What was your mentality going into the final day of play? How did you guys choose to prepare when faced with both Dream Time and LGD on the same day, and what was the thinking behind your approach to each series?
We knew how DT like to play. They always play the same style, so our plan was to play their style, but try to do it better than them. The series went to a third game, but in all honesty I think we lost the second game only because of the nerves, we made many uncharacteristic mistakes that ended up costing us the game. In the end we managed to beat them 2-1 and it was a very big relief. Then the game vs LGD, I am not sure why, but we completely let go of the way we played and were successful with in the rest of the qualifiers. We tried out things we didn’t try out before and overall just played much worse than before. It was almost like we did not give 100% anymore after having ensured our way to Seattle and I was very upset about it. I want to apologize for this, because we did not put up a good fight. I believe the best way to beat LGD right now, is with splitpush. The ONLY game they lost in the entire tournament was to splitpush and that’s where many people thought their weakness lies. So that should have been our gameplan.
If you could go back and play your series vs LGD again, would you draft or play any differently? Why? Why not?
Definitely! We should have played our original style which got us so far in the first place and with which we beat LGD during the groupstage. Yao even came to me after the game and asked what happened and why we let go of that and in all honesty…. I really can’t explain it either. I’m really sorry for that and I cannot promise that we will win the playing match in Seattle, because the competition will be fierce. However, I can promise you that we will practice very hard and give it our all to obtain the chance to play in the main tournament.
Source: Team Liquid
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