Kevin "HS" Tarn is an up-and-coming player from Estonia and is part of Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez's international squad Unity. HS took the time in between games to chat with theScore esports about the formation of the team and joining up with the players that first inspired him to compete.

Can you tell me how the Unity roster was formed?

So it started off with Maniac wanting to form an international lineup. From my point of view, I was fortunate enough to get contacted for a tryout shortly after I left CSGO2x/ex-Publiclir and it seems they stuck with me since they liked how I played.

tenzki [Jesper "tenzki" Plougmann] and cadiaN [Casper "cadiaN" Møller] were looking for a team together, tenzki recently got removed from the Dignitas roster so he's really hungry to prove himself in another environment. glace [Nicolai "glace" Jensen] played in Copenhagen Wolves, but I think the organization shut down and everything went downhill from there.

Basically it's just five players that are extremely motivated and ready to prove themselves. I believe this is the lineup Maniac was looking to build.

What were some of the things they mentioned they liked about your gameplay?

They like to call my aim "machine-like" and I've also received compliments on my smart plays during clutch situations, as well as ideas mid-game. Although I sometimes lack in the communication department or relaying my ideas to my teammates; I'm still trying to improve on that.

It feels great to get compliments over TeamSpeak from such legendary players.

You said that you are lacking a bit as far as your communication in-game. Have you been coached or helped with that, how does the team deal with problem solving?

Everyone gives constructive criticism to let each other know what to improve on individually in order to help the team. Everyone is understanding and don't take criticism as an insult, we all acknowledge our own mistakes and work on trying to improve them.

The team has a fair amount of pedigree, with three Major veterans in tenzki, cadiaN and Maniac. Do you feel playing with them adds some extra pressure for yourself and glace?

I've always performed better under pressure. I think this is definitely the next level for me and it only affects me positively, while glace is confident in himself and I highly doubt it affects him.

I remember watching these players play when I first started playing CS:GO and got inspired to reach that level. I'm not completely happy with where I am individually right now, but improvement is what I'm after. I believe in this team, I'll be able to possibly become one of the best and everyone in my team believes in me as well, which also helps relieve the "pressure."

Mathieu "Maniac" Quiquerez competing at DreamHack Summer 2015 when he was still part of the Titan roster

Can you talk a bit about what the team's setup is?

We are at a point where we are trying out different roles. cadiaN is currently the AWPer and in-game leader, Maniac and I play the extremities or lurk positions and the three Danes — glace, tenzki and cadiaN — are the people making plays around the map. Everyone comes up with ideas and strats to develop our gamestyle to our own liking.

So you guys are still trying to find your identities in-game?

That's correct, just swapping around and seeing what fits best for everyone individually, although our current setup seems to work really well.

Most of the teams for Power-LAN have already been announced for the LAN, including all the Danish giants, Astralis, Dignitas and Team X, although the groups haven't been revealed yet. What are your expectations there?

I think it's great to play at a LAN with a team that hasn't been together for that long, especially against other high-level teams; it's going to be a huge learning experience.

Everyone on our team expects us to improve a lot after and/or during the LAN. We will of course give our best to get the number one spot for ourselves, but we are mainly taking this as an experience and not giving ourselves too high of an expectation. I think we can definitely compete against those teams.

What are your goals for the season?

Currently we have the Power-LAN coming up and we are also playing online tournaments [Global Grand Masters and Hitbox Challenger Cup #2] for the sake of getting in some official games.

For goals personally I would say reaching a major tournament would be a dream come true, as well as just winning every single game that we will play.