dgt: "We'll find the positives, but it's just hard to see them right now"

The Uruguayan player says paiN has good potential, but only after the team plays more together and gets more experience.

paiN's run at the BLAST.tv Austin Major ended in the semi-finals, where a hard-shooting The MongolZ dominated a two-map series against the South American side.

Franco "⁠dgt⁠" Garcia, the newest member of the team, took some time to share his thoughts on what happened against The MongolZ, and his feel for what paiN will need to unleash their potential moving forward.

---

A hard way to go out from the Major, but you still made it to the semi-finals, which is a strong finish. You started well on Mirage, but then completely deflated. Was it the crowd, was it the situation, or the pressure? What happened?

We need more experience, really, and to play more together. There were a lot of situations that we need to talk about. Truth be told, I don't know what to tell you, what I felt like was that we need to play more together.

Like on the Mirage A site, it was hard because it's a new position for me, so I didn't have many tools. That was hard. We need to sit down as a team and understand what happened and yeah, just play more and keep going.

The MongolZ play a fair amount of Anubis, your pick, and you started on the CT side. Do you think that after playing their map and losing, it could have gone against you to go into such a tough side?

Maybe, but I'm not sure if it was so much about the map, I just really feel like we need more experience and to play more on this kind of stage. They played really well, and it was hard, and I just didn't feel like it was a good day for us. We weren't at a good level. We just need to keep playing, play more on stage, and that's when we'll get to show ourselves at 100%. I don't think it was the map, it just felt different.

What did you feel was different?

Everything. The team, the game, there were a lot of people, and The MongolZ are a team that's really aggressive and you really have to be aware and comfortable to play against that. Today we just weren't there.

Playing against FURIA, them being a team with its roots in Brazil, do you think it was a bit easier and you didn't let the situation of it being a Major playoff get to you as much as against The MongolZ?

I don't know. I don't feel like it was the pressure, really. The opposite, when we play against Brazilian teams there's way more pressure than playing against a team like The MongolZ, so I don't think it's that. It was more about us.

It just didn't feel like the other days, we weren't on. We weren't ready for what they were doing, and we weren't shooting that hard, either, while they were very prepared, so it was hard to play against a team like that on a stage like this.

Major semi-finals aren't something in most teams' reach, so did you get something positive out of this experience?

Yeah, of course, we'll find the positives, but it's just hard to see them right now.

You've had a couple of events with paiN, how do you feel in the team now?

They're aces, they play really well, as a team it's a very good team, but I feel like we still need to play more and have more talks. I feel like individually it was hard, the situations we were in were complicated, and we need to have some talks and see what we can do. There are a lot of new positions and I need to find the way to be comfortable to play at 100%.

Do you see potential for the future?

Yeah, no doubt. It's a great team, and every player is really good.