After FURIA’s win against 9z, we spoke with yuurih regarding the match, the fans, and how they’ll prepare for Aurora.

First of all, congratulations on making the semifinal of the Major. Crazy reverse sweep, and a really good performance from you personally as well. How do you feel right now?
I’m really good, a little bit tired. I’m a little bit sick since yesterday. After winning, I mean, I’m really bad right now, like a little slow,. But I’m very happy because we won. Now we’re going to take a rest, see the game tomorrow, and study against Aurora.

For us watching, it felt like you guys woke up after map one and kind of remembered, “Oh wait, we’re actually a good team.” What went wrong on Dust 2?
I think they made really good calls against our calls, you know. They really deserved to win the map. If we did more rounds on CT side, we would win because we started winning after on CT side, but yeah, they deserved it.

9Z beat Vitality in Stage 3, so they feel like a dangerous team. Did that affect how you looked at this match and how you prepared in any way?
We knew it would be hard, of course. They have been playing really good against top teams, so we knew that we didn’t need to change a lot of stuff in our game. But of course, playing our game, starting to win clutches, playing good situations - we did that, and we won.

Some people would say you got the easier side of the bracket because of BetBoom, Aurora, and 9Z being there. On the other side, you have Falcons, G2, Vitality, and Spirit. Do you think that might have affected you mentally as well, ahead of this 9Z match?
It is easier when we look at the other teams in the top bracket, of course. But we know that if we don’t play our game, if we don’t play like the other days, we’re going to lose. Today we almost lost, so it’s really tough. When you get to playoffs of the Major, of course it will be tough.

There’s a big group of very loud FURIA fans in the arena, as we’ve come to expect. How much of that do you hear and feel during the game?
A lot, actually. A lot. They helped us a lot in the last years. Every time there are a lot of Brazilian fans, like in China sometimes, in Europe a lot as well, so this is very important for us.

You already talked about it a little bit, but of course Aurora is first. How are you preparing for that match?
We’re going to watch our game [from] today, fix some stuff, and see which maps they are picking, which maps we’re going to play. After, we study, we do a prep, and yeah, that’s it.