Here’s Why Malr1ne Calls Himself Garbage Despite Being One of the Best Mid Laners
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After an exhilarating win over one of 2023’s biggest teams, Gaimin Gladiators, at DreamLeague Season 22 group stage Team Falcons’ Stanislav "Malr1ne" Potorak sat down for an interview with Dota 2 casters Owen "ODPixel" Davies and Trent "Trent" MacKenzie. During the interview, ODPixel was curious why Malr1ne has time and again called himself garbage despite being the winner of the recently concluded BetBoom Dacha 2024 Dubai. In response, Malr1ne presented a philosophy that he follows not only in Dota but in life too. According to him, this allows him not to have too many expectations because the future is uncertain.
Malr1ne’s Reasoning For Calling Himself Garbage
On 27th February, Team Falcons played against Gaimin Gladiators at the DreamLeague Season 22 and won the series with a clean 2-0 score. Following this exhilarating win over one of 2023’s biggest Dota 2 teams, Team Falcon’s Malr1ne sat down for an interview and revealed why he calls himself garbage. This would still be the case even if he wins a TI (The International) in the future, said the mid-laner.
ODPixel was particularly interested in knowing why a tournament winner who has made a name for himself continues to call himself garbage.
To this Malr1ne responded, “My goal is not only in Dota, even in life, you always have to grow up in everything. If you want to find where you can grow up even in socials or maybe some other stuff like this. Even in Dota, even if we win three TIs. Who cares?”
He further reasoned, “After this we can lose to some, I don't know, like some random tier 5 team. So this doesn't matter. It’s about this point where we are the best team but in the future, we might be the worst. Personally, for me I’m gonna call myself garbage because I don’t wanna have big expectations before a game or in a tournament like, that we’re going to be in the top three. I don’t care, we might lose, we might take the top sixteen or some stuff like that. I won't be surprised.”
Malr1ne’s philosophical take on Dota and in life has certainly reflected on his gameplay as he dominated Gaimin Gladiators’ Quinn "Quinn" Callahan in both games. Malr1ne’s unique playstyle and humble opinion about his achievements in Dota 2 are now shaping him to be one of the players to watch out for in this tournament.
Currently, Team Falcons sits in second place in the group standings with a score of 2 wins and 3 draws. Stay tuned for further updates on the ongoing tournament.
