Daxak plays without a display, Snapfire makes cookies, and the Furions are out of work — all in a new film from BetBoom
Production of bookmaker company BetBoom has released a Dota film before The International 11. In it, Snapfire rests after a hard day, Volodya PGG reads the news, and Daxak tries to find a display.
"We were originally going to do a 1 hour documentary about Daxak and the team, but we realized it was boring. This format you've seen countless times before: a couple of cameras, a chair, and a speaker. The fact that it's impossible to make a film better than True Sight in Dota is also against the documentary. Except for Valve, no one will ever have access to the players' emotions during the victory on The Internationals, the most valuable thing in Esport Dota," — Artem Saveliev, head of Esports BetBoom, said about the choice of format.
BetBoom made a unique unit of content. The film has many easter eggs and memes about the team and Dota in general. An additional challenge was to collect all the gags in a single storyline.
"The idea for Snapfire came accidentally. At first, we thought it would be cool to make Daxak's grandmother the main character. She would watch news about BetBoom Team on The International, not understanding what was going on but still proud of her grandson. There was one huge nuance to this storyline. We were writing the script before the US Major, and we couldn't know whether our guys would make it to The International.
Of course, we are ambassadors of cringe, but making a film about The International without an invitation to The International is too much even for us. In the end, we settled on the idea with Snapfire. The same cute grandma, but she will definitely be on The International and lives not in the real world, but in the Dota world with local news, commercials, and informative documentaries," — Ilya Tsapkin, BetBoom Head of Content, commented on the creative idea.