Group B started with a duel of two teams with stand-ins in which dignitas defeated SK pretty comfortably. To learn about how the match went and how they picked up valde we talked to dignitas' rifler Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke.

Dignitas opened the tournament well, defeating one of the strongest sides in the world SK 16-7 on Overpass.

Following the match, Kristian "⁠k0nfig⁠" Wienecke told us that they were looking to pick up Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche before Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså, that their preparation with Casper "⁠ruggah⁠" Due didn't go well and what the best part of the Sixers deal was.

Coming into this event, you’ve been pretty busy, ELEAGUE was pretty disappointing and then magiskb0Y decided that he won’t be going. What were the feeling coming into this event, were you thinking about skipping it and having some time off? Our feelings about the whole tournament were kinda off because we thought that we didn’t qualify, it was down to the last remaining match. We haven’t prepared so much for this tournament, we have a stand-in so we are going to play the best we can. Talking about the stand-in, how did the process of getting valde in go? Was he the only player you had in mind? We tried to get Pimp but the player union in ECS said no because he already played for Liquid. So we talked to Heroic about valde, talked to their owners and the players and they said: OK he can go, it’s a short tournament, he will come back quick - and they don’t have anything to play. You’ve been bootcamping before this event, how did that go? In our bootcamp we played with ruggah instead of valde for the first three days, and he is really shit so it went like shit. We lost to CLG and to some Canadian unknowns… so our motivation was dead, but when we got valde, for the last two-three days, our practice results were actually good. We won against FaZe on several maps that we shouldn’t win, Nuke, everything… So with valde it’s definitely an upgrade.



dignitas weren't having good practice results using ruggah instead of magiskb0Y