Sam "Oplaid" Lingle recently had a chance to catch up with the manager of the Dallas Venom, Alex Conroy. He was able to ask several questions following up on the Venom's recent CEVO championship.

Despite your victories, things have to be a bit bittersweet - your team lost your only match in the World Final, and a CS:S victory would have meant Venom advanced. How did it feel to lose that one important match while having success in so many other cases, and how did you recover mentally to continue strong play in things like CEVO?

I’m the first one to call a spade a spade. My guys dropped the ball, and lost the San Fransisco match for us. Whether they were over confident or rushing the match to try and get the W, they played worse then I’ve ever seen them play. With that said, in their entire time together as a team, they have had one bad half of Counter-Strike. It happened at an inopportune moment, but it only happened once. Their worst loss all season was 11-7, I’ll take it. While I am sure they did not simply get over the loss, they knew it was time to refocus when CEVO playoffs came around.

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