Yeah definitely, I think the perspective of Valorant helped me a lot with teaching people again. Have you brought lessons over from Valorant? I know it’s a completely different game, but maybe it gave you a different perspective on Counter-Strike? Analysing enemies is not only from VODs, we have programs to analyse demos, so it’s more fun in that way, and I am really enjoying my time as a coach I must say. Valorant was very cool, and I loved the game, but for me Counter-Strike is the highest league and the competition is just harder. It’s hard for him to teach every player, also very young players, and I felt like I needed to help him, that was the most motivation. I was very motivated to help him, to help him go to where he deserves to be, because I know it’s very hard for an IGL to not get frustrated. You mention taking over the coaching role, what was the main motivation for you to return to CS? A lot of people want this trophy, and we want it as well. We know there are some other good teams, and a lot of teams that will try to use this event to ignite them again, like Astralis. Cologne is the really important one, every tournament is important, but this is like the holy grail.ĭefinitely we will try to win this tournament for sure, we know that we can do it, Heroic are not in the best form even if they are the favourites. Our goal, my goal when I took over the coaching role, was definitely to bring the team back into the top 10, and I think we are doing a great job now.įor me, this is not the biggest event yet, there’s BLAST and Cologne. Yeah definitely, we try to win this tournament. It was a good result for us.ĭo you feel like you can kick on and win this tournament now? It was about trying to focus, understand what is happening on the map, feeling the flow and then luckily we won a few important clutches. It was also a map where we have lost two times in a row now, against FURIA who are one of the best teams on that map, but we felt confident. Yeah we were feeling very confident because they are a new team, maybe with a stand-in I don’t know, and they cannot have all the protocols on every map, every setup, they can’t have everything tuned. You must have been confident going into Vertigo? I know the Copenhagen Flames boys have been playing it, but the previous fnatic didn’t really like the map. This is what we have been doing, trying to get better in uncomfortable spots like Overpass, so for me it was nothing about the map we just needed to wake up or we would lose any map.
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This is our second tournament in a row, and we will have a third, so we said before we came that we would use our free time sometimes for relaxing, but also kind of bootcamping. Yesterday we couldn’t really prepare for fnatic of course, so we tried to prepare ourselves. It’s a tough second map for sure, but we are working a lot on our Overpass, and we have made some changes. Was it a tough second map to go to Overpass, something that has not traditionally been a strength of BIG? That’s why today I was more vocal than normal. It was just totally awful Counter-Strike and concentration, sloppiness, and very hectic, not our normal face.Īfter that I tried to fire them up a little bit, and said to cheer a little bit because normally we say we like to be calm, but this time we needed to wake up. I tried to fire up a little bit, ignite the fire, but man we felt very shaky, our concentration was not there, and I’m like “guys, if we lose, we lose, but I want a fighting loss.” We needed to fight and come back, the map didn’t matter too much, we didn’t lose because of Nuke we would have even lost Dust2. Losing Nuke must have been a kick in the teeth, what do you think went wrong there? It’s hard to play against an opponent when you don’t know anything, and we are always feeling good when we have prep. This group is very strong, fnatic also have a very good roster now, they can build on it. (sighs) very good, it’s a relief because if we lose this game it’s going to be Heroic, and that’s going to be a bloodbath. Gob b has overseen an upswing in BIG's formĪfter adding another feather to his cap by securing top-three here at the Pinnacle Cup Championship, gob b sat down with HLTV to chat about the event so far, his motivations for returning to Counter-Strike, and the lessons he has brought over from Valorant.įirst things first, congratulations, how does it feel to make it to the arena?