Week 4 of Stage 3 took place last week, as all four regions continued to feature battles for the top-four and safety from the relegation zone.
Following most of these games were interviews with the victorious teams, so for those that missed them, we've summarised the best quotes and responses from the players below.
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- EU League -- “we didn’t have time left to ban the last map so they banned Kafe for us”
- Brasileirão -- “I’ve never seen this in my entire coaching career”
- APAC Leagues -- “we’ve had a lot of plans for facing them, and this win was a big one”
EU League
Day five in Europe saw a very big win for Rogue, as the struggling team won 7-4 over a very impressive looking cowana Gaming. Leon "LeonGids" Giddens then gave a look inside the map ban phase from their side of the table:
Team BDS then pulled off a 7-3 win over NAVI, which pushed the UK side outside of a top-four position in the standings. This result came the same day it announced a new coach, Arnaud "BiOs" Billaudel. Bryan "Elemzje" Tebessi said the following about him:
Yesterday had another upset, as NAVI lost against Virtus.pro on Bank. The victory puts VP in with a shot of making it to the November Major. Pavel "p4sh4" Kosenko said this about the game:
Finally, following G2’s close 8-6 win over Rogue on Coastline, Lucas "Hungry" Reich revealed that his team had accidentally taken too much time deciding which map to ban, and had given the advantage to Rogue:
G2 didn’t pick a map to ban in the three minutes of allotted time, forfeiting its choice to Rogue. This allowed the latter team four total bans, rather than three, which in effect let it decide which map was to be played.
Brasileirão
Over in LATAM, the ever-improving FURIA roster made headlines this week as Diogo "Fntzy" Lima secured 22 kills to just two deaths in a 7-2 win against INTZ.
Twister came into the post-game interview afterwards, lauding the successes of Fntzy and his teammates:
This was a completely unprecedented performance, which puts FURIA in second place in terms of Stage 3 results.
The two teams flanking FURIA in first and third also met this weekend, as FaZe Clan took down Team oNe with an 8-7 scoreline on Bank to extend its lead at the top.
Following this, Gabriel "cameram4n" Hespanhol said the following about how the team’s new analyst, Cesar "Dxrk" Adriano, helped get him prepared for the game:
The next day, Fntzy once again went huge against Liquid with a 14-8 kill-death spread, but even that performance wasn’t enough as Liquid took his team down 7-5 on Kafe.
Afterwards, Luccas "Paluh" Molina talked about how the new-look Liquid has developed:
Finally, following a fairly weak Stage 3 so far from the Ninjas in Pyjamas, Julio Giacomelli came on and explained the team’s results as follows:
APAC Leagues
This week was an APAC super-week, meaning that we were treated to four play days and 16 games, with each having a post-game interview.
Following T1’s first regulation-time win of the entire APAC North year -- a 7-4 against GUTS Gaming -- Wonil “iLeven” Cha simply said the following (via a translator):
The same play day also saw FAV beat CYCLOPS 8-7, its first win against its Japanese rival in 15 attempts.
Shinji "ShiN" Funai was very happy about this result stating (once again via a translator):
In APAC South, meanwhile, Stage 2 victor Knights got its second win of Stage 3 with an 8-6 victory over Stage 2’s last-placed team of ORDER.
Following the game, Broden "Juicy" Dean came on the post-game interview and said the following about why the Knights struggled so much that game:
And why they chose to go to Chalet:
Finally, after ORDER’s 8-7 win over Wildcard the following day in which Wildcard’s Vincere secured 20 kills, Ryan "Speca" Ausden stated the following:
SiegeGG will be covering all these tournaments as usual so check back for stats, news, and highlights for your favourite teams!