NS Names the Main Culprit Behind Team Spirit’s Loss

Yaroslav “NS” Kuznetsov believes that Denis “Larl” Sigitov made no contribution to Team Spirit’s performance in their match against Nigma Galaxy during the group stage of The International 2026.

The streamer shared this opinion on Twitch.

“Okay, we lost. That’s it, disband. Shut down this team of bums. Go ahead and write it off—it’s all over. They won’t make it out of the group stage. Tomorrow’s rematch against GamerLegion—BigNum is just going to outplay Yatoro. That’s it, the story’s over.

It’s hard to play without a midlaner. Zero impact from Larl. He’s just running around the map aimlessly. Cake came up with this Invoker strategy five years ago at 5,000 MMR—Larl is just copying it.”

Acording to Yaroslav “NS” Kuznetsov, the team played the match against Nigma Galaxy practicaly without Denis “Larl” Sigitov, who made no contribution to his team’s result by using outdated strategies. Although the team still managed to advance to the playoffs in the rematches, playing against Team Resilience rather than GamerLegion as the content creator had predicted, the streamer believes it’s time for Team Spirit to consider making significant changes to its roster.

As a reminder, an insider report previously surfaced sugesting that Magomed “Collapse” Khalilov might leave Team Spirit’s Dota 2 roster.