guerri on his Major ban: "It was one of the toughest experiences for me in my life"
FURIA has been enduring some turbulence as of late. Failing to make it out of the Play-In at IEM Katowice and being dumped out in round one of ESL Pro League Playoffs by fnatic, it's not been the start to the season that the Brazilians were hoping for. That prestigious LAN victory continues to elude the best South American team, but Nicholas "guerri" Nogueira believes that despite their shaky start, his team understands the path that they are on.
We understand it's a tough time and every athlete and every good team that is a champion goes through this kind of path and scenario. We understand where we are and what we need to do so this is really important.
For guerri personally, the Americas RMR for the BLAST.tv Paris Major marks his return to the server for Valve-sanctioned Majors after his initial five Major ban was overturned. Serving his sentence during PGL Stockholm, Antwerp, and painfully, IEM Rio, the 32-year-old coach is just relieved that he can stand behind his team again after such a trying period.
It was a long road to be back, it was a tough road for me. It was one of the toughest experiences for me in my life so to be back and just do my job and stay with them it was really important.
As for the RMR itself, there were multiple upsets on the opening day. FURIA opened up the day with a straightforward victory over their countrymen, oNe, but elsewhere both MIBR and Nouns were defeated by Flamengo and BESTIA respectively despite being the favored teams. At the time of the interview, FURIA were unaware who awaited them in round two, so guerri chose these two sides as his favored opponents.
I think we don't have a chance to play Liquid, maybe it could be Nouns or MIBR, but maybe those two. I think I would like to play Nouns so I can say to you that SA is better laughs.
Evil Geniuses await FURIA later today, and guerri will be hoping for a dominant victory to show that South America is the superior continent in CS.
