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YEKINDAR: "We're definitely playing better; before Thunderpick, we played a lot worse"

This is the bare minimum for us," Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis told HLTV after a win over Liquid . "Of course it would be nice to go finals, maybe win this tournament after Thunderpick.

HLTV28 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

"I think we're playing better, definitely better after the win, and everybody got a little more confident.

But life is like that; there's always things that you want to be better at, and you want to improve, and we are doing that." You can listen to the interview here . Nuke in particular was pretty close, a bit crazy at times.

I feel like any game against Liquid is quite crazy. The style that we play and what I was seeing when I was rewatching their games is completely different, especially CT sides. I feel like they are playing so dynamic and, in some moments, gamble-ish.

They know which risks they're taking and whatever. So it was important for us to control the game, show them that we can also play fast and gimmick and try to put them a little bit into this state of overthinking in a way.

Like, "Oh, we cannot leave this spot open because they rushed it," or whatever. That was kind of our plan, and it worked very good. We got seven rounds on Nuke on T side, which was very good.

On CT side we lost a couple situations which were a little bit...

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Team Liquid can stand on this line: ""I think we're playing better, definitely better after the win, and everybody got a little more confident." It is already on the card, so the case does not need a streak or a roster rumor.

Leo Hart · optimist

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