Saksa on the problem with TI\u2019s new format and his \u201camazing\u201d Tundra teammates Tundra EsportsTundra Esports\u2019 Martin \u2018Saksa\u2019 Sazdov is excited about Dota 2 International 11 being held in Singapore but has his doubts about the new format. Here\u2019s what Saksa had to say ahead of the Arlington Major about the team\u2019s journey and what comes next. Saksa has been a prominent name in the Dota 2 community for some time. Having missed out on the ultimate glory of lifting the Aegis of Champions in 2016, the talented support player has played across several top-tier teams including NIP, OpTic, and OG. Since joining Tundra Esports, he has secured a fourth-place finish in the DPC Season 2021\/22 Tour 2, as well as a third-place finish at the Stockholm Major. An active player since 2014, Saksa is now preparing with Tundra Esports to lay siege on the upcoming Arlington Major as well as The International 11. Saksa\u2019s journey with Tundra and the road ahead Chatting to Dexerto about his journey with Tundra Esports and some of the challenges that the team is facing, Saksa praised his teammates as \u201csome of the best players in their respective positions,\u201d and said he is \u201cvery glad\u201d to be playing with this roster. \u201cIt\u2019s been great overall, the organization has been very good and the conditions have been great, so I\u2019m happy here,\u201d he said. \u201cThe guys have been amazing, and they have been really good teammates from the start, so I\u2019m definitely very glad to be on this team.\u201d When asked about difficulties the team has faced, Saksa confessed that \u201covercoming some mental challenges\u201d is one of the things that they are working on as a team. From the aspect of his personal performance, after surprising everyone with the roaming support position 4 Doom instead of the traditional off-lane role for the hero at the Stockholm Major, Saksa has confirmed that \u201cthere will be some [similar] pocket strats[strategies] for the DPC Season.\u201d It is fairly evident that Tundra Esports has managed to detect the problems that the players are facing \u2013 a good sign for the team to grow and get past these challenges. Saksa on TI in Singapore and the new format Ever since Valve announced the new format for The International 11, there has been debate about how the prolonged duration of the tournament would play out for all the teams involved. Talking about his personal take on the new format, Saksa did confirm that he isn\u2019t \u201cso sure about the break of 5-6 days before the final day.\u201d \u201cOnce you start to play on the final day after a break, the meta changes and it becomes like a new tournament,\u201d he noted, adding that this can lead to teams losing the momentum that they carried into the finals. Read More: Dota 2 Hero Tier List – Saksa also said that he is \u201cvery excited\u201d about TI being held in Southeast Asia. \u201cI really like that TI is in South-East Asia for the first time. I feel like it\u2019s a long time coming and a lot of the most hype LANs I\u2019ve played have been in that area.\u201d After that conversation with Saksa, it is safe to say that Tundra Esports is not leaving any stone unturned as their quest for TI glory reaches the business end of the season. As for how the team performs, we will have to wait and watch as the Tour 3 of DPC Season 2021-22 heats up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saksa on the problem with TI\u2019s new format and his \u201camazing\u201d Tundra teammates Tundra EsportsTundra Esports\u2019 Martin \u2018Saksa\u2019 Sazdov is excited about Dota 2 International 11 being held in Singapore but has his doubts about the new format. Here\u2019s what Saksa had to say ahead of the Arlington Major about the team\u2019s journey and what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}