Collapse Discusses a New Training Practice at Team Spirit

Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov stated that Team Spirit players are playing practice matchups for money as part of their preparation for The International 2026.

The player shared this on Telegram.

“We recently started playing matchups against other teams. Korb3n reaches out to players from other organizations and asks, ‘Would you mind playing some matchups with us?’ We play 2v2. Yatoro and Rue are also playing together.

It helps. It makes it easier to understand certain lanes. Sometimes in games, the enemies had better positioning, but it didn’t feel like we should lose the lane. And vice versa—we shouldn’t push too hard. We were originally playing against each other. That paid off.

The funny thing is that Korb3n decided to play for money. Money is a natural incentive. If you’re betting money, you put in a lot more effort. You don’t think, “I don’t care.” You realize you have to come out on top.

We haven’t started playing yet. We haven’t, at least. As for Yatoro and Rue—I don’t know. Probably not. Larl is already handing over his prize money from Inta in advance. People will ask him, “What are you going to do with the prize money from Inta?” And he’ll say, “We need to pay for the matchups.”

According to Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov, the practice matchups are organized by Dmitry “Korb3n” Belov, who arranges the games with the opponents. However, to give the players more motivation to put their all into the results, the matchups are played for money. Collapse joked that Denis “Larl” Sigitov already owes part of his prize money from The International 2026.

As a reminder, Dmitry “Korb3n” Belov previously spoke about Team Spirit’s preparations for The International 2026.