remove 20% damage clutch passive
increase clutch cd to 40
fixed rockets
fixed clutch shield
reverses clutch health and armor - 100hp 150armor
slash starting armor 25

Willits on bringing in new players : I think that if you've been playing army-realistic-style FPSes for a while, Quake will feel quite refreshing. For those, it will feel quite new, even if you're playing against a 40 yo player that's been into fast arena shooters for 20 years.

Zero4 : Right now the keyboard-mouse setup is very popular and has become second-nature but at the age of Q3 it was something new that we all had to learn. I think that the generation that learned to play with this setup will be able to share that experience with newer generations and I think that's great.

Implied by journalist : id software is heavily pushing into esports (third party) to promote its game like hell

ZeRo4 on spectator features : This is one of our main goals. One of the things that we've learned over the years is that to create an established esports game you need to make it very spectator-friendly. We are working HARD on the spectator features to be able to capture all the highlights that are happening in the game.

Reporter : Aren't you afraid knowing this is a fast FPS we're talking about ?

ZeRo4 : That's clearly one of our bigger challenges. We're hoping that our spectator features will be able to give out this speedy, brutal kind of game that we're releasing to the general audience.

Implied by journalist : 4v4 or 5v5 we will have to wait and see what's best (= idsoftware still doesnt know that but either 4 or 5)

Willits : For now, as modes go, we've been trying to see deathmatch, team deathmatch and we have tried different other popular modes

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// Ok ok, we had to write something professional. But I just wanna let you know I’ve got the whole team spamming me on skype, facebook, discord and everywhere else in excitement of what just happened. So again thank you for the support, I don’t want to be too cheesy. But yeah, you’ve created a bit of a moment in our lives to say the least. Catch up soon when our updates are ready! /James

You will notice that the core questions are the same for every interview minus some more personal or situational questions that I thought were relevant given the context or the very own experience of my interviewee. The interviews are raw, I haven't edited them so if there is any mispells or weird sentences, don't be freaked out.

Tell me a bit about yourself, what is your personal approach and your own experience of esports ?

Good morning ! My own experience about esport was quite different from the other actually. In esports, I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had to fight everyday in order to prove my innoncence. To summarise briefly, I was known as a cheater against my will. I couldn't prove it, so I had to wait 4 years on a tournament to show them wrong. You can see my history through this article : https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/15ox...ro_gaming/

My personal approach of esports would combined years of experience of hard work and never give up, such as sport in fact.


What is esports actually ? How do we define it ?

I have made a research thesis about it. As far as I remember, I had a research to make about the difference between sport and esports. What is sport ? It's an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

From this sentence, one word stands in my mind. This word is "physical". From different books, I have come to understand several facts. For the counter strike players, their vision acuity were as fast as the worlds best ping-pong players. Moreover, after several hours of practice, they felt exhausted, mentally and physically. I've been to the Philippines once for MSI, and I saw an ex fnatic player (Sen) playing Starcraft 2. He played so hard that his fingers were bleeding. It was quite impressive to be honest. From a business standpoint, it has also the same caracteristics. Indeed, you have sponsors who put money into it, even when the sponsor has nothing to do with esport (Hello youporn).

I digress briefly, sometimes sponsors such as youporn could be a huge progress for impressive gamers that did nothing else good than playing a game. I've seen so many good players being so confident but acting like a "Silver I" in front of girls. Youporn is the future.

In conclusion, I would define esports as a renewal of what we've always known with 2 important words : passion and competition.


How does one actually make a living out of esport ? Not just the competition aspect but more generally around video games as a whole ?

From an objective perspective, it's very uncommon to make a living out of esports, unless you are famous or you compete at the top on the most famous games (League of Legends, Counter strike GO). Otherwise, it's a lot about streaming, you create a personnality, and people either like or hate you. You do not really need to be good as long as you are funny and you provide contents.

To be honest, it is good to see this kind of effort, but it seems that it is easier to win money from gaming (not esports) now. People tend to act cocky because they made a name and they think they made it by their own, it's not. They always forget that they are what they are thanks to everyone.

If I could make an aside again, I wish I could bring a lot of viewers in order to get a lot of donations. Why is that, you're gonna ask ? From my experience, I always wanted to do something. I stand sometimes as a volunteer on a techno party in order to give free food to people who do not have the chance to have it. You dance, you pay your ticket and you bring 3-4 foodstuff. I was so happy and amazed to see that everyone was part of it and you could have in one night more than 200 boxes worth of food. So here was my idea, each week, I would make a donation day in order to gather all the money possible to buy everything I can for them and make a video out of it (If the donators want it or not).

