North was unable to defeat SK on Cache in their second-day CSGO AWP Skins match, falling to the Brazilians 16-10. After the match, we caught up with Kristian "k0nfig" Wienecke to hear about how he feels about his team's recent results.
The Danish squad North finished the ESL Pro League Season 5 Finals in second place, losing to G2 in the finals. After a period of absence from LAN events, North is competing at ESL One Cologne where they are currently 1-2, with a win against TyLooand defeats to OpTic and SK.
Kristian "k0nfig" Wienecke talked about the difference between the elite and the lower tier teams, communication issues andAlexander "ave" Holdt's impact as an analyst.
You are ranked fifth in our rankings, but how do you feel about your team at the moment? Do you feel closer to the top four?
I think it's really different because sometimes we feel like beat everyone and sometimes we feel like we can lose to everyone. I think the skill gap between groups right now is really small , because we saw SK losing to Space Soldiers as well as us losing in order to OpTic, so I think there is the good comparison towards the lower ranked clubs, the tier two, three can probably reach the same level as us. So we have to do something new and find something special.
What do you think then separates the top few from the rest?
I think it's dedication, some of it. Because, some players, they dedicate their whole lives to playing Counter-Strike all the time, their team dedicates to be able to doing anti-strats and also watching demos along with stuff like that. That's the main part that is changing.
Talking about the actual preparation for your group coming here, what did you do, exactly what did you focus on?
We have ave at home who is sitting in addition to doing anti-strats for us, he makes a google drive and puts in videos, anti-strats, we watch that and see how they usually play. He also puts up percentages, so we can see, for example , fer is always actively playing sandbags on Inferno, fer is always doing this and this on force buys, and on pistol round... So we are getting a really good anti-strats from him at home and I think he uses almost all of their day on anti-stratting for us.
The first match you had here was against OpTic, that was a surprise win from them, especially considering their own recent form. Tell me what went wrong for you in that match up?
I think we didn't get started on the T side, that was the main part, then after the T side I believe everyone was a little bit shocked because we were expecting to get a minimum of 5-6-7 rounds, which we usually do. I do believe, just the mentality we had, in the beginning, was really bad. Because some people need to start well, and usually we have bad starters on our team, everyone is starting slow and now we are getting better plus better [at that]. http://www.csgo4skin.com