Fng shares how Ceb or N0tail accused Gambit of leaking strats to another team

Retired professional Dota 2 player Artsyom "Fng" Barshak shared a story on stream about a conflict with Sebastian "Ceb" Debs. The Frenchman was sure that Gambit leaked the details of their practice games. It later turned out that Igor "iLTW" Filatov, who was part of OG back then, was the one to blame.

There was a story from some tournament that I learned about after the fact. Ceb or N0tail comes to our manager and says, "Why are you leaking scrims? We will never practice with you again." I'm like: "What? Where did this even come from? I don't understand anything."

I message Ceb: "Let's talk about this situation." We talked, and it turned out they had some kind of strategy. If I remember correctly, OG lost to Old but Gold with Illidan and God. As Ceb explained, Old but Gold somehow banned Alchemist with carry Venomancer, or vice versa, and OG only showed that strat in scrims against us.

Then I found the scrim, and discovered that something like that 100% happened. But I didn't understand who had leaked it. I asked my guys, they said: "We didn't do that, why would we need it?" The funniest thing is that I and coach [boolk] were the suspects number one, because only we could communicate with Old but Gold, being friends with them.

And then boolk told me a story about how he, iLTW and God were all flying together, and Igor [iLTW] himself bragged: "Oh, I will destroy you on carry Venomancer when he [probably Topson] would be on a mid Alchemist." I asked him later, but iLTW didn't remember whether he told me this or not.

ILTW played for OG on loan from January to March 2019. The mentioned game was most likely this series from SL ImbaTV Minor S1. Old But Gold did ban Venomancer in that game, and Topson picked Alchemist. The situation never repeated itself in drafts, but the Russians managed to beat OG twice at that tournament.

OG didn't make it out of the group at SL ImbaTV Minor S1. Gambit with Fng ran all the way to the grand final of the event but lost to Vici Gaming 0:3. The Chinese also stomped Old but Gold before that in the playoffs.

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