American caster from the United States, Austin "Capitalist" Walsh, commented on the defeat of OG in the recent online Elite League championship for Dota 2 – the Western European team placed 9th-10th.
"I'm very disappointed that OG didn't make it to the playoff stage. I saw the games of this team in the second part of the group stage, in the series against PSG Quest, Team Falcons, and Azure Ray. I think they have some ideas regarding map movements and team fights that are simply top-notch. I would say that, in my opinion, they could have shown better gameplay in the playoffs than some teams that made it through, like G2.iG. I think if you swap out this team with OG, they would have achieved better results." - Austin "Capitalist" Walsh
Earlier, in a new episode of the "Side Pull" podcast, Capitalist commented on a statement from the former offlaner of Tundra Esports, Ivan "MinD_ContRoL" Ivanov from Bulgaria.
“It was a good apology that was definitely needed. I don’t know to what extent this was a forced apology under the threat of the consequences of the contract he had broken. Apparently, he left the team right before the game while still under contract.
But I want to give credit to MinD_ContRoL. Enough time passed, he thought about everything, and it was clear that what he did was not okay. The situation might not have been that good for him, but it couldn't have been that bad. Leaving a team right before a match requires something along the lines of “I morally disagree with what is happening in my organization”, it requires some kind of line to be crossed, which I believe did not happen in this case. He was just angry and did something stupid. Meet the Dota players.”