The Betrayed Brother who Became the Heart of Dota's Greatest Team: The Story of N0tail

[Music] dota has given me everything that almost everything that i i have materially it's given me a bunch of friends it's giving me so much he's also taking a lot from me oh gee eliminated on day number two a ti-6 falling short of what you you're aiming for in terms of placement it's been a very harsh lesson but it's always been one that i've been very grateful for at the end it's just once it hits it always sucks this is a bitter pill to swallow for og for their fans there's no way that it's gonna be smooth people are probably flaming him saying why why hotel didn't carry my game guys why why no-till did not carry og why did he fail me again there's no way that everything is going to work out the way you think it will why did you leave og the team hasn't worked for a long time like we kind of hit a dead end and i want to win and i want to do it with teammates i believe in this was probably the shittiest moment ever if you're willing to work on these challenges and you're willing to overcome them you can you can probably get the same feelings that i've gotten which is the feeling of great accomplishments what against evil geniuses [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you've heard of og you know how a ragtag group of discards cinderellaed their way to not one but two of the biggest wins in the history of esports how a pub star a quitter a coach and a comedian defied every conceivable expectation and made [Applause] and history then there's the long-suffering sweetheart who made it all happen the heart and soul of og the god in whose image it was created the flower the rainbow the river the big daddy himself [Music] johann sunstein the feisty adorable little viking you know as no tail was born and raised in the esports powerhouse that is denmark like a lot of dota greats he got his start in heroes of new worth where at the age of 15 he met his future best friend and brother in arms fly it feels it feels great winning winning for a fourth time it was a bit easy but but it was a great it was really great man what can i say together fly and no tail took han by storm once that scene began to die down they transitioned to dota 2 where they set their sights on a new challenge the biggest event esports had ever seen the international 2013 let's just say no-till was confident i'm a great guy like best as they get maybe a little too confident double kill for mushy buyback by doxia flyback by the end but he is destroying triple ultra and he will take the top racks and gg comes out fnatic have been unlimited by the malaysians orange will advance themselves forward unfortunately fly and no-till never managed to cement themselves as the kings of this new game like they wanted unable to find a group of truly like-minded players ones who valued loyalty and synergy over raw individualistic talent they spent years hovering just below the top tier here with no tail this tournament you know it didn't go the way you guys wanted it to go what uh what do you think the reasons were um all in all i think there's been a bunch of things coming to this disappointing result and there's not so much we could have done about it i think we did try our best still somehow they'd always find themselves at the butt end of a disappointment a disbanding or a kick team secret we we did feel like a super team but then there was this starladder tournament and it's on to the throne they got secret by the jugular and they take we ended up losing and that hit was really hard and after that i kind of saw it coming but just months to the next ti fly and no-tell found themselves kicked from the very team they had just joined the crazy thing is that more than perhaps any other player the community loved no tail he was funny out of all the things you could have decided to call yourself why a big daddy yes i feel like big daddy do you yeah fiery give me your battle roar [Laughter] and above all friendly at the end of the day no matter where you were from or who you cheered for it was hard not to love this little [ __ ] my biggest inspiration is cesar milan the dog whisperer a lot of people laugh when i say it because it is kind of a funny nickname that he has but then again people left for the one of my nicknames so we got that in common what nickname do people laugh out of yours big daddy everyone wanted nothing but the best for no tail to see him win the big one unfortunately it just didn't seem to be in the cards when i picked him up last year after ti the first thing he told me that i make my decision next year i will be a part of the finance sorry it's very rough because it is there's so much built towards this no matter how how much i try to look away from that every year is the biggest tournament in esports it's made out to be such a big thing falling short of what you you're aiming for in terms of placement um has been a it's been a very harsh lesson but it's always been one that i've been very grateful for at the end it's just once it hits it always sucks it felt as if he and fly were being systematically screwed over by the esport they adored as if no roster could ever be what they really wanted a team that wasn't just a business but a group of friends a family it can bring out the worst in people and it forces you to be a good teammate because it's a team game you only succeed together and you lose together if you're not a good teammate but you're a great player you're probably not going to get very far vice versa so they said [ __ ] it and founded their own organization oh gee big idea behind og is a mindset of friendship but also want to win we just want to do things right like do things our way what did it stand for you ask well as it turns out a lot of things or nothing what does og stand for huh some people say orangutan ganja i say i don't [ __ ] know it wasn't exactly clear what og was supposed to signify but it embodied an obvious attitude empathy comes with it if you're if you're by nature uh not somebody who's very empathic then you gotta you gotta learn it which is a great thing like learning empathy is i believe like very good for all people but dota kind of forces you to do it if you don't do it you're most likely gonna run into some trouble in a team and it's maybe gonna lose you this game is going to lose your disqualifier you're not going to get what you want and you're going to sit there like why didn't it work by prioritizing confidence and camaraderie over results fly and no tail built a juggernaut from the ground up one that ironically solidified itself as the most consistently accomplished roster dota has ever seen oh gee i've got it they've got the teaching out from secret ot they fight all the way through the lower bracket and will be cleaned the champions of the first ever dota 2 major live here in frankfurt trump will