"DEFAULTER I am coming for you next time" - The_Guru

You picked Inferno as your map pick. What was the game plan heading into the map?

We have played against each other so many times. Those are very old teammates. We knew they are good. It was just to play normal and be chill. It was working out. But since they have played each other for so long, and even I haven't played competitively for 5 years. So it took time to gel. Also, we have an IGL from US so there was a little confusion in communication. Because we are used to Bengali calls and suddenly had to transition to English comms. But we will fix it. As the tournament progresses, we will beat a lot of teams. Because our team is good, and I believe in every one of the players.

You got an ace against Marcos in the first half of Inferno where you were actually in a man-disadvantage situation. How did that round unfold?

After I got two picks, the first was on Banana where I was holding and Mcg1LLzZz overpeeked and I killed him. Then we tried to go from mid to short and tried brute-forcing the site and then I got another pick. And then we got the info that there were multiple guys on A so we fell back. And I think Ghost pushed from B and I hit an instant shot. Everybody praised me for the shot. And we rushed B and I got two more extraordinary shots and we won that round.

After the scoreline reached 10-10, you guys just collapsed and didn't win a single round. What went wrong?

Actually, I raged a bit. On 10-10, we lost after Kevin pushed Banana and lost. After that, the team tilted and we lost. I have to be honest, I need to control my emotions. Because after that we lost every round. It's a new team, so I need to be more patient. But we will do good, the morale is high. We will calm our nerves. And this is also one of the best teams in India. They are no slouches, we will do much better against other teams. Because they are playing for so long. They are ex-Wicked Gaming. They have so many achievements. So even with this new team, I think we did good. If we improve our communication, I think we can beat them for sure.

They picked Ancient to be the second map. Did that come as a surprise or were you expecting it?

We expected. But DEFAULTER, man, he outaimed us. You can see, boy had 25 frags and the other guys are having single digits. So Kudos to him, he is a really good player. He is IGLing also, so it was all DEFAULTER. And he was shutting us down, so we got really frustrated. But it doesn't work every time, so DEFAULTER I am coming for you next time, for sure.

How are you going to prepare going forward into the tournament?

We will just practice. To be honest, we were not expecting this call. I was playing small LANs and all and suddenly I was in Velocity. It was a shock for us that we suddenly got a call from such a prestigious org. Just 5-7 days ago we got the call from Velocity that we are picking you guys, so Play. But we will do much better. Everyone will get more confident next game.