Noticed on PARIVISION: “Their main strength is that each player here is capable of delivering a great individual performance.”

Well, to be honest, I was the one who reached out, so to speak. I mean, I asked if there were going to be any changes to the team. Let’s put it this way: I found out there would be changes to my team, and I would be that change. So I just didn’t want to miss the rest of the season. And since the guys had already invited me back in the winter, they gave me a chance. [Did they invite you back in the winter?] Yes.

I had my doubts back in the winter because, again, we’d just won a tournament with the guys, plus it was my first Tier 1 team, but I kind of know the people on this team too—I consider them all high-skill players as well. And so, for the first time in my life, I found myself in a situation where I was being invited from one Tier 1 team to another Tier 1 team, and I didn’t know what to do.

Our main strength is that everyone here can individually deliver a great performance. Plus, Puppey has a wealth of experience and can explain and talk about a lot of things, but the downside lies precisely in that individuality—the fact that sometimes it can take precedence over teamwork. And that’s what we’re working on.

The atmosphere within the team, I’d say, is pretty great—not what I expected, because I’d heard, and according to the community, the team didn’t have the best atmosphere.

But when I arrived, I was surprised to find that, overall, people are thinking rationally; no one is yelling or getting overly emotional—they stay within reasonable limits, I’d say. In other words, it doesn’t make you feel like: “Oh no, this person is thinking about this the wrong way; they’re jumping to conclusions.”

You can quickly get a handle on it. I thought that people were just drawing the wrong conclusions right after the games. They couldn’t see eye to eye, wouldn’t give in to each other, and so on.