huNter-: "We are trying to force people to talk when they are dead and that is helping a lot"

The Bosnian rifler shared some insight into G2's win over FaZe on the desk.

Nemanja "⁠huNter-⁠" Kovač joined the desk after G2's dominant win over FaZe to discuss the series and talk about his team's performance in Cologne so far, sharing insight into how the team prepared for the event.

"It was amazing, the energy, communication, individually we did amazing. If HooXi is playing like that on Inferno and calling like that, I mean... nothing can go wrong for us. It was really good, I enjoyed playing today together with my boys, and it looked like G2 from the beginning of the year.

"Comparing this game today to other tournaments, like after Katowice, it felt different of course. Today it was really, really good, even better than at the beginning of the year honestly because FaZe lately are doing really good, and individually they're shooting really good as well. It wasn't easy to play against them, you need to hit them in the head first and it's never easy to play against those kind of players."

huNter- added that G2's game plan coming into the series was amazing, and revealed that they didn't expect FaZe to pick Ancient, instead believing that Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's men would opt for Mirage or Nuke. He also shared some more insight into G2's recovery in form since playing in the BLAST Fall Groups, stating that they didn't have a bootcamp before the event in Copenhagen and instead wanted to use the event to practice.

"We were trying to play a lot and to get into shape individually. In BLAST we didn't show really good results because it wasn't our main focus, we wanted to practice more through the officials as well. But here, we came and we know this is the kind of "Major" for this part of the year, Cologne, because this is the biggest event until the end of the year since there are no more Majors. We are trying to show everything we have, and that's what we did today."

The Bosnian rifler was then shown a clip of a round on Ancient to walk through, and during his explanation of what went down, he explained some of the changes that G2 are making to help them improve.

"We are trying to force people, I mean HooXi especially and Swani, when we are dead we need to talk. That's what HooXi did here in this exact scenario, and he helped us a lot. He said to Ilya [m0NESY], 'smoke banana because the AWP is there, and go first and hold cave so they cannot go out and we just commit with rifles.'

"We are trying to force people when they are dead to talk, and that is helping a lot because if people can focus on their crosshair and the guy who is dead can talk, it's much easier."