EliGE: "Heroic is a good matchup for us, we will win 2-1" Interview
2022-04-04 14:07:00Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski expressed his opinion on Team Liquid's progress and the role of Richard "shox" Papillon. His experience was very helpful in the team-building process. EliGE explained his thoughts in the ESL Pro League S15 press conference.
So far, shox has been really helpful. He has a good macro overlook. And he helps a lot with theory when we try to figure out how we want to play against certain types of playstyles. Also how to approach the rounds when we are against something specific. He is pretty good with those sets of solutions. I think he was the main reason why we’ve been able to get on the same page last month. He brought a lot of good stuff. That’s the biggest thing that we need when we are a new team.
I’d say, Richard was phenomenal so far. He is super understanding and has way more experience than we do. He’s been around longer than we do, and he has dealt with a lot of issues and things that teams will come across. Since he has been through a lot of experiences, it’s super easy to work with him.

[EliGE: Team Liquid will beat Heroic 2-1]
Overall, we have been playing pretty well in the past couple of months, even though we are a brand new team. We only played against tournament winners in our last competitions. We had really good matchups against them. Next, we are going to play against Heroic, and you’ll see a similar thing. It will be a good matchup for us, we will win 2-1. I’m not gonna say if it will be close or not.
[On the complexity of building a new team]
I think it’s just really hard, like Nicholas said before, it’s impossible to make a completely new team and expected to be on the top. There are two many side goals in this game right now where you have to start from scratch. No game protocols, never went over game theory or how do you want to approach different scenarios, and there’s only so much time in a day. It’s just unrealistic.
[On the NA memes]
I know everyone just wants to meme on NA CS, and attack, and come up with the best meme which will get all the likes and stuff. But if you want to be realistic about this, it’s gonna take time. People have to learn. I just hope that no one gives up or feel like it’s impossible because it’ll feel this way sometimes. Like you’re hitting a brick wall, or when you just went 0-5 or 1-4 and you just got owned. You have to take every single game as it is, with its experience, and keep learning from it as much as you can. As long as everyone wants to move forward, we will see the teams get better and better.

Team Liquid barely made it out of the group with a score of 3-2, and many noticed that BIG was the only EU team they beat. Their first opponent in the playoffs will be Heroic. Teams will play on the 6th of April, 18:00 CET.
ESL Pro League S15 press conferences are being held April 4-5. We already covered Gla1ve and cadiaN commenting on their Twitter rivalry, karrigan giving bold prediction on Vitality, and KRIMZ being unhappy about current uncertainty in the team.