Ivan “ArtStyle” Antonov about the Major's final

Ivan “ArtStyle” Antonov shared his thoughts on the grand-final after Virtus.pro's victory in ESL One Birmingham 2018.

Why wasn't there a single Leshrac ban

We have always picked Radiance heroes on the first pick – right now we can't allow Wisp to show up in the draft phase. In some games, we wanted to take Banshee out of the first pick. Other heroes were quite situational. Most of the time we've tried to bait the opponent into picking Leshrac since we're comfortable playing against this hero.

On the second game's difficulties and Razor pick

They had to defeat us with Razor since we've been weaker on all three lanes. The only lane we should have lost was suddenly won by Kunkka in a Razor match-up. We've clung to this game and started closing the distance little by little through many small skirmishes. Ultimately, the game was decided by series of small moments and Roshans.

On the third game's one-sided start

We had a super over-pick in the third game – it was simply impossible to lose. I think that even Slark could have won the game all by himself had the guys failed their lanes. We only needed a couple of casts from the other heroes and Slark to clean the fights up.