kuben: "Take care and cheer for us. We're still going strong"

Jakub "kuben" Gurczyński commented the game against HellRaisers.

– We have lost both pistols rounds, we could have started better if we won at least one of them. We have won the first gun round pretty easily, but we could have done better as we only managed to save 2 rifles. That allowed them to break our economy once, and then, even though we've won the second gun round, they broke our economy again. Thanks to pasha's AWPing we managed to make a little bit of a comeback and finished the first half 8:7.

If not for pasha's couple of kills, we would have been in a much bigger trouble. I was telling the guys to stay calm, because we know what we are truly capable of. Internet practice matches have gone pretty smoothly, we had very good scores across all maps. I knew that we could still win this game. Even when we the lost a pistol round on T after pasha missed his molly due to someone blocking him – that was unfortunate. We kind of struggled at the beginning due to losing the second rifle round without scoring a single kill while losing 4 guys. I think MICHU dented their economy a little bit.

We knew how we should have played coming into the game. However, when we won our first round, we called for a time-out. I think the guys understood the problem – they were playing too fast, which made them kind of fall into the trap on the Middle. We could have broken their economy on eco - when pasha bought AK. Before the game, I told him that since he and NEO are the most experienced players on the team, he has to step in, motivate and lead all the younger guys, which he did quite well, especially on CT.

Everything fell apart when we lost the 2nd rifle round. We could have broken their economy when we had the advantage, but everything just went wrong. We will re-watch the game together and go through all the mistakes along with it. We will come back stronger tomorrow, and we'll be prepared for the Chinese team. We still have a chance to advance to the playoffs. If we beat our opponents tomorrow, we'll have to face NRG or have a rematch against HellRaisers. Take care and cheer for us. We're still going strong.