Greatest Comeback In Dota 2 History: The Return Of Ceb

SEBASTIAN DEBS: Hi. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] SEBASTIAN DEBS: I want people there. I don't want one core on each lane. Let's fight them back. Every one of you can want to fight them. I swear to God it's true. I know we can win it also, so let's take it. -Sorry. INTERVIEWER:Who is Ceb? Ceb? Oh, that's a hard question. How I would define Ceb. SEBASTIAN:Don't go out without fighting. Fight. Sebastian Debs is-- [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] I'm counting on you guys to fucking punch bag. Who am I? [SHOUTING] COMME

NTATOR: OG's run at TI10 ends here. We will say goodbye to our champions. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] OG will continue to exist. SEBASTIAN:OG will continue to exist. We will see what the future is made of. [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] COMMENTATOR: It feels like Ceb's farewell party. It feels like he's coming back party tonight. I don't know about you. [THEME MUSIC PLAYING] OG's run at TI10 ends here. ANNOUNCER:And OG, it just wasn't meant to be this year. We will say goodbye to our champions. [WATER RUNNING]

Why did I retire? Yeah. I mean, the main reason why I retired is because I felt... I felt like this this fire that really felt like a superpower for a long time, it's like this drive for that, in particular, wasn't there anymore. Actually, there was a specific day that... everything changed, Usually for tournaments, especially Majors or TIs or any of these big LANS where I know like the best is going to be here, I would wake up, I don't know, two hours before the alarm. I had a really hard time

going to sleep, you know, like, my brain was like non-stop. And then there was this one tournament, I don't really remember which one it was, where like, I wake up to the alarm, I snooze it and then I'm like, "Wait a minute." Like I'm at a major. I'm going to play one of these games. Like, what's happening to me? You know, this this feels so different. This isn't okay. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] And then you know, the sacrifices and what it requires from you, the competition. There's a lot more thing

s to take care of. A lot more people to give attention to. Much more responsibilities, basically. Good question. SEBASTIAN:I've been kind of caught up fixing things I haven't given enough attention throughout the years and throughout my career. It's a big, big price to pay. Right? And you've got to keep asking yourself, like, "Am I okay with that?" It's a lot of factors lining. And I'm like, "Well, it sounds like it's time." [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] JOHAN:Obviously me and Ceb, we talked about all of

it and checked up on each other. How has it been? How's your break?' Whatever. And yeah, it's been good. It's been needed. It's healthy. For me, I was in a world of excitement and a world of, I have so many things I wanted to try. Went paragliding, went surfing, did gardening. Yeah. No, I had um, I had a really good time, but I can tell Ceb maybe missed Dota more than... ...than I would say most, like the competitive aspect. He had a bigger itch, I think. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] SEBASTIAN: I mean,

I started thinking about the end of the journey. I feel like when I was younger, the fire was, it was so intense. that I felt like this was something that can, it's like it's eternal, you know? -And then when it starts going away. -Yeah. That was a big, big shock to me, actually. -Yeah. Yeah. -I was like, I was actually super, super shocked. Yeah, it's like at some point things feel not good or natural, I think the right thing is to listen to yourself, listen to your heart and do what you have

to do. Don't be afraid of anything, don't be afraid of change. -Don't be afraid of the future. -Yeah. -Exactly. -Go with the flow. Yeah. Because actually, you actually have all the answers, like inside you. Like, I feel like you kind of know if, these things you kind of know, but then you make excuses to not look at it or listen to yourself -or trust your instinct, you know? -Yeah. Yeah. It's like not letting go of your own hand and you're like... -Yeah, exactly like. -'I'm stuck, I'm stuck. Yea

h. Yeah, you also have to know how to let go also. That part is important. Yeah, there was some anxiety with the retirement for sure. It's like, I mean, the anxiety was actually related to the first question you asked, is like, "Who are you?" I think that's a big question to ask yourself. SEBASTIAN:I've spent a lot of time being someone and trying to do certain things, and now I'm willing to change that completely. And of course, yeah, it got me anxious, especially because it's not like I stoppe

d competing because I knew what I wanted to do. It was more like, I need to stop competing. It really feels like it. So I was in front of a true blank page. It's been a long road. Probably, still a lot ahead, but definitely see the-- It's the best years. -This is when the wine gets good bro. -Yeah, yeah, yeah. -It's been a long road. -Still waiting for the win? [LAUGHING] -No, I've got it. I've got it. -No? -Never satisfied? -No. Never got what I came for? -Satisfied. -Okay. Satisfied. [SOFT MUS

IC PLAYING] PRODUCER:One take, two... Yes, I think before the season started, you know, when we knew that OG was going to have some big changes. You know, what was going to happen with the brand? Who are they going to get in? Are we going to see some players that we've heard of? And we didn't really. It was some new faces. I think most of the negative backlash kind of just came from the fact that fans, they didn't know the players. So they were they would sort of look at this and be like, you kn

ow, who are these guys? [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] You know, they haven't been to LANs. They haven't really played tournament level. It's all just been kind of online leagues. They're very young, it was a big risk. It was very much like kind of raised eyebrows, like, "Well okay, I guess they're going for something different here, something a little bit new." [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] PRODUCER:Two take one. A mark. A mark. Because of COVID, we did not have any events with a crowd for over two years. It

had been so long since proper international competition and the Stockholm Major was going to be the first one to showcase that. OWEN:So a major is a key part of the overall Dota 2 competitive circuit. Throughout the year, teams, they collect points from performing in online leagues and through these majors. The online leagues are within the regions, and then the major will take the top teams from all of those separate regions and bring them together to get to go head-to-head against the best of

the best from all around the world. We did not know which regions were the strongest. We did not know if Southeast Asia was on top of everybody's game. We did not know of Europe was as good as people thought. The list goes on, we did not know anything. People were very, very excited that finally we were going to have this chance to see teams from all over the world gather, the regions collide, and we can see who actually stands above the rest. NEWSCASTER: After months of preparations, the Russia

n president, Vladimir Putin, has launched a major military operation against Ukraine. The Stockholm Major was around the same time as the start of the invasion from Russia into Ukraine, and it definitely affected the tournament. You have the teams that did have a player from that area of the world, and there was always sort of the doubt of whether they would actually be able to attend or have the full lineup at a Major. SEBASTIAN:I mean, the situation leading up to the event has been tricky for

sure. You know Misha is Russian, the coach is Russian. Yuragi Space is Ukrainian. I think they're victims in a way that their life kind of has changed overnight. PRODUCER:A mark. Yeah, I remember the day we were in the boot camp here in Lisbon, and Misha brought it up that he will most likely not be able to play. There was a chance that Misha and Chu we're going to get their visa denied. Until the very last moment, we did not know. The team had went through certain options in case it would happe

