Shortly after HellRaisers won their match against Mousesports to go 1-0 up in Atlanta, HLTV.org spoke to Martin "STYKO" Styk to learn about his team's preparation period, their match against mousesports and ANGE1's form.

HellRaisers claimed the most dominant win of the first day of ELEAGUE Major Main Qualifier, defeating mousesports 16-6 on Train. The match was pretty one sided, with the European mixture lead by Kirill "⁠ANGE1⁠" Karasiow locking down the CT side and causing trouble to the other European mixture - the one lead by Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač.

The release of the interview with HellRaisers' Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk was delayed due to technical difficulties but was conducted before the match-ups for day 2 were drawn.

Let's start with what happened after the Minor, until now. What was you preparation like, what were you focused on and what do you feel - where were you then and where are you now? Our main focus after the Minor - we realised where our mistakes were and we set out to make our map pool a little bit stronger. Also, we tried to watch other tournaments and tried to copy things that we saw working and use them in practice. To be honest we didn't play much differently from the Minor. Everything that fell apart in the final against GODSENT and in the first match against ENCE - we tried to fix those mistakes and analyze our own game. We didn't prepare specially for anybody here, we were analyzing our own team. You didn't play almost any matches, barring some online qualifiers from the Minor until now. Was that more of an on purpose decision or was it you not qualifying - and how do you think that will influence your standing here? To be honest I'm pretty glad that we didn't take any online leagues or offline leagues, first of all there weren't many of them and secondly we didn't get any other invites. We had to play the qualifiers for Las Vegas, which we passed through luckily and are in the closed qualifier now. Honestly, I'm glad we didn't play that much officials because the exam period started so I'm focusing on school right now. If you look at my steam hours I'm terrible, probably the worst out of all that are here at the Major. I didn't have any time for individual improvement, I didn't deathmatch a lot, I analyzed one demo from the PGL Minor… I really wish I could help my guys more with everything around the team and I promise I will when school gets a little bit easier.



ANGE1 continues to be the backbone of HellRaisers