James banks here for unicorn TV and I'm back in the BIG house here in Berlin.
I'm joined by someone that you guys are referring to often as the Godfather as
now as the the meme came out how are you doing today sir. I'm fine how are you? I'm
very well I'm glad to be back you've just come off the back of a massive wind
but before we get into this to me you come across as the one of the most
experienced German players in the scene you've had it pretty up and down in csgo
but big now seems to be the success that Germany's been looking for what is
different with this team yet the difference is obviously that we are all
really dedicated and everyone is like loving the project and have so much
passion for it so of all we like trying harder than before and also like we
needed the experience we need to have to this point to probably be just timid
what we are at the moment so you said about the the dedication side of things
for this team to me when I've come here coming out a couple of times it seems
like a family environment explains me what it's like here and and how it works
with the team yes exactly how you think it is it's like really family stuff
everyone is like talking to everyone and doing all different stuff here that the
house and they are making but we have a lot of fun obviously we working really
hard but also like the chill atmosphere and why we why we are chilling is really
really good and we have a lot of fun and yeah we also plan a vacation together so
even though we're living together it's not like we have enough from everyone
else from each other so yeah a walls like a family yeah that's really
interesting cuz a lot of teams they like to have a break once a week and spend a
lot of time together the vacation a big vacation so where you got going not sure
yet but we want to go after the major and hopefully were qualified for it yeah
so I saw a tweet come out from Sampson and he was saying how he's so happy that
he stuck with you and legia what does that mean to you and do you think that's
like a big statement Vendome about you guys yeah sure obviously I'm
really happy because I also love to play with him and like like you said it's
like a family it would be it's much better to have success with a part of
your family than was a normal teammate I would say so
it was really important for us and if you wouldn't stick with this Germans
what I would I think we wouldn't have made it
and also not we wouldn't have created probably big I don't know so yeah it was
a really important part but yeah like like in his post we helped each other to
get the better player to be a better player to better be a better teammate so
we have to each other out and I'm happy that it works out there so I said
earlier you're one of the most experienced German players in the scene
you're in game leading for this team but you are praised so heavily online by
your fans and stuff for your in-game leading style what makes it so different
from you is it just the experience or is it a little bit more is because the team
trusts you what makes you this amazing game leader actually helped big rise up
so much recently um yeah to be honest it's like obviously
experiences a big part I kind of know how to react in certain stuff but it's
also like we talking so much about Const right we're making smart adjustments and
also the big house it's a really big part of this success I would say and
it's also like the understanding of tactics which my teammates have because
if my teammates wouldn't have this understanding of the tactics they I
couldn't pull out some kind of weird big fakes and stuff so it wouldn't work so
they kind of needed to understand first the game overall to be now on this level
where I can have really complicated cause and also like good game plans and
I also think it's experience yes but it's also a kind of a talent I would say
these cut things combined is making me a good thing English I would say let's get
out a little small at the end as well no he's got a good job and so what we see
in a bit of time I think it was like when you were in ESL Pro League
qualifiers you were opt in a lot of times so using the swag seven
yeah what was the method behind that was it because sometimes you had the money
but you would like drop your teammates was that just okay it's better for my
teammates to have the weapon or what was the reason behind it at some point I was
like he's getting kills of it but surely he'd be better of like an m4 or
something like that um yeah it is exactly also about the economy and also
sometimes in some positions it's the enemy is peering that area because they
know oh yes I make seven we can't really contact it and I take it like they need
to approach it in a different way and yeah but the big biggest part is like
the economy but lately I played it really rarely because I need to pick it
up like in a really good situation because I feel like it's the weapon is
not that strong anymore for on energy I trained a lot make seven
because I would try to change a bit to meter as CT because we have always
economy problems back in energy and I practiced like a lot of like maybe
thousands thousand rounds against my former coach and we just played and I
tried to okay now I need to shoot like this okay let's come or jump now and
these kind of just test everything out and yeah I didn't do it anymore so I
know that's good was make seven that's also why not picking up as much but I
also think the team's getting smarter about it so it's not as effective but
