“Personally speaking, I am not satisfied with my performance and then I want to get stronger from here” ZETA crow talks about his performance in VCT Pacific
At the VCT Pacific superweek, ZETA division took on GenG in a best of three series. In the final game for the team, ZETA Division defeated GenG in three maps. With the win, ZETA division also secured a playoff spot. After the game, Strafe interviewed ZETA’s Maruoka “crow” Tomoaki. In an exclusive one-on-one interview ZETA crow talks about the team's performance, personal performance, playoffs, Masters Tokyo and more.
Q. First of all Congratulations for your win. With the win, you also qualified for the playoffs. How are you feeling?
ZETA crow: “I am very happy that we made the playoffs by ourselves, not depending our fate on the wins or losses on the other team”
Q. With just one day to prepare, how did you reset yourself after the T1 loss?
ZETA crow: “After the T1 game, firstly resetted myself mentally and then started preparing for the GenG game”
Q. What was the preparation like against GenG? Did you have anything you had to address after your loss against T1?
ZETA crow: “Yes, we found areas of improvements and issues we faced. And as a team we shared the issues and tried to fix it.”
Q. The first and the last map today were pretty much flawless. But we saw you guys lose to GenG on Ascent, one of your strongholds. What went wrong on that map?
ZETA crow: “So we dropped too many rounds on the defender side and so we are definitely going to find the area of improvement there and then GenG came very well-prepared and countered us really well”
Q. We saw a new face of ZETA today. We saw ZETA being more aggressive than before. What was the reason behind the pace change?
ZETA crow: “Especially today, a lot of individual decisions were made by the players and then we did a good job communicating them and that helped a lot. Those individual decisions all of them took seemed very effective against GenG.”
Q. What are your thoughts on the team’s performance throughout the season?
ZETA crow: “So throughout the season, what we prepared for the season was all effective so that was really good. However, I’d like to gain the power to finish off the games. And point-wise I would give the team 60%”
Q. What are your thoughts on your individual performance throughout the season?
ZETA crow: “Personally speaking, I am not satisfied with my performance and then I want to get stronger from here and I would give myself 60%”
Q. What would you specifically work on going into the playoffs?
ZETA crow: “I have said in the previous question but it’d be the ability to finish off the games and there might be a mental aspect to this”
Q. Which team do you want to face in the playoffs?
ZETA crow: “They are all strong teams but I’d like to face a team we have lost in the week play to get a revenge on them”
Q. Given you qualify for Masters Tokyo, Which team would you want to face the most?
ZETA crow: “Fnatic”
At the VCT Pacific playoffs, ZETA Division will face Team Secret in the opening game. The ZETA Division has previously defeated Team Secret and needs to repeat the feat in order to qualify for Masters Tokyo.The Playoffs for VCT Pacific kickoff next week, with the opening game starting May 19th. Follow VCT Pacific's Twitter for all the updates regarding VCT Pacific.
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