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<\/p>\nAfter defeating M80 with a score of 2:1, we spoke with Michael \u201cGrim\u201d Wince in an exclusive interview, where he discussed the challenges on Mirage, the importance of pistol rounds, restructuring their play on Train, integrating Kwem into the roster, and the team\u2019s goals for Stage 3. The player shared his thoughts on the key changes that will help them reach the playoffs.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d say Mirage is a very good map for them, and it\u2019s still a map that we\u2019re trying to get the ropes on because it\u2019s been our permanent ban for multiple years now. The more match experience we have, the better, and obviously, there\u2019s stuff we could have closed that game out with. They played really wel,l though. But yeah, there\u2019s still some stuff that I don\u2019t know and some mistakes to go over just because we haven\u2019t had as much match experience on Mirage yet. Other than that, I\u2019m proud of the guys. We played so well. Mirage is a map where they have had a 93% win rate in the past three months. So I knew it would probably be good going into the next two maps just because they are much better maps for us, and that was their pick. So yeah, we\u2019re feeling good.<\/p>\n
Yeah, you don\u2019t really prepare much for pistol rounds in terms of looking at the other team unless they do the same thing every time, which a lot of teams don\u2019t. A lot of teams change things up. Pistol rounds have definitely been a talking point for us because we\u2019ve been struggling in them, but in that game we won the majority, so it definitely helps a lot. There were some big improvements.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t really an anti-strat. It\u2019s just a pistol that Johnny [JT] brought to the table and thought could work. At the end of the day that\u2019s how most of our pistols are \u2014 not really too much anti-stratting. Obviously, I\u2019m not going to go too much in depth, but yeah, I\u2019d say it wasn\u2019t an anti-strat.<\/p>\n
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If we didn\u2019t win the eco, we would still be confident. As a team, on passion, we like to throw away some funny rounds that shouldn\u2019t be happening. So you just have to go next on some of those. Overall, we would have been fine losing the eco, but we just have to keep going forward no matter what happens.<\/p>\n
3DMAX were abusing our main aggression. At the end of the day, that\u2019s on me. So I went to the server with Johnny [JT] to watch them and see what we could do better and make some new stuff. Obviously we still need to change things, but overall it was just about sitting down and seeing what went wrong like we always do, and making some last-minute adjustments because you only have a night to prepare for the next game.<\/p>\n
For me, I like to DM a lot. We prep in the morning before the game so everyone remembers, because if you prep the night before, some people might forget things going into the next day. So we prep in the morning, then I DM as long as possible until the shuttle, and sit on my PC shooting aimbots until the match. I also like to have a lot of caffeine, so I\u2019d say that helps.<\/p>\n
He has a lot of stuff he wanted to bring to the team, and it took a while to get on the same page. I think we\u2019re on the same page now. He\u2019s been adding a bunch of stuff, but some of it we already have, and we want to get him implemented in a way so he\u2019s comfortable. It\u2019s just about him and Johnny talking about the strats and how to implement them so he\u2019s comfortable. It\u2019s been a lot of that recently.<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s bringing a mentality that we don\u2019t have much in NA. He\u2019s very aggressive, and I love it. He helps us be more aggressive and not scared to take risks in rounds. He\u2019s a player who\u2019s not scared at all to take a risk, and it helps a lot because sometimes he\u2019ll find a gap we can exploit and play off him. It\u2019s been nice having that.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d say they\u2019re similar voices and both very vocal. The difference is we definitely have a bit more firepower now. Danny was really good, very vocal, and a great player to play with. But I think Kwem brings more firepower, and that\u2019s something we need if we want to break into the top 10, which we didn\u2019t have before. Also Nick has improved a lot, so it\u2019s been a nice strength.<\/p>\n
We have to take it game by game. Everyone on the team wants to make the playoffs. That would be amazing for us. We\u2019re going back into best-of-ones, maybe try to get some upsets because there will be heavy favorites. We\u2019ll take it game by game, see what happens, and hopefully reach the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Honestly, all the opponents in Stage 3 are pretty good, so I wouldn\u2019t be able to pick one. We\u2019ll just see who we get and prepare the best we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After defeating M80 with a score of 2:1, we spoke with Michael \u201cGrim\u201d Wince in an exclusive interview, where he discussed the challenges on Mirage, the importance of pistol rounds, restructuring their play on Train, integrating Kwem into the roster, and the team\u2019s goals for Stage 3. The player shared his thoughts on the key […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":308896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1264],"class_list":["post-308895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pickem-budapest-2025"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n