pop the bkb but they beat down father they go scepter to point defensively the bear will fall the heroes next oh gee are doing it liquid they can't withstand the punishment oh gee are the manila major champions and gg is called your champions rog they've won three majors it's an incredible theme catch out lil the rocks will drop but they just don't have the damage to repel rg vernon's pro collet gg og will be claimed four time dough to two major winners here at kiev the problem is that despite obliterating the competition all throughout the year og couldn't close when it mattered most i i don't think anybody ever lost a ti and went out with a smile that probably isn't the case but it's you know it's a big slap in the face for two years straight they failed to do the one thing that every dota player dreams of no tail more than most i don't have the answer to like how you come into ti and you know you're gonna the favorite as a favorite and then still win i think it's incredibly hard a lot of things don't go your way and a lot of things are against you so yeah i mean to be honest i don't know some people touted og as a sinking ship but its two helmsmen stuck it out sure their results outside of ti were tapering off and no tail was humiliating himself as a carry player but this was fly in no tail brothers who in spite of their recent failings and frustrations shared an unbreakable bond at least that's what everyone thought it's raining it's thunder outside it's like electricity is in the air [Music] and uh well we just got called into a room and i learned that the two players are leaving and one of them's my best friend fly in s4's departure quite literally tore og apart it felt like an impossible betrayal the likes of which dota even esports at large had never seen as for leaving sure i can understand that but fly leaving og he's not just the captain he owns part of the team his girlfriend is the manager of the team it would tear the team apart if he would leave with only a handful of months until ti-8 it looked like o.g were done its pieces could still land on their feet seb could always coach somewhere and jerax was still revered as a top tier support but not no tail this sanki too tanky he gets out of it no tail is dead eleven comes back in they want to try and go for this no-till kill jump forward for lana he finds the impale oh lose no tail he's not got buy back on the lone druid of the og players who'd been left behind no tail was undoubtedly in the worst spot the public perception was that fly had done most of the heavy lifting he'd been the captain the drafter he boasted a brain as big as his biceps and the community was sure that no tail would flounder without him i always thought me and tal something so strong how can it break this was probably the shittiest moment ever [Music] as far as anyone could tell no tail was washed i always believe that the hardest choices in lives are the right ones the ones that are easy are usually the wrong ones and in this case there was only one right choice and it was the hardest one by far was to rebuild so forming a team three months before ti and having a shot at winning ti no not happening hell-bent on making it to the international no-till transitioned back to support put seven as og's offlaner and enlisted the help of pretty much the only other top tier talents he could get his hands on a quiet unproven pub star named thompson and og's former mid laning marauder anna the atmosphere over the last month like since we started started with a new roster and started the ti bloodbath it's been very good it's been very fun to play it's been very light everybody is very passionate everybody gets to kind of show what they want to in the games at least that's why i feel i'm really aiming for that that everybody gets to you know do do what they do best in the game and do what they want to do and at the moment the atmosphere is really good very light we're having fun somehow some way they traversed the open and regional qualifiers to make it into what was being hailed as the most competitive international ever this year i think our chances are actually better than they've ever been that's that's my personal gut feeling touted as being the weakest of the 18 teams the community was floored when og managed to squeeze their way into the upper bracket they were even more surprised when after sauntering their way out onto the main stage they didn't just win they went ham whatever pressure or negative things whatever goes on once the game starts you're kind of sucked into it like everything else just goes away with the bkb out punching people down they find two kills that's gg oh gee on in the upper bracket no tail ecstatic with this victory moving into the top six for o.g what was already a miraculous run should have and probably would have ended right there had it not been for the fire sparked by og's next opponent as fate would have it no-till's next adversary was none other than evil geniuses the very roster fly abandoned him for why did you leave og the team hasn't worked for a long time and i can say personally that i lost a lot of motivation when the whole situation arised where i could join eg i felt a new surge of motivation where i felt like this is really a team i could win with as opposed to the previous team where i felt like we kind of hit a dead end and i want to win and i want to do it with teammates i believe in any other series any other matchup there's a good chance that og would have rolled over but not this one they finally uh they're gonna find this for they're gonna find fly as well gigi is called a game one in a series where i think a lot of people have expected to see something quite fantastic from eg oh gee they absolutely crush it after a visceral bloodbath no tail came out on top oh gee looking to close things up they're onto the agent they're beating it down at a pace that you can't defend [Applause] the series he'd exercised his demons on the main stage of the international and you could feel it from that point on all og had to do was the impossible og are going for the tier fours challenges their defense they will be up in just a second the fortification it buys time the hex is there from chalice but now here comes anna he's on the front lines jirax leaping forward all he has to do is create space for og to do it to get to the grand final of t.i.a tip him up him over the lead comes forward they've got the control x nova he'll go down this is the game lgd has nothing left oh g have done it by rallying around the force of nature that was no tail og were able to string together a series of bat [ __ ] crazy comebacks that landed them in their first ever ti final it was the day no-till had been waiting for his entire career i strongly believe that if i woke up a morning and i had to play the ti final i would play the best order of my life and that's all