Team Spirit's manager revealed new details about Yandex Team

Dmitry Korb3n Belov, the manager of Team Spirit, said that Yandex Team had great chance to secure a strong roster but because of their indecisive nature, one of the players left to join another team. He believes the focus of constructing a new roster is primarily for marketing and media exposure more than anything else.

This is what he shared with his followers on Telegram:

“Yandex seems to have devised a strategy for the team, especially with Solo around. First comes marketing and a distant second, competitive branding. No, this is not about me using Lekha as a punching bag, I just happen to know that Yandex had the opportunity to get a decent tier-2 roster but took too long to ‘decide’ so one of the players opted to join another team. It will be difficult putting together a competitive roster around Solo, and he himself has said as much.”

His statements suggest that the club’s sole approach is based on non-competitive principles, so in essence Yandex Team is trying to shift their focus from winning to creating buzz around the team, which is what he thinks is the purpose of Alexey Solo Berezin joining the team.

From what he said, Solo will have a difficult time putting together a solid roster with the current problems of the Dota 2 pro scene, something the player himself has admitted.

Earlier, there was a leak that Ilya "Squad1x" Kuvaldin is said to be the new midlaner for Yandex Team.