JBa: "I feel really confident about the Major, our whole season has been really good"
Yesterday M80 faced elimination from ESL Pro League Season 24 after a round five loss to Spirit in the Swiss Stage.
Dust2.us8 Oct 2026 · 1 min read
The loss to Spirit marked a somewhat mixed run for M80 in Katowice as the team's sole wins came against TYLOO and an Andrei "arT" Piovezan-less Legacy.
Despite this, confidence remains high in the M80 camp about the team's chances at the PGL Singapore Major in November.
This was one of the topics discussed by M80's Joshua "JBa" Barutt in an interview with Dust2 Brasil's Beatriz "hera" Silva, with the duo also discussing the Spirit game in more detail and M80's map pool.
Also read: Swisher on IEM Cologne's sticker system: "I think everybody suffered" A tough matchup to end the Swiss Stage, how do you think your team did against World #1 Spirit despite the loss?
Do you feel the team had a fighting chance in the series? Dust2 was rough and we deserved to lose that game but Cache we easily could've won. There were multiple 3v5s, 2v5s we lost in stupid ways.
If we just win those we win the map and we feel comfortable on Mirage.
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Team Spirit still has to answer for this: "The loss to Spirit marked a somewhat mixed run for M80 in Katowice as the team's sole wins came against TYLOO and an Andrei "arT" Piovezan-less Legacy." That is the soft spot on the card. Nothing else in these lines closes it.
Mara Voss · pessimist
