CLG managed to upset Gambit on LAN once again, edging out a close game on Overpass at DreamHack Open Summer. To hear about the match, their Minor performance, and double-AWPing, we talked to CLG's Stephen "reltuC" Cutler.

The North American side CLG beat Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko and co. in their opener at DreamHack Open Summer, securing another victory over the CIS side after they managed to break Gambit's win streak on Cobblestone back in April, at StarSeries S3.

reltuC feels like CLG needs to fix the small mistakes to become a contender

In a post-match interview, Stephen "⁠reltuC⁠" Cutler talked about the matchup against Gambit, the early struggles on Overpass and Ricardo "⁠Rickeh⁠" Mulholland's clutch.

Let's start with the Minor, you finished third there which of course you weren't happy with it. How did that go from your perspective, what did you take away from that event?

I always feel when we lose matches, especially in a LAN environment, that it's always small mistakes and all the games are close, no matter who we play. We've gotta fix those small mistakes and then we will definitely be a contender. Until we do that, we will just be where we are, in the middle.

Coming here, you are facing Gambit first, similar to back in Kiev for StarSeries. You won back then, it was big upset, now the levels were a bit closer—what was the thinking coming here?

I think Gambit is a good matchup against us, we play good against their style I guess. In the beggining of the match against us today, though, they played really aggressive, trying to get behind us and stuff, but once we figured that out we just adapted and we played well.

Talking about preparation, the maps and the veto against Gambit, were there any surprises, did you expect to play Overpass?

I didn't personally expect to play Overpass, I was kinda surprised they banned Cobble, that is one of their best maps, but I guess since we beat them they gave us respect on that one. I honestly thought we would play Train or maybe Mirage. But it's BO1, you never know what they will ban with their three bans.

You touched on the start of the match, that they played aggressive, they had a like a 7-1 lead and they seemed like they had everything under control. What changed in the match after those first round?

Well they were playing disrespectful, right in our face, so we went for a double AWP setup, let them go in our crosshair and it worked, we got 5-6 rounds in a row, made the half really manageable for us.

You've been picking up the double AWP fairly regularly, is that something you as a team are comfortable on, even on the T side?

Yeah, something we specially worked on this past week was double AWPing, since Rickeh and koosta are really good at AWPing. It gives us more opportunities to work picks. Especially with Rickeh, since he is more of the aggressive style, so it works really well with him AWPing on the T side.

The CT side was also pretty close, so what do you think was the round, or the most impactful play you remember, that decided the game in the end?

I guess it has to be Rickeh's clutch when he came out of heaven, the 1v2. It kinda felt like we lost it because everyone died, but everything went our way and we kept our momentum going.

There was one round where you were camping top mid, near the fountain, and just as a T came out of mid you looked at a wall… what happened there?

Yeah… my mouse went off my mousepad. The way I was set-up, I guess my mousepad was too close to me, and I'm playing on the top side and I didn't adjust it. I was actually about to start talking, which pushed it over and I couldn't get it back over.. When I died I was like: "Guys, you have no idea what just happened" and they were laughing at me. Actually, it was a pretty big round to lose, which was kinda sucked, but well.

Moving forward, one more BO1 win can get you in the playoffs, what is thinking now, about the groups and the playoffs?

The next team is fnatic or Cloud9, and both teams are aggressive, which is kind of our weakness. As long as we understand that they are going to push trough smokes, get in our faces—as we did earlier today—I think we will be fine, we just have to play our own game.