Despite playing with a stand-in at BLAST Premier World Final 2024, Vitality have advanced to the quarter-finals of the event after beating Liquid 2-1.
Now set to face MOUZ tomorrow, we caught up with ZywOo to get his thoughts on playing with JACKZ, the Singaporean fans, and that match against MOUZ.
Given the circumstances of having the stand-in, how does it feel to make it to the quarter-finals?
I'm feeling good, obviously, we haven't had any real practice with JACKZ. We're good enough to beat anyone, but we need to play some good CS to do so.
I think today was good except for the first map, so it feels great to win and tomorrow it will be interesting to play MOUZ.
Are you excited to play in front of the crowd in a new location?
It's going to be interesting because we've never played in front of a Singaporean crowd, and I love this city so it'll be good to play in front of the crowd and see who is supporting us.
There were a lot of fans at the airport waiting for people, what was that like for you if you experienced it?
The first time I experienced that it was really surprising, but it was good to feel that way and it'll be the same for the Major. It's funny to feel like were footballers.
Knowing that you were going to play with JACKZ here, how did that change your expectations for the event?
Actually, the thing is, we won today but we still made some mistakes. If we manage to fix these mistakes we can be better, we have a good chance to beat anyone on any map. Our core is really strong so, I don't think we're scared about anyone.
What about your next opponents, MOUZ? How are you feeling about facing them?
Against them we just need to be at our best, they aren't making a lot of mistakes, so we'll need to take some risks sometimes. This playstyle we're playing with JACKZ is going to be really important against them.
You could be the first team to retain the World Final crown, is that something you're thinking about at all?
It was in my mind before, but we're not playing with mezii so the environment is different. Obviously, we want to win and we want to play in front of the crowd for JACKZ as well, but the chance of winning when you don't have your full team is lower.
We want to win it, we want to defend our title, but it's tough.
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