I then lived in Moscow with a girl and just wanted to hang out with her, not play Dota - Pure on leaving BetBoom Team

Kerry 1win Team Ivan 'Pure' Moskalenko, in an interview with Maria 'Marple' Ermolina, spoke about his departure from the BetBoom Team, named former teammates with whom he still keeps in touch, and also shared his opinion about Egor 'Nightfall' Grigorenko.

Then there was a situation that for this DreamLeague I asked myself time in advance, because I felt that I was not delivering. At that time, our team had such a rather tense relationship between me and Tolya [boo1k. — Approx. ed. ]. That is, we communicated well all the time, but then he had some problems in his life, and in his relationship with me, and I had questions for him. It accumulated during my time playing in the team, and then six months of the season had already passed that I wanted to rest.

I was living in Moscow with a girl at the time and I just wanted to hang out with her, not play Dota, not let her play. Just relax. But the guys were against it. They wanted to play all the tournaments. I'm a big fan of playing all the tournaments, but sometimes you still need a vacation. And the guys... Not even the guys, but more Tolya - he insisted that we not skip anything, because we had already agreed, and asked me to play. But as a result, in the last days we decided that I would not play.

[When you were replaced by Kiritych, how did you feel? ] The guys needed a new player. I found myself in Tundra Esports, this is a new season. I was put on the reserve list because everyone already knew that I was moving to another team. And there, at that time, organizational issues were being decided with Tundra Esports. Then I moved to Tundra Esports. The guys were looking for a carry player and took Kiritych. I parted with the guys on a good note; we won quite a decent number of tournaments with them. I wouldn't say that I felt anything. I also advised, from my point of view, the guys they could hire. That is, we really parted on a good note and we still communicate.

We always communicated most with Kataomi`, because we played with him in Entity, and with Entity we were such close friends. When we had the opportunity, we always communicated. When we were in the same city, we went out together to restaurants and other establishments. Kataomi and I were such best friends, I would say. And in BetBoom Team, accordingly, we also communicated with him the most.

With Danya [gpk. — Approx. ed. ] I've always communicated well. Again, this is my friend from the first team. Probably most of all besides Vlad [Kataomi`. — Approx. ed. ] I talked with Vitaly [ Save- . — Approx. ed. ].

Vitali and I communicate a lot. We love to talk about different topics, all sorts of philosophical ones. Vitaly Melnik is a very interesting person. I think Vital is a smart person who didn't have a lot of social skills, but he acquired them. And when he acquired them, and with his close friends, and in general it is much better to communicate in society, then Vitalya was transformed. He is an interesting conversationalist with interesting opinions on many issues.

[In the lineup with Yegor Grigorenko, you couldn’t team up the same way as with 33, for example? ] To be honest, I don’t know anyone who could agree with Yegor in such details. Egor is a difficult guy. Egor is a very difficult guy.

Earlier, Ivan 'Pure' Moskalenko spoke about getting into the first professional team, and also recalled how Team Liquid did not approve his transfer due to reputational risks.