I drink the last sip of water from the bottle next to me as I get ready for today’s match. Although we are playing against Dragoned Gaming; I do not feel nervous at all. The most recent practices have thrown positive results, which has boosted the team’s spirits in the best way possible. I have been playing with Atem a lot lately, continuously exchanging advices about the roles we are still adapting to. However, I still feel a little out of place when I have to stay in one of the bomb sites for the entire round. “We are banning Frontier, right?” Oskar asks when the map veto phase begins. In competitive matches, there are seven possible maps to play. Right before the game starts, we have to ban the maps we do not want to play in either because we have not prepared enough or because the

