drop: "I am working on stuff outside the game because mental health is so important"

Follwing two swift BO1 wins in the first two days, FURIA are now 2-0 at the Americas RMR and set to play versus Liquid at 08:30PM today. Despite being seeded #1 and #2, due to the Buchholz system both teams will be playing for the 3-0 status. However, even after that both 3-0 teams will have a crucial tiebreaker match to determine the single Legends team going to Paris from the Americas region.

After their 16-13 win over Evil Geniuses on Mirage yesterday, Ryan Friend caught up with André "drop" Abreu to discuss the match as well as their recent slight drop off in performance.

The best Brazilian side of the last few years have been under scrutiny as of late. Heading into this event, FURIA was stunned by Evil Geniuses Black at the BLAST Spring Showdown, with EG's second-string squad taking the victory 2-1 in exhilarating fashion. For André "drop" Abreu, their round two victory over Evil Geniuses felt like revenge for more than one reason.

In the last RMR we lost against this team, so there's not only revenge for EG Black but also against [Evil Geniuses].

Replacing Detonate at the RMR in the eleventh hour, no one really knew what to expect from Evil Geniuses at this event. It's a tale as old as time in CS, where a roster underperforms and looks dead in the water for so long, then just when it looks like there are changes coming, they show up to a tournament and play like they have nothing to lose. FURIA and drop understood that was the situation they were facing against EG, with drop complimenting the team despite some confusion on positions.

They were playing different positions than we were expecting so sometimes we were more scared to go into a bombsite. Brehze was playing A then when I killed Brehze I was like "neaLaN is the A guy! neaLaN is the A guy!" and we were looking for him but he wasn't there. They showed some good CS and were not making individual mistakes.

When looking at FURIA as a whole, one would expect them to be under a mountain of pressure considering their semifinals appearance at the last Major and with the BLAST.tv Paris Major being the final CS:GO Major. For drop and his teammates, they are under no illusion that they are nowhere near the level they showed at IEM Rio, but for the Brazilian team it's now a process of putting one foot in front of the other in order to get back to championship contender status.

We are not showing good CS at the other tournaments and had some bad performances. We are not thinking that it is the last Major and that we need to go to the semifinals. We are just going game by game trying to regain our confidence to be the same team we were there and we are working so hard to get there again.