On the ground at IEM Cologne Stage 1
- Photo: 2-time Cologne champ returns to the scene of the crime
- Our favorite day 2 photos
- karrigan after beating Liquid: "That's what I call good shit"
- hallzerk comments on last-place exit
- Tauson shouts "Let's go FL4MUS" after beating VP
nqz on an early exit from Cologne: "I really don't have an answer to why we've been playing so inconsistent recently. A close match on Inferno, which for me is a map that is all decided in situational rounds, and we lost pretty much all of them. A tough way to lose, for sure."
On key rounds on Inferno: "The first one that comes in mind is the jabbi 1v4. We couldn't lose that round. And also this last round, we were in a 4v2. Of course, B Inferno is tough to retake, but I missed two crucial shots and I don't know what happened on the boys' screen, but it was a retake that we should have won."
On the lackluster season so far: Looking at the year so far, we had a tough start and until the Major we had not had any good results. We played really well at the Major, but when we came back from the player break we knew we still had some issues to fix, especially on CT sides, and we didn't have time to adjust and fix those issues yet. We don't have all the answers, but we have a good direction to follow.
HLTV spoke to Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer yesterday about why his new addition, Kacper "xKacpersky" Gabara, fits his style like a glove, criticisms of the VRS and why IEM Cologne serves as a Major qualifier for NIP:
Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski has just recorded his best map in the FaZe jersey in the match against his old team, Liquid, and we asked him about it as well as what makes this FaZe with Helvijs "broky" Saukants different to the last one:
After qualifying for Stage 2, Fredrik "REZ" Sterner reflected on the team's start to the season with Jeremy "Kursy" Gast, how they play off of each other in the pack, his love of Overpass and the team's quarter-final curse:
saffee on rough exit from Cologne: "I don't think there's much to say, to be honest. Since the start of the season we haven't played well, we just had one good series against VP and that was it. The two series against Astralis we got smashed, and here we couldn't win a map. There's so much work, so much to do, so many things to think about. We just couldn't play CS here."
On emotional huddle after the match: "The huddle was especially for our manager, who is going to leave us. I've been with him since I joined MIBR two years ago, and he's been a main part of the team and he's gonna be missed a lot. There was that, and of course we just couldn't play CS here."
How the team can get out of the hole: "There's so much that we're struggling with. I've been through things like this in the past, not making the first Major in CS2 was a big downfall for us. We've been through these dark moments before, and we just have to be resilient."
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Danil 'molodoy' Golubenko
Ivan 'maddened' Iordanidi
Corey 'nettik' Browne
Iulian 'regali' Harjău
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Håvard 'rain' Nygaard
David 'frozen' Čerňanský
Keith 'NAF' Markovic
Guy 'NertZ' Iluz
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