what's up everybody this is epi here
with my friends from Navi at the ESL one
in Frankfurt we're sitting at the
commands bank arena and with me a guy
that we have not seen that often recent
times in interviews this is why I'm
especially happy to welcome you on
misery what's up are you doing I'm doing
good thanks before we start I just want
to give you my utmost respect for the
very exciting play style you guys have
portrayed yesterday it's really
especially for the Navi watch is very
Russian style it's it's super aggressive
unfortunately you had a very rough
seating you came up against IG right off
the bat let's talk about the format
before we go into into the game itself
what were you guys his feelings when you
heard you're gonna be up against IG um
personally I didn't mind it that much
initially when I saw us so it doesn't
really matter who play against um but as
it is now it's kind of obvious that
they're the strongest team in the
tournament so it is a bit unfortunate i
guess the games when it comes to mouse
we were sitting here and i don't know i
think was Kuro perhaps even talking
about that he said he's really impressed
with the play style that you guys that
you guys put to work but it if you place
a lot of pressure on yourselves with the
pics that it has to work well in the
early game can you pronounce try to talk
to us about the the philosophy behind
this very aggressive exciting style you
guys play um well we just kind of got on
the same page everyone from playing a
lot of games and this is how the
playstyle just evolved it wasn't really
we didn't sit down and talk this is how
we're going to play it just kind of
happened and now we kind of just have an
idea about how we're going to play it's
true that it is kind of risky in terms
of there's not really any second plan
you know if it fails then fails but the
thing is that it shouldn't fail if it
doesn't fail then we're going to win
everyone
and our main problem has just been small
things you know like you can talk about
the first game against IG in my opinion
now i still believe we should have won
that game but we chose to call Finn so
Charlie even though they had a trial and
that you can't really do anything
against like shaker bottom you're not
going to kill anyone because first there
is a bottom that's hot skill and then
the shaker is as well so they were
obviously prepared for us going up into
Thailand like what you should do but if
we just called safely instead it's
inside a different game and they didn't
even have centuries a dust and relieved
for bounty hunter yeah we also picked up
so it's just these small things if we
adjust these things then I don't think I
think we're going to be one of the
strongest teams I agree and these things
day in at this high level you see say
it's just like a roughly small thing but
it gets punished so hard you're done
alright you make them a second you're
done and that's like kind of the sad
thing it seems like you guys have been
around for relatively short time
especially comparison to a big team like
like I G so does it how does it feel to
go out of out of this best of three do
you just feel like you just need more
time and need to work on these things
are you bitter about it or or do you
just feel like we can do this well I
feel like our biggest issue as of now is
not that specific game we already know
that was the first game of the day and
that's usually a bit half of us but
what's actually our biggest problem is
the draft and we are trying to think of
some ways that we can do it this
tournament it was supposed to be pike at
drafting alone and that also kind of
ended up having some issues and now
we're going to try something else at our
bootcamp and hopefully that's gonna
ensure that we can actually get a solid
2 f'd in every game second game you made
everybody go crazy with your bein play
that was really really intense you
played against here where you need to
make sure that if you catch him you need
to be done and you found those fiends
grips clutch like three or four times in
one game was really not any managed to
bring that one home so that was
extremely good you got everybody's hopes
up especially here in Germany for the
home crowd well kind of home crowd what
about what about Game three what went
wrong there I talked to pass and he's
like what pic yeah I agree we
we for some reason just decided to ban
the same two heroes we'd banned all
along to him and bad writer which
doesn't make any sense because they
don't they don't value them that high
but in scrims and against best and seems
right now it's still good bands but
after like in the third game we
discussed if we should ban something
else and we were still ugh now let's
just stick to it and then we we knew
that we're going to first pic lichen and
even then we were sitting there what do
we do now like what what we what is our
response so basically we didn't really
feel like we were completely ready for
the third game and when it started and
then they picked this partner as well we
kind of expect the time to pick partner
I think our normal response would
probably be X plus one hero in this case
it should have been ex-partner yeah by
the way but I don't know what if we
didn't have the balls to do it or if it
just didn't didn't come up maybe it came
up but we didn't have two balls to do it
or whatever but we kind of have
half-assed it and end up with some we
line up all know so I do want to give
you the opportunity quickly to talk
about the event itself and the teams
that are here because to me it just
sounds like you are happy with the
overall situation you feel like you're
confident you're team you feel like with
pike at pass a fat on the voice you're
doing what you're doing okay even with
with image with MSS as a recent addition
and you just need some more time when
you head into a term like the
International and you will have big
veterans like poppy there for example
like these guys that have been in very
tough situations it is like like what
goes to remind you just focus on your
own thing or do you try to learn like
you talk to them and trying to learn
something no I have been around just as
long as some of these other guys so it's
not really about that I'm sorry I dunno
yet like you are really long just
because like a great I've talked about
like grand finals in international no we
don't really look at it we don't really
look at it that way in general what we
do is but at least what we're going to
do now is just keep focusing on our own
game and then try to improve like at
Dreamhack we had a big issue from
getting the early game lead and then
throwing it away you know keep going
with a question like like without using
our brains at all that you got fixed and
came back at rimac then we up a
draft now we're here at
SL and we still we still don't throw the
games now it's still the draft so if we
can fix the draft for TI then I think we
have a good shot unless some new problem
arises who else you know it sounds very
great I do want to thank you at this
point time for the interview it's been a
great pleasure is there any shoutouts
any last words you want to give out
there I'm gonna have to give a shout out
to benq and XM g and epic gear and mouth
sports and the freaks for you well
thanks again for the exciting games this
has been me with misery and thanks a lot
bro see you guys