Nix humiliated 9Pandas at The International 2023

Dota 2 team 9 Pandas has never played well as a team, although the players can individually show high results.

Streamer Alexander "Nix" Levin made this statement during one of his Twitch streams.

"People only look at the result, but in fact, 9Pandas has never played normally. They have never had a proper macro or a decent hero pool for that meta. They had that one *** shot in Berlin [ESL One Berlin Major 2023] with RodjER when Enchantress and Chen were imbalanced. RodjER was executing them at a tier-1 level, and no one was prepared for kiyotaka's heroes. He played Storm Spirit and Tinker in every game, and no one was banning them, even under Bounty Hunter. That was their peak"

He also compared 9Pandas to BetBoom Team, saying that at least the latter has an idea, although the level of play still leaves much to be desired.

Earlier, Nix stated that the popularity of Dota 2 began to decline after TI9, but it still has many fans in Eastern Europe due to Team Spirit's victory at The International 2021.