n. One of the option was me at a different role. I try to talk down that option. I was like, "Maybe there are other options." I didn't know him at that time. We never spoke. Johan said that he has a very strong voice and he could help us in game as a captain. And Misha said that he was the best choice. SEBASTIAN:And then only one week before the tournament, they're like, "All right, it has to be you." And then I'm like, "Oh, God." You know, it's only one week. It's a new role. That situation mea

nt that Ceb stood in as player and N0tail stood in as coach. Um. Yeah. COMMENTATOR:Hello everyone and welcome to the first day of the ESL One Stockholm Major. We have a LAN, we have a major, everything super excited. The first team we get to watch, also had to make a sub unfortunately. They were unable to get visas for their five position player and their coach and as a result, Ceb is going to be playing five. So OG is a team that I probably would have picked normally saying like, "Oh, they're g

oing to have a really good showing here." The mystery man himself in the middle. You know why he doesn't have picture in those? Because every team did media day yesterday. Ceb is arriving... FEMALE CASTER: I thought he got at nine. CASTER: At 9:00 a.m. today, he arrived. He's also playing position five. At TI, he won with Offlaner. So if he's throwing himself into the squad that has specific strategies, that could hurt them. And that's the reason why it's dangerous to pick OG for like the team t

o do well. There's five rules in Dota 2. Very comparable to football, where you have the frontliner or the backliner and the goalie. Everybody has its own role. You have these three core roles, that are the more greedier roles. You know, they're building the bigger items, and then you have the two support roles. It's their job to make sure that their three cores get the space that's needed to have the impact and be able to work towards that win. Now Ceb, he had to switch because Misha, he was th

e position five and the captain of the squad and a position five means that you are basically the babysitter. You're the babysitter. You have to help other people get their gold. The question was, is he still able to be at his best when he's playing in this different role? [CLATTERING] Feels so great guys! Let's fucking play some Dota. Woo-hoo-hoo! -And sign here. -Oh yeah, I remember. It's fine, don't sue me. -You happy with you setup now Ceb? -Yeah. Ready. All right. Misha wants to speak. Let'

s gather around. -No, no, no. Everybody here. -Everybody here. Yeah. Roger that. Space, you feel nervous? -No? -Let's go. -Nobody's nervous. -Thanks, Misha. TOMMY LE: Ceb is definitely not nervous. -I'm pretty good. -Yeah. SEBASTIAN:I was nervous going into the tournament. I'll be honest. The first game, especially like I was... I was not in my comfort zone, I could feel it. And I was so annoyed because it's been so long since I felt like that. And you got to see, like, I'm playing versus compet

ition that they enjoy beating me because it hasn't always been like that. Okay guys, don't fucking throw, okay? Don't throw the game. So it's even more motivation for me to step my game up and be like, all right, like, I'm not here as a tourist or just to say hi or wave at the crowd. I'm here to play and I'm here to try to win these games. COMMENTATOR:Very excellent games. Starting off is of course going to be the OG versus Beastcoast game, right off the bat. CASTER:Roush is kind of low. FEMALE

CASTER:Sitting very low, Hector making his way over towards the pit. Will go in for the raid. Just not quite low enough to get these final hits off the bash. They'll follow up with Wisper, these Beastcoast freeze. The Soulbind though, goes down to somebody, Yuragi. Picks up the aegis, they'll get the cleanup over onto Taiga. Stinger next to fall, the buybacks are coming out. Taiga, he wants to be back in there but Ammar just doing too much damage, takes down K1, takes down Wisper. CASTER:They di

d it. Wow. Yes ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Boom verses OG. As Yopaj, he's just jumping in on as low hp as he is. He knows they can't kill him. GG is called, boom. SEBASTIAN:It's funny. The way they look at the game is not only different, I think it's like the opposite of how I look at the game. I'll be honest. It's been challenging in game because I've been the one doing the adapting, I don't hope. If I did a good job, they did not notice. But I'm sure Johan notices, he gives me the smile a

ll the time. Because he knows. I mean, we went so deep into Dota theory that when he sees me letting certain things happen, he's laughing his ass off, I can tell. And I'm laughing too inside. But they don't know, they don't know. CASTER:For now, they do pick up the second support of Winter Wyvern. Very, very good. FEMALE CASTER:Over on to Karl. Oh, the hit's coming out. Gabbi chasing after them, they want to remove Yuragi. They know that if they can get rid of Yuragi, things open up so much more

. Front blows. There they go, they drop the heads, come out, they call it. GG. They also know that some of the teams that we're facing, they look at a different and whether or not they agree, they have to understand how other teams look at the game in order to break them. CASTER:Add that ages the double dim down on to Ceb and Yuragi, Ceb will fall, GG 25 minutes in, 24-7 Tundra. The only fights we were taking is where they have the position and they have the-- -No, we have position. -They are be

ating us into them. -Yeah. -It's the only fights we take. We don't take fights in our terms. I would just like to add like Artem is saying, in our terms like, listen to each other. And I say that, but it's more important that you guys believe it, that you are listening to each other and everybody is here you know to enable each other. And if you feel like it's not the case, shake that off because that's all in your head. You know? Everybody is fucking here. Yeah, everybody plays for everybody. F

eel good, You know? Feel good about everything. Like fuck it, you tried. Fucking didn't work. -Yeah. -It's gonna be like yesterday. Like next game, they're going to get fucking slaughtered. I mean, it's always awesome to have Johan around. When I don't see him, I miss him. So, no, it was great. It didn't feel like we haven't seen each other in a while because we are in touch constantly. Like we almost talk daily. But yeah, it's awesome to have him here, to be here together in this Dota environme

nt with the team. Have his support. I don't know, It just feels like everything is at its place in a way. I guess there's some cool truth you could try and pull from the analogy of heart and mind, Ceb and me. If he's the mind, then I'm the heart. I think he added a lot of things to OG in terms of how to draft our things, how to get our things through the game, what to worry about, what to think about, but also reading the enemy, how they play the game and explain it to us, put words on it. It's

really powerful, like when we went into tournaments that it really felt like you always knew your opponent before you had played them. SEBASTIAN:The reason also why OG, that won TI twice, became so smart, it had a lot to do with Johan. Like his emotional intelligence, his ability to read the room. And obviously that is still here and he still does a great job at it. JOHAN:Just come here, learn, have fun, you know? And honestly, like these two games, if they leave you with something bad inside yo

u, like embrace it, don't feel negative about feeling negative. It's okay. It's all okay. Bzm getting two Storm games on the rough. You can bounce back now today or you can bounce back tomorrow. Either way, I think it's all good, you know? [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] I think after day two of the group stages, a lot of people were thinking, you know, it's a standing situation. You've got an excuse not to do well. In reality, these newer young players, maybe the pressure is getting to them. Can they deal

