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On Monday, the second major of year 6 started in Sweden, when 16 teams met to compete for the title.
SiegeGG has been busy interviewing the teams, covering the groundbreaking changes and providing further insight into the events of the events.
Breaking News
A number of key stories increased around Six Sweden Major in recent weeks:
Interro will cast on Sweden Major with former G2 legend Pengu
FoxA tests positive for COVID-19, HOP3Z to stand on Major
HysteRiX can not play at Sweden Major with iG, GiG to fill in: “We kind of knew that this will one day happen”
Russian castor Rhyzzy dies after suffering from covid-19
Every High Caliber R6 change in one place: Valkyrie nerf, HUD updates and “privacy” mode
Day 1 coverage
Sweden Major day an important takeaways: Perfect FaZe, poor NA
Highlights: LATAM Reign SUPREME on day 1 !!
Team One steamrolls through the first day competition: “Everything worked as we planned”
“Mexico does not show our true potential”: Ninjas in Pajamas’ on their win against Invictus Gaming
“When there was time to press while roaming, the other person would not do it”: SANDBOX struggles in the opener
“I count on [reaching] “Round of 16”: RIN is booming on DWG KIA’s chances in “death group”
DarkZero fights on the first day: “I think our main problems against Team eNe were due to the late round playing on attack”
“It went close to the thread, but we managed to pull it off in overtime”: Rogue defeated Chiefs in first intl. match since 2020
Interviews and breakdowns before the event
SiegeGG interviewed most of the teams that come to this event to get an insight behind the curtains:
Canadians about DarkZero’s expectations in Sweden: “We just want to show up and be better than we were before”
Hotancold on the success of 2021: “It’s easy to be confident in myself when my team has confidence in me”
VertcL on Oxygen’s expectations: “People sleep a lot on us, and that’s good. At this point, we are used to it. “
“It was very impressive, very eye-opening”: Yeti reflects on Soniq’s Mexico Major, aims for playoffs in Sweden
At the Swedish Major, it’s time for BDS to put Europe on top again
Steadily building Vitality ready for return to LAN
“One of our strongest virtues is that we can fix our mistakes really quickly”: dan on Team Empires form
Revamped Rogue ready for first LAN event in ages: “We tried to go back to our roots (for step 3)”
Astro on the future of FaZe Clan: “We had a conversation with the organization, we decided to have a long-term list”
“Community thinks FaZe Clan is the best now, we do not care a bit”: Alem4o on Team oNe’s Mexico Major and Stage 3 appearances
“I’m more confident than ever before”: FURIA’s Fntzy eager to take on Sweden Big challenge after a fantastic BR6 split
Ninjas in pajamas are looking for redemption at org’s home
“Let’s do this as DWG KIA!”: SANDBOXs Nova mentions rivals as motivation for stage 3 recovery, Major qualification
“A little more pressure” for DWG KIA this time despite “contender” status, says RIN
“It might just be better to have a complete overhaul of our style of play”: Invictus ready if HysteRiX can not play
“Everyone’s gonna consider us a freebie”: Chiefs happy with underdog status ahead of international debut
In addition to this, we also talked to the new analyst at the event, Tobias “BikiniBodhi” André:
BikiniBodhi: “I want to help … to bridge the two communities together”
Team analysis before events
As we dug deeper into the participants, we broke down each team’s strengths and weaknesses both statistically and with the help of NA League analyst Jacob “CaliberJacob” Anderson & Jesse Chick:
common questions
Be sure to keep looking back here at SiegeGG for even more coverage of the games themselves as they take place next week.