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Lima Major 2023 Champion Gaimin Gladiators is still looking like one of the strongest teams in the world, qualifying for the Berlin Major 2023 by placing in the Top 3 of the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) Western Europe (WEU) 2023 Tour 2: Division I standings. The team has managed to keep up its impressive performance at Dreamleague Season 19, making it through to the second group stage and losing only one of its series so far against Shopify Rebellion. After a 2-0 victory against TSM, Quinn “Quinn” Callahan, the team’s midlane player gave a post-match interview, where he replied to David "MoonMeander" Tan calling him out.
Quinn’s interesting comments on MoonMeander and TSM after 2-0 victory
The midlane player had some very interesting comments about MoonMeander and TSM following his team's 2-0 victory, saying that TSM wanted ‘free wins’ from Gaimin Gladiators. “Well, when you’re the inferior team, you have this mindset where you’re wishing the other team makes it easy for you and you’re wishing that maybe they go a little easy because the match doesn’t matter for them, because you know we’d like this free win because earning it is kinda hard, that's a little cringe,” Quinn said.
He then continues to talk more about how TSM wanted a free win from Gaimin Gladiators, but instead, got beaten back to North America (NA). “We want the wins handed to us (referring to TSM), and when we didn’t hand the wins he (MoonMeander) was confused as he was expecting the free handouts. So he goes into this mindset, sort of like wishful thinking, that if he (MoonMeander) says that we will dumpster Quinn, then we will dumpster Quinn. But in reality, manifesting isn't real and they got their cheeks clapped back to North America,” he added to his initial response.
Looking at Quinn’s response, it seems evident that there is some rivalry between him and MoonMeander, as both of them are players from the NA region.
TSM is currently at the bottom of the standings in the second group stage of Dreamleague Season 19 and is currently facing elimination, whereas Gaimin Gladiators is at the top and will secure an upper bracket slot in the playoffs of the tournament if it continues performing at such a high level. The team seems to be a top contender to win the entire tournament and secure the slot for the Riyadh Masters 2023 that is supposed to take place in August 2023.
