LØS Curse: "My whole team is happy, but honestly I can't feel that way"

got their first win at Worlds 2026. After the losses to and , the Brazilian team beat 2-0 in the 0-2 elimination series, eliminated the LCP team and moved to 1-2. With that, LØS remain alive in the Swiss Stage, but one loss away from elimination, and will keep playing best-of-three series.

Right after the series, Sheep Esports had the opportunity to chat with the team’s jungler, Raí “” Yamada, the CBLOL final MVP, who spoke about the team’s performance and what Brazil is missing to go far in the tournament.

Raí “Curse” Yamada: “I think my whole team is happy, but honestly I can’t feel that way. I think our team isn’t playing what we normally play. In game 1, I expected it to be like this, that we’d be a bit nervous, playing a little differently, and it was like that in game 1 and we won. In game 2, I thought we’d stomp in about 20 minutes, with a draft we were comfortable with and a situation for that to happen. It turned out that, after the early game, I feel we got lost, that we weren’t connecting very well, and the game that was supposed to be impossible for them to play, they got a chance, so that left it a bit strange. So, it’s okay. It’s not the best, but it’s okay.

Curse: Honestly, I think it’s more because the level was more even between the teams. But, in terms of concepts, in general, the last times we did zero, we weren’t applying anything, we were just walking around. This time, at least, we tried to apply them, and I think that’s why it showed.

Curse: It was really bad in the first two games. In the first game, against T1, I won’t say I was nervous, but I felt it. I think maybe game 1 was because of that, because if I had played normally, like I play in Brazil, I think everyone, in general, we would have had a game. It turned out that me and the team didn’t have that. In game 2, against G2, we definitely should have won, the way the game went. We had a very good first round, the game was already on track, and in the second round, if (Jeong Seong-hoon) had flashed, we would have killed both and the game would have ended. We kept making mistakes that we normally don’t make in Brazil and gave them a game, but we still managed to hold on.

In the last fight, I think because of the pressure, we skipped steps as a team and made a mistake in an important part, which we would definitely have played much better in Brazil, or in a situation where we were calmer. So my individual performance isn’t being so good in decision-making and in guiding the team. What I can do better is make it more comfortable for them to play, because everyone knows they’re very good in lane. I need to adapt to the team here, to the way they play and think, and I need to be faster. In Brazil, I know how everyone plays, I know the players, so it’s easier. Here I don’t have that, so I have to adapt in another way. I’m getting used to it, to make it easier for them.

Curse: I find it very funny that when I said that, everyone thought the team was over. I saw people saying things. Feisty and I are probably the closest players, we talk normally. What happened in the game is that, for those who don’t know, English is not his native language, and we were having a problem with his microphone during the early game, in the first 15 minutes. After that it was fine, we just played badly. But I thought he didn’t want to put the microphone on because of concentration, and I was like: “What do you mean? What do I do?”

I can’t pause and tell the referee that the guy doesn’t want to wear the microphone and that I can’t hear him. But he hadn’t explained properly what was happening: his microphone was in the right place, but it kept falling, and he had to keep pulling it up, which was bothering him. As we on the team didn’t understand that, we didn’t pause, and he didn’t pause either. Then he fixed it. It was kind of that, so everything is fine, we sorted it out for this series and everything went well with the communication.

Curse: I’m not talking about my case, but for everyone it’s harder to play here. We can’t win lanes like we win there, so we’re not in our comfort zone. Normally we just pick the champions, win mid, top and bot, and it’s very easy to play. Here that doesn’t happen. We win lanes more or less, but we still manage to get a lead, which is good. And I think yes, there are some nervous players. In some situations, I feel some people drift away from the communication and focus too much on the game, which I think is normal.

At the EWC, for example, I felt the same thing: you go play against HLE and you keep looking at your lane because you’re afraid (Choi Woo-je) will kill you at level 2. It’s a process and it happens to everyone. You play against T1 and think “my God, what are they going to do?”, you overthink too much, and in the second game the guys aren’t like that. Against G2, for example, you can play without focusing 100% on the lane. It’s a process and it gets better with time, and that’s what I hope for. I just felt that, from game 1 to game 2 of this series, we were supposed to show more, and that made me a bit more anxious.

Curse: In practice, everyone was doing very well, at least in the ones we had at the beginning. We were even surprised. But on stage it’s being very volatile, kind of inconsistent: sometimes we win the lane, sometimes we lose it. Normally we play 1v1 and win, but here, sometimes, we die. I think the lanes are still a bit inconsistent on stage.

Curse: If we get back to being the team we are, I think so. I believe we’ll win the next series, and the one after that is down to luck. It’ll be a good matchup, something we’ll have to dream about. I don’t think we’re performing at 100%, but if we get back to 100%, we’ll give them a game, and it’ll be a close one. In the best case, we win the next series playing well, the other one is a coin flip, 50-50 or 60-40, and we dream. That’s what I’m thinking right now.”