alex on s1zzi: “I definitely see him as one of the best Ukrainian esports players of the future.”

When you play a map for the first time at a tournament, things can easily go off track—and that’s exactly what happened on Dust2. The team made a lot of mistakes. We gained the upper hand thanks to s1zzi’s clutch play in the pistol round, but we lost our focus during the opponent’s force buy. After that, the match became really tough, and we had to fight through overtime.

Yes, of course, he’s improving incredibly fast, and everyone on the team notices these changes. You can see him getting stronger at literally every subsequent tournament. That clutch play was pretty straightforward for him, I’d say. I definitely see him as one of the best Ukrainian esports players in the future; he just needs to keep working hard and consistently.

I think we’re in pretty good shape right now, and the team has every chance of doing well at this tournament. For some reason, we’ve had our weakest win rate on our two best maps, Ancient and Mirage. I don’t even know how that happened, but we’ll do our best to turn things around. We just need to stop worrying about the future and take it one match at a time. Maybe that will help us gather our strength, gain confidence, and lead the team to victory.