Our next interview ahead of the Europe Minor Championship is with Vincent "Happy" Schopenhauer, who discusses EnVyUs' results at the ESL Pro League finals and his expectations for the upcoming tournament.

EnVyUs travel to Bucharest of the Minor on the back of a positive campaign at the ESL Pro League Season 5 finals, where they reached the playoffs after defeating Cloud9, Immortals and SK Gaming in the group stage, and then fnatic and SK again in the tiebreakers.

After being eliminated from their first two offline events without a single win, EnVyUs finally breathed a sigh of relief as they were able to wrestle with the best in the world for the first time since assembling their new lineup.

Happy admits that missing the Major would be a huge blow

Read on to find out what Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer had to say on matters concerning the recent Pro League finals, the upcoming Minor and G2's recent growth, among other things.

What are your thoughts on your team’s run at the ESL Pro League finals? How did it feel to finally break that curse and win offline matches, after three events? Well, I think it was a turnaround for the team. I did not feel like my teammates had the “need” to finally be able to win a match in a LAN environment because I knew it was coming, sooner or later, but of course that the first one was appreciated. For me, the turnaround happened on day two, when we were finally able to play our A-game, and it worked out really well against a wide variety of opponents and during high-pressure games. I think we moved from “unknown/bad team” status to dark horses. A team that is now able to make high-peak performances but for a short period of time. You could see that the day after, when we played Liquid. We crumbled, and even on Cobblestone, the map we won, it was sloppy, stressed, badly executed and overall poorly planned. I didn’t really care for our 5th-6th finish, the most important thing was to finally see the potential of the team expressed on the server. Now it is not all about precision but consistency and being able to show that kind of level on a regular basis. RpK had an amazing group stage, but then his form dropped in the series against Liquid. How important is he to the way the team plays? Since you had not played with him before, were you surprised by him? I am really happy with how Cedric has been performing for the past three months. Besides that, his attitude is truly marvellous. You can make him do whatever you want and he has an incredibly high skill ceiling and great overall consistency. We speak regularly with maLeK, our coach, and I told him that RpK is the player within the team whose capacities we use best, he has made the most of every minute we have spent with him. I think the problem in the Liquid match is that they countered his plays and we failed to pick up the pieces when he dropped off. How did you prepare for the Minor? Did you only practice online only, or did you bootcamp? What kind of aspects did you focus on during practice? It was all online. We practiced for like five days, and we made some quick and easy adjustments, giving the timeline we had. Nothing too fancy, but definitely much needed for the upcoming tournament. Mirage is the map you have played the least in the last three months and the only one where you have not won a single match during this period. What efforts have you made to improve on this map? We choose to focus on certain aspects of the game and our map pool first. With some bad choices early on in the team, we just couldn't find any time to dedicate to it, and the consequence was that our map pool was really weak during a period of time. But this is changing as we speak. I cannot say much more than that! What are your expectations heading into the event? Which teams do you see as the biggest threats? It is funny, but I think the best way to summarise my mindset is a phrase I actually said to my teammates three days ago: “I am super excited to go there, you know why? Because it will be my first Minor”. I do not know too much about predictions, especially from our side. We are still fresh and young as a team, we can upset but also can be upset. I think this Minor has a lot of dark threats that might seem easy at first, but we really have to come here thinking we are playing the likes of SK, G2, fnatic and so on. I think this tournament will be a big stepping stone for our team. If we win it all, we will prove to ourselves that we can be the consistent team we want to become. If we fail but still qualify, we will know that we will need to work harder on these matters. Beating SK and Immortals in bo1s is one thing, winning the Minor is the bigger plan.

Happy was full of praise for RpK