G2 won the match against their French rivals EnVyUs to go 1-1 in the ELEAGUE Major Main Qualifier. Following the win, we talked to Richard "shox" Papillon to hear his thoughts on both matches they played in Atlanta.

Envy once again failed to grab the win in the French matchup, losing to G2 in a tight match on Dust 2.

To discuss the match, as well as the talk surrounding the team, we had a chat with G2's Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon.

Going back a couple of months you've been in bad form, there has been a lot of talk about you needing to change a player or that you planning to do so. How did all that influence you here, at the last and in a way most important event? We didn't care about that, we just stayed in our circle, our buble, and focused on us. We knew it was the biggest event of the year and the last one so we just wanted to make it good and make it to the Major in January. We don't care about what people say. If you start caring about it it can really kill your team and some players - we don't want to do that. You weren't at tournaments since Northern Arena so you had a bit of a period, not a big one, but compared to other teams you had a bunch of rest. How did yo use the time, were you satisfied with the preparation coming here? We had some specific stuff, because we knew it was the last event of the year and only best-of-one so we could add at least one veto to our map pool and focus more on 4-5 maps. We tried to make our game more clean, and even if we don't do a lot of new tactics, we tried to make those that we make totally clean in execution. I changed some positions on the T side with ScreaM, on 2-3 maps, but nothing special. The first map against GODSENT was on Overpass. Were you satisfied with that map and how you played on it? We clearly were not satisfied with how we played because our practice on the internet on Ovepass has been very good, and if you look at the match we lost 16-11 and won both pistols. It was not a very good map for us. We talked about it and we will try to fix some things if we are going to play Overpass in the tournament later. Overall, it's life, it's not the time to be mad about it, just talk and try to fix it for the next game.



Despite their recent record, shox wasn't happy to play against EnVyUs