Nix suddenly changed his opinion about Team Spirit star player

Alexander “Nix” Levin said that he considers Danil “Donk” Kryshkovets the star player of Team Spirit in CS2 to be a talented esports player thus denying his previous statements about him.

This statement was made during a Twitch stream.

“In all games he has around 40 thousand hours. I don’t know how reliable this is but he played CS 1.6 and CS:GO as well. You need to understand that talent is the degree of being in love with your work. He is definitely talented but to blame everything on how he was born… he **** worked so much to play the way he plays. Many people deny this which is wrong. This literally devalues his work and Donk spent his whole life playing CS. Talent is the degree of love for your work because you need to **** do things to be *****. And you need to love what you do to **** do it because on motivation and discipline you won’t spend 40 thousand hours on something you hate. You must insanely love it”

Nix noted that in his previous statement about Donk he did not mean that the player is untalented but that he worked a lot to achieve success and was not good only because of talent. According to him Donk reached the top not only thanks to talent but also because he played around 40 thousand hours in his favorite project the streamer also compared it to himself saying that in his entire life he has only 26 thousand hours in Dota 2 so he believes that Donk truly loves CS2.

Many were surprised by such a change in rhetoric because before that Nix focused on the player in a different way.

“What I like most is how everyone cries about what a genius Donk is what talent he has someone didn’t get it and so on. The guy at 18 years old has 40 thousand hours in the game. I spent my whole life on Dota I have 26 thousand hours. And he has 40. What kind of genius are we even talking about Let people with 40 thousand hours talk about what a genius he is not those who didn’t even spend close to that amount of effort and time as he did. This is classic thinking. Any skill is time and repetition. Just some person comes to it faster because he does it more consciously”

In the end Nix changed his rhetoric explaining that he does not devalue the player skills but believes that tens of thousands of hours of practice also gave Donk his results.