Former eSports Player JerAx Discusses Rivalry with Virtus.pro in The Kiev Major 2017 Final

Play against [“золотого” состава] VP was an absolute nightmare. I didn’t like it to the point that I didn’t want to meet them at all. We won the final of The Kiev Major 2017, but I believe that for such a result, a lot had to happen for us to win them. It was a very scary line. I think they knew something special about the game and when you met them there was a lot of pressure on you. They were very strong in snowball. When they succeeded, it seemed like you had no control over anything. You just don’t feel like you can do anything about it, they made you suffer while you were playing.

In addition, sometimes you understood some words in Russian that they wrote during the training. It was not very pleasant at times. I don’t think we liked the EG or VP guys, at least some of them. And we didn’t like them. Not saying we hated them, but I felt that at times when they were acting like that, it was hard to be just friendly. One way or another, there was still something like a sense of their own greatness, and it was very good to defeat them.

I will remember this day for the rest of my life [финал The Kiev Major 2017]. I didn’t think we had any chance. In terms of their preparation, these people were much stronger than us. They did things we had no answers for. at that competition. I think they had the strongest players in every position. And the only thing we had was the desire to unite. But it’s a shameful feeling when you realize that you are better at everything.