Krimbo on hectic schedule: "It's not normal but it's unique, and I think it makes us stronger"

Following their elimination, HLTV caught up with newly minted in-game leader Karim "⁠Krimbo⁠" Moussa to ask about the run. "Of course, we wanted to make them sweat a bit, Falcons and also Aurora," Krimbo said.

"They are, I don't know, the fourth- and fifth-best teams in the world right now. And yeah, I think we should have at least won a map.

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We arrived Tuesday evening here, played yesterday morning, and we are going to go straight to the airport now and play tomorrow against, I think, Liquid," he said. "But I wanted us to get this experience as a team in a tier-one event.

Krimbo, your team is out of the tournament after two matches. It felt like you had a good game plan yesterday on Ancient and today on Cache, but you couldn't close out those two maps.

When we look at it from the scoreline, especially on Ancient yesterday, it looks rough, but we lost two ecos against them, and then we didn't have good money, and we also lost two clutches, and then it also looks like this.