with the losses? [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] But lessons were learned and I don't know what they had for breakfast on the third day, something changed, something must have happened. CASTER:What? Windranger picked up? CASTER:I love this too because there's still that-- the way it's going. CASTER: What's happening him? CASTER 2: The mystery, yup, exactly. CASTER2: But is she a good hero right now? So when it comes to the Windranger pick, this hero is just, it's a very kind of wishy washy hero. It's sq

uishy. It has two spells that are not easy to hit, easy to use, and that's your stun, your ability to lock down an enemy and it's also your damage. The Shackle shot, the Power shot. These aren't reliable spells to use. A risk that most teams aren't going to be taking. CASTER:Maybe they'll force Bzm to use Haste here. Oh, nice Shackle. Pops it in now, trying to turn, looking for the kill. They find him right there. Cold Embrace not nearly enough. Ceb now looking for more Jerax. Some trouble as we

ll as he's going to get pulled back and OG. Making it work here early. Using the Fiends Gate here. Running at them! Just keep going. Oh, you bully! CASTER:How? CASTER2:Oh, no. Watch, watch. [LAUGHING] Dude, that was sick! That was so good. Taiga just waiting to the side ready for a Black Hole. And GG's done. Yeah, it's over. They have the refreshed Black Hole available if they can get there in time, get together, unstoppable! Tommy does it get more time again. Another tip, another win, OG! They'

re looking stellar. Happy Misha? We learned. We learn, man. We get smarter. [THEME MUSIC PLAYING] CASTER:Betboom knows something is going to happen. Ammar comes back with a BKB. Now there's going to be a counter initiation as it seems like Taiga, in a really good position, can't get hit by the Rolling Thunder, as Noticed is being slammed by Ammar. Sliced and diced, it's over. They actually killed the last remaining heroes for BetBoom and they finished with style! OG go 2-0 over BetBoom. [CLAPPIN

G] [LAUGHING] JOHAN:Let's check theirs instead. But this one is good too. Look at this. Look at this. SEBASTIAN: Yeah, that's me for you, right now. Your head looks so big on this picture too, like bigger than your face. They call me the grandpa. I actually, I'm called the grandpa within this group, which is quite funny. They're shy. They're young. I was like that, I understand. And they're also maybe a bit introverts so they're just goofing around, fooling around. It's funny, you know, like I d

on't mind it. I don't know that I could do it like a full year. What is this? There actually, there's a lot of bonds in this team. They respect each other a lot. They like each other's a lot, I can tell. And I think it's awesome. I would say he's the only respectful person on this fucking team, right? ALLEN:Yeah. The first series that OG had in the playoffs was against TSM and this sort of fresh team from North America. They were turning up from the region coming into this international LAN and

they looked hot. CASTER: Yuragi, he still wants to fight this, gets them over the Alacrity. Ceb joins as well, nullifier. For this Underlord, Wraith Pact is protecting him. -They break the Wraith Pact quickly. -They got the cheese off. CASTER2: Oh they haven't broken it yet. SabeRLight takes the fair amount thanks to the Wraith Pact, who actually outlasted them. They're not done. This is going to be an easy pick off for them. Seems like OG is backing off. This Wraith Pact is doing a one hell of

a work in these fights. Oh man, what a game. What a game from TSM FTX. So once they were knocked down to the lower bracket by TSM, they find themselves, OG, up against Boom. And Boom, of course, a solid team from SEA, a region that have been very much talked up massively before this event. OWEN:And this series, it was sort of the difference between staying in your hotel and going home or getting to actually be there in the stadium in front of a live crowd. So it was going to be a huge opportunit

y and you can guarantee that they were going to do everything in their power not to miss out on that. CASTER:Ceb, he's been found. The setup, Eul's into the Remnant, Ceb, he's going to get speared to the tree, no chance for him. Oh, no. Oh, no. This tier 2 tower is going to go along with the next push. OG indeed ignoring that and opting to try towards the Roush. SEBASTIAN:You always have doubts. I think if you don't, you don't improve when you're competing. I think doubts, you deal with doubts e

very day. I have a lot of doubts, for sure. I still do. But I've learned how to manage them. CASTER:And oh, Yuragi, in with the jump! They're going to jump straight away onto Yopaj. He was not ready for that one. Cookie still on cooldown. Skem had used it before. Didn't have anything to save him, and now that is the Rosh. It's what allows him to get jumps. He's doing the Blink jump. The shackle's there and another one. There's going to be a buyback now coming out for the Skern. They need to try

and punish OG there for getting that big kill onto the Mid. Jump for Skem, but Skem also going to get taken out. Ammar with the triple. Keeping Yopaj busy off to the side. The Shackles there. Yopaj is caught in the combo. He's gone. And then Ceb getting some beautiful Shackles. These Shackles are definitely getting in the head of Yopaj. I enjoy the pressure. I think the more pressure, the better I play, that I'm good, like this is my comfort zone for sure. CASTER:Got the kisses Ceb. He's got the

shackle off one of the two cores! He's caught JaCkky and he's caught Yopaj. JaCkky in trouble, JaCkky goes down. Held in the Fountain is OG. They'll look to close this game up. They're on towards the Ancient. GG is called. Nice. Nice, Nice. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] Basically with my eyes, so I have really bad sight. Obviously, like genetics, ever since I was a kid, I was wearing glasses and it was pretty bad from the get go. But in certain cases, I think when your eyesight is really, really bad and

that's the case for me, you can have these kind of tiny holes that can appear in the eye. And if they go unnoticed, you lose sight like simply. So if that liquid goes inside the center of the retina, you go blind. SEBASTIAN:Yeah, it's scary. But at the same time I try not to think about it. I try not think about it, honestly. I feel like whatever happens, happens. But it's scary in the sense that I want to do everything I can to not get there. But at the same time, I just have a lot of faith in

life in general. I have accepted that there's light and there's dark and one would not exist without the other. And you kind of have to embrace both. Every day is a blessing in a way. That's how I look at it. And whatever happens, you can make it, you can make it so. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] COMMENTATOR:What happens to players that have not played in front of an audience before? Like what's that process of, I don’t know, getting used to playing in front of an audience? JORIEN:Because we do have thr

ee first timers on the main stage. We know that sometimes players, they level up in front of a crowd, sometimes they just step it up and do really well. JORIEN: But sometimes the opposite is true. Sometimes players just crumble and the pressure gets too much. And we just had no idea how this OG squad was going to play in front of that crowd. OWEN: So obviously there's many differences between playing in your bedroom, in a hotel room, and then suddenly being sat there on a stage, and thousands of

people looking down upon you. You know, lights are on. You know, the question was always going to be, you know, how are they going to deal with it? [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] SEBASTIAN: So, this is the first big LAN for a lot of these guys at this scale with these stakes. Even if they're not tense, they're going to feel the tension. How the manager is going to talk to them today is going to be different from when he was talking to you yesterday, because today is the big day. When they walk into the s

