FURIA Tatu on his MSI exit: "Regrets? The LYON series and T1's game 3"
FURIA are out of MSI after back-to-back 3-0 losses, first to LYON and then to T1. For Tatu, the exit stung — but sharing a BO5 with Faker still made it a day he'd dreamed of. RFT.GG sat down with FURIA jungler Pedro "Tatu" Seixas after the defeat to talk about facing his idol, FURIA's mid-game gap, and turning the page to EWC in Paris.
You still made it competitive against T1, and I know you really wanted to face them. How are you feeling right now?
First of all, it's a super pleasure to play against T1 — to play against Faker in a BO5. It was one of my biggest dreams. My biggest dream was to get a photo with him, and I got the photo, and I also played against him in the BO5. So for me, today was already an amazing day. But going out without winning a single match was kind of rough, because I think we had some winning positions in some games — . That one was amazing for me. It was so hyped, and then to think they're going to lose it. It was super frustrating to lose that game.
I thought it was almost impossible to lose, but T1 did it again.
What do you think you're missing as a team — not just to be competitive, but to actually take games off them?
I think being competitive is already enough to start winning some matches and some series. We need to improve a lot, because they were so much smarter than us. Every time the mid game comes, they open up a lead. So it's time to understand more about the game. There's a lot to learn from these series, and I hope we can learn from these two and start winning at EWC at least.
You don't feel there's one specific area to improve — you think it's a global thing?
The mid game.
I heard FURIA played pretty well in practice here in Korea. Do you think playing well in practice put more pressure on you, feeling you can do better than the Brazilians before you?
Thinking about the game against LYON, maybe that happens sometimes. Normally we don't get angry with each other in-game, but in the LYON game we were kind of fighting each other when something went bad — we were super nervous. Normally we're just enjoying the game. I think that was probably the issue that got us. Today the idea was to enjoy the game, because you know it's a pretty tough team — and if you keep getting angry at each other, you can't win any game.
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You were competitive today, but it was much rougher against LYON. Will you leave this MSI with no regrets still?
I have a lot of regrets, but it's fine.
The series against LYON and this game three against T1 might be [regrets] forever.
But stuff like that happens so you improve. There's always a reason in life, and I really believe in that. So I'm going to take good lessons from it, be better next time, and hope it's good enough.
People see you as the new generational Brazilian talent. Do you have faith you can do better than the players before you and take Brazil higher on the international stage someday?
I think that's the unique goal right now.
The next step for Brazil is to do well at international tournaments.
At this MSI, we threw away a good chance to do something really nice for Brazil. I'm just looking to do well at EWC, win Split 3, come back to Worlds, and try to do better.
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Do today's matches give you more confidence that, since you're very young, you can bring Brazil to new heights in your career?
Yeah, sure. Even without winning, there was a lot of good stuff we did today. There were also more bad things — because if we'd done more good things, we'd have won at least one game. But there's a lot to learn. It's awesome that we can already play against good teams and show our game against them. But today it wasn't enough.
Did you get good practice here?
Yeah, it was a lot of LPL and LCK scrims. It was amazing. I hope we can keep getting good practice heading into EWC and the next international tournaments.
You play on the Brazilian server. Is that maybe a limit — is it hard suddenly facing teams that practice against the best in the world all year? Do you feel that gap on stage?
The difference from practice in Brazil is like giants — mostly for the lanes. The laners here struggled a lot at the beginning, but we learned a lot over the last week of practice. We're playing better in the lanes against good teams now. It was a shock for them the first days, but we improved a lot.
For me, I'm already thinking about EWC. I'm just going to rewatch the games and learn from them. But you can do now — we're already out. So today I'm probably going to get into my bed, think about today and the LYON game, get really mad and really sad alone. [laughs] The next day I can watch the games, see what to improve, and look forward to the next thing, which is EWC. But today is going to be rough day.
What's the one thing you most want to fix before Paris?
The objective situations — we're not playing them really well. We're throwing a lot around those timers, like Barons and Heralds. I don't think we're thinking the right things in those moments. So that's the most important thing.
Are you confident FURIA can bring some good news back home at EWC?
I hope so. I think we can play good games, I think we can win some — but it's going to be rough. We need to play well.
Just super strong. But we need to be ready to face them.
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Any last words for your Brazilian fans, and the Western fans listening?
Thank you all for the support. For me, it's amazing to be here. It would have been much better if we'd won some matches or series. But now it's time to focus on the next international tournament, time to focus on improving from today and from this MSI. So thank you all for the support — I will do better next time.
