⁠sjuush⁠: "I feel like we have some new energy in the team"

⁠sjuush, who is a Heroic player, shared his thoughts on the latest line-up changes. According to the 23-year-old Danish e-sportsman, the transfer of ⁠jabbi⁠ from Copenhagen Flames gave the team a boost of new energy for future victories.

I think there were several reasons for the reshuffle. I don't want to belittle refrezh⁠ because he did a lot for us, but the team wanted more. jabbi is a young guy who was good at Copenhagen Flames and wants to improve. We think we can achieve even better results with him. Already now I feel that there have been changes for the better.

I didn't know him at all, how he played, so I was really surprised by how much initiative he takes and how he talks in general, what kind of information he gives.

I definitely feel that we have a new energy in the team. We want to show that with ⁠jabbi⁠ we can get even better, but we also want to give him a chance to open up and get into his rhythm.

At the end, ⁠sjuush spoke about the favorites of IEM Cologne 2022. According to the Dane, his team has good chances to make it to the championship playoffs.

It's hard to say who's the favourite. Maybe Cloud9 is in good shape right now. NAVI with a replacement can play either well or very badly. FaZe Clan is no longer as good as it used to be, and G2 hasn't really shown its level yet. It seems to me that we have a good chance of participating in the playoffs. In the past, Heroic has consistently made the playoffs in all tournaments, so I look forward to continuing this trend.

Recall that the Heroic team made it to the group stage of IEM Cologne 2022. According to the results of the Play-In stage, the Danish team outplayed Sprout (16:3) and MOUZ (2:1). In the first round of the group stage, the team will play against NIP.

IEM Cologne 2022 takes place from 5 to 17 July in Germany at the Hyatt Regency Cologne and LANXESS arena venues. As part of the championship, 24 teams from Europe, the CIS, Oceania, China, North and South America are fighting for a prize pool of $1,000,000, as well as rating points in the BLAST Premier table.

Interim results of IEM Cologne 2022

• 1st place: $400,000 + 3,200 BLAST Premier points
• 2nd place: $180,000 + 1,600 BLAST Premier points
• 3rd-4th place: $80,000 + 1,000 BLAST Premier points
• 5th-6th place: $40,000 + 300 BLAST Premier points
• 7th-8th place: $24,000 + 300 BLAST Premier points
• 9th-12th place: $16,000
• 13th-16th place: $10,000
• 17th-20th place: $4,500
• 21st-24th place: paiN Gaming and Complexity Gaming — $2,500