As a swedish turret building dwarf likes to say: Hard work pays of

The 24th of November 2016, Dreamhack winter, We are playing the Overwatch tournament under the colors of Mousesports, we had practiced hard and thought we had a good shot at making it out of the groups - we were wrong, we bombed out of groups on a last place finish, after this we realized what we were doing was not enough, not even close. We decided to make some roster changes, we removed Bur1x and Aseal, our ana/reinhardt players and brought in Dante and eRRUh.



We knew Dante from the ladder and from his short stay in a team called "Nice Hamsters" where he played hitscan, we knew this guy was really good since he rekt us in scrims almost single handed, I decided to talk to him and ask if he felt like trialing as our Ana player and he was all over it, in the beginning it was hard, but Dante is the guy who just keeps on working, studying and figuring out how to play as good as he possibly can, so in a couple of weeks, he was a sick Ana and we were really happy with him in the team, not only for his mechanics but also his mind for the game.



eRRUh was kind of an unknown factor for us, but Dante had played with him in a team and thought he was really good, so I contacted him and asked him if he was up for a trial, after alot of talking he was up for the trial - on one condition, he couldn't scrim past 23:00 since he was still really young and had school. We said yes to this and scrimed for only 5 hours a day but after a month or so we came to the conclusion that this wasn't going to work, so we decided to trial a new tank - Kolsti. (eRRUh is a sick tank, dont get me wrong, he just couldn't commit)



Our eyes were opened when Gamers Origin completely shat on us in a tournament, and a big factor was Kolsti, their Main Tank. After talking to some other pro tanks in the scene and asking their opinions on Kolsti, there was only high praise so we decided we wanted this guy. I contacted Kolsti and asked if he wanted to trial for the team he just stomped on, and to my surprise he said yes.



Neptuno is a different story, he actually trialed in the early days for Mousesports, but he declined to join, I've always had good contact with Neptuno since the early days of Overwatch and during the time after he declined the offer. When we approached him again after our current Lucio player "Divinius" had to quit competitive play due to personal reasons. We presented him our new lineup and he thought it looked sick. He also said he had found an org - Movistar Riders. And so the team was formed, we left Mousesports on good terms and joined Movistar Riders, who could give us the opportunity we all wanted - to prove ourselves.



During this time, we realized we wanted a coach, not only the kind of coach that records scrims and schedules scrims, naaah - we wanted more, so Neptuno said he knew a guy called "sens" who had a degree in psychology. We gave him a try and in the beginning we were all sceptical about this guy.

But looking back - he is one of the main reasons why we improved so much.



Now we have been in a gaming house in Madrid for alittle more then a month and the improvements we have made during this time is staggering, much thanks to sens and all of my teammates. Doing vod reviews together, thinking about strategies and actually being able to show it to your teammates and knowing you have their attention helps alot. Scrimming 6-8 hours every day, doing vod reviews for 1 hour each day is necessary, but also having a strong teamspirit. Being not necessarily friends with your teammates but to be on the same page with them inside and outside the game is the key to success.



SPECIAL SHOUTOUTS:



Misfits: These guys have been amazing scrim partners and just in general a bunch of great guys.



Ex-Cyclone: These guys are insane, they got unlucky in the bo1 qualifier for the pit but keep your eyes open for these guys, if you think we are good at dive, wait till you see these guys.

We actually based our entire Volskaya defense from these guys.











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