After the opening match of ECS Season 2 finals, HLTV.org had a chat with Nicolai "device" Reedtz to hear his thought on the match, the mentality after the ELEAGUE loss and the state of their Overpass.

Astralis managed to get a comfortable win over OpTic in the first match of group A at ECS, grabbing a spot in the winners match.

After their 16-7 Dust2 victory, we talked to Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz to hear his thoughts on the matchup and the map veto.

How was the mentality coming into this match vs OpTic, how were you feeling meeting them here in the first match after that loss?



It was a tough match, but we thought that we were improving as team and we actually feel that we were a better team, but not in the final. They were better than us, after rewatching the Overpass map together, we figured out that we should had never won that game, so we weren't that disappointed. We looked into the vetos coming up to this best-of-one and figured out that we want to play either Nuke or Dust2, it was up to them as we were pretty prepared and we wanted to get revenge.



What is going on with your Overpass? You personally felt that that was your best map but now it is kinda going down. What do you think is the reason for that?



I feel it's a mix of confidence and some other things. I've been looking at heatmaps from the past 30 matches and some from the last year as well, and there are some things and some tendencies that I developed, and some things I'm not doing any more. So I'm playing to much the same, that's probably the reason I playing without that much confidence. It's tough for me, Overpass was my favorite map, and still is my favorite map to play. So I'm working on how to fix it as and individual and working with Kjaerbye on how to play the A site.



device is working on bringing his Overpass game back up