We caught up with Cloud9's Sean "sgares" Gares, who talked to us about the team's struggles at DreamHack Winter 2014, as well as their run of group stage exits, his opinion on other groups' results and predictions for playoffs.

Cloud9's run of group stage exits has been prolonged after losses to both HellRaisers and fnatic, which made it a third time in a row after FACEIT Finals and ESWC 2014.

The team's in-game leader, Sean "⁠seang@res⁠" Gares, gave us his input on what he thought went wrong for them here at DreamHack. He went on to talk about a lot of different topics, including coaching in CS:GO, Bravado and his expectations for the remainder of the tournament.

We still have two more interviews coming from day one at DreamHack Winter 2014, first of which is going to be Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill who sat down with us before facing ESC, followed up by Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács after qualifying for playoffs.

Ladislav 'GuardiaN' Kovács Age: 23 Team: Natus Vincere Rating 1.0: 1.17 Maps played: 325 KPR: 0.79 DPR: 0.62 Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill Age: 23 Team: Ninjas in Pyjamas Rating 1.0: 1.08 Maps played: 164 KPR: 0.72 DPR: 0.63 Sean 'seang@res' Gares Age: 26 Team: Cloud9 Rating 1.0: 0.89 Maps played: 99 KPR: 0.59 DPR: 0.66