Esports is huge and you can win a LOT of money from it, so it's good to use your reputation from it. Don't be like the 3% multi billionar. Btw don't give to the romanians, they piss me off (I'm joking).


How have the constant evolution of new technologies and faster internet helped esport grow to such an extent ?

15 Years ago, it was impossible to play on good conditions unless you were on an offline event. Nowadays, internet has improved so much. You can actually fight against any countries without a huge disadvantage. Sponsors can see the potential of any players, and they can afford everything he wanted in order to compete.


How do you see esports in the future, say 5-10-20 years from now or even further ?

I am pretty sure that espots will be considered as a sport everywhere in 10 years. Back in the days, you couldn't think that France would be about to consider esports as a sport. But this dream is happening.
I'm just afraid that esports is about to be a money pump (if it were not already done). World is all about money, and I'm expecting huge taxes on the competition in the future. The funniest thing is that if you remain optimistic, it can be good. Why ? Because the country can have an improvement if it's about preparation of a recovery or restructuring plan thanks to esports. (Countries are so indebted). Nonetheless, world is shit so they would put all these taxes in order to give more comfort to the politicians, and we will still be the pawns, as always.


What about potential new technologies yet to come, such as virtual reality ? How do you think these would find their place into esport and video games in general ?

Everything in its own time. In my opinion, that would be sad to put sport on a virtual reality. Esports belongs to the computer at his own way. If you start to remove the authenticity of sport, it would be a disaster.


A lot of recent studies have shown that contrary to before, more and more women play video games, albeit arguably different type of games or usage of them. But what about esports ? How do they fit in ?

That's a question of "embarassment" and without sounding like a macho man girls have understood that. And what's sad is that there's a lot of bad faith from them. To summarize, they pretend to say that they're there because they're strong. But the truth is that those who will make it will always be the ones that are pretty or those who hang out with male stars of the moment. Welcome to this shitty world.

Those who really deserve the attention and the "esports celebrity" status are rarely the ones who get their deserved praise. I saw that fact on a documentary on TV some time ago where the reporters were following the girls from Millenium. They were supposed to follow the Millenium girls but when they were interviewing girls in the pool they were interviewing the swedish girls instead. I'll let you guess why. They claim for equal rights but they do not respect it in the first place


How far do you think esports can go in terms of viewership and mainstream recognition ? Could esports be one day as popular and common as, say, a tennis grand Slam or a football/soccer world cup ?

You just need to watch League of legends final to see that esport can be as popular and common as basket or other games. During the S3, more than 32 millions people were watching the finals. It's 3 times more than France-Ukraine during the Euro qualification. The problem is that the old generation do not become habitual of esports. It's all about standpoints and perspectives.

It will never be as famous as football in my opinion, but there is no doubt that esports will play an important part on this matter.


What are the main obstacles and barriers that could prevent esports from growing even more ? What are the challenges still lying up ahead ?

Some countries such as France have a hard time to consider video games as a good thing or as a world progress. There is improvement, but still not enough. I guess some countries need to improve slowly but surely, step by step


Have you had any bad experience(s) while beeing a professional player ?

I've been a professional player for 1 year and half only. I define a professional player as someone who makes a living out of it. I just can't understand someone saying that he's professional gamer when he lives with his parents and earns 400e max/month.

Anyways, even if I had very strange stories in my gaming career, it always ends positively. I've learnt many things in life thanks to esports. (Promises, trust, business). In my opinion, all these mistakes that I could make is a good experience that I can share to the youngers. At least, they won't do the same shit !


Have you got any plans for the future in esports for yourself ?

I'm planning to try overwatch and practice a lot. But I'm getting old and I studied a lot so I could have an important job. At the moment, I was accepted into a big company in order to be a wealth management advisor (I've never worked into a mayonnese factory, but I commend its people who made this rumour).

Anyways, I'm going to practice and do my best in order to do something good in this game.


Name the three things that you love the most about/in esports, and the three things you hate/dislike the most.

From at least 5 years of experience in esports (maybe more), there is two things I love in esports : Competition and meeting new people that can be your friends in the future (Hi alex, hi maciej, hi sebastian). I do not really need to explain why it was such an intense experience in my life because you can understand that you don't have words to describe it.

