Florian "PaisY" Schmedes

First off congratulations on your victory against coL! How does it feel to claim a tournament with such strong teams involved, especially since you won the finals in such convincing fashion?

Thank you! We have been improving a lot lately but did not manage to achieve anything really big as of now. Of course it feels great, especially against such a strong line-up of teams during the qualifiers and the playoff bracket. On top of that, we got our revenge against coL. We lost twice against them already, but beating them so convincingly in a bo5 with a clean 3-0 sweep was the icing on the cake.



Did the fact that you were coming out of the loser brackets affect you in any way?

I think it slightly did. We knew that one crucial mistake in just one game would mean matchpoint for them. The pressure worked very well for us in the end. We were highly concentrated every single minute in each game. This concentration was necessary to pull of amazing plays such as our aegis steals. So if it actually affected the players, it did in a good way.



Did you have any special strategy for coL?

Due to a lot of officials we have been playing during the whole week, we couldn't really practice and prepare for the match in particular. However, DeMeNt has made his homework on our opponent and studied their play. We sat down with the whole team for 1 hour before the match planning and discussing what the best way against coL's playstyle would be.. which worked quite well ;)



In the third game, Bamboe picked up Night Stalker and took the middle lane, while SingSing took the Beastmaster and went bottom. Was there any specific reason for switching roles?

We did not switch up roles at all. Night Stalker is a trademark hero for Bamboe and SingSing plays Beastmaster equally good to Bamboe. This is one of the reasons my team is hard to predict. My players are very viable when it comes to chosing on who is gonna play what. Just because you see SingSing solomid most of the time doesn't mean he can't play sidelane solo as well. Same goes for Bamboe and the solomid.



What do you think of coL's strategy to leave top lane completely free for Void?

Basically, the strategy coL was playing works good against our style, since we do not rely on hardcarries that much. In this case, I think it was a bad decision to not take care of Void and give him freefarm. Just because we use to play rather agressive doesn't mean we can't play with hardcarries.



Thanks a lot for your time PaisY, any shoutouts?

Yes, of course a shoutout to our sponsors MEDION, GeIL, Razer, Intel, Thortech, CardCoaches and Sansibar and to all our fans who support our team in every way. Another big thanks goes to everyone behind the scenes of this tournament. The admins and organizer did a great job running this tournament.

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