tadium, people are going to be looking at them. When there is a crowd, the atmosphere is different. The tension is different. When you play in front of a crowd, you feel the vibrations in the floor. You know that's something you cannot ignore. It amplifies everything. It's not just about playing now, you know? It's also about dealing with the atmosphere of the room. To me, it's awesome. To me, it's-- It's what makes this whole journey worth it. So I think it really comes down to your own mindset

at the end of the day. You know, now I say that because it's been a decade of playing in front of crowds. But my first event playing in front of a crowd, I did not think like that. I was just getting bullied. SEBASTIAN:So, yeah, I don't know how they're going to react, honestly. I've thought about it a lot. I'm ready for them to freak out. I'll be there, I'll help them. So yeah, I mean, we'll see. We'll see how it goes today. [CROWDS CHEERING] CASTER:The OG's of major upsets. The favorite team

of many of you. And you know one of mine, too. Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for OG! [AUDIENCE CHEERING] So in OG versus Fnatic, again, another squad, hot squad from SEA that people have talked up a lot. It was going to be another big test for OG. CASTER:Top lane, so far it looks like there's not been too much struggle. Yuragi to hit the creeps, going to see if they can try and make a bit of a move on to Jabz. The Malefice into the Blade Fury. I don't think there's any escape for

this Visage. That'll be first blood for the two of them. You think he's at a point where he can walk it off? CASTER:Oh, no, not again. CASTER2:Another one. CASTER:It's going to be another one, this top lane. It ain't been great here for Fnatic, that's four deaths now. To take him down, he has a lot of Wand Charges as well. CASTER:Right back up, Jabz. CASTER2:Yuragi's fixed. I mean, he's looking for the opportunity to get him with the ultimate, Jabz trying his best to juke around the trees. CAST

ER:He's Doing a good job. CASTER2:He's hiding pretty nicely. CASTER:But there's the--oh! Another one for Yuragi. Four, zero, one. I think at this point folks, you just got to, you just got to write off this top lane if you're Fnatic. This is not the place to be. Not being afraid to really go for it. But there's Taiga with a jump Malefice into the Black Hole, they're locking him down. This time round, they'll have the damage. Armel's gone. GG is called. OG! [CLAPPING] JOHAN:Nice. Nice. Nice. 1-0.

JOHAN: He said, we said what? SEBASTIAN: Yes. How do people feel? People feel good? -Going to the next game. -I feel good. It's the same as going into first game, you know? As in like, don't-- Let's not get cocky, let's all play the same Dota. Expect them to try to bounce back. I don't know what they would throw at us, -but hopefully they have something-- -Yea, show respect. Yeah. Respect them. Respect them. CASTER:Oh, man! Oh! He nearly had it there. In fact, he might get a chance. He does. Ar

mell! OG, they just can't react to this right now. CASTER:Looking for Yuragi. CASTER2:Yuragi. CASTER: It'll get the Phantasm off, but they know which one the real one is, they're able to catch him in the combo, Yuragi. Definitely going down again here as Fnatic, just not letting this CK get any space to farm. They're keeping Yuragi held back. First game, it was one-sided. It was not a pretty sight. OG wins and everybody thinks it's going to end the exact same way. But then in game two, it goes t

he other way. Fnatic actually dominated that second game. CASTER:Trying to control Jabz but the BKB's up. Jabz rolls away to safety. Bzm with his own BKB. He tried to commit in towards Fnatic but Ammar, caught again by the turret. He's out of the game, no buyback on him. As Fnatic, they'll take down the top set of racks. Nothing that OG can do to stop them. That should just be the Megas. Nothing to be done here now. GG, it's called. Fnatic. This game two, it's all theirs and it really is, it's a

ll theirs. Suddenly the game finishes, the Ancient falls, GG's called and you know that you're now one loss away from being knocked out of the tournament completely. CASTER:Well, there we go ladies and gentlemen, the second series of the day, once again, going to a game three with fnatic taking this game two. They seem unstoppable, one to one now between Fnatic and OG. [WAVE CRASHING] I guess both of us learned a lot over like a competitive journey. You could describe it as. But what do you thin

k is some of the teachings you didn't expect to maybe get on this? Yeah, that people are different. For instance, you know, it sounds, like a very silly thing to say and at the same time, it's so important. But people are built different, and I feel like I've learned that. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] SEBASTIAN:I have learned so much about people through competing, so much. I now look at people as unachieved potential. I've seen so many situations where people, they have been convinced that this isn't f

or them or that they can't do that, they're not good enough. And I think it brings a lot of motivation in treating people the right way and try to enable them the best you can. [WAVES CRASHING] Some people take losses really hard but... I don't know if it's because we had already -gone through a lot or because-- -I think so. Yeah, maybe just through that. I could say in Dota that... after you've sacrificed more, losses do taste different. -Yeah. -They will taste different. Like if you put your h

eart and soul into something and the result isn't what you want-- It's harder to cope with it, for sure. It definitely tastes worse. [WAVES CRASHING] But wouldn't you say like there are like all the individuals and how they individually deal with the loss, for instance, and some players, like some individuals, are going to push that onto the teams. Like, I feel bad. I want to make others feel bad. Right, I think everybody who has a lot on their mind or chest is going to want to get it off at som

e point. That's not for granted though, because we've all been in teams like, where that space is never given. I think it must be really hard if people ever feel that lonely, you know? And I think a lot of times, the team dynamic works towards isolation rather than inclusion. JOHAN:Every time there's tough shit or like, things that you have to work on and it starts becoming a little too personal, people start getting very defensive and you start seeing these barriers go up and then if people sta

rt feeling isolated more and more alone, right? [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] I don't think we would have ever won TI if we hadn't had all the losses we had had before. All the strategies, the heroes, the concepts, the ideas, the ideologies, all of it came from the past. Dealing with losses, first comes with acknowledging how everybody needs to deal with the loss. SEBASTIAN:To me, the process is about empathy. Understand the person. Like truly understand them on a human level. And understand them, that a

lso means respect them. You have to buy into the way they see the world, and then also maybe find the right words for it. Ammar, listen. Ammar, you with me? We're better players, so let's put ourselves in positions in the game where we can use the fact that we're better players, if the game is hard, you know what I mean? You know what? Even if it's hard, even it feels like, well, they could, yes, maybe they can win the fight. But I don't care about the fact that they can win. I know we can win i

t also, so let's take it. Don't go out without fighting, fight. I'm counting on you guys to fucking punch back. I don't want them to also get away with a free map everywhere. They want to smoke on this Secret, they want to make a play, let's fuck them when they come to our secret, you know, let's do it. I want people there. I don't want one core in this game, let's fight them back. Every one of you can 1D-5 them. I swear to God it's true, their players are not good. They're really not good, seri

