In our next interview before DreamHack Masters Malmö, we sit down with Vincent "Happy" Schopenhauer to discuss EnVyUs' recent run of outstanding form and their preparation for the Swedish event.

Envy travel to Malmö boosted by their recent online results, having qualified for ESG Mykonos, ESL One New York and ELEAGUE Premier in the space of just 10 days.

Prior to the Summer break, the French team also had a successful outing, winning DreamHack Atlanta to claim their first title since revamping their lineup, in February. That success gave the French team some breathing room after they had missed out on a spot at the PGL Major Krakow Main Qualifier.

EnVyUs have put in a lot of work recently, says Happy

In this interview, Vincent "⁠Happy⁠" Schopenhauer discusses Envy' current run of form, the improvements they have made since the European Minor, DreamHack's recent coaching changes, and more.

Your team has recently qualified for ESG Mykonos, ESL One New York and ELEAGUE Premier. Do you think this is a turning moment for your team and that things will start to improve? I am a cautious guy, so I will just say that we reached a peak in our level of play during this week. We played as a team and everyone was understanding exactly, at any point during the matches, what we had to do to win. It is good to see that because it gives you a taste of what you can do further down the road if you keep working. But as we have seen recently, we can still be very shaky and not deliver. At least we will get a lot of chances to prove our worth in the next weeks. What is the recipe for this recent success? Are you taking a new approach or have you put in more work in the post-break than the other teams? We have actually been playing a lot, doing what we can call an online bootcamp, in which we play for at least 8 to 10 hours a day, doing a lot of strategies and tactics, talking about the game and the sort of edge we can get. It was much needed because we had just gone back from vacation and we needed an update on our playbook and on how to play the game. Your first match in Malmö will be against G2, a team you have faced many times in recent months. Having beaten them in the ESL One NY qualifier, are you confident heading into the match? When we played them, I knew we were not facing the best G2 team. I think both teams made a lot of mistakes and that we were just better at capitalizing on that. It was a really important win, they had been beating us for a long time, and it is good to finally take your revenge on your nemesis, especially with so much at stake. It gives you that little mental edge that allows players to say, "OK, we have done this before."

What do you think about DreamHack’s decision to give coaches the ability to speak to players during freeze time? Will this have an impact on your game plan? It will definitely help us when done properly. There is a really good synergy between the coach and me, and the team can feel it. So I can only salute that decision from DreamHack. This seems to be the fairest option between having a totally useless coach and having one that gives certain teams too big of an advantage. At the most recent Minor, your team finished just outside of the Major qualifier spots. How did the team react to that? Were you surprised with the results? It was a shock, I think, for certain players, but, in the end, it did us more good than harm. We have switched a lot of things, we have upped our standard of play and improved what we can ask of players and everyone else in the team. It is a shame that we had to lose a Major qualifier spot for it, but you can never go back in time, you can only improve and cut out mistakes one by one until you manage to find consistency and success.

Happy says he has a great synergy with coach maLeK