People are becoming more and more professional with each generation - Illidan about young players

Team Spirit Academy coach Ilya 'Illidan' Pivtsaev, in an interview on Paragon Turbina, commented on his team's victory in the tournament, spoke about the role of a mentor, and also shared his opinion about such a character as Grimstroke.

[ How does it feel? Do you feel your contribution to this victory? ] Well, I really feel the contribution, probably. What can I say? It seems to me that we only lost the draft once. [ On the first card you mean? ] Yes.

[Tell me how it feels to be a coach? After all, you are a person who did not have any compositions before, and here you have five young people. And this is how it feels for you? How do you see your job as a coach? ] Whatever you can do, do it, roughly speaking. From drafts to some kind of interference in people’s character, in their bad or good habits, and so on and so forth. This is a super important thing.

This is just not my first roster. I coached Yellow Submarine, we went to Wallachia. True, they didn’t give me a visa, unfortunately, and I couldn’t go because of this. In general, this is how young the roster really is. It seems to me that winning this tournament should show all the skeptics that there is no new blood in Dota, that it is present. You just need to develop it, and this is a long, labor-intensive process. You won't learn to play Dota quickly.

People are becoming more and more professional with each generation, in my understanding. I think the guys are very cool. I like to work almost always with people. I liked the guys in Yellow Submarine, and here in general. The main thing for me is that people listen. And not only in terms of the game, but also in terms of some life factors. Obviously, I'm twice as old as some of my players. If at some point they don’t listen, well, it will probably be unpleasant. But I like that they are quite obedient, without saying that they don’t have their own opinions. It's quite balanced at such a young age.

To be honest, I don’t want to reveal all the cards related to this hero. This is literally aidar's development. I myself love this hero very much, because I believe that the number of things that his third spell does will give one hero three different skills. That is, for some reason he damages and stuns, and he has damage per second, damage with a stun, and hill. Well, what kind of skill is this anyway? But Aghanim's Scepter and, in principle, its use are purely aidar development. Indeed, he won more than one or two games for us with this thing. We came back both 30 thousand and 35 thousand.

Team Spirit Academy defeated Yellow Submarine in the Paragon Turbina grand final with a score of 2-1 and became the tournament champion.