ously. So let's bring it on to them. Okay? -Let's do it. MISHA:-Yes, yes, Yes. SEBASTIAN:They need confidence, I'll help them. They feel helpless, they feel like we have no chance, I'll help them. If they don't feel confident, it's all bullshit. Like this team has everything it takes to win this game, so I'll just remind them. The reality is that this team is super talented. These players are super talented, and there's no reason for them to get beaten. There's no reason for us to get beaten tod

ay. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] CASTER: Oh! CASTER2: It's Yuragi sitting under the Tier 2 tower. Oh, they got him! CASTER:Oh! CASTER2:Oh! CASTER:That was very nice there with that vision set up. They see him chilling under the Tier 2. They're not going to stop, they're going to look for Ammar. He's already getting in underneath the Tier 1 tower, the three of them ready to set up on the tide. Let's see if Ammar can play his way out of this one. The stun into the blast. Has he got any further escape? He'

s caught in the Nature's cross. He's going to try for the TP out, is he out? CASTER2:No he's not. CASTER:He's not. The damage is there from Raven and the Phantasm. Fnatic picking up another, 7 to 0. If you watch the first 40 minutes of game three, you're like, "Yep, this is over." OG is out because Fnatic was once again dominating. They're getting these kills again and again and again. You look around the map and OG was just dying everywhere. CASTER:They’re on Yuragi! CASTER2:They're focusing Ar

mel. They're trying to get rid of him but it's Yuragi taken out. The Morph gone for 80 seconds. Raven, he's thinking about getting back in on this. The Shadow Blade, he's looking to the side, Gem on the ground at the moment, Ceb will pick it up but Raven's in on top of him, they bring down Ceb. A second kill here for Fnatic. You're an OG fan, you were quiet in that stadium. CASTER:Both heroes of OG, neither with buybacks available, That was a dieback from Ceb. You're seeing that score at the top

and you've got to be feeling it as a player. You're down, there's very little chance of you being able to sweep it back ground. 40 minutes, 50 minutes, that's when something changed within OG. This thing of people speaking up when one guy is down, you can be the guy that day who turns this shit around. CASTER:OG, they're gonna try and smoke Fnatic. They're gonna try and take this fight, Ceb, he's getting pretty low. There's the ult in for DJ, shoots Ceb down! Jump forward from Ammar, he's in wi

th the Ravi onto two of them BZM from the fourth. They're locking down Jabz' refresher. A second ravage, jump again, over with the Rolling Thunder, they're locking down the Ember. and that's going to be Jabz out for two minutes. Ammar again doing it with the ultimate. They think it's safe to come out a second, now Taiga. They just dropped the ball. He's on the move! Another Root? CASTER2: And there's the second Root again. Armel's doing his best to stop these Black Holes. But Raven still falls.

[AUDIENCE SCREAMING] CASTER:And Fnatic-- He tried to save him but Bzm-- Armel falling out. He's gone. CASTER2: Out of the game for two minutes. CASTER:Over the wall is DJ as well, he's now full dead. No buybacks left. They're pushing up for the game, Raven and Jabz. They'll try their best to hold. But here comes Taiga coming in with a Black Hole. CASTER:No buybacks for him and GG is called. OG will take this game three. JOHAN:It's an awesome challenge. And once you go through it, once you go the

re together like the euphoria, you can feel the ecstasy. This is love, it's kindness, you know? It's family. We're very different, her and I, in terms of like hobbies and what we like, maybe in terms of temper too. So she's not competitive at all. She's not so much into sports or anything that she could identify or transfer you know like what I do, not into video games whatsoever. So I think, it was really hard at first to even get her to understand the emotional kind of challenges or you know,

what is so, what is it about it that you know, would justify me being away 10 months a year or me thinking about it as soon as I wake up, before I go to sleep? You know, she would ask questions that were kind of genuine, but it's like, why are you, like, why? You know? And I'm like, it's like I can't really answer but it's like... because, you know like, I can't really give you anything else than just because... She helps me find balance that without her I wouldn't have and I think unconsciously

and indirectly, she helped me be much more stable as a competitor. I don't think it was willingly. I think she dreamt for a while that I would retire before, I think. To be honest, I'm sure of that. I don't know if she will admit to that, but I'm sure of that. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] SEBASTIAN: Listen, what we're going to do, I'm actually going to ask you to do it. It's like, think about the worst scenario that can happen in this game. Worst scenario is we get fucked like Fnatic game three, two ti

mes in a row. And they spam El Gotito in all chat. And we just have to, you know. We get fucked anyway. We lose, we get knocked out. This is, it's possible, it can happen today and really, And I want us to realize that if even if it happens, nobody gives a fuck. We are playing with a stand-in that's washed up, that doesn't play Plus 5. You got top six at the major already. You know what I mean? Like, honestly, I think we... I mean, I came into this tournament telling myself like, I hope I cannot

ruin their tournament and we will get out of the group stage and we will play on the main stage, you know, and I think we did much better than that. I think we sent home teams that thought they were going to win the Major. So in that sense, relieve the pressure, don't be scared of losing. Don't be scared of taking risks. SEBASTIAN:So even if today we're going to lose zero-two to these guys, nobody cares. And actually, the truth is, we're not going to lose over these guys. If we actually have th

e right mindset and we play our game and I want you to just have one goal, is to not go out without playing your Dota and fighting full force. -Don't care. -Don't care. Fight full force. Bring it on. Because that's also how we're going to have fun together. SEBASTIAN:We're going to laugh, we're going to have some action. Somebody's going to feed, we will laugh at him. It's okay, let's just go in these games and have fun and we're going to have a great time, you know? El Gotito, not El Gotito, em

brace it, you know? LOL, LOL, all chat. Let's go, let's fucking go. So OG, I mean Thunder Awaken in the lower bracket. A very prominent team that was showing how much the South American region had continued to improve and you know facing OG down in this lower bracket, I don't think that's anything that any of these teams were looking forward to. Like I said yesterday, it's the first game on main stage. So I think they already have their luggage. But it said something. You saw that? They walked o

n stage. I know, I saw! I think the taxi for the airport is already waiting outside. CASTER:Uh oh. Things are really crumbling fast. Looking smooth here, OG. Right away on top of Panda. Gale Force was there blowing back Pakazs, over to-- CEB:I got him, I got him. CASTER:Locking them down Thunder Awaken and everybody's dead. CASTER:This game is over-- CASTER2:I believe so too-- 35 minutes here. OG is dominating Thunder Awaken. Reset now. Do the same. -Be thirsty. Don't stop punching. -Yeah. OWEN:

