{"id":10294,"date":"2023-02-08T02:07:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T02:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/swani-its-fair-to-call-us-favorites"},"modified":"2023-02-08T02:07:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T02:07:46","slug":"swani-its-fair-to-call-us-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/swani-its-fair-to-call-us-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Swani: &#8220;It&#8217;s fair to call us favorites&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spoke to G2&#8217;\u0099s Swani after G2&#8217;\u0099s 2-0 win against Natus Vincere, which will put them straight into the semi-finals of IEM Katowice. Here&#8217;\u0099s what he had to say:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sebastian &#8220;Horizzon&#8221; Lalic, BLIX.GG: You guys have been phenomenal recently. Has it been a change of plans or did it finally click?<br \/><\/strong>Jan &#8216;\u009c<strong>Swani<\/strong>&#8216;\u009d M\u00c3\u00bcller: &#8220;We started to click and we started to believe in each other and trust in the calls. We just do things as a team. If we do them together there&#8217;s no team that can stop us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BLIX: Was Abu Dhabi the realization that this team can work?<br \/>Swani:<\/strong> &#8220;In Abu Dhabi, we bonded together a lot more, due to the circumstances that happened to Rasmus (HooXi) and everyone just bought into it and we just keep doing our thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BLIX: How&#8217;s m0NESY evolved in this system, has he changed as a player or is he just getting used to it?<br \/>Swani: <\/strong>&#8220;He&#8217;s talking a lot more, He&#8217;s communicating like he has to like an AWP player has to communicate. He&#8217;s the most important piece of the puzzle for us. He&#8217;s improved a lot, on some maps he wasn&#8217;t talking as much but now he&#8217;s talking good on most of the maps and it helps us tremendously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"_44tKOV3EvA2Ivv21VkJmnQ==\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"m0NESY at the PGL Major\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/15b22dd20a2443c6.jpeg\"> <span>Ilya &#8220;m0NESY&#8221; Osipov joined G2 in January of last year and has shown he was worth the big price tag | Image via PGL<\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>BLIX: I know you guys hired a sports psychologist, has he helped with that too?<br \/>Swani: <\/strong>&#8220;He helped us to handle pressure which we had a lot of issues with in the past, the RMR we&#8217;re 1-2 and had a lot of pressure. Even now you see the close games, we keep winning them even if we lose stupid rounds at 14-14 or something we stay in it, we are resilient, we win the low-buys and we&#8217;re in a lot better mental state now. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BLIX: Finally, congratulations you guys are in the Spodek. Lots of people are saying you&#8217;re the favorite now, would you agree or is it too early<br \/>Swani: <\/strong>&#8220;Obviously we are a bit of the favorite because we&#8217;re on like a 16-map winning streak. So I guess it&#8217;s fair to call us the favorites. But we don&#8217;t treat it like (we&#8217;\u0099re) the favorites, we just go game by game, and we take everyone super seriously because it&#8217;s top teams. So we don&#8217;t feel like favorites in the Spodek Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spoke to G2&#8217;\u0099s Swani after G2&#8217;\u0099s 2-0 win against Natus Vincere, which will put them straight into the semi-finals of IEM Katowice. Here&#8217;\u0099s what he had to say: Sebastian &#8220;Horizzon&#8221; Lalic, BLIX.GG: You guys have been phenomenal recently. Has it been a change of plans or did it finally click?Jan &#8216;\u009cSwani&#8216;\u009d M\u00c3\u00bcller: &#8220;We started<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":10295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}