EliGE: "We just lose completely unlosable rounds"

In a shock to Complexity and their fans alike, Complexity have been sent packing from ESL Challenger Atlanta following a second upset loss to Mongolian upstarts The MongolZ. With this new top ten Complexity still chasing their first LAN trophy, the team's failure to find success in Atlanta was undoubtedly upsetting for the team.

Coming off of this loss, Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski spoke to Jeffrey "Mnmzzz" Moore about the loss to The MongolZ, the team's elimination, and how it has seemingly shaken a team that was looking to be a tier one mainstay.

Please note that the full interview can be found below on YouTube, while the transcript has some key snippets from their conversation.

The first thing we have to talk about, is what went wrong there against The MongolZ?

I mean just the standard stuff that we have been messing up this entire event and for the past two months, we just lose completely unlosable rounds that is just really frustrating. I don't even know what to say about it. If we won those rounds on T-side we would had an 8-4/9-3 half potentially, but we throw away a 5v3 after planting the bomb down and we get eco'd as well.

It's just these rounds we can't lose if we're playing teams that can shoot back, then we're going to lose. They'll take advantage of those mistakes from us and we won't win.

Not to linger on the point too much, but many expected Complexity as the top-ranked team to make a much deeper run. When you're going back to the drawing board and do a post-mortem what's the biggest thing you think you can take away from this event to try and improve on in the future?

I would say just... I mean I don't know it's really hard because a lot of the times we've talked about how to play in these types of situations and these types of rounds and then something just happens during the game where it doesn't happen when we feel rushed, we feel pressured to do something.

I just keep hoping that experience and thinking of all these different things, we've thought of different codewords to use, we've talked about the situations tons of times, and we've said in these situations just calm down and pause and figure out a plan together and do something together and then it just doesn't translate in the games.

I'm trying to figure it out as well right now, it's really tough because we're consistently losing 5v3s, 5v4s, rounds that we should not lose and I'm not completely sure how to answer right now. I'm going through the checklist of everything I can, I'm trying to figure it out, we're trying to figure out as a team what can we do fundamentally to solve this issue but its not an easy solution.

Were you surprised by The MongolZ, obviously you fell to them earlier in the tournament, but now that you have had time to prep against them did their form surprise you here?

I'm not really surprised by them or anything, they're just another team that is good and I didn't think they were not like FaZe, they're not Vitality, they're a team that we should be able to win against.

Nothing crazy, I just think our form is really bad and how we were playing made it very easy for them. They played great to be able to beat us, but I felt like it looked a lot worse from our side. Obviously I'm playing in it and everything but on Inferno we're down 4v5 every round. They have the first pick for four, five, six rounds out of that whole game. Then on Overpass we were in the driver's seat until we lost control of the really important rounds.

I felt more like it was us losing super hard, obviously they're playing well to take advantage of it and capitalize on it. But, that's most teams and they are just a good team.