Next up, they're going against Gaimin gladiators. Another very hopeful squad from Western Europe. They find the Monkey King, Yuragi's still beating into him CASTER: with a couple more punches. TAIGA:Nice. CASTER:That's how you get your troll back in the game. He was baiting. It was all a bait. Moves on in. Shackle! Oh, the angle! Ceb did it to him there. And these shackles are just way too good. I mean-- -Yeah you see what happens like, -Oh, my God. These players don’t stand a chance. -I just w

itnessed it right there. -Yeah. -You see the difference, right? -Unbelievable. CASTER: The crowd will cheer them on trying to end this game. 45 seconds. No coddle to kill for-- Oh! Not even the fountain is safe as they get the shackle-- One by one by one, they fall, and OG! How did it feel to actually play Dota on the stage? Like actually like press our spells, fucking run at them, fucking kill them, you know? Feels good. No? No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, yeah. Good game, guys. Like only enemy rig

ht now is if you drop your guard. Yeah, if you don't drop your guard, stay focused, reset again. WINDRANGER:I'm a Windranger. CASTER:Big swell, will it be enough? There's still so much damage there on that Razor. Jump forward dyrachYO Taking the gate first, barely gets away from that. They just got Ammar-ed! What the hell was that? Oh, dyrachYO tries to get out. Oh, the Gale Force. Where you going, mister? They got him there, the shackle's going to come out and the kill on to the-- Right now, Ga

imin Gladiators struggling to come up with answers. GG is gonna be called and OG are going to the final day. -Oh, impressive. -Yeah. I can now say the same thing to you guys? -Soak it in, reset focus on tomorrow. -Yeah. Yeah. Let yourself celebrate for 10 minutes, 15 minutes. Tundra. It's going to be five. It's going to be very hard. I have a hard time just celebrating, I'm already thinking about Tundra. -Good. Okay. -Yeah. -But I've heard you-- -Yeah. Yeah. Wasn’t what I was worried about. I'm

worried about people over celebrating. -Like over there. -Yeah, it keeps going. -Tomorrow, another long day. -Another long day tomorrow. SEBASTIAN:I think there's probably one team that's technically a little bit in our reach still. I think it's Tundra. Like they're very strong and they're probably so far, by far, my favorite to win the Major. My competitive kind of spirit, I've already broken them down. I know what I want to do against them, but I haven't talked to the team about it. But I'm re

ady to face them and we will be ready to face them. And so OG's next matchup was against Tundra. And one of the interesting things about this was, of course, it was Ceb playing against Saksa. OWEN:You know, someone that he was a little bit familiar with. They played together in the past under OG. They've worked together, he knows Saksa. He knows what gets to Saksa. He knows what Saksa struggles with the most. So you can only imagine that Ceb, he's you know, it's going to be all guns blazing. The

re's no holding back. SEBASTIAN:All right guys, time for you, the speech. JOHAN:Get your speech. We finally have everybody, I guess it's pretty rare. The first thing I want to say, is don't expect today to be like yesterday, yesterday was a perfect day. But I can tell you already, and I'm sure Johan would second that, you do not... You don’t get to the finals of a tournament with perfect days. It doesn't happen. So expect today to not be a perfect day. Second thing is, I don't want you to think

about the group stage games. You know, yesterday we talked a lot about Thunder Awaken. How they were the strongest team. See what happened? It means nothing. We were a completely different team, I think we shaped up like crazy. We have nothing to do with the team that we were in the group stage. We know them better, we know ourselves better. So we're coming. We were coming to get them and they know it. Imagine Tundra, you know, there winner bracket. Their starts are getting broken, everybody und

erstands them now and they see OG. you know like... getting at them full speed from the lower bracket. So they're like, "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God." I can't tell you, you know? I know Saksa. I don't know all of them, but I can tell you Saksa is a mega choker. No joke. The others, I'm pretty sure they choke, too. You know, Sneyking. How many times have we knocked him out of tournaments? He must be like this, choking. Sneyking lost two TIs to OG. They are like this. So I don't want us to be

like this. I want have to have the same mindset like yesterday. Full speed, full confidence, play to win. And if we're going to lose playing to win, then God bless. That's how it is, you know? They will be shaking. Use it. Talking shit about other teams is also like a tool. It's a trick. It's part of my playbook. It's like a chant. It's like a war chant. You're fueling your own guys with energy. It's always been like this, when you have five guys doing it, I think it's wonderful. It's part of co

mpetition. I love it. You're feeling good. You're feeling ready for Tundra? -Tommy Lee. -So time to fuck them up. -For your Gotito. -For your Gotito guys. Yes, yes, I like, I like. I see the energy coming. COMMENTATOR: Make some noise for our first team to come to the stage. It's Tundra Esports. Yay! CASTER:And now Saksa continuing the pressure onto Ceb. Nice body blocks with the Frost Blast to calm Skiter. CASTER:Oh! CASTER2:Oh, he goes down to Ceb! The power shot again for him. He might get ch

ased down but no, the Scorched Earth won't be in range. A nice Shackle Shot, as Bzm with the first coil, turnaround kills for OG. As Tundra getting gone on a Static Link applied to 33. Coil is there as well. Easy burst on to 33. Sneyking-- Oh a nice shackle from Ceb comes out again. Second kill for OG... Some players need to respect or fear other teams and some players need the opposite. Okay, these guys are pretty shit actually. You know, like they're not nearly as good as what they think they

are, we're going to crush them. Saksa, Pit coil. Coil on to two, they're both gonna bring it and Ammar coming in, OG taking full control over this game. Three dead. TAIGA:Yeah. CASTER:Oh, boy, Saksa has just been food for OG this game. Another boundless strike. Another shackle. OG looking to take game one in extremely convincing fashion. First of all, can we appreciate how much they're choking? Have you seen Saksa's gameplay? I'm just saying. So they feeling so bad. They're one game down now. Th

ey lost three games in a row now on Main Stage. They feel really bad. CASTER:Ceb's Windranger, 10 out of 10 games won. At one point, you have to stop it. You have to say it's enough. Suddenly, this hero that before the LAN, teams, they probably weren't even thinking of at all. Tundra, they couldn't deal with it. They didn't want to deal with it. They had to take it out of the game. SEBASTIAN:To me, it's mostly like you're telling me that you're scared. That you respect me, that you don't think y

ou can beat this. It's like a predator and prey, right? So now you're showing me that you're the prey and I'm the predator. It gives me a lot of fires. Like, I like where this is going. You know, like, keep shaking. CASTER: Just Ceb gets off a Wukong's Command. Looks like he'll be taken out in tow. But still, with all that extra armor, will he actually live through this? Skiter looking for the kill, but Bzm is there. Somehow Ceb lived! Tundra, that hurt. That absolutely hurt. Ceb, balanced strik

