Jonathan ‘Loda’ Berg  has made a successful start to competitive Dota 2 action around at the start of the year with Counter Logic Gaming (formerly eXperience) marked the return of a popular legend to the European DotA scene. He moved to Singapore recently and joined superstar team Zenith. With exclusive interview with joinDota, up-and-coming commentator  Christian ‘Epi’ Czech. Loda share his thoughts and feelings.

Q: We can only imagine that the last few weeks of your life have been very eventful. You are still relatively young, but you are one of the “ancient” personalities in the quick changing world of eSports. You have just made some big decisions and taken a few big leaps in life and now find yourself living in Singapore with your girlfriend and playing for Zenith. It is this ability to make big decisions and take these leaps of faith that most successful personalities share. So, respect for that.
How is Singapore, man?

A: Singapore is treating me very well! It’s a bit hotter than in Sweden… But I’m starting to get used to it. *Smiles*

Q: I wasn’t even aware that they speak a lot of English there. I guess that is one less factor to worry about!
Moving on though: are you still in touch with your boys from Counter Logic Gaming? What do you think about their new roster?

A: To some extent I’m still in contact with CLG, but mostly with Akke due to the fact that we have been friends since forever. Other than that, I’ve just exchanged a few words with the rest. It is hard to say much about their roster, to be honest. But they do look very strong when I watch them play! Although I was a bit surprised when they added Lacoste instead of another Swedish player, but he seems to be doing a good job. *Smiles*

Q: So in CLG, there were changes that negatively affected your personal dynamic and thus you underperformed even with heroes you are comfortable with playing. Whereas in Zenith, we see you using Ancient Apparition in the middle lane and destroying everything… And that has largely to do with the fact that your teammates trust in the fact that you are an exceptional player?

A: *Laughs* No, it’s not so easy as that when it comes to CLG. I know some of the reasons to why I may have been seen as underperforming in CLG, but it’s not something I would like to go into. If you perform or not also has a lot to do with how things look around you in real life as well, it’s all just a big combination in my opinion. I feel that after the several roster changes we made in CLG, it wasn’t the team I created, and quite frankly in the end it wasn’t really my team anymore. I never felt that I HAD to be the captain, but in CLG it didn’t really work out when I wasn’t. This way CLG will become stronger with players that can perform better on THAT team, and for me… Well, it seems to be working out for me too. *Smiles*

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