But I can describe what I dislike the most in esports, because I was like this myself (Maybe not that much but I was sometimes doing it on purpose and I had fun doing it).

What I dislike the most is the "arrogance ignorance" (I created this term my self). I've started to see it from Shootmania and especially Overwatch. Nowadays, being very good in a game (new games) is very easier than it was. You do not really need to have a specific huge talent to be the best. If you practice h24 every day, you can reach the top. In itself, it's good because it gives motivation and there is more competition.

Because of it, people tend to be cocky, uberconfident, and they look at you like you were a piece of shit because they feel stronger than you. They will never question themselves because they think they are over anyone. They forgot that they never reached the top in their own game. Now they can, so they want to act this way in order to have all the recognition they never had in the past. It it what I blame because I realised it too late that it's sad to act like this. It's useless and you won't gain anything from it. If you could use this uberconfidence somewhere else, it would be so great. I'm sure I bring at least 4 uberconfident guys into a party, they won't even say one single word to a girl because they won't have anything else than "I have a very good mouse and pad". You pieces of milk (Ok I troll a bit, but you know me now :)).

But what I like in esports, and what I like in sports is something that you can't reach, even if you tried hard. (If you can reach it, it's good and you were lucky to born this way). Let me give you an example, Tennis. You could tryhard and practice since you were 3 years old without drinking, without smoking. In the end, you did good, you are one of the best players in your country, you are a professionnal player and you managed to qualify to the Roland Garros cup. Now you have to play against Nadal (the guy you followed all your life). You pracced so much to beat him and you did everything to be in your best conditions. In the end you lose 6-1 6-2 6-0. Frustrating isn't it? You try again, it's the same. I don't say to give up, never give up.

But you know, there are players you can't reach, no matter how hard you try, these guys have something we don't and that's why they are loved. Having the dream of being one day like him is beautiful. In games (except for some), this dream is too easy to reach, you only have one way. It's same for Quake, I've never seen one guy playing quake live for so long and managed to be at the very top. You can do everything you want, you won't reach Cypher or Rapha level. Same for Usain bolt. It's realistic and you can disagree with me.


Could you explain to us how do you think France regarding esports as a sport is a good thing ? If there are any pros and cons about this decision, what are they ?

In the beginning, I was not really fan of it for several reason. It is a fact, but esports is a temporary thing. Moreover, you could invest 24h/24 in a game to win maximum 1000 dollars per month without any studies or a prospect of future. All these things could be a problem. Now, you have stream, you can have contacts and you can actually have a job after playing a game. France is not that stupid (contrary to the cliché), they know that esports is an increasing market, so they would have a greater interest in operating on this.


What would you say to a teenager who wants to become an esports world superstar today ?

To listen to the older, we know this thing, we were like you, you are not different. Do your dream, but do not forget your life goals. Gaming is a lot of sacrifices, it is also a passion, but do not sacrify everything for it (That's why I don't agree with fatal1ty). If you really want it and you know that this game can make you go further, stop your studies for 1 year. But one thing, never forget your life career and ask yourself the right questions. Don't be stubborn, listen to the others, and be less arrogant than any other, because we are all arrogant. Some are more than others (I know what I'm talking about).

Don't be a dick with people who want to learn, you didn't make yourself by your own. Try to reach your goal, believe in yourself and accept that you can lose, as long as you understand your mistakes and be better than him in the future. Acting this way is always something that will grant you in the future

I've seen so many person sacrifying all their life in order to be good in a game. For what? Not being the best and win max 600e/month ?. What are your goals in the future? CS:GO starts to be good, but does training h24 to win 1100k/month is worth it? That's why I said, ask yourself the good questions. You always need a plan B, always.


What would you say to a younger Strenx. Would you do it all the same over again or would you have done things differently now that you are older and more mature ?

In kiev against cooller, I would look at this strenx and tell him to check the screen before starting, like cooller did. So at this moment, I would know the timings and win this moment smile emoticon.

More seriously, I would tell him to not care about everything. Trying to stay calm and to stop to prove that you can be someone +50-0, it is useless and you don't win anything from it. If there is a kid who wanna act like a dick, ignore him. It's hard to win an argument against a smart guy, but impossible to win against a stupid one.

