Kaoday on forming Prototype Blaze: "It was a sign that we were all available at the same time"

In November of this past year, a team of five French players from separate orgs competed together at the IESF Female World Esports Championship, taking second place. At the start of this year, the group of five had the chance to reunite and continue competing together, first as Prototype Blaze and now under the Zerance banner.

At the ESL Impact League Season 7 Finals, former FlyQuest RED member Coline "Kaoday" Le Floc'h spoke to Dust2.us Editor in Chief Jeffrey "Mnmzzz" Moore about how this new roster formed, how they stack up against EU's best, and the challenges they face going forward.

The full interview can be found below on YouTube, with key snippets underneath. All questions and answers below have been slightly edited for length and clarity.

We saw you leave FlyQuest and join this fully French roster at the end of last year. How did this new roster form and how did IESF influence that?

We just had a really good experience together. The tournament was very nice. It was like a sign of fate that we were all available at the same time when I got dropped. So we just said “let’s go, let’s do it, let’s build a super French team.”

During the ESL Impact European league play you only lost to Imperial Valkyries. How do you feel you did against them and how do you think the team stacks up to them?

During the season it was a bit hard. It was right at the start of the season and we had just started playing together. We tried to prepare for the match, but by the end we felt like we weren’t ready at all for them. We had a big team talk after, cause there were a lot of fundamental things that weren’t right, but then we really started [playing] stronger after. I think we have a better chance today against them, if we’re at our best.

Compared to other European teams, we’ve seen you in less mixed events just because of a lack of VRS points due to being a new roster. Is it important to get into more of those competitions throughout the rest of the year?

For sure. We’re going to do as many as we can, but there’s a bit of scheduling conflict since some of us are working. We don’t how realistic it is for some people to stop their job to go full-time CS. We’ve accepted some invites but there are some we can’t accept because we can’t all be there.