Dignitas might have come in as Europe’s bottom seed, but they put up one of Europe’s best performances at Day 1 of the Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) Season 8 World Championship. They made quick work of South American champions The Three Sins, and then edged out hot North American team Pittsburgh Knights in a close 3-2 series.

After sitting out the last World Championship, this revised Dig roster has already claimed its ticket to Day 3 on Sunday. During Day 1, Rocketeers had a chance to participate in a roundtable interview with the team, and we took the opportunity to ask a couple of key questions.

We asked captain and two-time RLCS champion Jos “ViolentPanda” van Meurs about which fellow players he would choose for the Dutch national team for next year’s Olympics-sponsored Intel World Open, should he have the opportunity. He suggested that the season’s rough performances from TSM and Complexity might have impacted his expected decision.

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Rocketeers: ViolentPanda, there’s quite a lot of Dutch high-level players. Who would you take with you to Tokyo for the Olympics-related event next year?

ViolentPanda: I thought I was set—I thought I would take Flakes and Remkoe, but after this season, I don’t know anymore. Tho has been looking quite good; Tho from Team Singularity. He’s qualified for RLCS now. So yeah, we’ll see how it goes. Flakes and Remkoe… and Jessie. Jessie’s still on my mind. But I don’t know, we still need to figure out teams.

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We also asked LAN rookie Maello “AztraL” Ernst about his tweet from earlier this week claiming that he would no longer be toxic. Spoiler alert: it was nonsense.

Starting today I will never be toxic moment again — Maëllo Ernst (@AztralRL) December 10, 2019

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Rocketeers: AztraL, a little while back on Twitter, you said you wanted to be friendlier and less toxic. How long do you think this will last?

AztraL [to coach Virge]: Can I say that?

Virge: Yeah, you can say that.

AztraL: We were playing Mario Party, and the loser had the let the winner write on their Twitter account. So it was always a joke.

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Additional reporting by Andrew Hayward

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