donk: "Experts and talking heads can say everything they want but we don't give a shit about them"

Fine, but we could do better, much better. But, we still have six or seven months, so it's fine, we have time to step up and make the year much better.

Yeah, I think we won two trophies that we had to win, I couldn't even imagine if I lost in PGL or in BLAST Bounty.
I was really confident that we could win more, at least BLAST Lisbon because I felt like we were in a good shape and could've won there, and maybe some others I felt like we had good chances, too. But, unfortunately, we didn't do that.

I think all of the teams in the world will agree with me that Vitality are a step ahead of everyone, there is no doubt about that.
It's hard to say, though, to be honest. We've only faced Falcons once, and MOUZ we've played many times, and every game with MOUZ has been close, we've had three or four match points in many of them, but we let them come back and beat us. But still, I can't say that they're better than us.
As for Falcons, we have to face them more times to understand it. This time, we lost through our game, we were 12-10 on Dust2, we had to finish it and we fucked up a little bit. They were better.

On the point of firepower, it's hard to say. All of it depends on the shape of the team.
Maybe yes, maybe no, but in general, if you are playing good and not making mistakes in communication or decision-making, the firepower doesn't matter at all.
The difference between the firepower of two players can be shown only in bad situations, if one player with much better aim makes a bad decision and the other guy can't punish them for it, then yeah, there's the firepower issue.
But, if you're doing shit, you can't show your firepower anyway. If you're making mistakes, or making stupid decisions, you just can't show 100% of your firepower.

First, I think that it isn't the business of the community at all. Experts and talking heads can say everything they want, but we don't give a shit about them.
It's individual for every team. Some teams are better to bootcamp because they will focus better, but for us, we practice much better online from our homes compared to what we would in bootcamps.
When you have all those people in one room it can be loud and your energy just goes down really quickly. During practice online, this isn't an issue, you play more praccs, you're doing more team stuff.
How can we see a problem with this when we won a Major without a bootcamp? It's the same for all of our trophies. It never was a problem and it's still not one. I don't think a team that's been playing together as long as we have needs to bootcamp, we don't need team building, we don't need to get used to each other, we spend a lot of time together, we talk about CS a lot.
Imagine we play a month of tournaments, all of us in a room for ten hours a day, and then we go and do a bootcamp as well straight after. It's very hard emotionally, mentally, and I think it's not something that you have to do.
If we feel that we need to do it, then we'll do it, but we don't feel like that right now.

Yeah, for sure it's more positive for us if we get cheered as a team, it's better than being booed. But, in general, I like it when people cheer, but I also like it when people boo.
It makes it personal, you want to shut their mouths and prove that you are good at CS to the people that boo.
So, I would like to see people cheer for myself and my team, but if it doesn't happen, I'm okay with it. I came to tournaments to show my game and how we can play, I want to compete, that's it.

I think for the shape, it would be better to start in an earlier stage, but it's an advantage because we now have a gap where we can freshen up our game and get some new strats.
During Stage 2, we'll also see our future opponents, their new stuff, and how they're playing, we can anti-strat it.
From that angle, it's a good advantage, but again, the people who have played a lot will feel better in themselves, and that's where it's a disadvantage.
I think that we're fine with it, there's been a lot of times where we've entered tournaments where people have already played a lot of games, so it's fine.

The key for us is to get stress out of ourselves, we've been too stressed for three months. We have to chill out. If we take a rest and chill, feel fresh, freshen up our game, that will get us back on top.