yeah you need to have like a really good timing when you went to pick it up and
yeah it's sometimes hard now to touch on the economy there which is a huge
difference from any version of counter-strike we've seen before
what are your thoughts as an in-game leader on the economy do you think it's
playing too much of a factor to games these days yeah I would change the
economy it's like we talked about this a lot of times in the team and the easiest
change would be that you have just one time the setup or the setup where you
get 1400 like after the pieces you get 1400 - loser and after that you would
start on 1900 so so let's say you win the pistol the enemy team didn't kill
anyone should I have 1400 and now they they went around they win this
round and they lose the next round again they would they wouldn't start at 1000
forms they would start at 1900 so the reset wouldn't hit you as hard as it
hits you sometimes because sometimes you have like a 411 half SCT and you think
like we just have four rounds and but in reality it's probably like four four
versus form equipped round so they won four times you won four times they won
the right four times and you just want four round so then you have like okay
half but it is really for 11 so the reset money change I would adjust that a
little bit probably they come up will came up with
a better idea but my idea would be just one time one times one it wouldn't
changed too much because after the to the pistol round
would be as important as it is now but the rounds after like the reset wouldn't
hit us are thankful to my change they go economy tactics from the man himself the
way to do it now coming on to the PGA obviously you guys came away with a
massive win there but I got to say it in true big fashion you guys don't make it
easy for yourself most games we see of you guys you like lose one then you have
to come back up from the lower or like from a deficit and you've really got to
fight back hard you guys just play better under pressure or is it just okay
we can't lose this now let's go for it like what's the mentality because some
games where I think like for example the game against Dignitas the first time you
played them I was like okay big you're probably going to win this and then you
didn't and then you had that harder ahead of you and I'm starting I thinking
because they just like playing the difficult games not like we like it but
it's kind of now is always say we have so much confident in we know if we play
our game we can beat everyone we can make a comeback we can even like lose
two maps in the row like really stupid but refresh ourselves in the break and
Plato or show total different big so yeah we didn't figure it out what is
this exactly but yeah we like to see our as in pain so that's why we make it so
close now to be honest it's like we like I said
before in some interviews it's like we have sometimes the off day and if we
have off day it looks really bad that's our problem that's why what we try to
fix we talked a lot about our mistakes also like some some players have bad
habits right like every player has have and the big thing is for us is like we
try to give our teammates like tips and make adjustments for them that they feel
like they cut they not playing their worst game for example if next was not
playing as he can he talks less than he normally do so we try to give him like a
cool idea that we want to refresh everyone like we say like okay now
refresh guys that means like try to refresh how you approach the game go new
on the on the computer change your style of sitting and go back to the okay sit
serious part so we said like okay if we do that we try to practice it as well so
then you try to okay it's a new new round new game let's go and yeah we try
to fix these kind of problems that that we don't have like if we have a bad day
it doesn't look as bad as this so we try to fix that yeah and a wall this is like
the thing what we want to get better in before before the future for the next
for the next event we need to fix that I would say all right I think I'm gonna
try the Refresh idea myself that that's a good good way of looking at it now
what we saw at PDL is obviously I think there's a comment from foreign on the
desk at one point was like are bigger lucky that there's a third spot here
basically and then you guys come along and you manage to pull it all off and
take that first place pretty much making him eat his words but how good did it
feel for you guys to not just grab a qualifier spot but also take the win and
prove that whether it's M vs dignitas Spencer you guys can do it and you guys
are capable of this level of performance from for us what it was really important
that we can show that we can play every map like I don't know why but there were
rumors were that we are not good train but yeah we we feel different we
feel like we can pick every map against and any opponent with the right
preparation with the right game plan we can pull it off so that what we wanted
to show because it's really important that we have like a big map pool and now
for the for offline qualifier I if I look at our maps I wouldn't have any
idea which bands they will come so it is really hard and we set yesterday like
maybe three or four hours and made every like for every every team we made like a
statistic and we figured out which map we want to play like what is your
feeling I'm like Alex to our coach what is your feeling about this team don't
look at stats just tell me which map you see us winning and we go on every
