like hunter for example he was completely unknown at the time but we asked peter i think he's i forget his last name he's the owner of hltv one of the owners oh yes yeah he always gives us like scouting lists of like unknowns that we that people don't know about we can get and at that time mixol is at the top of that list so we watch his demos and we're like this guy's insane so we just picked him up fully and the first thing i noticed is his english is very um not so good which is a given because he lives and he's lived in spain his own life but he honestly learned english really fast like he became fluent basically like fully flint within like a couple months just by playing in practice and fpos didn't rank us but one thing that really changed a lot was when he came he brought like a european mentality because we actually had really bad like practice routines and were kind of lazy at the time because i don't know just that's i guess maybe a north american mentality but he was like instantly said like this is how you guys always practice or just like the mentality you always have when you lose like all these things that we didn't really look at and that that third-party perspective that we bought from europe it really changed a lot in our mentalities because we had some issues with being like down when we'd lose and he was really good at actually like pointing that out like we can't do that you have to like maintain the mentality and we have to practice six days a week or whatever it was and all that stuff i think really elevated us a lot in game and on top of that his actual in-game like performance he was kind of like a no PROFANITY_TOKEN given like he just did whatever he wanted he was off the leash and we didn't have much of a system an optic it's more of like a defaulty do what you want type of thing kind of like a budget fanatic version you know how fanatic kind of sends the guys out the troops out and they do what they want i thought my old school like attic and we kind of played like that in optic and it really worked out because we had a lot of high skilled individual players and bringing mixel and kind of elevated that to the next level because he was just so raw skilled and didn't care and he was like so confident in north america because he was in europe playing against european teams all the time and he comes to north america and he can just slay everyone you know right one of the interesting things obviously that again progressed your career was in optic you've got to qualify for the mages now you've got to play like esl cologne for example right as someone who you already as we talked about this interview you've been playing against top european teams previously you've had international experience but like what is it what's different about when you go to a major for the first time i mean like i said like you've been dreaming of your whole career since you started playing to be there to be in that stage so even if you're playing a team that you might have beat before it's completely different because the stakes are at the highest they've
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