Korb3n revealed what he had to do to sign Collapse to Team Spirit

Dmitry “Korb3n” Belov, Team Spirit manager, said that he had to negotiate with Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov’s father, as well as give him a tour and spend an evening at a restaurant, in order to sign the player to the team.

He spoke about this during a Twitch stream while answering fans’ questions.

“When we were forming the roster, we had to give Magomed’s father a tour. He didn’t believe that you could be paid big money just for playing on a computer — and for him that was logical. So we invited him to fly over: ‘We’ll pay for everything, meet you, show you the office, go to a restaurant and eat some meat. We’ll talk about who we are, why Collapse is so good and what his prospects are’”

According to him, the player’s father was very skeptical about the whole idea and couldn’t believe that playing Dota 2 could provide for his son. That’s why, the manager emphasized, they paid for the flight, dinner at a restaurant and excursions, to show Collapse’s importance and his future potential.

“Magomed’s father is a chief physician at a hospital, and Magi himself was enrolling in medical school. We checked them into a hotel, paid for everything, I personally met them. The next day we met with Nikita. Before that, we took them to the bootcamp in Monteville, and then met at a restaurant and explained who we are and what prospects Collapse has. That we are interested in Magomed right now, and that he can already play in a tier-1 team. We showed him the best players, starting from the ‘golden’ Virtus.pro roster: RAMZES, advertising, Forbes”

In the end, Korb3n said that they managed to agree on an academic leave for Collapse for one year, after which his father could follow the player’s success on Twitch. The manager believes that the father was proud of his son’s victory at The International.

It is worth noting that Collapse previously mentioned two roles that were affected by patch 7.40.