Donk Spoke Candidly About Team Spirit’s Losses

Danil “donk” Kryshkovets believes that Team Spirit’s players had little time to address gameplay issues following their poor showing at PGL Masters Bucharest, but the team’s performance at BLAST Rivals Fall will reveal whether they’ve made any progress.

The player shared this opinion on YouTube.

“In just five days, there isn’t much we can fix fundamentally in our gameplay after PGL Masters Bucharest. It was increasingly coming down to a psychological aspect: how we cope with the fact that, after being finalists in the first three tournaments of the season, we’ve slipped to the point where we can’t even advance out of the group stage—and how we can get past this phase.

Not so much from a gameplay perspective, but psychologically. Not to lose heart in the face of such poor results given our ambitions. That’s all. We tried to focus less on how we won and more on what made us winners. Even when we were out of form, we still beat the teams we were supposed to beat. Even when we were part of a weak team, we didn’t lose to teams that were weaker than us.

The results will speak for themselves. BLAST Rivals Fall will show how we overcame this rough patch and whether we drew the right conclusions. It’s as if it were simply deserved. We played poorly. A deserved outcome, since you’re simply playing poorly. Obviously, we came to BLAST for the win. Expectations are always high when you’re at the top.”

According to a statement by Danil “donk” Kryshkovets, it’s now important for Team Spirit not only to improve their gameplay but also to regain confidence in their abilities. The player noted that the team maintains high ambitions and expects to compete for the win at BLAST Rivals Fall, despite recent setbacks. That said, it is the tournament’s results that will show whether the team has managed to overcome the crisis and learn the necessary lessons from their defeat at PGL Masters Bucharest.

As a reminder, Andrey “Tn1r” Tatarinovich previously spoke about Danil “donk” Kryshkovets’ role on Team Spirit.