Brollan: "It's exhausting to go from event to event, I feel it mentally"

The Swede says MOUZ will do their best to handle their busy schedule.

MOUZ claimed their first title of 2024 at ESL Pro League Season 19, but the European combine didn't have long to celebrate their success; they flew directly to Belgrade to attend BetBoom Dacha, with an appearance at IEM Dallas just around the corner.

Despite their tough schedule, Kamil "⁠siuhy⁠" Szkaradek and company dispatched BetBoom and Virtus.pro to qualify for the playoffs and earn themselves a crucial day off on Friday.

After their win against the Dzhami "⁠Jame⁠" Ali-led squad, Ludvig "⁠Brollan⁠" Brolin joined HLTV to talk about their busy schedule, Dust2, and his future on MOUZ.

If you can't see the embed above, listen to the audio interview here.

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Congrats on the win. You've made the playoffs, so how do you feel right now?

I feel pretty good, we had a really good day overall. We should have won 2-0 to be honest, but it is what it is. We played a really good game overall and we're really happy.

You demolished VP on Mirage. What happened there?

Our morale is just very strong at the moment. We have a 100% win rate on it in the last three months and we're just really confident and comfortable playing it. We're really happy that we actually got Mirage as the third map, it's a comfortable map for us overall, we know how to play and we know how to react.

This series was also your second time playing Dust2. You play Long on the map, which is a pretty hard position. How do you feel about the map currently and your position?

Overall I have never been a fan of Dust2. Playing Long, it's just pretty... If 10 flashes are not coming over, it's pretty easy to be honest. It depends on how you're performing, of course, but overall I don't really see the point of the map because it's just too random.

It's always been like that for me since day one of playing it. It could be a good map of course, I just need to play it more. I haven't played it for a long time because I had it as my permaban for two or maybe three years.

You now have a few days off before the playoffs. Looking at this tournament from the perspective of your form, is the title all you're aiming for?

Yeah, of course. We're going to want to play Spirit again because they were not at EPL and they are dropping some spots in the rankings, but I would say they're still one of the best teams, it's going to be tough.

We have been playing EPL before this and it's very exhausting to go from tournament to tournament, and I really feel it mentally. It's maybe going to be hard to reset but we're going to have some days off, so that's going to be nice for us.

It's going to be tough overall because we have such a tight schedule at the moment with all of the tournaments and stuff, and we will just try to handle it well.

You talk about a tough schedule. You flew directly here from Malta, now you're here, and then you go to Dallas, a lot of tournaments for you guys. What is the energy in the camp right now?

Overall, it's always good. I think everyone has a lot of energy, of course. As I said before, maybe I am not the most energetic person, but I think we are a nice group that can hype and help each other in and out of the game. It's really nice overall.

But yeah, as I said before it's a tough schedule, but I will just try to focus on being professional. In the meantime, try to have some off time in some situations and maybe not focus 100% on it [CS].

For you personally, you're officially still on loan from NIP. Has there been any change in terms of your permanent signing for MOUZ or anything like that?

I can't talk about it, but we'll see what happens next. I'm not really sure when the loan expires, to be honest.

If you keep playing like this, they don't have a choice, right?

I mean, of course. I fit in the group, they enjoy playing with me, we are number two in the world ranking and just won EPL, so I think I'm doing a great job.