After Luminosity Gaming's flawless 6-0 run through ELEAGUE's group stage, the full team held a press conference to talk about the strengths of their team and the importance of being humble.

Chris "MLGPuckett" Puckett​: We’re here with Luminosity. Luminosity congratulations on 6-0, perfect score through group play. First and foremost, how was that last match against Cloud9?

Wilton "zews" Prado: That match against Cloud9? I mean, we got a pretty good map pool against them I believe. We kinda already know a lot about their style. We didn’t over think it, we just played what we know how to do. We controlled the map pretty easily, 16-5 scoreline.

On the second map we had a really good half, but we lost the next pistol and buy round. After that we just refocused and took it from there. Was pretty in control the whole time.

MLGPuckett: Were you guys ever nervous that Cloud9 might be able to make a comeback on their T side?

Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo: No

zews: Never

MLGPuckett: Throughout the tournament we have seen aggressive play on the CT side, with fer and fnx getting in the face of the opposition. Do you feel this is a unique strategy for Luminosity? Has anyone else in this group brought that same strategy against you?

zews: I don’t think it’s a unique thing from Luminosity, I think it’s some of their character traits. It’s how they like to play, it’s why it’s taken us to where we are. But in our group play, Renegades has a really forced stance, they like to get in your face, but I believe our players do it better.

MLGPuckett: Coming into the tournament you guys are the best team in the world. You hold that title in the rankings and you’ve lived up to all the hype. Is there any added pressure to being the top team on the planet?

FalleN: No, I don’t think there’s any pressure. Just because websites and rankings say we’re number one, we cannot just have this in our heads and think we’re going to win. It’s something that gives us motivation, but every team in the Top 10 can beat each other, so we need to keep practicing, keep doing our best. Because otherwise, they’re going to come for us.

MLGPuckett: Throughout the group play we saw two incredible comebacks, some overtime action against Renegades and then of course, another heartbreaking comeback against the Team Liquid squad. What is it about this squad that makes it possible for you guys to achieve that? Why are you able to make it to 16 rounds, when a lot of teams would give up?

Fernando "fer" Alvarenga: We never give up, until it’s 16, there’s always a chance; we always keep ourselves calm no matter the score. We’re never fighting, we’re just playing our game.

When it comes to Team Liquid, I think it’s because they’ve been in this situation a lot of times, they’ve gotten used to it. It happens more than often and they start doing some mistakes that they shouldn’t, so that helps us comeback in games [against them].

It's all about staying calm and believing until it’s 16.

MLGPuckett: cold, we see that FalleN is the primary AWPer, but whenever your get your hands on it we always see highlight material. What is your favorite part of playing with FalleN and what makes this team so good with the sniper rifles?

Marcelo "coldzera" David: Playing with FalleN is awesome because he’s really intelligent and he’s really calm. He brings a lot of calm to the team and we've had so much success with two AWPs because I'm a pretty good AWP myself.

We try to divide it and put one AWP on each site and try to hold it, lock it down. Even though we’re more passive we try to find those opening picks with the AWP, which makes the rest of the round easier from there.

MLGPuckett: fnx, we saw at the Major we saw your background in mixed martial arts, but you are also a top level professional gamer. What is it like to be, in this point in your life, competing at a television studio, for 1.2, 1.4 million dollars?

Lincoln "fnx" Lau: it's amazing. I've always dreamt that CS:GO would get this big and now that we are the best team in the world, we have to go beyond that. The most important thing is maintaining ourselves where we are, so instead of going 100 percent we have to go 200 percent every game now.

MLGPuckett: TACO, you won 6-0 in group play, but who was the hardest team to face off against?

Epitacio "TACO" Pessoa: I think Liquid, they have a coach that knows everything about our game. We always play a hard match against Liquid; I think Liquid is the hardest team.

MLGPuckett: It will look like Luminosity will face off against Liquid in the semifinals. fer, what are your thoughts going into that matchup?

fer: I really don't care much about who we face we came here to be champions, for that we have to go through everyone. And I believe that if we just play our game, we will know what to do and we will come out on top.

MLGPuckett: I'm now going to open it up to the floor. Dennis from theScore, do you have anything?

Dennis Gonzales: I do. Tilt seems to be a huge factor for a lot of teams, but we haven't seen the same problem in Luminosity. How?

FalleN: I don't think we are special for that. We don't blame ourselves for mistakes, we don't argue with each other. If someone gives an idea and it does work, that’s fine, we’ll think about it later, maybe next time it works.

I think we have some peace of mind because we fully believe we can win everything. We get confident match after match and this is getting better.

The last time we tilted was the first game with this team when we got 16-0’d by Fnatic. That was the only time we got crushed by someone, but that was because it was our first match I guess. Everything went well for Fnatic; they’re super good.

So I think it’s a combination of all those things. We treat ourselves the way we should, we practice when it matters, everyone practices, everyone works hard and that's about it.

Gonzales: Is that mental fortitude, that attitude, is that something you guys trained for?

FalleN: I think it’s just who we are and we’ve given too much to be here. We’ve left our homes, we’ve left our families, our girlfriends. We want to give 100 percent of what we can. We are here to have fun, but at the same time we’re not just here to chill. We’re here to win and we’re going to do everything we can to be the number one team in the world forever.

Gonzales: For the young teams that do have that mental block, what’s the advice you can give them?

FalleN: I think the advice is being humble, because it’s a process; we’ve been through this entire process last year. You have to be learning about your mistakes.

There are players that don't listen and they get mad, because people point out their mistakes between the team, which can suck. But we [Luminosity] have freedom to be like, “fer, that play was bad man, you didn't think about that,” or maybe it was fnx… but they fully understand and they can give me other ideas.

That strength and knowledge makes our team better because if they understand how they want to play, everyone has the same mindset. Gameplay will be stronger because everything flows naturally because they understand what they want to do.

MLGPuckett: Alright, last question for you guys. Come Friday, all eyes will hopefully be on Luminosity playing in that championship match. For everyone new tuning in, what do you want that audience to know about Luminosity?

FalleN: To the guys just tuning in and just started watching CS:GO: I like to remember that one year ago, we were not even there. We had nowhere to play, we had to leave our homes to be here, so I think our history is our best thing.

Everything that we’ve been through is what makes us stronger and [the audience] can know that, even if we don't win, we know that we’re going to try our best and do everything we can to be the top.