Gaxy: “Na’Vi now look great on paper so they should make a big climb”

Ninjas in Pyjamas, while one of the biggest threats in European PUBG, still struggle to perform at the international events. A week after finishing 3rd at the PUBG Europe League, NiP bombed at the FACEIT Global Summit finishing 13th. Laurynas “Gaxy” Rudys weighed in on the situation.

Rudys joined Ninjas in Pyjamas in September, after the Swedish organization picked up Welcome to South Georgo. While the team managed to accumulate enviable results under the NiP banner, they are yet to win their first event. They finished second at Global Loot League Season 3 and second at OMEN Trophy PUBG 2018, among other results.

Last week NiP competed at the Kick-off Cup, featuring 32 of Europe’s best. In the end, Ninjas stepped on their old faults and struggled to perform consistently even against much less experienced teams. To discuss this situation, team’s fragger Laurynas “Gaxy” Rudys talked with PUBG esports.

Having wrapped up the PEL Phase 1 and the group stages of the Kick-off Cup, how would you describe your debut in the league and PEL as a whole? Do you like the structure of the league, having LAN matches every week and bootcamping for three weeks?

Overall, we are happy to finish third in PEL Phase 1 as it meant that we qualified for the FACEIT Global Summit in London. And for us it was a good start with the new server settings and point system; I don’t think people realize how much it actually changed the game.

For us as a team, it’s obviously great to play so many competitive matches on a given week. Before PEL Phase 1, there was this long break so to finally go back to play — and so often at that — was awesome.

Unfortunately, we are one of the teams that don’t have a team house in Berlin set up. Because of that, we didn’t really get to play that much between the PEL matches, but it gave us more time to analyze our games instead. I hope we get the housing situation sorted out soon, however, because not practicing the game does put us in bit of a disadvantage, especially in the long run.