ocelote: "I want s1mple to blame himself for not joining G2"

As part of the latest HLTV Confirmed podcast, Carlos "ocelote" Rodriguez spoke about the reasons for the changes in the G2 Esports roster, and also left a couple of sharp phrases about s1mple.

Many teams, when they get into the top 3 of the HLTV.org rating, will not change anything, because they are already good enough. I don't care about this rating, I want to win majors. It encourages me to make mistakes and make substitutions that I could do without. But it is not important.

I will always want to be first instead of being second consistently. I'd rather risk everything to be the best than be more thoughtful and be second. That's how I think. Every time the tournament results showed that we were weaker than NAVI, I wanted to win. I won't lie and say, there were several tournaments where we were in better or worse shape. It doesn't matter now, because we didn't win anyway.

According to the CEO of G2 Esports, he wanted to create a team capable of beating NAVI and s1mple on an ongoing basis.

I don't want to beg s1mple to make NAVI weaker or buy him out. I want to get my team together to kick his ass. I want s1mple to blame himself for not joining G2. I want him to be hurt by losing to us in an endless number of tournaments. The only way to achieve this is to take risks and put together a team that will win.

Note that G2 Esports is currently participating in BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2022. According to the results of the group stage, the team won three victories, defeating Complexity and NIP (twice).