k0nfig: "यह एक लंबा समय हो गया है जब से मेरे अंदर यह आग थी"

वीर रस इस सप्ताह बिना ब्लास्ट प्रीमियर वर्ल्ड फ़ाइनल में प्रतिस्पर्धा कर रहे हैं मार्टिन "⁠Stavn⁠" लंड 20-वर्षीय युवाओं को शीतकालीन अवकाश से पहले विस्तारित समय देने के लिए। उनके स्थान पर टीम को बुलाया गया है k0nfig, जो सितंबर के मध्य के बाद अपनी पहली LAN उपस्थिति के लिए तैयार है।

भूतपूर्व Astralis आखिरी बार ईएसएल प्रो लीग सीज़न 16 में खेलने के बाद राइफलर एक्शन में लौटने के लिए तैयार है, एक इवेंट जिसके बाद वह इसमें शामिल हुआ था एक अत्यधिक प्रचारित विवाद और उन्हें टखने में जटिल चोट लग गई, जिसके कारण उन्हें बाहर जाना पड़ा Astralis एक महीने से भी कम समय के बाद.

कोपेनहेगन में घरेलू धरती पर अपनी ब्लास्ट प्रीमियर फ़ॉल फ़ाइनल जीत के बाद, वीर रस उम्मीद है कि बाधाओं से लड़ेंगे और स्टैंड-इन के साथ भी उस उपलब्धि को दोहराएंगे। उनका पहला मुकाबला उन्हें उपस्थिति में सबसे निचली रैंक वाली टीम के विरुद्ध खड़ा करता है, OG, ग्रुप बी में.

अबू धाबी में रहते हुए, एचएलटीवी साथ बैठ गया k0nfig वर्ष समाप्त होने से पहले प्रतियोगिता में लौटने के अवसर और अनुकूलन प्रक्रिया क्या है, इस पर उनके विचार जानने के लिए वीर रस की तरह हो गया है।

You’re back at LAN and ready to play again, what’s it like for you to have this opportunity?

I said it to the boys when we had a talk, this is actually an unreal feeling and I’m really, really excited for this tournament. I can feel it in my chest. I can feel the pressure, but I know that I’m a good player and I know that I will do well here. It’s an incredible feeling and it’s been a long time since I had this fire inside of me.

You haven’t played in the past couple of months, so how have you been keeping in shape and how do you feel on an individual level?

To be honest, my individual level feels like it went up a lot. I’ve played FACEIT, surf, KZ, DM, just trying to keep my individual skill as high up as possible. Of course you don’t want to spend too much time in front of the monitor just doing those things and you need to focus on demos and watch other people play to innovate yourself a little bit, but I feel pretty fucking good to be honest.

नवप्रवर्तन की बात करें तो हमारे पास एक ताज़ा पैच है। क्या आपके पास उसके साथ खेलने का समय है? एम4 परिवर्तन और एनुबिस पर आपके क्या विचार हैं?

I feel like the M4 change has given me a bit of a buff, I feel like I was pretty bad with the silenced M4. I don’t know why, it’s so easy to use, but the M4A4 is better for me so I feel like I got a buff on CT and also a buff on T because now you don’t get laser-beamed as much without having a clue where it’s from and you have time to react. I’ve played Anubis on FACEIT a couple of times, I feel like it’s a fun map, it’s different. There are a lot of up-and-down angles, there’s water and all of that stuff. It’s a pretty good, well-connected map, it feels like it just needs a little bit of a change and it will become a really, really competitive map.

हीरोइक को लेकर कैसी रही तैयारी? क्या आपके पास उनके साथ अभ्यास करने और चीजों को समझने का समय है? क्या आप स्टैवन के साथ एक-के-लिए-एक हैं?

The preparation and the practice have been really good, they’ve given me a lot of tips and tricks and they’re showing me how to do the different things that they need me to do to still be Heroic. I don’t want to change their style too much because Heroic’s style is Heroic’s style. It just feels good, to be honest, I’ve been put in, given all of these things, and I have to work with them. I have a stratbook, so I feel like I’m set.

k0nfig believes he is a good fit for stavn’s positions

One of the things about Heroic is how cadiaN expects his players to do certain things and have a certain autonomy throughout the map, which is what makes Heroic so dynamic in their style. Maybe that’s why it took Jabbi a little bit of time to get used to this team. Is that something you’ve noticed by practicing with the team?

I think I’m a pretty good swap for stavn, when you put me in of course there are things I have to ask about if we do something we didn’t go through, but it’s easy to be put into a system that’s so well put together on their side.

अधिक मसालेदार विवरण में जाने पर, अतीत में हीरोइक के साथ कुछ शब्दों का आदान-प्रदान हुआ, कुछ टकराव हुआ। अब कैसे पता चल रहा है दोस्तों?

I always felt like we had a bond, I always said hi and was polite to them, so it’s not like there’s any bad blood. We’re just five Danish guys together with some good people around us. To be honest, what was said earlier should be washed down the drain and it’s amazing to be here with them. They’ve put me in a situation where I feel like I’m invited into their warmth.

अभी उनके साथ यहां रहना, यह अवसर प्राप्त करना कितना महत्वपूर्ण है, यह देखते हुए कि एस्ट्रालिस द्वारा हटाए जाने के बाद आपका करियर कैसा रहा और यहां आने से पहले आपको कितना संघर्ष करना पड़ा?

This means the world to me as an individual. I know some people have doubts about me going into a tier-one team after the whole situation with Astralis and me not being mentally ready for tournaments. From my side, this is the world for me, I live for this game and I’m here to prove something that I’ve proven so many times over and over again. I’m not really scared if I play a bad match or a bad tournament, it shouldn’t say who I am. I can play at the highest level, I will play at the highest level, and it’s just that doing good will be good towards the outside, but for me individually I feel like this is where I need to be. This is my home.

You’re opening against OG. Do you have any particular thoughts about the match-up?

OG is a good team, they have a good in-game leader, they have structure, they have a good organization behind them. So they’re going to play well, we’ve seen them play well before, we’ve seen them dominate teams with the young core that they have. But I feel like Heroic has a pretty good grasp around them, they know what they like to do and what kind of team they are. Of course now with a stand-in it will be a bit more difficult, but I still think we have the upper hand.

क्या हीरोइक आपके साथ स्टैंड-इन के रूप में अपने पिछले परिणामों पर खरा उतर सकता है? क्या वे अभी भी टूर्नामेंट जीतने वाली टीम हैं जो महत्वपूर्ण ग्रैंड फ़ाइनल बनाती है?

Of course it’s hard, but from my side it feels like they’re the same team as they are with stavn. They just have a strong core, so I feel like me being put in here makes it different, but it’s not a big difference.