The coach of Team Spirit warned Korb3n in advance that the team would lose to Gaimin Gladiators before the match

Ayrat "Silent" Gaziev, coach of Team Spirit, stated to Dmitry "Korb3n" Belov even during the draft phase that the team would lose to Gaimin Gladiators.

This admission was made in a new vlog released on the team's YouTube channel.

"Different heroes should have been picked to make the game easier. After the draft, I already knew we had lost. I came in, Korb3n asked: How is it going? I said: We lost"

He noted that the outcome of the match was decided during the hero picks, which became the main mistake of his team. According to Silent, Team Spirit had a chance to withstand even in such a scenario, but the team did not show the required level of play.

"There was no belief because Faceless Void cannot kill anyone because of Winter Wyvern. There is Slark, who just goes and destroys us. If anything, he gets Cold Embrace or Reverse Polarity - and we can't do anything. We didn't have much chance to win unless we dominated the lanes. But they held the lanes well, and everywhere they outplayed us"

In the end, the coach admitted that Gaimin Gladiators demonstrated excellent knowledge of mechanics, and there was no chance of winning. As a result, the match ended in a crushing defeat for Team Spirit with a score of 2-0 in favor of GG.

Recall that earlier the captain of the team, Yaroslav "Miposhka" Naidenov, spoke about the failure of the reigning Dota 2 world champions.