DM about Team Yandex: “We are not the best team in the world yet”

Team Yandex offlaner Dmitry DM Dorokhin believes that his team cannot be called the strongest in the world until it achieves success at the Esports World Cup 2026 in Dota 2 and The International 2026. He shared his opinion in a comment on the TBD Dota YouTube channel.

[Question: “What do you think made it possible for you to work together and achieve such chemistry that you became the best team in the world?”] We are not the best team in the world yet, because there are still two tournaments ahead. And as I said, all the teams are in great shape at these tournaments. Only Aurora was an unpleasant surprise, because it crashed somehow unprincipled. I thought that the team was very strong, in fact, it was also a contender for the championship at the tournament. And so, probably, people are just quite mature in their communication, in their behavior. Not harmful, not annoying, very calm. This is probably how it happened somehow. It's easy to get along with such people.

At the time of publication of the material, Team Yandex had reached the second round of the EWC 2026 playoffs. In the match for reaching the final, Dorokhin’s team will fight with PARIVISION. Their meeting will take place on July 18, 17:30 Moscow time. At the time of publication of the material, PARIVISION ranks first in the ranking of the best teams in the world according to Liquipedia, and Team Yandex is second.