Collapse Discusses the Situation at Team Spirit Following Panto’s Replacement

Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov stated that the replacement of Nikita ‘Panto’ Balaganin with Alexey “Not me” Kosmyinin at Team Spirit is going fairly smoothly, and the new teammates are currently actively sharing their experiences.

The player discussed this on Twitch.

"I don't know, about 30 games. That's a lot. We played KV. Maybe even 50. I’m just sharing my experience with him, and he’s sharing his with me. We’re talking. I don’t know, it’s just the usual process of bringing in a new player.

I can’t say—we haven’t decided who the captain is yet. Everyone gives input, but the draft is mostly up to the coach, I’d say. He just asks who we’d like to pick and what roles we’d like to play. Every time during the draft, we discuss how we see it.

When Miposhka was here, he was the captain. He gave the final call for a long time. Now we listen to each other and try to pick the right option. But sometimes we don’t pick the right one—we pick some crazy nonsense.”

According to Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov, ever since Yaroslav “Miposhka” Naidenov left Team Spirit, the team hasn’t had a clear-cut captain, but teammates try to exchange ideas, choosing the best ones, and the team’s coach is now in charge of the drafts. Nevertheless, the esports player admitted that Team Spirit’s in-game decisions don’t always turn out well.

Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov also admitted that he was simply presented with a fait accompli regarding the upcoming roster changes after returning from vacation.

“I don’t know, I came back from vacation, and then they told me that Panto was getting kicked. I was like, ‘Okay.’ ‘We have a new player—not me’—‘Okay.’ That’s it. They just told me, ‘Now you’re playing with him.’ They also told me that rue was tired of playing with me in the lane, and now he’ll be playing with Yatoro. And I was like, ‘Okay.’ I wasn’t even at the tournament where he got tired of playing with me.”

As a reminder, Roman “RAMZES666” Kushnarev previously commented on the changes in Team Spirit’s gameplay following the replacement of Nikita “Panto” Balaganin.