FalleN: "The beginning of the year has been a little rough"

I would say that the beginning of the year has been a little bit rough, we've had a lot of games where we feel like we could have done a little bit better, it would have put us in some better positions.
We've been close to achieving some good results, but some of the matches slipped away. It feels bad in some sense, but at the same time, it feels like we've been very competitive with some very good teams. We just need to keep going through the year and do better than we have been doing.

I think that the Brazilian CS community is getting a couple of teams at a decent level, but it's not the level that any one of those teams wants to stay. Everyone is fighting to become a little bit better. Right now, we have three or four teams competing at a very high level, but still not at the S-tier level that we want to be.
It's in a good shape in terms of the quantity of the players, but in terms of the level, we all need to get better.

That's the million dollar question, if everyone knew the answer to that, there wouldn't be a climb.
I think that the teams that believe in themselves and their lineups just have to keep trying. They have to keep practicing, going to tournaments and improving. If everyone gets better each month, then eventually we can turn the table and get to the level that we want to be. For the teams that don't believe in their lineups, eventually they have to go for a change.
The case for us is that we have a lot of trust in our players, and we feel like we have what it takes to get to the next level. So for us, it's all about finding that extra ten percent.

The development is happening. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's not as fast as we want, but it's still there.
We fix one thing, another thing shows up for us to fix, but we've been working hard. We're not satisfied with where we are at right now, but we're satisfied with the work we've been putting in and the confidence we have from the organisation and the structure they provide us to work within.

I definitely want to get to that higher level with a new team. I've been doing that my whole life and I've achieved the highest of highest levels with previous teams.
For me, what keeps me going is that I like to play with the people I'm playing with right now. I want to achieve the high level with them, so it's all about that.

For sure, coldzera is number one. He's the best player Brazil has ever seen.
The second one, for sure, is fer. fer was very instrumental on those lineups in 16/17 as well.
As an AWPer, you could go with either me or cogu. I think cogu was insane in 1.6, he was at the top level in the world.
For two more, it's very difficult to skip fnx. He played his whole career at a very high level on more than one game, so you've got to go with him.
For the fifth, it has to be one of the newer guys, so it has to be KSCERATO. He's been playing very well for years, been very strong individually.

For KSCERATO to achieve the same greatness as coldzera, he would have to win multiple tournaments, he would have to dominate in a sense where no one else in the world is playing like him. It's a very complicated task.
In another regard, he's been playing at a very high level for a lot of years. So, there is a certain point of view where he's stayed at a higher level for a longer period of time, but I think coldzera had a higher peak. He dominated for two years in a row.
KSCERATO still has time to get to that point, he certainly has the ability and the drive, so maybe within time he can achieve something like that, but we're talking about two Majors, two-time best player of the year, it's something that players can only dream of.

We're very excited to play another BLAST event, we want to show a good face for ourselves at this event.
We feel like if we're playing a little bit better, we'll be able to achieve that, so we're working hard to demonstrate that and feel the confidence and get some good wins.
Our first game is against NAVI, so it's a tough match up, but regardless we have done that before so we have to believe we can do it again. We're looking forward to it starting the event off for us, and hopefully we can make it to Portugal.
For us, playing in Portugal is amazing every time we have the chance. It's a very familiar fan base, they follow us a lot because of the language, so we are looking forward to play the best CS we can and hopefully get there to think of even bigger things.

It's never a good time to play a team like that, they're always very strong. But for us, at the same time, it's always a good opportunity to play one of the bigger teams. They're the type of team that we look for, they played superb CS all of last year and they have some great players.
I feel like we can beat them, but they're favourites for sure. It's up to us to live up to the task.

Ooh, hopefully. If bad FalleN shows up then there's no chance. It's done.