Every day after losing to EnVyUs in triple overtime with the ELEAGUE Major 2017, Staff Liquid managed to win some sort of nail-biter 16-14 against FlipSid3. Unfortunately, as team chief Spencer "Hiko" Martin explained to HLTV after the series, typically the victory was bittersweet.
"You know, " he started, "I'm standing here even though all of us won and honestly it will not feel like we won. Confident, we won at the end of the day but it really was not a clean succeed. "
When it came the perfect time to play FlipSid3, TL's behaviors to steer away from fixed strategies showed, and the earn was a bitter pill intended for Hiko to swallow.
"We had some set-ups which we actually had that were likely to counter some of the FlipSid3 goods, " he said. "Early on it worked pretty well, we all ended up winning that initial gun round, then issues just kind of started to falter.
"I think we probably started to underestimate them somewhat CSGO M4A4 Skins, " he said. "We were giving up a lot of beginning picks, a lot of early death, and we got caught off-guard a couple of times. At the beginning, I are clueless, maybe we just possessed too much confidence coming in. very well
TL headed to the ELEAGUE Major after a 10-day webinar. According to Hiko, the time they put into practice by both the people and coach Wilton "zews" Prado has already shown into their play.