The NA VCT Stage Three: Challengers Playoffs are in full swing as each team fights for a spot in the upper finals. Sentinels and Rise faced off in one of the first matches of the tournament, resulting in a 2-1 win for Sentinels and a one-way ticket to the lower bracket for Rise.
Rise’s Phat ‘supamen” Le spoke with Dot Esports after his team’s loss against Sentinels about their performance, plans going into the loser’s bracket, and how it’s okay for fans to consider Rise a dark horse. 토토사이트
Rise managed to win the second map of the series, which is impressive against the seemingly unstoppable Sentinels juggernaut. However, the other two maps of the series were one-sided affairs.
“Sentinels had the better spacing,” supamen told Dot Esports. “We’ve never played a game with that good of spacing before. They just exploited that and smacked us.”
Sentinels started the series with a devastating 13-3 win on Breeze, with Rise only winning one round in the first half. However, this was Sentinels’ map pick, and the team was comfortable on the tropical battlefield. Rise, on the other hand, did not have much experience with its new roster on Breeze.
“After our last closed qualifier, we started playing Breeze to see if we could do better on that than Icebox and see how things go. After a couple of scrims, we were like, okay, yea, we can play around with this map. We got some good results in scrims and stuff like that, but obviously, we played the best of the best. They found a flaw in our setup, so that’s what happened.”
