flusha: "I didn't even have to call"

For the last quarter-finals day interview we picked Robin "flusha" Rönnquist to get his thoughts on wrecking Gambit and facing Liquid tomorrow.

fnatic became the fourth semi-finalists following a clear-cut 2-0 victory over Gambit, who only strung together eight rounds over the course of two maps.

flusha believes a good start will do the job against Liquid

We got in touch with Robin "⁠flusha⁠" Rönnquist, who shed some light on why the series was this one-sided and how confident the team feels prior to facing Liquid in the semi-finals.

It seems like you're gaining your confidence back with these two dominating wins, how are you feeling after facing Gambit?

Honestly, we expected more of a match, we could do whatever we wanted, I didn't even have to call. It wasn't a hard match and it didn't feel like a Major quarter-finals.

The way that I portrayed your confidence was your 5-AWP buy, who called it?

I don't know, JW maybe? Everyone was like, yeah, I'll buy an AWP. 

Did you expect it to work?

Yeah, honestly, they didn't really kill us. There was only AdreN that was killing us and he was doing like 2/3-kill rounds, and other than that they didn't really put up a fight.

Liquid are up ahead in the semi-finals, did you expect them to have a chance against Na`Vi?

Yeah, definitely, I thought they had a chance. Na`Vi crumbled on Cobble, I don't know why, I didn't see Liquid doing anything special on that map. I think it was like a 60-40 match in favor of Na`Vi, but I'm fine with having Liquid as an opponent.

Liquid said their practice results with you were one-sided, it's just practice obviously, but how do you feel about the match-up?

I think it's a great match-up for us. I think they will get some mental problems against us, knowing we are the best team, or we were the best team. I still think we are the best team right now, but... yeah, if we get to a good start tomorrow, we're gonna wreck them 2-0 easily.

Check out the list of interviews we have conducted so far at ESL One Cologne to see if you've missed any:

Day 4

Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella: "Super confident on Cobble"

Day 3

Viktor "vuggo" Jendeby: "We're always slow starters"

Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin: "s1mple really wants to win"

Yegor "⁠markeloff⁠" Markelov: "Knew exactly how NiP play"

Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen: "I feel like I won an event"

Day 2

Jesper "⁠JW⁠" Wecksell: "Came in with fresh minds today"

Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović: "nV match was a team effort"

Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács: "Confident playing T side [on Cobble]"

Dmitry "⁠hooch⁠" Bogdanov: "We wanted revenge for MLG"

Day 1

Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad: "I expect us and G2 through"

Jarosław "⁠pashaBiceps⁠" Jarząbkowski: "Tech pause was good for us"

Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz: "gla1ve is really good at adapting"

Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács Age: 24 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 785 KPR: 0.78 DPR: 0.62 Nick 'nitr0' Cannella Age: 20 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.07 Maps played: 383 KPR: 0.75 DPR: 0.69 Nicolai 'device' Reedtz Age: 20 Team: Astralis Rating 1.0: 1.16 Maps played: 708 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.63 Jesper 'JW' Wecksell Age: 21 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 878 KPR: 0.76 DPR: 0.68 Gambit #20 Dauren 'AdreN' KystaubayevDmitry 'hooch' BogdanovMihail 'Dosia' StolyarovRustem 'mou' TelepovIvan 'spaze' Obrezhan Finn 'karrigan' Andersen Age: 26 Team: Astralis Rating 1.0: 0.97 Maps played: 758 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.69 Liquid #11 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinNick 'nitr0' CannellaOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievJosh 'jdm64' MarzanoJonathan 'EliGE' Jablonowski Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist Age: 22 Team: fnatic Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 880 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.64 Yegor 'markeloff' Markelov Age: 28 Team: FlipSid3 Rating 1.0: 1.00 Maps played: 822 KPR: 0.67 DPR: 0.65 Dmitry 'hooch' Bogdanov Age: 29 Team: Gambit Rating 1.0: 0.90 Maps played: 324 KPR: 0.63 DPR: 0.70 Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Age: 26 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.10 Maps played: 473 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.61 Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad Age: 22 Team: FaZe Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 310 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.70 fnatic #3 Olof 'olofmeister' KajbjerDennis 'dennis' EdmanRobin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' Johansson Aleksandar 'kassad' Trifunović Age: 29 Team: MOUZC Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski Age: 28 Team: Virtus.pro Rating 1.0: 1.06 Maps played: 964 KPR: 0.74 DPR: 0.69