​FaZe Clan improved to 2-0 in the New Legends Stage of the ELEAGUE Major: Boston after defeating Vega Squadron on Saturday. Afterward, FaZe’s in-game leader, Finn “karrigan” Andersen spoke to DBLTAP about the match and advice for Cloud9 after an 0-2 start. The transcript is below, and you can also check out the YouTube video.

Nathan Fusco: You beat your shark demons. How did it go? Did you want the Train pick?





Finn “karrigan” Andersen: Basically in the qualifier I did not prepare anything. Every match in the qualifier is basically like playing our own game because I know everybody’s going to anti-strat us. So there’s no reason to look at the lesser teams, I would say. They approached Inferno pretty good, and I just watched one demo yesterday on Train. I said we should have picked Train the first time we played them...we were not surprised this time.





NF: What is this (with the CIS teams)? Is it the Swiss system and the best-of-ones? Are teams getting a little but of a lucky draw? What is this?





FA: When you look at CIS, you think of Flipsid3 as the team who should qualify out of all of those teams you talk about. But they’re the one doing the worst out of AVANGAR, Quantum Bellator Fire and Vega. I’m quite impressed. I think Russia or CIS region always has good players. Always high-skilled. But I think that something changed in their mentality and the way they approached the game and prepared way more. I think they respect each other more than they used to. You always know Russians from match-making, it’s not always respecting you. So I hope there’s more respect from those teams, and I think the mentality is the key to success for them lately.





NF: Cloud9, 0-2, not feeling so hot. Do you have advice for them? They’ve played 2 best-of-ones, not playing very well. From your own experience, what would you say to them knowing this is the last game you could play at the Major?

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FA: I don’t think you should ask me since I tried that last Major. 0-2 and we decided to play Mirage, which we nearly lost (before that) and were down 11-0 against Flipsid3. So I don’t think there’s much to say. Everybody knows it’s do or die time. Everybody knows that whatever game you play now can potentially be your last and you have to go through the Major qualifier once again, which is really hard to do. So I would just tell them to go home, throw it away. It’s one match per day, which means tomorrow can be a good day. And if you have a good day on the last day, you basically can still qualify. That’s how you need to go into it. You need to go through tomorrow, and then you know it’s a big chance you can go through. From now on it’s supposed to be easier, but we know Astralis or North is going to be 0-2, so there’s a big chance one of those is flying out early. Right now they have to believe in their skill. I don’t know why the picked Cobble against Space Soldiers...I don’t know why they did that. They probably had a plan and it didn’t work out.





The transcript was edited slightly for clarity

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