B1ad3: „Még akkor is tudtam, amikor kikaptunk a Liquidtől, hogy még meg tudjuk nyerni ezt az eseményt”

Natus Vincere eddig nehéz utat jártak be az IEM Rio Majorban. Az ukrán alakulat háromszoros hosszabbítást vívott ellene Vitalitás mielőtt egymás után 14-16 mérkőzést veszített el Cloud9 és a Folyadék, nem tudja kihasználni az utóbbi két térképen szerzett jelentős előnyöket.

A Legends Stage harmadik napján a NAVI zavartalanul söpört végig Rossz hírek Eagles első kieső mérkőzésén, és bejutott a 2-2-es medencébe, ahol kedden a rájátszásba kerülésért küzdenek.

A koszovói csapat elleni meccs után B1ad3 spoke to HLTV.org about his team’s road so far. The Ukrainian coach said that even after their early struggles he believes NAVI still has a good chance to go all the way at the Major, highlighting a productive bootcamp the team had had.

“Even when we lost yesterday to Liquid, I knew that we can still win this event,” B1ad3 said. “I know our team, how we played Cologne, how we played Malta, and I see the difference after the bootcamp. We just need to go deeper in the tournament and then we can win this event easily.”

A kapitány megvitatta azokat a problémákat, amelyekkel a csapat szembesült a nyitó két napon, és beszélt a nehéz dolgokról Cloud9 meccsen, amelyen a NAVI 13-7-re feladta a Mirage terrorista csapatát.

“I think we could win Mirage easily. It was a little bit influenced by our physical state and lack of preparation, because we didn’t have a lot of time to prepare for the map.”

“I think they play a really good CT side because it looks like they discussed a lot of variations, situations, and they react really fast,” he said. “I think they play really strong, they can go to the finals, easily.”

Nézze meg a teljes interjút fent, vagy elolvashatja a teljes átiratot alább:

Ha erről a Bad News Eagles játékról beszélünk, úgy tűnt, a szokásos üzletmenet. Mit gondoltál a velük való szembenézésről, miután tegnap legyőzték a FaZe-t?

We knew that they’re not a strong team, that we’re much better, much higher level. But we also knew that you must not underestimate them and you must know their game style to adapt from the beginning. In that case, I think it’s very easy to play against them.

Meglepett, amikor látta, hogy legyőzik a FaZe-t?

I didn’t expect that. FaZe won Nuke very confident and I thought that they would also win Mirage also confident. I don’t know why it happened.

Arra számítottál, hogy ezek után a mai nap egy kicsit nehezebb lesz, vagy csak a tervek szerint ment?

For me, I just watched their previous results. If they’re losing to some teams like Enterprise, PALOMA, I think it’s a defining factor for me. I knew that if we play our game, not overthink yourself, we’ll win easily.

I wanted to go back to the first couple of days, the triple overtime against Vitality and a couple of really close losses to Cloud9 and Liquid. You dropped some big leads, especially in the latter two games on the T side – can you tell me about what happened there and what you had to address going forward?

I think we need more tournament experience when we played only practice for a long time. We had a really good bootcamp, I see the difference and I see the results of how we progressed because of the bootcamp, but now we need to convert all this knowledge to the game. When you play the tournament, it’s different, you must have another mindset to make more precise decisions, to think faster. The teams that played the stage before, I think they have an advantage, for sure. Also the time difference, the jetlag, it’s not bad for us, but still, I think it’s better to play the stage [before].

I think the schedule also was not good at all. We played one game, really tough game versus Vitality, and then we had to wait here in the arena, we could not go to the hotel to lie down, to have a reset. We were a little bit exhausted and I think it also factored, that you play two best-of-ones in one day, I think it’s not a good idea. And the next day we played in the morning. We finished at night and we had to wake up to discuss and prep for the match, and this was like 30 minutes, because we were focused more on giving more sleep to the players so that they were more focused. This factor is very important, and the one that I told before, that we didn’t play a lot of official matches.

Ez volt az első alkalom, hogy idén játszottál a Cloud9-cel, de nyilvánvalóan sok tapasztalatod volt az előző év azonos felállásában. Milyen volt? Még mindig ugyanaz a csapat volt? Általánosságban mi a véleményed az eddigi teljesítményükről?

We didn’t feel any difference. We were focused on our game, it wasn’t like before when we had a rivalry and played a lot of times against each other. This time, I didn’t feel anything at all. We were just facing an opponent, a strong opponent. I think they play a really good CT side because it looks like they discussed a lot of variations, situations, and they react really fast. But I think we could win Mirage easily. As I said, it was a little bit influenced by our physical state and lack of preparation, because we didn’t have a lot of time to prepare for the map. For example, today, best-of-three, we knew who we play, we had good preparation, everyone knows what to do, we had a good discussion. These are little details. But I think they play really strong, they can go to the finals, easily.

I wanted to lastly talk about the competition in general. Still quite a few teams are left, but you’re not going to play Vitality anymore. What are the confidence levels like going into the last round and being able to go to the playoffs?

Még amikor tegnap vereséget szenvedtünk a Liquid ellen, tudtam, hogy még meg tudjuk nyerni ezt az eseményt, mert látom a különbséget, ismerem a csapatunkat, hogyan játszottunk a Kölnnel, hogyan játszottunk Máltával, és látom a különbséget a bootcamp után. Csak mélyebbre kell mennünk a tornán, és akkor könnyen megnyerhetjük ezt az eseményt.

De úgy gondolom, hogy a jelenet összességében most sokkal versenyképesebb, mint korábban. Az év eleje elég könnyű volt, a FaZe nyert, egy tornát nyertünk, egyet a Cloud9, de ha most előre nézünk, akkor is versenyképesebb lesz. Az Astralis határozottan erősebb lesz, ha megtalálja az utolsó darabot a csapat számára. A G2 is okozhat némi kárt. Ma már minden csapat sokkal tapasztaltabb, nagyobb tudással, profibb. A jelenet egyre nagyobb, szerintem nehéz lesz korszakot teremteni valakinek.