e. I can see the reload kit coming with Bzm. And the heal up from Sneyking. CASTER:Ceb might have-- He actually dodges the Whirling Axes and pounces away again. Ceb continually living and forcing out all these rotations from Tundra, just wasting time. Two Tree Dancing in as well. Is connected-- Saksa is definitely dead here and there's the coil onto two. Looks like the troll is going to not break it this time around and instead they're going to find Sneyking, and next is Skiter. OG are absolutel

y crushing again in this game number two. OG going to the grand final for the fifth time in their organization history. Unreal performance. [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] SEBASTIAN:My parents used to push me a lot, push me to always do better, to not settle, to not accept. When people tell you that this isn't for you, or you know, it started when I was very little. It's like I was being told, this is a four year old game. And they were like, "Don't let people tell you that. If you want to play that game

or try that thing, you should just try it." I'm still a child in that sense. Even though I ended up building a legacy, even though I think it's very tiny, I mean, even the word legacy seems like way bigger, way too big for me. It was never in that spirit. I never tried to be somebody or be recognized for anything. I was just very passionate about what I did. Try to do it as the best I could. WOMAN:No, I don't know. I have parents that kind of accepted the fact that they made wrong life choices

at some point and they didn't do what they wish they did. Yeah, I don't want to be the person saying that sentence. PRODUCER:That's good. WORKER:MoonMeander interview. Take one. When I heard Ceb was playing for OG, my first reaction was shit. Bringing this guy back, his one last ride. And I also told my teammates before we played them like, "Guys get ready to play five games, 60 minutes long each time. That team will not give up. This is not going to be a battle of Dota, this is going to be a ba

ttle of endurance. Be prepared to run a marathon against these guys because that's what it's going to take to beat Sebastian Debs. SEBASTIAN:So it's grand final time, it's going to be hype. What I want you to think about now is actually that it's not a grand finals because it's just another Dota game. TSM, they have probably some pressure on their shoulders because they come from the winner's bracket. We have nothing to lose at this point. I think we can already be so proud of what we've done, w

e're in the grand finals. I think it's fucking amazing guys. So you deserve this spot. Just enjoy what we worked really hard for. Do it. Enjoy it for Misha. Imagine how much Misha would have dreamt of being here and playing himself. Imagine Chu. Enjoy it for them you know, don't miss it for them. That's all I'm asking. And as for thinking finals trophy, trust me, don't think about this shit. It's fucking. It's a bit, you know? If we're going to win, it's only because we're going to be in the mom

ent playing good Dota together, having fun, not playing scared. And then maybe we will win. But if you're thinking about how maybe you will win right now, I'm telling you, you already lost. Enjoy yourself. This is time to enjoy. The work, we've done it before, now it's actually showtime. It's just enjoy, you know? So yeah, let's do it together guys. Can we get actually a group fist bump? SEBASTIAN: The first one? Come on. -Yeah! Everyone, everyone. Very cringe day. It's okay. BZM:Uh-oh. I think

SaberLight tweeting, "Time to smash those kids." You're doing that to the wrong team, SaberLight. Ceb's gonna take that, that's going to fuel him, he loves that. I feel that's always going to be a bad idea, especially against a team like OG. OWEN:When you come in with a bit of smack talk, it's likely to bring out that extra level of play from the enemy team. That really motivates me. Haters motivate me a lot. That's actually where I find it and sometimes I go fetch for it myself. I poke the bear

a little bit. The fans, they want entertainment. We pro players, we provide entertainment for the fans. So I think it's a good tweet. You know, he wants to punch back. And what's the best way of punching back is by punching them out of the grand finals. They just want to prove the point, "They're not some kids, they're OG." COMMENTATOR:What would a major be without the underdogs coming to claim it all. And this team's done it so many times. That legacy lives on now. Can anyone stop them? We're

about to find out! Bring me out OG. [AUDIENCE CHEERING] DAVID:Against OG in the finals, I knew how to do some crazy stuff in the draft. I'm gonna beat them the same way I beat them before. GAME:Enigma. CASTER:I loved it. And the first game, I bamboozled them good with my Enigma first pick and they didn't expect I played Enigma. I am the Windranger. JORIEN:And there it is. Unbeaten, undefeated hero in the hands of Ceb. SEBASTIAN:Ha-ha-ha. CASTER:Bryle will get the top one. CASTER:Gonna get the sh

ackles again. CASTER2:They have the set up. They've got enough mana for Light Strike Array this round. God, anything to get out this. Still got a Faerie Fire award or his, so... He's gonna jump back in, he's still having some Faerie Fire Oh what a play! First blood to Faerie Fire as well, allowing him to warp this one up. Moon can be looking ready to jump. He's going to go for Ceb first, over to the side, Yuragi and Bzm will watch. They're not going be able to get him before Ceb goes down as Ceb

falls. Yuragi, he's going to look to step forward but it's already fallen. And Bryle gets the Aegis... CASTER2:And there's Moon! CASTER:He's in! It's a three man Black Hole, a perfect move for Moon. CASTER:And Moon… CASTER2:What a play. Getting them on the escape. The OG realizing they have to back off and Moon is not letting them get away. COMMENTATOR:Yeah SaberLight, gotta give a little tip. You're really starting to feel OG just falling further and further behind in this game. CASTER:As OG r

eally feeling the heat here in game one. They are struggling. There's no way there coming back. GG is called. SEBASTIAN: Alright, who is it? Everybody here? Okay guys. Just to say, it's going to be a long series. Okay? So there's-- What I mean is like, this is normal. Don't get fazed. Think clearly about Dota. Definitely, we lost this game so we must have done some things wrong. We're going to hear from Misha too, we're going to get smarter next game. All good. It's going to be a long series. It

's going to be a lot of Dota today, so be ready for it. Let's just get stronger and learn. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] Yeah, bouncing back. I think it's a mental fortitude thing only. It's a feeling of like, every loss that you've ever had, it took the same direction, like it was the same road, the same turn. And now you're there again. You feel bad, you feel maybe nervous. You know these emotions are knocking again, and you have to fight this back. That's what bouncing back takes from me. You have to

go back to something powerful that you have. And that's usually what I try to inspire in my teammates. And often I fake it. As in I feel like that myself. And that's maybe what they don't understand sometimes. Like, I have that feeling too. But I control it. I deal with it. I mean, I feel like against them, it's more about overall heroes in the game. And just beat them with better heroes, you know? Like it's not about this, maybe that's why we were, like you said, "We're stuck in this script." W

hen actually, we should just look at the game clearly and be like, "Okay, this is their lane. What do we put on this lane?" You know. This is their heroes, but how do we beat these heroes? Yeah, we have some Eye of the Storm. Today, maybe they don't even know about the Storm cos they missed the concept. STORM:Storm Spirit. What they did was really smart. Where they pick Storm Spirit. So I couldn't pick Pangolier comfortably. CASTER: Bryle tries a bit of setup here with the Dream Coil, but TPs ar

