+1

one article wouldn't even scratch the surface though, it would have to be an elaborate 10 article series... such commitment required.


ps. before the flaming begins, we're all good friends with him (inertia), these comments were jokes.

Only way I would reconsider playing CS again would be if my brother played, which I don't see happening and even then, I am currently not motivated to play.

It's not up to me to keep the Finnish scene alive, I've been doing that (with the help of natu while I was in the US) since 2006.

i like the 2nd idea

+1 and the possibility differences on each country.

Agreed!

The only thing he could do is commentating his own demos, or maybe his brother's. He's not in the mind of every pro player, even if he might understand it more than you, a lot of players think totally different.

I think if ruuit and contE didn't take the fragging roles in hoorai my brother would have become even better than ruuit, who was top5 in the world.

He's not motivated because of some of the following: CS takes lots of time for little return, real life is more important and finally, because he's sick of going to tourneys to play for imaginary prize pots that don't get paid out.

i would never talk about after parties or anything else going on outside of the game because it's not my place to do that.

i have never heard of teams betting on anything... i bet cogu at gamegune 2007 that we would beat logitech 2-0 at wcg finland, i guess that counts.

nothing special that i can think of tbh.

hhaha +1

well, the fact the they managed to win ESWC06 with 2 weeks of pracc in Europe is awesome, not mentioning that they've won many others tournaments as well.

gob b and ave are the best in-game leaders imo, carn is up there because of his leadership ability (as in, he seems to be a good leader to a group of people, although his strats aren't necessarily up there with the other two).

i think robban is clearly better than the other in-game leaders individually, but his strat calling doesn't even compare to carn's.

snajdan was always an annoying person to play against because of the odd way his teams used to play, seemed like his main goal was to annoy you playing against them.

i think walle was good in 2005-2007 but after that he lost it or didn't care enough. i'm not sure why goodfella, moon or lex are even on that list (although the latter two used to be really really good individually).

i only played one match against element ever competitively so i haven't played against him enough to commentate on him.

cheers!

i don't think i know enough about the scene in 2003-2004 to write such an article, this would be better directed at a person like thorin ^^. i was just starting out then, so while i followed it, i wouldn't trust my judgment then.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ICELAND(?)

if i was lucky i might be able to persuade 1-2 people to do that, simply not a realistic thing to try to do. also, i don't really like streaming, it's too time consuming and limits my life too much. i prefer writing.

+ : )

Attention whore.

my friends introduced me to it and it was my brother who eventually made me wanna play because i wasn't a big fan of cs at first.

all my tournaments are listed in my profile if you click on my name so you can see for yourself but my first real tournament was cpl spain where we beat 3d (which i've written about 50000 times by now i'm sure).

only team i was ever asked to join was eg and i guess to make winfakt with basic, every other time i was the one who made the team.

on december 21 this year our day will be 5h49min long. in comparison, june 20th will be over 18h55min long.

add to that the fact it's snowy, slushy and it rains/snows a bunch in the winter while temps drop all the way down to -20 celsius in february and in the summer it's 20-30 degrees, i think the answer is simple.

people like to enjoy the little good weather they get :D.

ciao!

i don't feel anywhere near confident enough to know enough about the norwegian scene to write about it, sorry

i think the talented people are often the quickest learners so one they're given a chance to learn from a new group of people and pick up on a bunch of things (e.g. from playing against better people) they just start absorbing information like a sponge.

as a result, they take big leaps fairly quickly because they are so motivated and put in a lot of hours. confidence also plays a factor and can push people over the top.

apart from plaste and real who make a living from poker (not conte), i don't think i could really gain enough access to people who play poker for a living.

it would actually be an interesting idea, but i don't think two people are enough especially because they probably don't want to share too much.

if i could get in contact with example gob b, tr1p or dsn and they were willing to chime in it would be cool, but i might ask real and plaste what they think.

good idea, but requires lots of help from others (and relying on other people often makes it hard to finish things - i'll see what i can do).

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from my experience the glue within a team is often someone totally different than the strat caller, because due to the strat caller being the person who tells people what to do, he is the most likely to get into arguments with players (unless people just flat out collide personality wise).

for example in 69N-28E natu was our glue and in EG it was warden and then gfn.

fRoD actually once told me that he wanted me to be more of a leader outside of the game as well but I told him that I call strats, I'm not his dad.

obviously as the caller you tend to often be the person with most leadership and you end up making decisions (meet up here at 7:30am, let's eat at this restaurant, watch demos in our hotel room at 8pm, etc) but the actual GLUE of the team is often another person based on my experience.
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most of the time statements aren't truthful but that's how it works in all sports - the spectators aren't entitled to all the information within a team.

what happened in EG was a prime example, me and fRoD couldn't get along due to various issues so in the end he blackmailed n0thing with storm and dboorn to get rid of me although n0thing wanted to play with me (but more on that in the coming article).

personally i don't think teammates have to be friends, they just have to be able to get along normally. if you're friends then that's great and it's a bonus, but it's not a necessity.

i have had good friends in all of my previous teams and those are the ones i'd have more fun traveling with, but friendships also keep people in teams that should no longer be there for other reasons.