After their dominating win over Games4u in the ESWC 2015 CS:GO Women’s Grand Finals, CLG Red’s Christine “potter” Chi sat down with theScore eSports to discuss the role of SEMPHIS as their coach, the tournament at large and the team’s future.

Q: How confident were you coming into the tournament?

A: This tournament was easy for us but that’s what we expected. We worked hard, we knew what our game plan was and we studied our opponents. We came in here knowing that we can win. The only way we were going to lose this was if we beat ourselves and that’s what we tend to do, so that’s what we worked on for the past three months.

Q: How does it feel to win the women’s championships?

A: I’m super hot, drained and excited. All those combinations. We’ve been working super hard for this and it’s been years. This is my sixth world title but I had to wait two years for this. For the past two years we’ve been rebuilding and working on things and just trying to keep the dream alive and we did it. So, I’m super stoked.

Q: How much did it help to have SEMPHIS as your coach?

A: I think Kory was an insane amount of help. I think coaches are something that’s really knew and we’ve been playing with the idea for several months now. It wasn’t so much his tactics or anything like that. It’s just having another voice, a sixth man, an authoritative figure that will regulate things especially when things get hectic. He’s pretty alpha so when he talks, we listen. It’s really awesome having that sixth voice there to keep us calm and focused. It really helped.

Q: Your match against Games4u was pretty convincing. How were you able to secure such a convincing win?

A: We were just mixing it up and like I said, it helps having a sixth voice. Kory’s input was just something else. Individually, we are skilled players and it’s all about making sure we’re all focused on the same goal. Economy is so important in CS:GO but we’re all blood thirsty fraggers so it’s sometimes hard to regulate all of us and make sure we are all sticking to the gameplan. That’s where Kory helped keep us in line and made sure that we built our economy first. Then, we started scrimming and playing our game and that’s just what we’re good at.

Q: Going back to your semifinal match against Karma, another North American team, just how confident were you going into that match?

A: Karma’s a good team and it’s great to see another North American contender. That’s never happened before where a North American team can finish Top 4. They got second place at ESWC last year, they got first place at Copenhagen Games and this year at ESWC they placed 3-4th. In the Copenhagen Games in April they beat us in the finals and I was pretty salty about that so this was definitely a good revenge match for us.

Q: What are your plans for after this event?

A: We don’t have anything set in stone right now but, you know, the CS:GO scene is growing and we hope that the female scene can catch up somewhat. CLG Red is here and we’re ready to attend as many events as we can - male or female. We just want to grow, just get better and encourage everyone to grow with eSports also.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Paul Park is a writer for theScore eSports. You can follow him on Twitter.