flameZ: "We've gained the instinct we needed, we're just running at people and f*cking everybody up"

To be honest, it feels great. I don't think we had any pressure but we didn't expect to beat MOUZ in such a fashion, so I'm very happy that we're competitive and that we've made the semi-final.
JACKZ really wants to play G2 because it's his old team, so there's a passion for this result as well. We took revenge on MOUZ for what happened in Rio as well, so we're really happy about that.
We don't have pressure because of the stand-in, so we're just trying to enjoy as much as we can on the stage. I'm very glad that we've gone deep and didn't let this tournament slip by.

Considering the circumstances, I didn't have any expectations, but sometimes you have a stand-in and win the tournament like G2 did in Dallas. It's not like I was telling myself that we couldn't do it, but we've played two good teams and we didn't expect to be so competitive.
We gained the instinct we needed, the lethality of Vitality, which is just running at people, playing together, and fucking everybody up. This is what we're grasping again that we've lost since Cologne.
I'm glad that we've gotten that back, even without mezii, because it's important that we've gained this confidence before the Major. The next officials will be the RMR and the Major so it's important that we're going from a good tournament into that.

I think it's crucial, the last few tournaments haven't gone our way.

I think the main difference is that the other four people have to adapt to another player, sometimes I tell him to go to a position and he doesn't know what I mean because we haven't had the time to go over all the callouts.
We changed a lot, but, he's not a weight at all. He tells us to play our game and that he'll adapt to it and he does that very well, he's also very eager to entry so we have two of us that change and it's very dynamic. I can go back and be the second guy, it's really nice to have an understanding like that.
His style is really easy to adapt, I know that as an entry it's not that hard to adapt because even though at the start you may not align with how the IGL wants you to entry, to some extent, you know that you have to go first and you have to hit headshots.
He fits because he shoots really well, his aim is really sharp and he doesn't stop or bait, he just runs and it's very easy to play with someone who is willing to sacrifice himself.
He also has such good energy, it creates a lack of stress and a gentle atmosphere in the server. He's a great addition.

Yeah, that's the thing, I feel like when you lose to a team with a stand-in you can never take revenge on them because of the stand-in.
After we lost to G2 I felt like we couldn't do so because they played with Stewie, so now I'm feeling like this is our opportunity to beat them with a stand-in against their full roster and that will be revenge.
But, to be honest, I feel like G2 have being showing some good CS recently and they're very geared to win this event, so we won't play an easy G2.
There is a fashion in this new CS to lose to teams that are dynamic, so if one guy has a bad game we might get fucked on that, but we want to take revenge.

To be honest, I barely hear the crowd at any event. However, they're very loud here because it's not like a full arena here so it's louder and it's nice to have the tournaments like that, it feels more localised and there's still a lot of crowd being loud and excited and that excites me.
Regarding Singapore, many people have told me a lot about China and this is very comparable I think. They're very polite and not pushy at all, they know when we have our own space and that's very nice.