through every map and then through every statistic and now we have kind of a good
approach to the to the LAN and it is 15 15 teams you could play every team and
the problem is you cannot prepare on three maps for these 15 teams so you
need to have a different approach and our approaches like we want to talk
about styles and categorize them and say like okay this team taste this style how
do we counter this style add we can't at least I like this and with these
experience with these game plans we made up before it's like we kind of feels
very prepared for everyone even though we didn't prepare for one one team
exactly I like it now you guys in Penta there is like a massive rivalry between
you two you meet each other in online events offline events it's consistent
what the explain to me is rather even come about because you guys seem to meet
every single time but there's no one team that's like simply ahead sometimes
ten or taking game sometimes you guys are taking games do you guys just know
each other so well now that it's a kind of a throw up in the air every time I
don't want to sound arrogant but it is bad for them that we know them then it
is worse then they know us so it is better for us too to have a team okay
they know us but we know them as well because
as I said also before it's like we are really fast in adapting because we are
in this house as I say after the I think we had like yesterday seven or eight
hours prac after that we like me and I like sat down and talked about concert
probably for four hours so our adapting is so fast our how we
develop overall as a team is so much faster so much so much stronger than
every other team because we are in this house and we also dedicated as we are so
for them it's not that good because they have the really really unique style and
if you figure them out it they need to adapt and they are not asked yet they
are not as good in adapting but they have a lot of time so they are also
really hard workers as we we are into rivalry I would say it started at easier
premiere where we've played them one or two times and was always very close
games it was back and forth they want equals we want he because and we should
have lost they should have lost and like they should have won and all the times
back and forth so there I think in this kind of time it kind of started because
we both were new teams and yeah both both teams had like this big just one
big superstar coming up Sonny and Thompson so we have a lot of similar
storylines I would say but yeah as I say day we are let at the moment a little
better and adapting and that was like the big part of the last games I would
say against them so coming away from this now your practice getting ready for
the offline qualifier I saw you throughout about being in like the
hyperbolic time chamber I love a Dragonball Z reference and what is it
like because of you guys I get this energy from you you're super dedicated
you're always focused and talking on counts what you guys are practicing
hardcore but what's this like is it literally like eight hours a day you
doing set times you setting practice schedules how does a normal practice day
work for you up until the qualifier um I learned for my sister it's like the best
way to learn it's like to have you out like your environment helping you to
learns like make a little notes on the wall and just walk around why are you
eating just read it again so we we try to have like the normal
our practice should be in our normal life I would say it's like we wake up
talk about a little bit work on strike while we all sitting down here maybe a
games running on on the TV where me and Alex are talking someone's coming eh
what are you talking about and so it's in our normal life at the moment in and
that makes it easier it's not we we're not like okay now it's work time guys
eight hours straight worth notes like yeah we have probably like 12 hours we
we chill two hours but we still work but then we chill a little bit more so we
make it like it this normal life force and in a way that we we say like okay we
are really dedicated but we are not like or we need to rush eight hours then I
have freed and I can play with my friends no it's all the time someone's
doing something and I think these kind of dedication is making us very strong
yeah now my last kind of question to you directly here is how with all your years
of playing counter-strike and the age you are now how do you say this motivate
it so like put in this time putting this F a lot of players start the tail off of
it and probably maybe virtus pro who obviously slightly older yet still going
at it you just seem 100% on it a hundred percent dedicated beyond the most
players I've interviewed yeah it's like I'm if I do something with passion I do
it really really I like it so much so I I try really hard so I think still still
even I played so many years come strike it's not like I I am I don't want to
like I'm satisfied or anything no I I'm so hungry i still can learn so much
I still learned so much the last six months I would say so overall like if
still if I have this passion I would still playing and at the moment I have
this passion that's why I'm saying yeah well thank you very much real time guys
got B and big will be at the offline qualifier I wish you the best of luck
we'll catch up with them most likely afterwards we'll see if we can grab them
to some more time some more interviews but don't go anywhere there's plenty
more content coming on unicorn TV
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