N0tail talks about roster changes and explains the situation with the canceled The International
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Johan "N0tail" Sundstein - OG`s captain, talks in an interview about roster changes and explains the situation with the canceled The International.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, tournaments began to be held online. Johan immediately realized that the team would play without a complete roster. Although experienced players were invited to the roster, Sundstein claims that such changes will negatively affect the team:
We learnt rather soon that we had to play without a complete roster and with a handicap. We tried playing with Neta '33' to great success, although we had changed our style a lot to enable this new lineup of players. We did a few trial games with Irakli 'W1sh-' Peranidze, but I personally felt this big change wouldn't be healthy to keep going for our lineup, as we spent a lot of time breaking down the game to players and we didn't have much time to explain our view of the game
In addition, The International 10 was postponed until 2021, but OG hoping that Valve will announce another tournament in order to show what the two-time TI winners are capable of:
It's very hard to say what the future holds, as the season is unknown and it seems uncertain if we'll even have LAN tournaments for the rest of 2020. As long as Dota is going, OG will be playing. Even with TI being cancelled, we're hopeful something will replace it and give us a chance to show what we're capable of
