Counter-Strike's ELITE join the fight - IEM Cologne Major Stage 3 Roundtable

We had a quick chat with all 8 Teams that qualified directly for Stage 3 of the IEM Cologne Major. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:25 - FALCONS 0:42 - Cologne Major 2016 1:26 - How have things been going? 2:51 - Winning as a team or individual momentum 4:22 - Things that surprised karrigan in Falcons 6:05 - Is karrigan still the same player? @Niko 7:29 - m0nesy on karrigan's IGL style 7:56 - Why is kyosuke now playing better? 8:48 - FaZe vs Falcons 10:33 - What's Falcons Win Condition? 11:44 - First Game: G2 13:57 - AURORA 14:14 - What have you been up to? 14:50 - Which Teams are good to steal tricks from? 16:30 - Where are you at currently? 17:28 - Roster Rumors 18:40 - Does the VRS add pressure? 20:50 - No consistency in Winning - Exhausted all Ideas now? 23:07 - Last Cologne Major 25:07 - Mentality Issues 26:48 - What needs to happen to see Aurora in the Grand Final? 28:27 - Home Crowd 29:09 - Can Teams Rival Vitality in Cologne? 30:05 - Glad that you don't have to play BO1s? 30:45 - Is Cologne always the same? 32:12 - VITALITY 32:21 - What where you guys doing Cologne Major 2016? 33:26 - When to do Bootcamps 35:46 - Do you have competitors now? 37:08 - Don't care about losing to NAVI 38:30 - Do you like that you lost? 39:00 - The Young Vitality Players have more trophies than Fallen, Niko, Simple 40:24 - How does Zywoo prepare for the Major? 44:38 - When do you enjoy the Game the most? 47:40 - What to Improve? - Staying ahead of the meta 51:10 - Being honest with each other 01:01:57 - Which Team will you face in the Grand Final? 01:03:50 - MOUZ 01:04:07 - Have you been watching Stage 2 at all? 01:04:42 - How is Tier 1 for xelex? 01:07:28 - State of MOUZ at the moment 01:08:26 - Main Goal with Roster Changes? 01:10:44 - xertioN as IGL 01:12:37 - Hungarian Teammate for Torzsi 01:13:25 - xelex growing into his role 01:14:37 - Preparation for the Major 01:16:08 - What can we expect from Brollan? 01:18:16 - Is Trozsi confident right now? 01:19:52 - Does xertioN feel the pressure? 01:23:20 - Xyp9x as assistant coach 01:24:32 - xelex at his first Major 01:24:34 - NAVI 01:26:44 - Have Stage 2 Teams an advantage? 01:28:03 - Facing Spirit in the first Game 01:28:57 - Watched any Stage 2 Games? 01:31:12 - Keeping your Prep private for as long as possible 01:33:01 - Game Planning 01:35:56 - Good Scrims = Bad Matches? 01:37:17 - Start of the Year 01:38:45 - Ramping up for the Big Event 01:39:27 - THE MONGOLZ 01:39:49 - Do you love Coldzera? 01:41:04 - A very young Team 01:59:50 - FURIA 01:59:54 - How was practice? 02:01:48 - Liking BO3s more than BO1s? 02:02:41 - A Fluke in Stage 3? 02:04:24 - Thoughts on NA CS 02:07:10 - Thoughts on VRS 02:08:13 - Interesting AWPers 02:10:17 - Recent CS2 Updates 02:13:25 - Does MR12 help with long Tournaments? 02:15:11 - Structure of the Days at an Event 02:17:00 - Finding Form and adding Strats during the Tournament 02:21:24 - Keeping in Mind what you did before & never doing things twice 02:25:49 - Putting pressure on yourself 02:28:12 - PARIVISION 02:28:51 - Pickems 02:30:03 - Bootcamping 02:31:38 - New Ideas 02:33:30 - Does it feel better to join the Tournament late? 02:34:40 - Does the outcome of the first Game decide what you do? 02:35:35 - Favorite Part about playing in Parivision @zweih 02:38:25 - Expectations for this Major 02:39:27 - Career Goals Join the discussion: http://www.twitter.com/eslcs http://www.facebook.com/eslcs http://www.instagram.com/eslcs http://www.twitter.com/iem http://www.facebook.com/iem Watch live on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/eslcs Get the latest ESL apparel: http://shop.eslgaming.com Your leading Competitive Gaming Platform: https://www.faceit.com Get free statistics for your matchmaking games with http://csstats.gg/ #esl #cs2 #counterstrike