e coming in, Moon, he's got to back off. CASTER:Shackle! CASTER2:They get the shackle again. Ceb's hit! What we've seen with OG in this run from the Fnatic series, you give them the smallest of chances to turn things around, they'll do it. CASTER:My goodness! CASTER2:Then Timado, he rejoined! Through them, he's tried to get in, but now he's on cooldown, they're looking to dive him. Perhaps can use something to find the Storm afterwards. Now you're gonna see this? Uh-oh. Let's see if they can kee

p this pot locked down. CASTER:Stun into-- CASTER2:He crept. Decrepify from DuBu. CASTER:So it's going-- CASTER2:Oh, it's power-- What an angle there, getting him right in the edge and now with the Gale Force... After game two, I was like, whatever, you know? One-one, grand finals. I'm ready to play five games. What did you think about draft guys? It was correct or not? Okay, let's put Snap in higher priority in first phase, let's do it. GAME VOICE:Snapfire! COMMENTATOR:Bryle, he'll go down. Yur

agi takes him out. They'll turn over towards Moon as well. With the damage coming in, Moon is going to have no chance to jump the Sun Strike is set up, straight on target, Bzm takes him out. I can see my teammates start becoming very impatient with the enemy and getting sucked into their playstyle and I've seen it happen so many times, especially against OG where people just get sucked into their flow of the game. COMMENTATOR:Bryle turns over toward the TA, but Yuragi is able to slide down-- Tim

ado, no hope for him as he'll go down on the respawn. Oh Ammar. What he's found here, Force Staff across as well-- That's going to be a dead MoonMeander. It was actually after game 3 where the atmosphere of the team started getting bad and they were just like, "Oh, you can run down these guys. So greedy, when they're picking this, we're going to just kill them, kill them, kill them," and then they stop thinking of how to play Dota and they just keep feeding and that's exactly how OG beats you. C

OMMENTATOR:OG continuing to keep the fight going, it's Yuragi. He's backing onto Timado, Timado getting low, Reincarnation is on cooldown, he's not gonna have-- Nullifier onto Bryle... MoonMeander pretty much the last one standing in this play-- Four dead on TSM FTX. They put multiple buy-backs in an effort to win that fight. And they lose it horrifically. Game two, game three, OG, bringing out that form. Everything seemed to just click for them. COMMENTATOR:They're looking to end the game here

down the mid. We see as well Timado he's only 180 gold short of the buy-back but-- SEBASTIAN:I've played so many Dota games for so long now. Different periods, different captains from all over the world. I feel like I've seen so much that it's just intuitive. I just read the game. I just understand what's going to happen. COMMENTATOR:They turn with the Shackle into the Spear, and charges will be there for Timado. As he'll try and run away from this one, but Ammar and Ceb, they'll take him down,

first blood for Ammar. I'm a big believer of instinct. Stay control. SaberLight, he's going to be going out for sure. Off to the side as well is Ceb, catching Moon with his Shackle. I think instinct is one of the most precious things we have. Instinct isn't random at all. Instinct is 20 years of experience, kind of compressed. Bryle in trouble, caught out by the stun and taken out. Everything you've seen, heard, felt, and all the lessons that you've learned on a daily basis for the entirety of y

our life, that is your instinct. And your instinct actually always tells you the right thing. There's no escape from it and inside the base, Timado. Four-on-one blitz, let's go! Instinct is who you are and what fits you. And I think you should listen to it always. Moon with the Scatterblast. Let's go! And Game four was just a stomp, a sad stomp. Sad way to exit the tournament. With his Shackle, triple kill! GG is called! OG! The championship title as well! 3-1 against TSM FTX. And we really did

see this last game very much a testament to how well OG has played here at the major. They made the lower bracket run. And to do it with the newer squad, the newer names. And with a change in roster at the beginning of the major, Ceb standing in-- [CROWD CHEERING] [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] JOHAN:Yeah, I hope they'll remember, remember this for the rest of their lives. It's, what a what a ride. Honestly, what a fucking ride. Of course, I'm so proud. I couldn't be more proud. This came through hard wor

k and being humble and going on compromises and building relationships and building a strong team. That's the magic juice, baby. [CLAPPING] When the most famous five players in the world tell you that, hey, we're not thinking of playing next year, then you have to rethink the whole project. J.M.R. LUNA:I mean, we knew that as long as Johan and Ceb were with them, this will work. This is amazing. We proved the model. We proved that the values that we live by, they work. This shit actually works,

you know? Now I hug the camera! Definitely not bad. I'm feeling tired. I give it all in the last game. I could barely be loud enough, you know? I was like trying to find every drop of energy I had left in my body after this week. Oh, it feels great. My life is weird. It's like being there in the middle of the stage, like everybody cheering OG winning. I'm like, wait, is it me? It didn't feel real, you know? It felt like, because I had given up on all of this in a way, like giving up, you know? L

ike this was kind of past me, so I don't know. It feels great. It feels good. It's just like a dream a bit. So I'm trying to enjoy it. And it feels OG man, what can I say? I don't know. It's a typical OG tournament, I guess so, yeah. Yeah. What it would take to see Ceb come out of retirement? There's always going to be that chance that Ceb will be drawn back to the game because he knows, he knows now that he can take this break. He can go and retire and then he can come back and he can win. I ca

nnot imagine that he'll ever be able to step away from that for too long. For sure this guy cannot stay retired. It's impossible, Ceb will probably be 40 years old and playing Dota. I think it was very hard to get Dota out of him. I don't know. We'll see. Maybe after the marriage, things will change. I don't know. [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING] The answer to whether we're going to see me or not back is no. Not in a... not in how... not in what it means, anyways. SEBASTIAN:Yeah, I was back on the battlefie

ld in Stockholm, but at the same time I wasn't back. But the full on life or death, full commitment, no, no. I don't think, I don't think I have, I don't think I can, I'm able to put that on the battlefield anymore. Not on a regular basis, no. No, it's either I break it or I open it. I think it's better if you use thumbs like this. -We went through this yesterday. -Like this? -We're going to do this every day? -Grab it and push it off. -Can you help him please? -Yeah. Yeah, like that. Every day

we're going to do this. -Yeah, like that. -Let's make him drink. No, no. You can do it. You can do it. Tommy, get this kid to the gym. Ammar, let me try it. Okay, try it. They're really hard to open. I hate them. Okay. Hit the gym, bro. You softened it up for him, you softened it up. Yo, nobody told me who comes out first. -Nobody told us either. -Who comes out first? I told you guys, everybody gonna freak out except for us. Everybody is panic mode except for us. Look at them, panic, panic. Who

goes first? Everybody running. Coffee, everybody's freaking out. [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]