magixx: "I'm looking for any offers, but I don't think there'll be any before the Budapest Major"

magixx spoke about being on the bench, his future plans, and Spirit's Cologne victory on the latest episode of HLTV Confirmed.

Two days after Spirit's trophy lift at IEM Cologne, Boris "⁠magixx⁠" Vorobiev appeared on the latest episode of HLTV Confirmed to share his thoughts on the team's victory without him, what he has been doing since being moved to the bench during the break, and his plans for the future.

The 22-year-old began by touching on what he has done since the start of the season, explaining that he took a two-week break — similar to everyone else — and dealt with some "life and health stuff," with his focus now on streaming.

"I'm basically just sitting on the bench being transfer-listed and waiting for any offers to take a look at, because there were not so many during the break," magixx says.

The Major winner told the panel he is open to becoming an in-game leader and was quick to reply to Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill's question about whether it is too early in his career for such a transition.

"If we consider someone starting their career by the age of 18, it might be an early time, but if we consider me as a player who has played for almost six years in the scene and maybe three-and-a-half to four years [at tier-one], it's a pretty good amount," he says.

magixx is also open to going international, telling the panel that communicating in English inside the game is "pretty simple and easy for everyone" and that people who are not as comfortable speaking in English as he is have played fine on international rosters.

However, the Russian rifler doesn't expect a team to come calling any time soon.

"I'm looking for any offers if they come my way, but I don't think there'll be any before the Major because not many teams are willing to make a replacement because the roster window is kinda locked at this point, everyone wants to try to play tournaments and not shuffle their squads or whatever, and I think there might be a bigger shuffle window after Budapest," he says.

"This is the time I'm looking to get back, not because of my preferences but because of how it works from the POV of any teams out there competing. Before that, I have nothing else to do besides playing FACEIT and streaming, because even this is better than sitting and doing nothing, and this is better than just playing FACEIT and not streaming. If I'm streaming, someone might see me doing that, playing the game, whatever, and maybe someone can message me."

The conversation later turned to Spirit's win in Cologne and the debut of 17-year-old Ivan "⁠zweih⁠" Gogin, who replaced magixx during the tournament break. The newcomer was more aggressive on Nemiga in a few similar roles to magixx, but has not been used the same way on Spirit just yet.

"If you're picking up a player from a previous squad, you have to give him the space and opportunities to play the same way," magixx tells the panel when asked about the way Spirit have bed zweih in so far.

"It has been a thing for a long time. The last couple of years it doesn't work this way as often as before, but four years ago and before that, if a team was picking up an academy player or a young player into the squad and he was posting great numbers against tier-three opposition or whatever, then there were big guys picking him up into the team and getting him to play the shittiest roles."

Polled on a comment from a user in Twitch chat, who stated that, "Spirit would win even easier in Cologne if magixx was playing, zweih didn't do anything that magixx wouldn't as far as I can see," magixx offered some insight into his mentality.

"I have no idea, and I'm not sure if I would be able to post a 1.00 rating against MOUZ because I didn't do that this year," he began, laughing. "But I don't think I can answer this.

"It could have been yeah, it could have been not, but the only bad thing that is painful is not playing in the LANXESS because it would have been GOATed beating two teams with stand-ins or whatever to make the LANXESS is a great thing. But an even worse thing than not playing in the LANXESS is not playing at all."

Later in the show, magixx and the panel discussed other results from IEM Cologne, the recent CS update, and recent news and results. You can watch the full episode here.