With the upcoming reshuffles, players from our region will be much more in demand - Vasilisa

Host Vasilisa 'Vasilisa' Chernova, in an interview for Esports.ru, spoke about the process of preparing and creating phrases for the chat wheel, and also spoke about the dominance of Eastern Europe in the Dota 2 competitive scene.

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[...] In fact, during the next reshuffles, players from our region will be much more in demand than representatives of other regions. Maybe this International will be a holiday for Eastern Europe, who knows.

It's actually simple for me. In previous years, when I was invited to work for International, I was always away from home. I was in some hotel for a tournament. Accordingly, I didn’t have a microphone or anything. I just put three pillows, cover myself with a blanket and record on a voice recorder.

From this, an eight or ten minute track of muttering or hard-hitting shtick is selected. Everything that appears in your head, you simply say. Then I try to cut what I like, leave it and listen to it again the next day to cut out what is unnecessary. Last year there was editing, so I received feedback on the first wave: “Nothing is accepted, everything is toxic.” Then the process with the pillows is repeated again and you send the tracks with the hope that at least something will be accepted.

Previously, Vasilisa 'Vasilisa' Chernova admitted that she had not yet thought about phrases for this year, since she had not yet received an invitation to The International 2026.