that would matter to me if i played my very best [Music] nothing else would matter and he did potentially unlikely to save him as hannah surely wants to steal jason indeed rushes forward there's jacks with the devil he's got the snowball to dodge the spirit lance at least but fy very low actually gets taken down there right the blast from no-till saturn tormented just not for very long this has the damage they're on top of jared somness gets the triple kill maybe even more zana now all alone no tails trying to come across to help him turning towards nova he's stuck in there with him as anna will possibly find out what he does he's gonna have doppelganger back up in a second but the blood right is it there in time it's not doppelgangers back up he could jump out looks towards chalice spirit alliance finishes charlie sharp gets another zomnis did find no tail but anna's still going can't stop the skill of the double gang is there anna trying to factor brush himself away for soreness it will change the diffuser blade on some summer fy with the shot jumps it igloo into the back side of anna finally it was starting to look as if og's free-spirited shat wheeling rise to the top was coming to an end but in typical og fashion right as all looked to be lost they rallied as the buyback for jericho's comes in he's healing anna back up that buyback could set them up for the killer next over the coal snap down onto the atrocity they find him he's out of banner he's starting to shift into the straight but he's surrounded oh gee can they find them all they can oh gee are still in the game slowly but surely og crawled their way back into a series that they were never supposed to win time and time again they stayed cool adam can you do it here is it he gets the goal of his lifetime and persevered and they're all up i'm just going to take no fight just a slow fight in their basement anna says he's done with this he wants to end this game until finally they were doing the one thing that no tail had always dreamed of as oh gee from sam gets themselves another they're on to the agent oh gee g battled their way to what is almost inarguably the single most miraculous tournament victory ever it was beautiful unforgettable and undeniably well deserved but it was a fluke something that could never ever be repeated or so we thought one year after their unthinkable run at ti-8 og returned to the international as an unknown quantity they'd taken much of the year off using it as an opportunity to relax and recuperate the expectation was that having already done the impossible their fire had been quelled why should you become weaker from doing this once you can stamp it again because you're satisfied with yourself because you're satisfied so you're weak now you had this infinite source of motivation no it's not there anymore you know but the way i see it is that it's still there you just chose to let it go og had an unshakable faith in themselves but no player never mind a team had ever racked up two ti titles so why is it that winning two ti's has been so difficult thus far well it hasn't been that difficult for us so far we're not there we'll let you know after ti9 it seemed to go without saying that if anyone was going to do it it sure as [ __ ] wasn't going to be a one in a million underdog like og nobody took their silly self-confidence seriously but as it turns out the community was wrong to underestimate og just like the first time he's the man that's going going going into the fountain once again bathe and the glory of the radiance thompson he just does not give a crap anna will give all the life this is just fountain farming gj okay the difference is that this time around o.g were bullies they gave zero shits had nothing to lose and played like it and this would be a matter on the tony now guess three bottle ruin charges up so fly they start with the avalanche steps moved over as well flight he can get one punch in he ain't no one punch man he very clearly placed the no-till flag was staring him in the eyes when he died in a near perfect recreation of the previous year's run og steamrolled their way through the upper bracket but rg they will push forward to the winners bracket final repeating the history of ti8 to winning eg in this semi-final two now the physical damage will overrun the throne in psg lgd and at three versus five can no longer hold og in the upper bracket finals breakdown lgd ot are going to the grand finals for the second year in a row by the time the finals rolled around it felt as if resistance was futile as if og's caustic combination of fire flowers and friendship simply couldn't be stopped i can't believe what we're seeing in this game for oh gee you thought you saw it all again you've done a show tv [Applause] [Music] oh no-till has won four majors two ti's back to back and stands as the single highest earning competitor in the history of esports he is in no one certain terms the single greatest player his game has ever seen he's also the sweetest never never do this to yourself again you're the [ __ ] best man you're the absolute best man never thought yourself again yeah remind remind me later this year we all do it i'll be going through it and once it's my turn you'll be there there's a lot to og's story innumerable things that make it one of if not the most miraculous tales in esports but at the center of it all is no talent the one who suffered more than anyone else before this tournament um things were a bit dark my dog had died and yeah it was it was really rough for a couple weeks sorry my self-esteem was pretty low and over here who took all of the [ __ ] that the world had to throw at him in stride which shoulder is it man what this one i don't remember i think it must be this one it must be this one the man who deigned to have a vision to stay true to it even as it crumbled before him the man who watched as it came to fruition in the greatest way imaginable you win as a team and you lose as a team if you look at a game like like this i also think you get to enjoy it more the one dude in professional gaming who made the silly stupid decision to believe in friendship and who wasn't just rewarded for it but deified you're [ __ ] blessed even history the best in your story and you are friends that's the most important of your friends imagine no tail is everything that dota should be a flower but also a rainbow and the river the biggest of daddies the manifestation of all perfection and i wanna i don't [ __ ] know you are [ __ ] perfect mate [ __ ] perfect thanks for watching if you want more content like this hit the sub button and ring that notification bell for unique bite size videos you won't find anywhere else hit up our instagram twitter and facebook pages

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Length: 25min 22sec (1522 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 15 2020