Team Spirit's captain wanted to go inactive but couldn't

Yaroslav "Miposhka" Naidenov, who leads Team Spirit, revealed that he intended to become inactive after The International 2024 but changed his plans to not become the last player remaining from the star roster.

Team Spirit’s manager Dmitry "Korb3n" Belov disclosed this information on his Twitch stream.

"Korb3en believed that Miposhka does want to step away and take a break, but in reality, it was not that simple. When everyone else was bound to take a break, the tough question surrounded miposhka, which for him was, if I step away too, what will happen to the team? And that was the problem since to a certain extent, Korb3en backed up Miposhka reasoning by saying that ‘I need to build a five-man roster,’ which was simply not going to work with the experienced drafter available”

Based on what Korb3en said, after the Dota 2 world championship, there was a consideration of Miposhka stepping away for a bit but that changed as he realized that the rest of the team indeed was stepping away. It was bound to happen, with the micromangement being dealt out by the manager whose strings forced new players to abide, but as seasoned drafter proved too tough of a challenge to respond to. Therefore, he jumped leaps and bounds out of the inactive box.

"Yarik reflected on this and showed up the very next day claiming he would not take time off. Larl? He had no intention of doing so. The rest of the team disbanded"

Earlier Team Spirit manager commented on who they were looking at as a potential replacement for Ilya “Yatoro” Mulyarchuk.