Professional Gaimin Gladiators player Anton dyrachyo commented on the team's first games in the lower bracket of The International 2023 playoffs exclusively for Telecomasia.net.
Dyrachyo said that he thought the first games were quite easy:
Yeah actually the games were pretty easy, I didn't expect that. We just had a good draft and played well. I think that we got good drafts against 9 Pandas on the first map, and on the second map we outplayed them.
Anton Shkredov also talked about Dark Willow, the hero Gaimin Gladiators had to play against in the matches against Evil Geniuses and 9 Pandas:
This hero is situational, you need to feel her, maybe I'll try to practice using her.
As a reminder, on the night of October 21-22, the Gaimin Gladiators team won two matches of the lower bracket: they defeated EG and 9 Pandas with a score of 2:0 on maps. GG's next opponent will be nouns. The match will take place on October 27th at 20:00 GMT+3.
The International 12 takes place from October 12 to 29 in LAN-format in Seattle, USA. 20 best teams of the world take part in the event. The prize pool of the event is now over $3 million dollars.
Earlier Gaimin Gladiators defeated 9 Pandas on the first map in 19 minutes.