Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo talked to us following SK winning over their countrymen Immortals in the fourth round, securing a 3-1 record and a place in the quarter-finals.

SK became another name in the playoffs, as they secured their third win after the Brazilian derby on Overpass, which went the way of the tournament favorites with João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos putting up 37 kills (2.40 rating 2.0).

We got a hold of Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo to talk about his squad's journey to playoffs, during which they conceded Inferno to BIG while defeating PENTA and Astralis, and Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David's performance throughout the group stage.

A different tournament will start in playoffs, FalleN says

The in-game leader also shared his point of view of the crouch jump discussion that led to all teams agreeing not to use it throughout the remainder of the tournament:

Let's run through the group and how satisfied you were with your performance, given some of the matches in which you were heavily favored being close. I think I'm satisfied. The match against BIG, I think we could have had a big chance to win, we screwed up some rounds that were very, very important. I'm personally not satisfied too much with my level in those games, but the team has been great, we had coldzera playing amazing games, we had felps outstanding now in the last one. The important thing was getting out of groups, it's a different tournament starting now in playoffs. How fantastic was coldzera, 35 kills in the first two matches, does he just get extremely determined at the Majors? Yeah, coldzera loves playing Majors, right, he was MVP at the last two and I personally feel that he really wants to win this one as well. Not only because it's a Major, but because the last tournaments we saw fer being the MVP, we saw me, and I think he feels like he needs to be the one at this tournament. I hope that's a good thing, it could hurt him because sometimes you're expecting too much from yourself, or going too hard on the things you're doing. But I think he's had a great tournament and he has the right mindset for it, he's not thinking too much about it. He's an excellent player, he can do everything. Sometimes, he overthinks too much, as every single player does, and it can hurt us, but it's very difficult to catch coldzera off-guard. For example, in the match today, we were going to do a B execute and someone from Immortals broke the door with a nade, and he adjusted in miliseconds and we had the right answer for what was happening. In the first three matches in the group, you played Inferno, do you now see that as one of your best maps? Yeah, Inferno is definitely one of our best maps. We can play six maps but Nuke and it's hard to say which map is our best right now, because we have been playing a lot, and sometimes our Train is good, sometimes it's Overpass, there are tournaments where Cache is good but on the other hand, it goes south sometimes. It really depends, it depends on the tournament, it depends on how much focus we put in practice before as well, and it depends on which team you're playing against.

FalleN isn't sure what SK's best map is