nak: "Hard to lose like this"

HLTV.org caught up with FireGamers captain Renato "nak" Nakano after his team's early exit at the WCG.

The Brazilian team registered an amazing 17-13 win over fnatic in their last group match, a result which is, however, not enough to see them through.

A three-way tie at the top was decided by the round difference between the tied teams, which ruled that FireGamers finished third with a -6 record, behind wNv.cn (+8 record) and fnatic (-2).

After the match, Nakano blamed the heavy defeat to wNv.cn for his side's early exit in the tournament.

"We are thinking about those silly rounds we gave away against wNv after we had lost the match and that now make a difference, we are out because of 4 rounds, if we had made two more rounds against fnatic, if wNv had made one more round on the stage, we would be through," he told HLTV.org.

"It's hard to lose like this, because of small details, but we were in a hard group and we knew it would be like this, decided by details, but it is okay, we got here in our first international event and we beat fnatic so it was worth it.

"What happened was a bit of nervousness against the Chinese team, which costed us a few rounds. de_dust2 is a weak map for us, and we did not start well, we started losing pretty bad, then we turned things around, we still won the pistol as CT but we lost the second round, that's when we lost some motivation.

"Against fnatic, de_train is also one of our strongest maps, we were expecting a match like this, we played very well and I think they did not expect this defeat but there is nothing we can do, we are out. "

Nakano is confident his team can only improve in the future after defeating fnatic, who are regarded as one of the strongest contenders for the WCG title, in FireGamers' first international appearance.

"We are happy to have won against fnatic but sad because of those little rounds we needed to go through, now we will try to get a sponsor to play in some other tournaments out there because the team now has more experience and I think it will be better next time," he added.

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