Nix revealed the secret behind 33 and Tundra Esports’ victories at The International 2025

Alexander "Nix" Levin called Neta "33" Shapira, the captain of Tundra Esports, a genius who wins by always finding a broken artifact in a patch and choosing heroes for it.

The streamer said this during a broadcast on Twitch.

"33 is a unique genius who tries to win Aegis with all the strongest position 1 players. He is really cool! He understands what is strongest in the meta every The International. He was the first to start using certain artifacts. Even if his team does not win, he knows which artifacts are the strongest"

Nix explained that 33's strategy is both genius and simple. According to him, the point is that the two-time world champion is the first to find an imbalanced artifact, and then analyzes which heroes it is most effective on.

"33's strategy is simple: he looks for the strongest artifacts and looks at which heroes they historically worked well on, and then chooses these heroes. If an artifact is the imba of the patch, he simply selects heroes on which this artifact is the strongest. He is a real genius in this - he defines the imba meta well"

The streamer noted that 33 manages to win matches, even if his team does not have the strongest players, thanks to his ingenious strategy, which he used at TI14.

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