Puppey from Team Secret welcome to Kuala Lumpur as you know you have a ton of fans here in Malaysia and they have submitted questions for you. Sure. Here's the first question. What's the team's plan in preparing for TI6? Oh that's really far. Generally before with TI what do you do? You go to a bootcamp, you try to find out the best way to play the game. And you bring out all the strategies that you've been holding on through the whole year. It's not like a regular tournament where you can actually hold back some strategies or think a little bit further. Sometimes you're not good enough actually to play strategies on the tournament because you're not good enough perhaps. But you know what's good. So you kind of understand it and you prepare for the next tournament kind of but in TI6 you forget all of those things and do it there. You improvise there and then right? You don't yeah you have to improvise regardless but all those things that you feel were good and we should do it. You kind of practice till the end until you find it in TI6. If you don't find it or TI if you don't find it then you know you might lose. All right second question. Do you like spicy food? Have you tried the spicy food here in Malaysia? Yeah I like spicy food and I think I've tried some of the spicy foods here. I mean I'm not sure. Is it soupy or is it reddish and full of chili on top and oil? Most likely oils and chili type. Well in chili type. Some bowel. Something something more like I don't think I've got some whatever the first thing you said. Okay the third question from the same guy. What do you think of the Dota 2 scene in Southeast Asia and what needs to improve? I think C-Dota had its time like long time ago where they were in their peak they were definitely top one regard in that sense. I think that's any one of those teams could have beaten and gotten first places like five years ago. But something really happened. I'm not really sure because I only kind of investigated my own area much more. I understand China has a big base and something happened in Dota 2 probably most likely the fact that you couldn't actually play the game. The same problem happened in China that China wasn't really that good in Dota 2 at least because they didn't have servers to play on. I don't know if you have accounts or whatever the crap was about all the point that you couldn't play Dota 2. Now you may be falling behind in that sense that people are a little bit better now. But I don't know it's a stability maybe is a game of control here. The stability isn't really that big of a deal in Europe also. Everything's kind of unstable anyway. I'm not really sure what happened. Because there were a lot of scene players that were good at Workrat 3, they were good at Dota and they kind of fall enough maybe light got better in Malaysia or something like that. People want to go for jobs or do school rather than to do this professional gaming because it comes from a young age. It comes from a very young age. And all this land cafe stuff maybe it's already dead kind of here. Alright next question is from Anjoy Yoyena. What do you think you'll be doing if you did not play Dota professionally? I'd be like some kind of musician or like I obviously do something revolving. Oh yeah you play instruments right violin the piano? I'll play a piano just a little bit. Flute yes saxophone guitar clarinet. I could probably pick up drums very easily too. You're a whole band yourself. You can just be a one man band. Probably. I mean I can sing too but I sing in a choir for like 10 years or 12. That's right and you just stopped. Well Dota happened you know. I mean a career happened. That was a school stuff anyway. But I don't know I'm good at I guess physics chemistry whatever. I wasn't really good at studying that. But I was kind of okay understanding everything. I didn't have good grades or anything. In that sense I don't know the choices were there but I never kind of fully liked subjects in that center like point. I kind of wanted to do something not not not the subject myself in that sense. I would like to create art in that sense of like playing music but I never wanted to be like the best saxophone player in the world or the best guitarist in the world. I want to make a song. That's not a subject. That's just creating something yourself. In that sense where you like create something new as in you don't have to be a I don't know physics teacher or something like that to create something new in this world that will help people. You don't need to if you create the vacuum cleaner. I mean like you don't need to be a physics person. Yeah we all love it. It uses it's for good use and the person who created it might have been like a very smart person in the subject of physics but to be honest he had an idea and that's what matters. And you know. Yeah so I was kind of like I don't know what I would be in that sense. Okay this next question is from Faris Fauzi. Is there one player you'd really like to play with but not got the chance to. These days. I don't know. Who would I want to play with that I haven't played with yet. I mean I'll pay you a lot of people that I wanted already to play with. Like right now I have to focus on my own team and I don't really have anybody that I really wanted to play with because before I wanted to play with S4 and before I wanted to play with RTC and I kind of got to do that anyway and it was fun. So and now I got to play with Zy too which was pretty fun. Like those questions of really wanting to play with someone kind of like. Yeah kind of. I mean I felt some good fun already. I'm kind of chilling right now. I don't really need to like maybe that will come after like a year or something like that. I really want to play with that guy. But right now I kind of feel like I'm alright. Valengarri and Fami Benjamin us which hero is your favorite. Don't have a favorite hero. That's how you stay cool as a like captain or something like that. Don't have a favorite yet just have favorite strategies. Everybody has to have his place. There's no there's no there's no favorite son or something like that. There's no favorite daughter. No there's no equality but somebody's better somebody's worse but I don't have a favorite. Mohammed Nees went ask what did you think of the Malaysian crowd at the cyber games? I think they were very hype. They are your fans. I mean generally it's like they believe in this in this esports much more than Westerners. And that was the case in like in Dota 1 and Warcraft Times, Starcraft Times even Starcraft in Korea. Like people believe in it so much that you get this crowd vibe. The hype is so real that you just enjoy it. So I like the C-Dota like we're gonna go to Philippines maybe later sometime and we're gonna expect the same type of vibe from the crowd. And it's good. Okay good. Alright this next question is from Hafiz Mukiv. Have you ever considered playing in the carry role? Yes. Of course. You're captain. But not recently. As if Farhan asked how many hours a day do you practice? Depends. It's like weeks go by differently. For instance right now we're not really practicing. We're under tournament and we had kind of a day or two of boot camp and then we practiced. Maybe we played like four games pubs and four or five official matches. That's like eight hours and say when we're practicing though it's usually eight to ten hours. This next question is from Alash Ya Boyz. How do you manage Team Secret to be the best? Good question. It's really not connected to Team Secret now. It's kind of connected to I mean he's probably asking in a way like how do you make your team the best and apparently my team is Team Secret. But yeah you got to find strengths of your players. You got to find what works for them the best. Sometimes it doesn't work out that way. And even though I wouldn't say like this is the only way to do it. You also have to push the limits of your players to make them understand that this way is actually better or whatever the case is pretty much. It's a team thing. You have to put your ego aside. It's not really connected to only myself. It's connected to the players also. They have to be involved and they have to be understandable. But overall it boils down kind of to the fact that are you good at explaining is this good or not? Because you might be right but you might be really bad at explaining it. There's a lot of people like that in this world that understand it they're right but they just blur it out and they go all aggression on them or something. Nobody is going to believe a person like that. But it's an art also to convey words. And well you have to most of the time finding out the best niche for your players is worth it. It's not always the best way because sometimes there's just no niche to get up on and you need to just change it up. That's usually when you have problem with synergy and then you just have to remove a player or get a player because it takes too much time to resolve it. And realistically so not by just only trying to resolve it like it will work. No you actually will start hating each other. After months and months of trying to resolve it it's not actually going to work out. We already know what stuff like that exists. It exists everywhere. It's a relationship in that sense. If you can't resolve it really quickly you're not going to hate yourselves. That's so that's pretty much it.