The player of the 1win Team in Dota 2, Ivan Pure Moskalenko, commented on the team's poor performances in the recent tournaments. During a Twitch stream, he admitted that the team did not immediately realize the scale of the problems that seriously affected their results.
PureI wouldn't say we were in shock, but we didn't understand that we were playing so poorly. After we lost to 1win Essence and DreamLeague Season 29, of course, we started to think. We had already been considering that something was going wrong before that, but everything was still playable. But when we lost to Aurora at DreamLeague, everything became sad.
The series of failures began at 1win Essence I, where the team under the tag Tundra Esports lost to Yellow Submarine in the lower bracket of the playoffs and shared 7th-8th place. At DreamLeague Season 29, the team again did not advance further: a loss to Aurora Gaming left them in 5th-6th place with a prize of $15,000.
Now 1win Team is preparing for the Esports World Cup 2026. The tournament will take place from July 6 to 18, 2026, in Paris, France, and will gather 24 teams with a prize pool of $2,000,000.
Recall that earlier NS commented on Tundra Esports' exit from esports, expecting a couple more losses by the end of the year.