Hiko: "Closing games a mental block"

We caught up with Spencer "Hiko" Martin in Leicester to talk about Liquid's changes, their struggles with closing out games and ESL Pro League Season 3 Finals matches overall.

Coming off of recent changes and a semi-final finish at DreamHack Austin, Liquid couldn't close out a 14-2 lead against Ninjas in Pyjamas in the opening round of groups at ESL Pro League Season 3 Finals.

On day two their domestic match-up with Cloud9 as the elimination match ended up going their way following an overtime on Dust2 and a comfortable victory on Cobblestone.

In the following interview, Spencer "⁠Hiko⁠" Martin talks about the departure of James "⁠Jame^s⁠" O'Connor and Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev, their two matches in Leicester so far and struggling with closing out matches:

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Spencer 'Hiko' Martin Age: 26 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 439 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.60 James 'Jame^s' O'Connor Age: - Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00 Cloud9 #15 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertTyler 'Skadoodle' LathamMike 'shroud' GrzesiekAlec 'Slemmy' WhiteJake 'Stewie2K' Yip Ninjas in Pyjamas #5 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergChristopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundRichard 'Xizt' LandströmAdam 'friberg' FribergJacob 'pyth' Mourujärvi Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev Age: 18 Team: LiquidB Rating 1.0: 1.18 Maps played: 409 KPR: 0.84 DPR: 0.70 Liquid #9 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinEric 'adreN' HoagNick 'nitr0' CannellaJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiKenneth 'koosta' Suen