Blog:One Tap Lan 2017: Fiachra “FiggyS” O’Higgins Interview
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One Tap Lan 2017: Fiachra “FiggyS” O’Higgins Interview
This interview was audio recorded on the afternoon of the 6th of August just after FiggyS Diers Money Crew were knocked out by Nobody's.
Here on day two of One Tap Lan 2017 with FiggyS of Diers Money Crew. Just been knocked out by Nobody’s two - one in a close game. Your immediate thoughts after that game?
Choked, obviously because well in the first map we went down twelve – three and we pulled in back to lose the game sixteen – twelve. It was just generic issues that you see when you play in a mix. People not knowing how to play together, and on the T side it’s just people jumping through smokes hoping for the best. Second map we played well against Different Gravy, the probably winners of the tournament.
Do you think they are going to take it?
I’d say that Princesses vs Different Gravy will be the final. The two of them are playing as we speak and the loser will just stomp whoever wins here out of Nobody’s and DEG.
Looking back to your game, on map three we had a technical issue where two rows of PC’s powered off about half way through the game. Can you explain what happened there and how it affected your team potentially?
The main issue was that when I set up I was the only one with a cable long enough to connect to the wall. There were ten PC’s on the one power bank and it all just went after a day and a bit of playing. As for the mental effect, a twenty minute break, I honestly think it didn’t make too much of a difference for me. I think I played all right on the T side. But we were just tilted, because we lost the five rounds leading up to the half and we timed out half way through the round and the round was given to the other team.
Do you think it makes a difference if that round is played again and you win it?
I do, it’s just the mental difference between eleven – four and ten – five, its one round but it’s huge. The only round we won on our T side on Train was the eco, so if we win that and we are up eleven – four, that’s thirteen rounds. It could be the difference between two rifle rounds and five rifle rounds which is what in reality we had to win, so I don’t know… I’m just frustrated coming away from it because of how we played on Inferno. The exact same thing, monster CT side, too incompetent on our T side because of games we played yesterday. We just crumbled. We managed to bail ourselves out with the last two rounds on Inferno were both 4 k’s from players on our team. On one round, the only reason we won the game pretty much was because Guinness was in library and he had a mate on site. Instead of peeking me two on one they let me get the first kill and then he swung. It basically won us the game because it put me in a position to finish the round off. And the round before then I had gotten three entries and was in a one v one. I lost this round though. But the difference was them peeking one by one. On train in the other hand it was team peeking, flashing for each other and it just destroyed us.
I noticed throughout the event that a few of you guys were at each other’s throats. Do you think any of that was effecting your performance in game or tilting you potentially?
I think it tilted me when players who I know aren’t as experienced as me are trying to correct what I am saying throughout the game. There are different ways to play the game. If you play a one vs one a hundred times it will be different every time, so obviously you are going to have different opinions but I find that in rounds that we are winning, when we’re at each other’s throats, even in games we won like against Mixers convincingly we were at each other’s throats all the time. I’m notoriously bad at it, for correcting people on doing things that I think are wrong and it doesn’t help obviously when you are in a bad mood after losing five rounds in a row and it’s gone from literally ten – one to sixteen – eleven in the space of twenty minutes.
Can you take anything positive away from the fact that you did take a map of Nobodys?
My first Lan, two and a bit years ago I got sixteen – one’d by Riot. I got sixteen two’d by Nobody’s. Two years later at my seventh Lan, taking a map off them with a team I haven’t played with once.
Do you think that is going to improve your prospects for future mixes?
I’m honestly not very pushed about the whole Irish side of things because I was known that I didn’t want to concentrate on Ireland really but the UK. I’ve talked to people who know what they are doing in regards to it and they’ve just advised against trying to team with Irish players because you can be the best player in Ireland and still… if you look at the skill difference between doof and conoR isn’t that high but if you join a pug with conoR you will know who he is. If you join a pug with doof Irish people will know who he is. The difference between exceL and one of the mixes I’m on now is just insane.
Do you have any Irish Lans planned for the future?
Yea, I’ll be at Celtic Throwdown. I’ll be at the Lan mixing but I’m trying to take them chill, but when the atmosphere gets to you…
You do seem to get into it Immortals style. Very high highs and very low lows.
I put everything into CS. It’s how I’ve always been. Even online it’s the same. I break mice and keyboards, it’s insane. It’s so dumb. For ages I wasn’t bad, but then when I went to my first UK lan I was like I’ve accomplished what I’ve wanted to accomplish in the Irish scene. I want to do that in the UK, then do it in Europe. I sort of started putting too much into it…
Do you have a final goal, some people might say if I win a Lan I’m happy enough with my playing career, or I have to win a UK Lan. Is there a goal you have set for yourself in that sense?
It is kind of frustrating because I’ve played seven Lans now, I’ve come top four in four of them and they’re all Irish Lans. I’d love to have won a Lan by now. This Lan here we could have done better but obviously we get Different Gravy, we get a bunch of other people. I don’t think that the teams I have been to Lan with are Lan winning calibre. The only team I’d say could have won a lan was when I was in DEG and we got unlucky because we had to play Nobody’s in the semi-finals as opposed to the final.
That was G-8?
That was G-8, probably one of the better moments in Irish CS for me. I do think this is my best personal performing Lan because I was given so much freedom. I didn’t have much impact, I whiffed something crazy, it was just like… I’d say if you look at my stats for like one vs twos, one vs threes I clutched a lot of them but the ones I lost I lost convincingly. Like there is a clip of me one vs three on Train and it’s just the most atrocious thing you have ever seen.
I saw that from the other teams perspective and heard the casters reaction. What happened there?
All that happened was that I knew where all three of them were. In my said I said I’ve won this. I lined my shot up on Tummon, I missed, I sprayed the next guy and I missed the spray. It’s not like I went for a knife kill or did something dumb like I did yesterday in groups. That was just me messing about since the game was done, but this was like one of those things where Tummon, he crouched, the guy in front of me moved. I line up with the guy who crouch as he gets up and I hit him in the chest, and I’m just like Fuck they know where I am, hold mouse one and hope for the best.
So you think it will be either Princesses or Different Gravy.
Yea I think Princesses are just stupidly strong, although I’d like for Gravy to win. Because I feel that doof is deserving of a Lan win as he has been consistently one of the top two players in Ireland since he got into the scene.
Any final words?
I hope Nobody’s lose, and I hope they all retire and never accomplish anything ever again.
FiggyS’ Twitter is @FiggyCSGO.
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