We grabbed Joakim "disco doplan" Gidetun for a short interview about fnatic advancing to playoffs over EnVyUs, his role in the team and expectations for playoffs. fnatic became the third team to advance to playoffs after a 16-11 victory against Envy on Cobblestone. In our next interview from the Major, Joakim "disco doplan" Gidetun talked about the nV match, his role in fnatic and their chances in the playoffs. Let's run through the back-and-forth first half against EnVyUs, talk me through the first half and your point of view on it. Well, most of the rounds we had a read on them, but we didn't position in the correct way, so they just destroyed us. We had KRIMZ in B lobby kill one guy, and we were four on A and didn't get a single kill. Going over to your T side, you lost in the second round and they took the lead, what went wrong? The thing is, we went one by one all the time, and they only had pistols, so if all of us went together, it wouldn't have been a problem. What about the remainder of the match, afterwards you were able to stabilize quite quickly and got most of the rounds on the B bombsite, what kind of decisions did you take in the last five or so rounds? We just decided to play slow and work our picks, let them make the mistakes. I talked to olofmeister and he said that you're playing the hard positions, how are you feeling in fnatic, especially compared to Epsilon where I'm sure you had more of a free role? The difference between this and Epsilon is that in Epsilon, I could just do whatever I wanted every time I wanted it. But that was also against tier3 teams as well, so it was easier, you can't do that now. I just have to play a lot and get used to how other teams are playing, and then make decisions based on that. How would you describe your role, both as T and CT? I'm not forced to play support, but I do it because, I mean, we have so many good fraggers on the team. I just want to make the best opportunities for my team. Talking about the playoffs, there are naturally going to be hard match-ups already in the quarter-finals possibly, any preference for you personally? I think we can beat everyone and we're gonna go to the finals and win it. Make sure to check out the other interviews we've conducted so far at the Major:
disco doplan believes fnatic will go on to win the Major Day four Kristian "k0nfig" Wienecke: "We didn't expect much vs. G2"
Day three William "RUSH" Wierzba: "Our preparation was limited"
Finn "karrigan" Andersen: "allu's 1v2 was key"
Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács: "We came with only one goal"
Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen: "We had a great bootcamp"
Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer: "Didn't expect Dust2"
Day two Jarosław "pashaBiceps" Jarząbkowski: "I hope Gambit will be nervous"
Nicolai "device" Reedtz: "It was important for us to start well"
Dennis "dennis" Edman: "[YOLO teams] will go far"
Spencer "Hiko" Martin: "It doesn't feel like we won"
Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo: "Gonna fight as hard as we can"
Chris "chrisJ" de Jong: "Confident about our map pool"
Day one Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey: "Everyone's happy with their roles"
Markus "pronax" Wallsten: "I'm happy it went to Train"
Dan "apEX" Madesclaire: "It was hard after jdm's 1v5"
Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev: "Hope to show beautiful CS"
Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski: "It's always close vs. OpTic"
Ricardo "fox" Pacheco: "We played 12-14 hours a day"
Richard "shox" Papillon: "FaZe can do pretty well here"
Abay "HObbit" Khassenov: "We prepared for everyone"
Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács
Age: 25 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.16 Maps played: 849 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.62
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Age: 25 Team: SK Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 475 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.60
Envy #8
Christophe 'SIXER' Xia
Kenny 'kennyS' Schrub
Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Vincent 'Happy' Schopenhauer
Nicolai 'device' Reedtz
Age: 21 Team: Astralis Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 826 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.63
Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun
Age: 21 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 287 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.65
Richard 'shox' Papillon
Age: 24 Team: G2 Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 1011 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.66
Markus 'pronax' Wallsten
Age: 25 Team: GODSENT Rating 1.0: 0.91 Maps played: 939 KPR: 0.61 DPR: 0.66
Chris 'chrisJ' de Jong
Age: 26 Team: MOUZ Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 814 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.65
Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
Age: 26 Team: FaZe Rating 1.0: 0.96 Maps played: 889 KPR: 0.66 DPR: 0.68
Abay 'HObbit' Khassenov
Age: 22 Team: Gambit Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 140 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.67
Spencer 'Hiko' Martin
Age: 26 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 574 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.61
Mathias 'MSL' Lauridsen
Age: 22 Team: North Rating 1.0: 0.92 Maps played: 989 KPR: 0.65 DPR: 0.72
Ricardo 'fox' Pacheco
Age: 30 Team: No team Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 503 KPR: 0.71 DPR: 0.68
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Age: 24 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.13 Maps played: 771 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.65
Kristian 'k0nfig' Wienecke
Age: 19 Team: North Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 493 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.69
Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski
Age: 23 Team: Virtus.pro Rating 1.0: 1.09 Maps played: 967 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.65
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Age: 23 Team: Envy Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 909 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.71
Dennis 'dennis' Edman
Age: 26 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 520 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.67
Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski
Age: 28 Team: Virtus.pro Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 1099 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.69
William 'RUSH' Wierzba
Age: 22 Team: OpTic Rating 1.0: 1.05 Maps played: 439 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.67
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev
Age: 19 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.18 Maps played: 501 KPR: 0.84 DPR: 0.70
Fabien 'kioShiMa' Fiey
Age: 22 Team: FaZe Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 864 KPR: 0.69 DPR: 0.64
fnatic #20
Olof 'olofmeister' Kajbjer
Dennis 'dennis' Edman
Simon 'twist' Eliasson
Freddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson
Joakim 'disco doplan' Gidetun