Techno: "Maybe people doubted about our new player and what would happen after Senzu, but we bounced back"

The Mongolian rifler spoke about the team's new addition and was coy when asked for an update on Senzu.

The MongolZ booked a spot in the quarter-finals of IEM Chengdu after surviving three-map elimination series against paiN and Spirit.

It has been a rough couple of weeks for The MongolZ, who have had to make do without Azbayar "⁠Senzu⁠" Munkhbold, who was shockingly moved to the bench just a month before the start of the Budapest Major.

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Community reacts: The MongolZ bench Senzu

Stand-in Unudelger "⁠controlez⁠" Baasanjargal acquitted himself well in the group stage as he averaged a 1.09 rating, the second-highest on the team, with Sodbayar "⁠Techno⁠" Munkhbold praising both the veteran's light-hearted demeanor and impact on the server.

"He's a really funny guy," Techno said after the match against Spirit. "He played in Chinggis Warriors and the old MongolZ teams, so obviously he is a very experienced player in this roster. He can adapt to us."

Date	Matches
IEM Chengdu 2025
03/11/2025	The MongolZ Finished 2:1 HEROIC	Match
04/11/2025	The MongolZ Finished 0:2 Astralis	Match
05/11/2025	The MongolZ Finished 2:1 paiN	Match
05/11/2025	Spirit Finished 1:2 The MongolZ	Match

Next up is a quarter-final bout with FURIA, a team The MongolZ failed to beat in their last three matches.

"We're going to play good. Good style, and good shape because, as I said before, a lot of the time, we bounce back."

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Congratulations, a big win over Spirit in your debut event with controlez. Did you expect this kind of result coming here?

Of course, we were confident in [ourselves] because all the core four players and our coach came back on the server. It's really nice to play on the stage again, and in the playoffs as well. Maybe people doubted about our new player and what would happen after Senzu was benched, but somehow we managed to bounce back and we're going to play playoffs again.

You say 'somehow,' but you also said maybe other people doubted you. Did you ever doubt yourself?

Of course not, but we played the first two matches without our coach, and you can see here how his impact was on this team. Everyone is seeing it right now, I think. As you could see, we played very badly yesterday against Astralis. It wasn't us, but we bounced back today.

Talk to me about this game, you dominated Dust2, took their pick, then Ancient went into overtime, there was this 910 clutch too-

Yeah (laughs).

-Talk to me about that, what was going through your mind between those first two maps?

We lost so many rounds at the beginning of the T side on Ancient. I'm not sure about it, but it affected us a lot, in my opinion. After 910's clutch, it was an unbelievable round by him, a round we must win, but we lost the round after. We made a lot of mistakes on that map.

But then you recovered on this decider, you took over and didn't give them a chance. How was it to get to the playoffs in that kind of fashion?

If I remember correctly, we hadn't won any recent matches on Mirage (smiles). We always took the lead and somehow, we always lost to a comeback. So I'm really happy about winning Mirage.

How has it been playing with controlez? What has he brought to the team in such a short amount of time?

We didn't do a lot of practice, maybe three or four days, and we came here. Before that, we went to a ZOWIE event for two or three days without computers. So it was not that much time, only one week.

What has it been like playing with him?

To be honest, he's a really funny guy (smiles). He's a really funny guy, and as you can see he's kind of the oldest in our team now (laughs). He played in Chinggis Warriors and the old MongolZ teams, so obviously he is a very experienced player in this roster. He can adapt to us.

You mentioned it earlier, Senzu is not out of the team, he is benched. Can you give any insight into what is going on with him? There have been a lot of questions about what happened.

I'm not sure about Senzu's condition, it happened suddenly for me. I don't know anything, I swear, and he is a friend of mzinho and me still.

Date	Matches
IEM Chengdu 2025
07/11/2025	FURIA 11:10 The MongolZ	Match

How do you feel about your upcoming playoff match after how you played in the group stage?

We're going to play good. Good style, and good shape because, as I said before, a lot of the time, we bounce back.