mopoz: "Our attitude was good, but it wasn't enough to win games"

mopoz hopes his new-look roster will return stronger for the second Major of the year in Shanghai.

KOI's roster has had to deal with a plethora of big pieces departing for supposedly greener pastures, namely players like Álvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" García and Alejandro "⁠alex⁠" Masanet. Rather than crumble, the squad turned to regional stalwarts like Tiago "⁠JUST⁠" Moura and Renato "⁠stadodo⁠" Gonçalves and beat the odds to make PGL Major Copenhagen, whilst their former teammates could not do the same on seemingly better squads.

The Iberian team's Major run was a disappointment, however, as they have exited with an 0-3 record and without registering a single map win. SAW might have smashed them in their opening game but KOI had chances to take maps off ENCE and FURIA, only to squander them.

After exiting the Major at the hands of FURIA, Alejandro "⁠mopoz⁠" Fernández-Quejo Cano stopped for a quick chat with HLTV to discuss his team's performance in Copenhagen.

Date	Matches
PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Opening Stage
17/03/2024	SAW Finished 13:4 KOI	Match
17/03/2024	ENCE Finished 16:12 KOI	Match
18/03/2024	KOI Finished 0:2 FURIA	Match

Tell me how you're feeling right now.

I'm feeling frustrated. I'm feeling really really bad right now because we just didn't really compete at our highest level, it was really difficult for us. We didn't find the solutions inside the game, but it is how it is.

What do you think it was that hurt you this week? It was a tough draw, you played three teams people expected to go through, but what do you think was holding you back?

I don't know. People didn't really expect us to go forward, but it doesn't really matter for us. We are just going to keep working on ourselves, inside the team talking about everything that happened here. Our attitude as a team was good, but it wasn't enough to win games.

This is your second Major, you had three debutants as well, is this the type of learning experience that could be good for a team like yours?

I think that this is going to be a really good experience for the team. Even if this is my second Major it doesn't really matter, because for me it's the same as playing any other tournament to be honest. I think this will be helpful for our team, because we made a lot of mistakes and we have to learn from them.

If you zoom out to when this roster was formed, you lost big pieces like alex and others. Are you still proud of yourself for the journey you had just to get to this Major?

Yeah. After losing SunPayus, alex, MartinezSa and other players, it's really hard to come back and make a really good team, but we are always finding good pieces to replace them, right now we have dav1g as an IGL and he's doing a really good job. I don't know what more to say honestly, I have high expectations of us but we need more time.

For the next Major adamS will have a bit more experience, as will dav1g as an IGL. Can we expect to see you back?

Yeah. I hope that in Shanghai we will be ready for the Major, I'm fully confident about them and myself, so we are going to do it for sure.