Aleksib: "We were not celebrating anything that revolves around the Major; every one of us expects to play the Major"

In their first crack at making the playoffs in Bucharest, it took an in-form BETBOOM to slow Natus Vincere 's roll.

"I do think that there are things that we are doing, like always trying to do better," Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen told HLTV in the wake of his team's defeat by BETBOOM . "All the small details, like remembering everything that we have on the playbook.

We've been doing that pretty well thus far this tournament." Aleksib says his team are not getting ahead of themselves despite the positive results thus far and are focused on making the playoffs.

We just need to do our best not to lose to ourselves and not to be frustrated and just keep our heads up high and play the best CS we can ever play." You can listen to the interview here Yeah, so first commiserations.

Talk me through that series through your eyes. Unfortunately, there have been probably quite a few of these not best days in recent history. But I do think that today really felt completely different when it came down to the atmosphere and everything.

I do think that they played better than our last two opponents, and yeah, they really deserved the 2-0 today.