Emotionality and openness are lacking in European lineups - Malr1ne on the difference between the CIS and Europe

Team Falcons midlaner Stanislav 'Malr1ne' Potorak, in an interview for the KD CAST YouTube channel, said whether his team could have changed its lineup if it had not won The International 2025, and also talked about the difference between teams from Eastern and Western Europe.

[And if you had taken not first place, but second place at Inta, was there a possibility that you would stop playing together? ] It's me with Ammar [ ATF . — Approx. ed. ] or team? [No, it’s the team]. Probably yes. In fact, it probably won’t be a secret, we thought about it because... Perhaps not as a team, but I will personally speak for myself - yes, I thought that such a scenario could happen. We didn’t discuss it, we didn’t think about it, there wasn’t a single word about it at all. I’m sure this was just in everyone’s head, because since we literally spent the entire season like this, what can we do? Maybe we’ve just all already passed, and we won’t be able to work together anymore. But the stars have aligned so that, apparently, we can. Well, there is still fervor.

[And after this “Inta” there was already some kind of conversation? Have you already decided something or will you look at it depending on the circumstances? ] Don't know. We didn't communicate, we didn't talk. I have some rough ideas, but... I don’t know, without insiders, as they say.

Damn, you know, this is how life works, that in one place it will be a minus, in another it will be a plus. Conventionally, in the CIS it is accepted... Well, not what is accepted, people are quite emotional, let’s call it that in a simple word. Surely I saw a lot, there TORONTOTOKYO was shouting at Nightfall, these arguments, screams, constant communication, fights, yes, potential. And as if this has its downside, yes. But, damn it, how can I say it correctly, this proposal to build... You know, even if the “thousander” tells me some advice, I can even extract something from it.

And the point is why I give an analogy, conditionally, so I refer to the emotionality of the CIS dota players, but perhaps this emotionality is lacking at some point. Not so much emotionality, probably openness, let’s do it that way. Emotionality and openness are lacking in European squads, because they are still more restrained. I like it either way. I’m just a more diverse person, and at some point you need openness, at some point you need to be straightforward, to say this and that. And it’s not always wise to do this in European squads without referring to my team. I speak, so to speak, from what I observed, from what I saw.

It’s just that, again, it’s hard to specialize in just certain things. There is simply calmness and balance of Europeans. I wish I could take my share there, bring people into the CIS, and at the same time take openness and straightforwardness from the CIS people. I wouldn't say that Europeans aren't straightforward. No, it’s just the scales, you know, they’re wobbly and there’s no ideal anywhere. That's how the world works. Therefore, if we had added a little salt, openness, straightforwardness, perhaps a slightly different mess would have emerged. But overall, I’m happy with everything.

Earlier, Stanislav 'Malr1ne' Potorak said whether he plans to retire after winning the second The International.