The Pink Zinic girls have been on a role lately as they managed to make it through to the ESL Major Series Finals. Their bid to retain the title will conclude next week when their paths will cross with the German team of we are.

So with the recent success, I decided to catch up with team leader Mayra ‘IpSa’ Perez and ask her a few questions. The interview explores what Mayra thinks about the upcoming ESWC as well as the recent EMS form.

Tell us about yourself, what is your role amongst the team?
Well, my name is Mayra Perez. Im 22 years old. Im a competitive, stuborn and honest person. My role among this team is to be ingame leader. I call the tactics and try to do my best while doin it! I am a really pushy person so I always try to push this team to be its best. I also try to organize small stuff among us that needs to be fixed.

Before we delve into your Major Series success, what are your thoughts about the upcoming ESWC tournament in France this year?
Im pretty happy about ESWC France this year! Really looking forward to it. There will probably be A LOT of female teams attending this tournament to try to get the money AND the title. So me and the team are really looking forward to this event! Its so awesome that the money is really high this year. That will attract female-teams all over the world.

With the tournament having a prestigious reputation, there will be many teams there battling it out for the title, are you excited about competing against new opponents such as SK-Gaming?
Last time when I was at ESWC Masters and ESWC Finals 2008, we did play against SK-gaming. It was pretty even, all of the times. Or thats atleast how I try to remember it. This time we got a whole new different lineup. With basicly two different players. They make a really big differens in the team, specially mentally. We won over sk-gaming in 2008 Masters-final and back then we where pretty new and hungry but it didnt go all the way in the ESWC Finals. That was two years ago and we have changed and I think we are better and hungry again to meat opponents that we rearly play against.

You beat mousesports in the Quarter-Finals, which meant you got revenge after the Pan European Tournament in Poland a few months ago. What has changed since then enabling you to defeat them and why?
There can be A LOT of different reasons why they won over us in Pan-european tournament but the biggest reason I think was that they changed two players. They got hungry and young blood in their team. Changes like that gives new motivation and they probably remember how we play. I have recently started to notice a lot of teams playing the way we do. And its pretty hard for us to prepare ourselves to “play against ourselves”. You are used to certain teams playing in a certain way, but when they break their habbit and play like us, its pretty hard to anti-stratigize that. Usually because we are not ready for it when it happens. The reason we won over them recently is; they had changed one player so that could have affected their over all performance and we knew how they played. They where pretty predictable.

Throughout the Major Series tournament, you have gone unbeaten, which game was your favourite and why?
We actually got beaten one time in the group stage. But I guess we cant always win ALL games. We can also have a bad day and play like shit. If you are the enemy at that time, I can only say; nice luck! My favorite game during this season must be the game versus mouzesports. We wanted revenge and we got it real good.

Following on, what do you think the key to your success is?
I wouldnt call it “success”. But if I had a trick down my sleeve, I wouldnt say it. It would spoil all the fun and maybe copycats would come and steal the idea? And we wouldnt want that… ;)

On top of your winning streak, you also have not lost a map, how does this affect you going into the game on Tuesday?
Like I mentioned before, unfortunately we lost one game but we where having a bad day. It wont affect anything going into the final. We see this as a new day and we will try to prepare as good as we can. Play a lot individually and as a team.

Stay tuned to myZINIC.com for updates on the Major Series Final which is due to be played next week!