We caught up with Spencer "Hiko" Martin in Leicester to talk about Liquid's changes, their struggles with closing out games and ESL Pro League Season 3 Finals matches overall.
Coming off of recent changes and a semi-final finish at DreamHack Austin, Liquid couldn't close out a 14-2 lead against Ninjas in Pyjamas in the opening round of groups at ESL Pro League Season 3 Finals.
On day two their domestic match-up with Cloud9 as the elimination match ended up going their way following an overtime on Dust2 and a comfortable victory on Cobblestone.
In the following interview, Spencer "Hiko" Martin talks about the departure of James "Jame^s" O'Connor and Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev, their two matches in Leicester so far and struggling with closing out matches:
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Spencer 'Hiko' Martin 
Age: 26 Team: Liquid Rating 1.0: 1.11 Maps played: 439 KPR: 0.73 DPR: 0.60 James 'Jame^s' O'Connor 
Age: - Team: No team Rating 1.0: 0.00 Maps played: 0 KPR: 0.00 DPR: 0.00 
Cloud9 #15 Jordan 'n0thing' GilbertTyler 'Skadoodle' Latham
Mike 'shroud' GrzesiekAlec 'Slemmy' WhiteJake 'Stewie2K' Yip 
Ninjas in Pyjamas #5 Patrik 'f0rest' LindbergChristopher 'GeT_RiGhT' AlesundRichard 'Xizt' LandströmAdam 'friberg' FribergJacob 'pyth' Mourujärvi 
Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev 
Age: 18 Team: LiquidB Rating 1.0: 1.18 Maps played: 409 KPR: 0.84 DPR: 0.70 Liquid #9 Spencer 'Hiko' MartinEric 'adreN' HoagNick 'nitr0' CannellaJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiKenneth 'koosta' Suen