirik were made separately from each other and for different reasons. In mid-2025, after several episodes of communication with Lenya, it became clear to us that we needed to prepare a replacement for the position of captain. Lenya is an amazing player and game leader, together with him we managed to achieve incredible results. However, his level of schedule fatigue and burnout simply forced us to consider replacing him. Considering the options, we decided to move step by step. The easiest thing would be to take a ready-made IGL from another team who speaks Russian. We looked at all the available options, even talked to someone, but none of them turned out to be suitable. The next logical action was the selection of people without specific experience as a captain, but with the necessary set of qualities, including from our team, for example, we talked about this with Andrei and Miroslav. After analyzing all possible options, and there were quite a few in this category, we came to the conclusion that Borya is the best for our project specifically. A big role in this was also played by his strong desire to apply himself specifically to this role; specific motivation plays a big role in the moment when you need to learn a huge number of new and unfamiliar things. He had long been looking for an opportunity to gain more responsibility and from my observations I can definitely say that this benefited him. Miroslav’s return was largely due to his unique playing qualities, which became especially relevant at the moment when we decided that Borya would become our captain. He has a really high level of idea generation on the server; in addition, his balance and calm temperament greatly helped control the situation on the map in previous seasons. The choice between him and Vanya was determined primarily by the difference between the set of their characteristics, and not by their quality.

Earlier, Chukalin named the reason why the esports component of Dota 2 is on a downward trend. In his opinion, the main problems are related to the lack of structure in the competitive season.