James Banks here for Unikrn TV, and I'm here in the B.I.G House in Berlin Joined by
Alex their coach.
Now Alex there is so much going on in the Counter-Strike world at the moment in terms
of qualifiers, online competitions, big prize money lots of activity but how on earth do
you manage it all at the moment how do you keep this all running because it's so much
even for just normal viewers to follow.
Aha , Yeh I mean it's um right now it's pretty hard we have a lot of matches.
We had a week where we had 4 or 5 officials in one week and it's like insane to play,
it's also hard for the players itself because the enemy knows what we are doing so the people
have to create new situations to win, but Recently we felt really confident we know
that we can win if we have even more matches in-between.
We just use the not very important matches for training purposes, so we just test stuff
out there and most of the time it works because everyone has a really good understanding here
in the team what is going to work and what is not, but it is really exhausting, after
this whole phase of many online matches we had a week pause so everyone could come down
and re-focus for the minor.
Now talking about the Minor obviously such an incredibly important event for you guys
a lot of tough competition as well, how are you dealing with the practice schedule for
these guys, what is the focus, what areas have you indicated that need to be worked
on to make sure you guys qualify for this.
Hmm, umm, I mean we are looking again especially into different maps, what we think is going
to come.
Of course you need a big map pool to beat these teams, we have 7 enemies there, we can
hit any of them because it is the swiss system so after the first match we don't know who
we will meet so it is getting harder, that means that we have to practice our stuff even
harder because we only have little information about how the enemy is going to play.
It will most likely be based on how confident you feel because all of the teams are on the
same page it is only some that are underdogs and some favourites, but we have a good feeling
about it.
And who would you say are your biggest rivals going into this as like an individual team
basis and how confident are you in actually making it through and qualifying.
We are very confident in making the qualifier, these teams are teams that we have already
played a lot , I mean of course EnvyUS is a huge favourite to win everything but then
there is two other slots.
So LDLC is in there we think, they can really play good and upset teams, PENTA is a new
lineup and a heavy favourite there and of course us.
So I think EnvyUS, LDLC, PENTA are our biggest rivals, but of course dignitas recently is
playing pretty decent and all of the other teams all made it through the minor qualification
where they beat teams like NIP, Space Soldiers and Heroic even who didn't make it so all
teams are on the same page.
Up until the qualifier what does it mean schedule wise for these guys, have you got them on
a strict schedule every day or how's it working?
It's not that strict but of course we have a plan we try to schedule around four to six
practice games a day but its a lot of talking because we need to see what we are going to
fix and since we are here in the house we can fix it way faster than any other team
that plays online, because if we see a mistake after the game we can instantly say look this
and that went wrong and we can fix it that way, so our communication and how fast we
fix stuff is way quicker than the other teams.
Like I've seen here from what you're saying that some of the guys are practicing the smokes
and positioning and stuff like that which is obviously really key, but what would be
the one thing that you've told the guys that has to be their 100% focus.
Of course itself the mood because on LAN everything not everything but a lot of things are momentum,
so if you have like a good run and everything is working good in the team itself you play
better automatically because one 2v2 that you just luck the guy and then the enemy has
to eco this is something you don't really practice you know it happens and then you
win a really important round.
But if the mood is like good beforehand then everyone plays maybe better and then the game
itself evolves.
But ingame wise of course everybody has to know their grenades of course it's like one
of the most important things then GOB can call way better.
Because if everyone knows all the grenades, he can use it like no other to say like you
guys do this and this and then if everybody knows everything it makes it easier for the
ingame leader.
So of course grenades will be important and also we are working on overall positioning
and of course, i mean if people follow our matches the anti ecos were losing a lot of
them so this will probably be the main focus.
Well thank you very much for your time you guys have already done so well obviously qualifying
for the ESL pro league lets see how you guys get on for the EU minor.
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