EnVyUs had a strong display against dignitas on Nuke, winning 16-3 to secure a spot in the semi-finals. To hear what went on in their two matches and how the team felt at the last couple of events, we talked to Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire.

The French team finished their group stage with a resounding victory over Dignitas, but the start to the tournament wasn't so great - as Envy were 12-5 down to Immortals at one point during the opening match.

Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire talked to us about their results at ELEAGUE Season 2, ESL Pro League Season 4, Northern Arena and the atmosphere in the team at the moment.

Let's talk about stuff that happened before this tournament, you had ESL Pro League, Northern Arena Montreal and ELEAGUE, the group stages. Nothing was pretty impressive from you guys - how are you feeling after all these tournaments?



It's difficult to talk about it because we played bad all three tournaments, we expect a bit more and we failed pretty much. At ESL Pro League it was against NiP, we lost 2-0 in the quarter final. We had a good group stage, even though we it was the easier group, but we managed to lose against NiP with stupid mistakes. We tried to change a few things for the upcoming event that was Northern Arena Montreal. There we played against our French rivals G2 and it's always a tight game. In this match we fucked up everything, we played really bad, they adapted more than us in the game, they played better and and we lost 2-0. It's was a bit disappointing for us and it affected the next event that was ELEAGUE, where we played really bad, even if we lost in a best of three against the eventual winner, OpTic. Overall we played pretty bad games and were not on our top level.



At ELEAGUE there were some tweets from NBK that things in the team don't feel good that people are not trusting each other, what was going on there?



We are not together for a long time, we try to sort many things and it's a bit hard to explain because it is more internal problems. Overall it's about being a good teammate and being a player who wants to win and wants to give everything to win. And this didn't happen in the games in ELEAGUE, mainly, as I said, because the last few events were a big fuckup from us and we just… not give up but play bad and are not confident about ourselves.



Coming here the first match was against Immortals, what happened in that match? You started very bad, the comeback didn't seem that likely on the T side of Cache?



It's the same as at ELEAGUE, we started really bad, we didn't listen to each other so it was a bit fucked up for the game, we just played bad overall. Until 9-1 we played too much individually, not with the team, not with the team spirit. We were losing 9-1 and lost the CT half 10-5, but that was OK because we knew we could come back, mainly if we win the pistol. But we lost the pistol and it was 12-5, but we have a good T side, so we knew if we win a few rounds in a row we can come back.



EnVyUs were confident in their Terrorist side on Cache