Did you play sometimes? At some point, did you regret stopping the game?

I totally stopped playing CS:GO, I think I launched the game only once or twice. I had no regret regarding this. In general, I don’t regret choices that I make. If I stopped at that moment, it was because it wasn’t possible for me to keep going under those conditions. I preferred to retire rather than harm my team and damage my image as a player.

RpK renews with apEX, kennyS & Ex6TenZ, whom he knew at the end of CS:S

After the VAC ban of KQLY, Titan was looking for a player. How did your first contact with them and your progressive comeback go? A simpler question, why this comeback?

We saw that comebacks on CS:GO are rarely a success (krL, delpan, flex0r, mateOo, frod, etc.), why would it be different with you? eSport is growing fast, don’t you fear to feel behind or "has-been" and fail?

I simply think that whenever you consider coming back to the top level in a game, you need to be able to put some things aside and stay a 100% focused. It’s possible that those players weren’t able to do so and maybe didn’t have this will and this motivation. If I accepted to come back, it’s to give my best in the game and be way over 100%. I’m not afraid of failing in the sense that I’m ready to do anything to avoid it. It isn’t a simple comeback, it’s the beginning of a brand new career.

How will you make up your deficit? Look at demos, listen to your teammates’ advices, play deathmatch,etc.?

So in order to catch up I have a very busy schedule. It’s about gaming from 5PM to 5AM… I’m nerding out like never before! I’m doing 1000 frags everyday in DM, I’m watching many demos to see positioning, movement, etc… And I also listen to my teammates’ advice a lot. At the moment, I’m working a lot with Maniac who offered to update me on all the maps. I’m improving pretty fast and trying to fix my mistakes right away.

What is your future? Are you gonna play CS:GO full-time? Will you live at the Gaming House? What do you think about it by the way (since you never experienced that on Source)?

Yes, I’m going to play CS full-time. I think it’s the best way to come back at my best level and get even better. I’m gonna spend one month at the gaming house in January but we won’t keep this system after that. We’ll go back to something more classic, training from home and bootcamping. I would say yes to the gaming house concept, but not too much. We all need to live outside of this a little so the option chosen by the team for this year suits me perfectly.

What do you think about the new maps? (Cobble, Overpass, Train, Season, Cache, etc.)? What do you think about the evolution of the technical aspect of the game, the aim, the stuffs, the weapons (M4A1 or M4A4?) but also about the skins and the stickers?

As you probably noticed, your return doesn’t go unnoticed and is making many readers happy. Did you expect such a warm welcome? The pressure is huge but you always seemed hermetic to it, is it still the case after this long break?

I have to admit I didn’t expect such a warm welcome after spending two years far away from the game… It is really enjoyable and it’s an extra motivation for me to accentuate my efforts. I think that I can handle the pressure pretty well. I’ve always been like this and as we say “I’d rather drink up the pressure than suffer from it” (i.e. pressure is like beer in French).

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