k0nfig: We are in a bad state right now

It's been a year and some time since we last had a LAN event in Counter-Strike. The BLAST Premier Spring Finals was the last tournament before the world went into a lockdown in 2020.

Back then it was Complexity, who could celebrate a tournament victory.

But since then, things have not evolved as "The Juggernaut" would have wanted. A lack of results have put the roster under scrutiny before the start of IEM Cologne.

- I think that this tournament is a big telling point for our team. I am not saying, that we need to win the tournament, but we need to reach the Quarter-Finals or playoffs. If we go out in the groups or play-in, that would be a bad thing for us. We have had this roster for some time now, and we need to be more consistent, Will "RUSH" Wierzba explains in a press conference.

His teammate Kristian "k0nfig" Wienecke is on the same page, and reflects on the frustrations, that the team has endured throuhout the year.

- I think we are in a bad state because we have not achieved anything we wanted, and we have not done any damage as a team for an entire year now. I think we been really unlucky. We lost so many close games, and have not gotten the points we needed, so we have almost only went down on the rankings. But i still believe in this team, and I believe that we can win this tournament.

Complexity will need to qualify for the main tournament via the Play-in. Here they are paired with the Chinesee team ViCi gaming. A match that k0nfig and his teammates will try not to underestimate, despite them being huge favorites beforehand.

- A best of 1 is always hard. We could easily lose that match, even though we should win it. We are in a bad state right now, but hopefully we can win, the Dane says.

The match starts tomorrow at 15.20 (CEST). You can follow IEM Cologne closely throughout the whole tournament on Pley.gg