Quantum Bellator Fire started their match versus mousesports at 2-13 following a fiasco on the Terrorist side, yet they climbed round by round back into the match to eventually pull off the huge comeback at 16-14.

"The main thing was not to go 0-3 at the qualifier" waterfaLLZ says after making Major playoffs

After the match, a very excited Nikita "⁠waterfaLLZ⁠" Matveyev gave us his reaction on becoming Major Legends and answered a few questions about the match, as well as the upcoming playoffs:

Massive underdogs at the qualifier, massive underdogs here, tell me what it's like to make Legends at your first Major.

I don't know, I just can't believe what's happening. I don't know. I couldn't even dream about it, that I would be a Legend at my first Major. When we went here, the main thing was not to go 0-3 at the qualifier, really. I really don't know what's going on here. One month ago I was losing to tier-5 teams online and we had some bad results, couldn't find our game, we practiced for a month at a bootcamp, we lost many praccs. And we are playing here, it went well... I don't know what to say, really.

You had a really rough T side, but on the CT side it simply looked like whatever you did worked, what did you do to pull of the comeback?

On the T side, they were shooting better than we were, we were losing aim duels against them. On the CT side, we knew if we took pistol we could make a comeback, we're a team with a high morale, we can do comebacks. They started to play slowly on the T side, we managed to lead 5-0, then they did a fast round on A and won it, so after that we changed some things so that they couldn't go fast and the double AWP setup was working great. Kvik showed up very well in this match.

The very last round was the only one that seemed like it could go mousesports' way, when they hit B and it was a 3v3 at one point, how did that round look from your point of view, were you nervous?

Yeah, this round we started 5-on-4, I think. Then there were some trades and when it was 3-on-3 I was thinking "oh my god, please, kill them, please, kill them, I don't want to shoot them, please, my mates, kill them," and we won. My mates did the work.

Going into the playoffs, how are you guys feeling now, how far do you think you can take the best teams here in series?

We don't have the best map pool maybe at this championship, because we weren't aiming for the Legends spot, to be honest. It was really a dream for all of us to play in front of a big crowd, so we will try to show some good CS. Everyone will say that it's a wasted spot, that we didn't deserve it, luck, Swiss system, but we won, so... we will try to show the best game we can.

Is there going to be any pressure on you? Could the crowd get to you?

Maybe the crowd can get to us, but we really don't need to be nervous, we climbed where we shouldn't be, maybe, it's a dream come true. So we really don't have any pressure on us, so we just need to play our game, to enjoy CS, to enjoy the crowd, to enjoy this feeling, and to enjoy this moment.