mezii: “Our five-man roster is always mentally prepared, so you can never count us out.”

It’s nice to be back. It’s nice to be in the final again. Playing a best-of-3 series feels a little unusual now. We have to prepare for a best-of-5, but there isn’t much time. I think we just need to focus on ourselves and make sure we keep playing the way we are now. It was nice to pull off another clean sweep today.

As a team, we have a lot of experience. I think our mindset and the fact that we simply never give up are key. That goes for long match days, of course, but also for best-of-5s, where we might lose one or two maps. You never know how things will go, or maybe we’ll have some rough halves. But I think our starting five always has strong mental preparation, so we should never be counted out. And even though we had two games—two maps—this morning, it’s still just a warm-up. 

Everyone wants to win; everyone wants to take home the trophy. Plus, we’re a team that doesn’t like losing to the same team over and over—we always want revenge. Especially when a team beats us once, or even if it was a close game. We always want to make sure we can come back even stronger and show them that we’re back at our best. I think that’s exactly what we need to show. Aurora demonstrated yesterday—throughout the entire tournament and even in previous tournaments—that they’re gradually finding their rhythm; the players are getting used to each other and to how they want to play, so this will be a tough match. I think, individually, we need to play better. Yesterday we were a little slow in that regard—both in terms of shooting and in terms of creativity. We didn’t play ping-pong as often, and we didn’t show the creativity we usually have. Today, however, we were constantly in the game and reacted quickly to what was happening.