I would tell him to have not stop quake for 1 year and play zotac over and over, so nobody would see evil win this much. Moreover, I would tell him to act less arrogant in the past and to stop focusing so much on the others. I really needed a coach I think, my biggest enemy was myself.

You will notice that the core questions are the same for every interview minus some more personal or situational questions that I thought were relevant given the context or the very own experience of my interviewee. The interviews are raw, I haven't edited them so if there is any mispells or weird sentences, don't be freaked out.

Tell me a bit about yourself, what is your personal approach and your own experience of esports ?

I've always been a competitor and someone who shoots for the stars. With the birth of online gaming, I found a new passion to compete in this unknown virtual world. I quickly found my skillsets were a match for this emerging sport, landing me as the first full time professional eSports player in the world.

How I approached eSports was just like I would train or practice for a traditional sport. Work on strengths and weaknesses and practice a lot. I trained against tons of competitors on a daily basis to work on my technique and hone my skills to take out my opponents faster than anyone else.

My experience of eSports starts from the very beginning when I was 13 years old before it was even called eSports. I competed over dial up, IPX networks, and then eventually just basic TCP/IP Connections over broadband. As eSports grew, I was there every step of the way. Being a fanatic of competing with players from all over the world, I felt the playing field was level for everyone. It didn't matter where you lived, what the weather was, as long as you had a powerful PC and an internet connection, you were in the game! My endless pursuit of winning led me to participate in tournaments around the world, winning 12 eSports World Championships throughout my career. "Fatal1ty" became a household name in the gamer world and my life was never the same.


What is esports actually ? How do we define it ?

eSports is commonly known as competitive video gaming for the best of the best. I definitely believe that, but I also believe eSports includes playing games casually in the same manner as you play traditional sports with your friends. It is an activity requiring skill in a competitive nature.


How does one actually make a living out of esport ? Not just the competition aspect but more generally around video games as a whole ?

There is several different ways to make a living out of eSports now. Obviously winning Tournaments is the big one, but there is also possibilities making money in eSports with Events, Broadcasting, Twitch and/or businesses built to support eSports.

I personally competed in tournaments and built the Fatal1ty brand to make products for gamers in eSports.


How have the constant evolution of new technologies and faster internet helped esport grow to such an extent ?

Faster internet really helps for training and playability of the games. Makes it more enjoyable and also helped bring a lot of new people to the sport. As for technology advancments, it's night and day from the birth of online gaming. Powerful gaming PC's and Consoles are readily available to hop online and play some of the most advanced games. Even mobile devices are getting somewhat powerful.


How do you see esports in the future, say 5-10-20 years from now or even further ?

eSports popularity will continue to grow every year. There are new opportunities everyday in eSports, and with mainstream attention as of late, it shows us there will be a bright future ahead of us.


What about potential new technologies yet to come, such as virtual reality ? How do you think these would find their place into esport and video games in general ?

Virtual Reality has a chance of being a great entertainment piece or tool to use for a lot of different applications or games. As for it being used in eSports, I feel its obviously possible, but I feel a lot of people will stick to the more mainstream way of playing games just on a regulard LCD or Monitor. I'm personally excited to dive more into Virtual Reality, but its more about the experience.


Is esports a sport ? What is your personal view on that matter ?

eSports and sports are so similar, minus the physical exertion of losing your breath in some sports. There are a lot of sports out there that dont have physical exertion characteristics, but still use all the same skillsets as eSports. So to me eSports is a sport and I am a sportsman.


A lot of recent studies have shown that contrary to before, more and more women play video games, albeit arguably different type of games or usage of them. But what about esports ? How do they fit in ?

Girls have been in eSports forever. Some of them beating the developers in their own game, creating their own gaming teams, organizations, and playing in professional tournaments.

It's great to see the number of girls in eSports growing.


How far do you think esports can go in terms of viewership and mainstream recognition ? Could esports be one day as popular and common as, say, a tennis grand Slam or a football/soccer world cup ?

I think in a lot of ways its already getting there, but remember everyday eSports is around, we are building our fanbase for the future. The 18 year olds today will become 50 someday, and they will always remember their past time as a kid growing up and understand eSports more and more every year.


What are the main obstacles and barriers that could prevent esports from growing even more ? What are the challenges still lying up ahead ?

Violence in games sometimes slows down the potential of some fun games getting on mainstream TV as the adult rating is to high. Games like LoL and Dota don't have as much violence and can be more easily played on TV for a massive audience.


