Eternal Fire took revenge on MOUZ with a 2–0 victory in the BetBoom Dacha Belgrade Season 2 consolidation final and advanced to the title match against Spirit. After the win, kyotostxr spoke with Turkish AWPer Özgür woxic Eker about the team’s mindset, his individual preparation, the roster’s current form, and his expectations for Eternal Fire’s first major LAN grand final in a long time.
Congratulations on the victory! Why were you able to beat MOUZ this time, and what mindset did you approach the match with?
Thank you. After losing the first meeting, we still knew that we were capable of beating them. It was the consolidation final: if we lost, we were going home, so there was no time for us to relax at any point during the game. We stayed fully focused and did not change our mindset regardless of whether we were leading or trailing. For us, the score was always effectively 0–0. I think it happened because of our mentality. The players were also shooting at a high level today, and personally, I was as well.
— woxic
How do you manage to maintain your form? Is it your love for Counter-Strike or some kind of secret training routine?
I think it is primarily my love for Counter-Strike. Of course, we all have our individual training routines, but sometimes you need to show even more passion and stay fully focused on working on yourself and the team without making excuses. We are being rewarded for that work now. I think we have won seven or eight maps in a row. We lost to MOUZ in the first meeting, but we learned from our mistakes on Nuke, where they completely smashed us last time. Now we have taken our revenge, and I am happy about that.
