nafany: There’s a huge difference between Cloud9 with buster and Cloud9 with interz
The Russian in-game leader explains in an interview how he feels a roster change was necessary for the star-studded CIS team.
When Cloud9 last month announced the acquisition of Timur “buster” Tulepov as a replacement for the loyal support player Timofey "interz" Yakushin, some experts and fans within the industry questioned that exact move.
Did they just use interz as a scapegoat? Won’t buster just the same impact and style to the table as interz? Was just some of the questions being asked.
But if you ask Cloud9’s in-game leader and long-standing captain Vladislav "nafany" Gorshkov this move will play a “huge difference” going forward, the Russian explained in an interview with ESL.
- Overall, I think this result is okay with us having a new player, nafany said. We didn’t prepare everything that we wanted and it’s a bit different game right now with a new player as well – I would say not even “a bit”, it’s a huge difference Cloud9 with interz and Cloud9 with buster.
- I think it’s obvious with buster that we now have more space to create new things. We can switch on a lot of maps – we have done it already. I know everything will be fine in the future.
interz vs buster
In the interview, nafany elaborates by going more in depth when comparing interz with buster.
- I will say the main difference is that interz is a guy who’s doing his work and was doing a great job. But buster is a player who brings us fresh air and he can fix some gaps on some maps for us. So, it was necessary to change players because we have played in the previous roster for two and half years, which is very long time.
- We have some struggles in teamspeak. It’s not even because of buster, it’s more because of me, hobbit and sh1ro but I can’t say a lot about that because we still don’t really know how to use it perfectly, nafany concluded.
You can watch the entire interview with nafany down below.
Ready for IEM Katowice
Yesterday Cloud9 secured themselves a spot at the prestigious IEM Katowice main event after a strong performance on the first day at the play-in stage. Beating IHC 16-5 and afterwards ENCE 2-1 in a decider match was ultimately enough to send them through to the $1 Million event.
