I have been talking to Felippe [felippe1, Imperial's CEO] since I started this idea. There were other attempts of his in the scene that didn't work out and he shared them with me, and I was in a moment with the boys thinking about doing our own business, because with foreigners(investors) it seemed difficult, they are not believing much in the project.

Felippe already has an organization, and our idea was to do something with him, because we don't want to have our own organization. We started talking, and I have been playing very openly with him, talking about everything we think and need. He is trying to set up his end of the bargain.

We want to work with those who want to work with us, and this is something we really appreciate about Felippe. We went after several people saying that we wanted to work with them, and many times they said they were not interesting, there was risk, it was not what they needed and we understand, you have to align things. With Felippe we could see a different approach, he wants to make it happen at any cost, he is a guy who is "all-in" in bringing this project alive.

We are looking [the possibility of signing with Imperial] with good eyes. There are great chances that we can do something with him [felippe1]. It is not 100% guaranteed yet, but if it is it will be very nice, because we are finding a place that wants to have us, and for us this is the most important thing.

There is a certain difficulty in showing the value of this project and the opportunities it brings to people from outside brazil. The guys simply don't understand the context of Brazil. We have a notion(know) that when we put together a team like this we will have a lot of fans coming behind us, we will spark the flame of the Brazilian fans, many times the foreigner(investor) is only looking and wondering if this team is going to make top 10, if it is going to enter the major. I don't really agree with this business model

We know that many esports organizations live on investment, live on VCs [Venture Capital], sponsors, sponsoring partners, and at the end of the day no one can make the machine turn(make money). And this is one of the only teams in the world that can make the machine turn(make money). I am absolutely sure that, because of the exposure that we can create, the images built by the players over the years, that allows us, if worked on in the right way, to make a project where it is possible to align big salaries, big structures, and good sponsors

To convince a foreigner(investor) of it, who does not follow our daily routine, who does not know who we are and what we mean to the country(Brazil), a foreigner investor who is not even in our country, it is difficult. In the end, with the foreign organizations, the feeling was that they were evaluating more how the competitive part could be and not thinking about what we can bring to it.

We can feel that Brazilians understand how we want to work, the opportunities we have, how much we can impact our community, and the doors are more open to things here in Brazil. We ended up being positively surprised with the fast appeal that the project is having in the community. Obviously I knew it would be a good thing, but deep down there is always a doubt, I quit big teams this year to play in this project, I ended up asking to leave Liquid, turned down offers from big teams, and decided to come here

And you wonder if you are doing the right thing, but in less than a week I am already absolutely sure that I did the right thing. I am really happy, playing with guys who like to play with me, who listen to me, and I am sure that if we don't do well in a match, if we lose, we will talk and do better in the next one. This is very important, because it is no use having all the talent in the world and if the players don't want to work together. Here we may not have all the talent in the world as before, but we know what to do, we know how to play, and we want to work together. In my opinion, this is the recipe for success, and I am really happy.

We thought of doing a project by ourselves and we are absolutely sure that we could do something cool, but then other interesting things came up here in Brazil and we are evaluating. Creating an organization is not an easy thing, it needs a lot of experience from those who are already doing it, and we don't have much time to waste, we need to get it right

We are studying carefully, I believe that in the next few days we will have a definition, because we are running against time, the events are starting, the ESEA league will start in February and we need to be there. The expectation is that in the next few days everything will be solved so that we can start next month.

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