TSM had an impressive turn of events against Natus Vincere, as after losing the first map in a very one-sided manner they went on to bounce back in both following maps, sending Na`Vi packing in a confident manner.



Xyp9x is surprised TSM have come this far considering their preparation

Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth was the one answering several questions about the match, as well as who TSM would rather face and the possibility of a rare TSM-Cloud9 match-up.

In the veto process you picked Train, what was the thinking behind that? Do you think it surprised them?

We haven't lost on Train yet, so we feel pretty confident on that map. They have a strong map pool too, it's similar to ours, we might've picked Train to catch them off guard.

How much practice have you put in for Na`Vi specifically for this semi-final, have you watched any demos yesterday?

We watched demos and we watched their match yesterday. We didn't prepare for them before the event, it was just yesterday, because we knew we were going to face them. If we're talking about preparation, our preparation really sucked now, because we are on vacation. We are going on vacation when we go home before we take off to Acer Predator Masters. It's pretty surprising to me that we won, or that we got this far.

Mirage was very one-sided against you, do you think their Mirage is that strong or were you just not prepared enough?

I think their Mirage is really strong, but at the same time I think we made some silly mistakes, our communication was pretty bad and we didn't hit our shots as well. So it was a mix of a lot of stuff.

Do you think you do need that first map to warm up as we've heard before?

I don't think so, I think you could make a statistics that if we win the pistol and lose the anti-eco, we are probably losing that map, we do that so often and it's so hard to come back from.

In the final is going to be Cloud9 or fnatic, who would you rather face?

We wanna face Cloud9, actually. We haven't faced them and we wanna prove that we are better than them. And it's exciting to be playing against an NA team that plays really well. It's not boring to play against fnatic, but that would be something new to try and play against Cloud9.

What do you think about their playstyle and about seangares' preparation? Do you think it's going to be harder to play your own game in case they do advance?

I think we're just going to play our own game, we can't prep that much for them, because we only have around three hours before the next match. I watched Sean calling on the POV and I think they changed a lot. We are prepared for what's gonna come because we all watched their POV stream. We are a little prepared, but we could be prepared better.