Tell me about your thoughts in general before and during the Major?
We qualified for the Major, we were glad, and after a couple of days' rest, we got back to practice.
Before the Major, we had a productive bootcamp, we played and practised non-stop.
You can't be fully confident coming to a Major along with Secret, VP, Liquid, and other strong teams.
We definitely didn't expect to be top 16 nor top 1.
We tried to see what we're capable of, what we lack.
It wasn't clear during scrims as we had draws almost every time against strong and weak opponents.
At this tournament, we could've shown what we are worth.
Hello, friends, we are at DreamLeague.
I can't talk, Mag's speaking behind me, so I can't hear myself.
We've relocated to the studio from the hotel.
You might remember this studio from the previous vlogs, we played at the Minor back then, now it's the Major.
Let me give you a quick tour, 30 seconds long.
Look, this is our team. Over there are our opponents - J.Storm.
Behind my back is the production, analysts are sitting there; on the right is the famous blackboard.
The sofa and stuff, Sheever is there, let's go and greet her.
We lost one series, than we beat Chaos 2-1, losing the first one somewhat weirdly.
We had some problems against Vici, we lost 2-0 dropping to the lower bracket to play a Bo1 against Storm.
Well, you know the result.
Доброе утро, подруга.
Привет!
Как дела, Sheever?
Всё хорошо.
Готовишься перед эфиром?
Да, готовлюсь.
Отличный макияж.
Спасибо.
Тебе нравится твоя сегодняшняя прическа?
Да. Мне нравится твоя тоже.
Тебе нравятся кудри?
Мне нравятся длинные вьющиеся волосы, но не нравятся короткие.
Когда мои волосы отрастут, я сделаю завивку.
Круто.
Девочковые вещи.
Sheever is getting ready, as you can see the final preparations are being made,
the broadcast hasn't started yet, our game is first today.
We had the most important game next day, we understood we had a single Bo1 to win,
next games would be Bo3, and it's easier, the chances to make it into the top 8 are quite good.
You need to win one more Bo3 to make it into top 8.
It was important not to lose that Bo1.
We gave up most of our strategies we had prepared.
We didn't deliver and we didn't know whether we didn't execute properly, or our strats weren't working out.
So we decided not to take risks as the guys didn't have confidence, so there was no reason to try.
In this game, there was a problem with Naix, we countered him very poorly.
We had Ursa and that was it.
We didn't have heroes to deal with him during Rage, it was one of the most important problems in the game.
Naix had buffs, Dark Seer surged and shielded him.
When we watched replay we saw that Naix caused a lot of problems.
If we had at least two heroes to control him, it would've been so much easier.
We made some bad decisions anyway and we lost our game, we could've won.
So Crystallize, these are your favorite headphones, right?
Tell me, can you hear anything?
Yes, your voice is dimmed.
Talk to me and I will listen.
Do you wear these over the earbuds?
We won't have earbuds this time, only these.
Is it better?
Yes, it's better, earbuds pressured ears.
I can't hear you.
You should be able to hear, but the voice is dimmed.
What is your mood coming into the game?
I'm fine, we did some preparations today, we analyzed their drafts, our drafts, our strategy.
The most important part is the Bo1.
Yes, Bo1 is always a roulette.
We have some troubles with it, we always lose our first game.
Yes, there is such a tendency.
Bo1 is making us uneasy.
What's your game plan for today? Anything unconventional?
Well, it depends on the bans really. We've decided on what heroes we wanna go for, if they don't get banned out.
It's kind of late-oriented mixed with an aggressive startegy.
- I see. Are they going to pick Troll for you? - I hope not.
- No, Igor, move away. - I'm working here.
Then we'll go do our job elsewhere.
After the defeat, we headed to our practice room and had a long discussion
about what made us lose and our plans for the next tournaments, which is a Major qualifier.
We motivated ourselves more and realized that we gotta try harder since it wasn't enough.
Usually, it takes time to accept a defeat.
The atmostphere within the team is quite friendly and everyone understands they didn't perform flawlessly,
either throughout the tournament or in this particular game, there were mistakes all along.
We're back live at DreamLeague, we've relocated from the hotel to the studio,
and this is where the playoff matches are gonna be held.
The guys are all set and good to go as the game against J.Storm is about to kick off.
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There'll probably be a lot of negative comments towards us, as it is the case with any CIS team.
We really tried and wanted to go big and believed we could've done it, but in the end, we totally flopped.
Misplays, subpar performance - resulted in us not making it.
Defeats are devastating and I really hate losing, which makes it twice as hard to take every time.
At the same time, it's always a push for improvement and a learning experience.
And as long as you extract something useful from it and work relentlessly to become better,
I'm certain it'll always yield a result, and hopefully a positive one.
The game is about to get underway. I wasn't nervous before, but now I'm a little anxious.
Get a move on, they asked us to wrap it up.
While we're still here at the tournament - play public matchmaking, practice individually, and then start preparing for the next Major qualifier.
The season's in full swing and we have to earn points - make it to the next Majors and eventually to TI.
The guys and I want to fully concentrate on watching the tournament games
and practicing some interestings heroes we didn't realize the potential of.
Watch this tournament and take away something from it, unless a new patch comes out,
and get ourselves ready for the next Major qualifier and the tournament in Mumbai.
Thank you to all the fans for your support and sorry for letting you down - first of all, ourselves and our families.
Thank you to everyone who supported us, we failed.
We definitely can do better and we'll strive to do much better next time.
I'd like to thank our fans who believe and support us.
We tried our best and it wasn't enough.
We'll try harder, so chin up because we need your support and I hope we can make you proud.