Techno on facing Vitality in the final: "It's revenge time"

Techno is confident heading into The MongolZ's fifth clash with Vitality of the year.

After taking down FaZe and paiN in the playoffs of the BLAST.tv Austin Major, The MongolZ are headed to their first-ever Big Event final on the Major stage.

While Garidmagnai "⁠bLitz⁠" Byambasuren's men have had a straightforward run through playoffs, the Mongolian side now face the daunting task of taking down Vitality, who have their sights set on their seventh consecutive trophy of 2025.

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
22/06/2025	Vitality 21:30 The MongolZ	Match

"It's revenge time," The MongolZ rifler Sodbayar "⁠Techno⁠" Munkhbold shared in an interview immediately after his team's semi-final victory over paiN.

"We came to the grand final, we came here to win. Just that one word: win."

In addition to giving his thoughts on The MongolZ's looming series against Vitality, Techno also discussed his team's improvement at the Major, the feeling of having the crowd's support in the semi-finals, and teammate Azbayar "⁠Senzu⁠" Munkhbold's performance on stage.

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Congratulations, a huge win for you, and a Major final. What does that mean to you? When you got up, you looked like it was business as usual.

We're improving very fast, and stage by stage. We finally made it to the grand final, and we're going to play against Vitality. We lost so many times against them, and the last time we faced them was really close too. We could have won but we couldn't end it, and it's a good time for a match against them again.

You want some revenge for that?

Yes, I said it before, it's revenge time.

In that game you're talking about with Vitality, it was some of your own mistakes that cost you the game. How are you going to approach this rematch?

Just be normal and play like yesterday and today's performances. It will be good for us.

Talking about yesterday and today's performance, the whole talk around The MongolZ coming into this Major was that you struggle on stage (Techno nods). You've beaten Aurora, but otherwise playing in front of the crowd, it's not the same MongolZ. Why is it different this time?

Maybe, first of all, it's a Major. That's very important, the most important tournament in CS, and maybe mentally everyone could be changed, every team. But we tried to manage it just like a normal tournament, and tried to be humble.

Even at normal tournaments, once you're at the arena, it's been hard. But at this arena, you've had the crowd support after you eliminated FaZe, how has that felt?

The crowd is on our side now. Yesterday they were not on our side, and today it was very amazing.

Are you enjoying that?

Yes, of course. It's a very big arena, it's a Major, grand final.

Senzu has also been talked about; he's had trouble playing in the arena. Here he's been really good, he was great this game, had a lot of big rounds. Has anything changed with him between the last few events and now?

People say he can't play on the stage, but I disagree with that. He can do very well, he can perform very well, and he can play like a beast. He's a beast (smiles).

It's a huge moment for Mongolia, a huge moment for Asian Counter-Strike. What do you hope to do tomorrow to continue that?

We came to the grand final, we came here to win. Just that one word: win.