FLY Gryffinn: “I don’t want to feel like I’m disappointing [my teammates]. I want to do well. I want them to feel happy.”
Q: You’ll be bootcamping in Korea during First Stand — where you’ve lived in the past. Looking forward to returning?
Gryffinn: The ideal goal was to go top three so we can go to Brazil and then Korea, but I still am very excited, very happy and I think our team has a lot more potential. And I think with time, as long as we keep being focused, we keep improving. I feel like day by day, week by week, we are getting better — at least in scrims, but there’s some things on stage…
I’m just making sure I’m focused on my improvement and I think that will go a long way. Being not the leader of the team, but the one that is the most vocal, I feel like I have to be really precise. I carry that weight and I think I’m just not the level that I want to be right now.
If I get to that level and we as a team keep improving — everyone on the team — then I think with time we will be really good.
Q: Understandably, you’re very emotional right now — this loss was tough, but FLY did get a lot better. What’s something you feel the team got better at?
Gryffinn: Honestly, it sucks. I mean, I feel kind of sad because I feel like I had a pretty bad past few series and that made the team look overall worse. And I feel like I carry a lot of responsibility in that aspect. If I play well, we win, and if I play bad, we lose — even though it’s a team game, [I kind of have] a selfish mindset.
I feel bad in that aspect because, obviously, I want us to succeed — and I want everyone on the team to succeed and feel happy.
I guess the thing that it felt like that we’re improving on is respecting enemy timers and early game planning, but on stage we haven’t really been able to show that. I think every early game we’re kind of trolling and as a team, I thought we were getting better at planning.
[We’re] not replicating the same process on stage. There’s some issues, but I do think individually, and as a team, we still are improving a lot week by week — that’s the bare expectation from a young team. We’re going to have to just see in the future and we have a lot of time, so [it’s] hard to say.
Q: At the start of the split, you said you wanted to make Quad feel comfortable, focusing on team bonding — and the team seems to get along great. How has team bonding been?
Gryffinn: I think team bonding matters a lot. I think my foremost goal is [making] sure we have a good team environment. I think that’s pretty important. And it does seem like Quad seems more comfortable than maybe he would have been previously. So I’m happy in that aspect.
It just feels bad because I feel… not that I’m disappointing them, but I don’t want to feel like I’m disappointing them. I want to do well. I want them to feel happy, and this is just not the result we wanted as a team.
[Specifically], the level of performance that I showed I feel really regretful [about]. But I know we have a lot of time and Split 1 doesn’t matter too much, but as long as we keep improving I’m still really cheerful… I’m still really optimistic for the future, but obviously the present feels really bad.
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