Snax: "I'm still hungry to play in tier one, I think I showed a little bit of myself today"

The Polish veteran helped ENCE beat FaZe in Dallas, and had high praise to offer for the team.

ENCE are through to the semi-final of IEM Dallas after beating FaZe in the upper bracket final of Group A, an unexpected result over the recent PGL Major Antwerp champions given that Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer's side are lacking their best player, Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi, and have been utilizing Janusz "⁠Snax⁠" Pogorzelski for the duration of the event.

The 28-year-old has been no slacker though, putting in individual work and doing his own research to prepare for the event, "Of course, I'm taking it very seriously," Snax explained in a post-match interview with ESL. "Like I said on Twitter, I'm looking for a team, I'm grinding a lot, doing stuff a lot, I'm still hungry to play in tier one. I think I showed a little bit of myself today."

Snax also touched on working with Snappi, giving him credit for his calling and explaining how he's helping alleviate some of the pressure from the stand-in situation.

"I was doing a lot of work so Snappi, he doesn't have to say to me every round what I need to do. I wrote it down so it's going to be better for him and also for me, because it's not hard to read from the paper. Because of my addition to the team, I'm also trying to make it happier in the team, trying to put happiness in the TeamSpeak."

The Pole also gave credit to ENCE's coach and analyst, Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha and Maks "⁠trochu⁠" Trocha, saying that they "are doing such a great job" and that he was "really prepared because of them," adding that Spinx also helped prepare him to fill his role.

He also touched on the team environment, praising the chemistry and attitude of the players. "I feel like in home, I feel I can do jokes, I don't feel like I need to hold the gap, I can do more stuff. Even on one round on Ancient I said to the guys go A with three, let's gamble and maden stay B, he said he's gonna stay on B and dycha went to the window and they didn't come to A. I was like, 'guys, listen to old papa, he knows what we doing, yeah?'

Snax and ENCE will next play in the semi-final on Saturday, where they await the winner of the quarter-final match that will take place between G2 and the loser of FURIA versus BIG.