Pure on mistakes made by strong teams: “Sometimes you just want to do something to end the game as quickly as possible.”

[There were a lot of “blunders” from other teams in their matches, but you guys are disciplined—why is that?] Compared to everyone else… I don’t think you can say that after the first map against Virtus.pro, where I definitely ran too far. Could you call that an attempt to show off? I don’t know. Sometimes you just want to do something to end the game faster, and you think it’ll work, but usually it backfires.

The second game was super easy; we had three top-tier heroes on the networth chart starting at the 10-minute mark. You could say the same about the first map, but I think we had a much bigger advantage in the second one. And we had the right heroes to end the game quickly. That’s why everything went much more smoothly.

[Who has the best chance of advancing from this group alongside you?] Definitely Team Yandex. They’ve won a ton of tournaments this season. I haven’t watched their games, but the team has clearly been doing well. I’m expecting Yandex in the upper bracket; to be honest, I have absolutely no idea how this format works. I just found out that OG is in my group—that’s cool; I didn’t even know that.