You don't compete so much anymore but have become an esport icon. What is essentialy different from the esports world you knew when you were younger and the esports of today ?

I've been apart of competitive online gaming since Day 1, so obviously things have changed every year, and myself and a lot of others were responsible for shaping how eSports is today. In 2005 when I played at the CPL World Tour Finals in New York City, it was one of the biggest events ever in eSports. We livestreamed on MTV's network, and over 90 countries tuned in to watch the 2 hour finale.

Now today, you have Twitch who livestreams the events over the course of multiple days and obviously the prize money has went to another level with crowd funding and game developers investing in their own league in a more professional manner.


You have created your own brand. What drove you to this decision and how difficult was it to establish ?

I saw a void in product development for gamers, and also a lack of knowledge from corporate companies on knowing what gamers wanted and needed.

As being a player in the battlefield and living that life everyday, I knew what I needed to win. So that brought me to developing products and hardware for gamers through the Fatal1ty brand. I had this big vision that eSports would become a thing in the future, and I road the professional and business wave from the very beginning.

I worked really hard to partner with the best manufacturers to build stellar product for gamers. I'm always looking to make mid to high level equipment for gamers, so they can play to their full potential and own the game.


What do you like most about working in esports ?

I love the competition and the players who have that relentless pursuit of winning attitude like me. It's very inspiring to watch gamers go for it and never give up.


Several schools, notably in Sweden, have emerged recently and are aimed toward esports. What do you think those schools should teach youngsters

Being very well rounded is always important. To have a balance with excercise, mental strength and stamina are building blocks to being the best you can be. After that, it comes down to desire, will and talent.


What would you tell to a teenager who wants to become an esports world star ?

While your young and living with your family, you have an enormous ammount of time to develop any skills you want to have. Take full advantage of this time, because when you become an adult, those advantages will start to fade away. Go to tournaments and find out where you stand. Go for it, and see what happens! The worst feeling would be looking back and saying I didn't try my hardest. I wish you the best in your endeavors and always own the game!

You will notice that the core questions are the same for every interview minus some more personal or situational questions that I thought were relevant given the context or the very own experience of my interviewee. The interviews are raw, I haven't edited them so if there is any mispells or weird sentences, don't be freaked out.

Tell me a bit about yourself, what is your personal approach and your own experience of esports ?

I’m Marcel alias k1llsen, 29 years young and I had good and bad times in e-Sport, but you also need to have the experience of losing and be disappointed about yourself to keep improving sometimes and so it was in the past with some event Organizations where you had to wait very long for the prize like 1-2 years or not even getting the money. But all those things will shape you starting as a raw diamant at some point you just start doing the right things.


What is esports actually ? How do we define it ?

E-Sport starts where Competition is going on - Playing on a Console/Computer on the highest Level possible. Practice for something to get to that point that you are able to challenge the Top of the World and hopefully call yourself the best (even there is always someone better) but maybe it’s you earning the World title, participating in Tournaments where only the best people all over the World getting invited to. E-Sport starts where ambition/passion starts to grow while competing on a Console/Computer against others around the world.


How does one actually make a living out of esport ? Not just the competition aspect but more generally around video games as a whole ?

There are a few ways to go with and behind e-Sport. In the past it has been very popular to earn money with e-Sport while studying, today it’s more like you have the guys there who just like to play some games as hobby. To get until a certain point in skill, but lacking of the interest in being awesome, they rather focus on their Study’s which is also a good way overall. But things changing already from the time I started, there are many guys out already who just focus on e-Sport and Streaming to make a living out of it.


How have the constant evolution of new technologies and faster internet helped esport grow to such an extent ?

The Connection we have today allows almost everyone to stream what he’s doing, it’s getting easier and easier to produce something on the PC. It’s still just a small part being called like real-eSport, but it keeps increasing getting way more popular since there are so many youngsters cheering for their idol and trying themselves and that continues until we hit a certain point where it will be just on a constant flow, like soccer has their players/talents. Get started early to increase your chance of being a Top Player. And it’s this way because all the games who belong into e-Sport does not need the really big resources anymore like it was 5-6-7 years ago, for example when Quake 4 came out, it was like 5000 people interested in the game, but just 2000 were able to play since you needed a real high end pc to be able to compete, and all the titles that are in e-Sport are not that resource heavy anymore this even opens the door way more for newcomers.


What about potential new technologies yet to come, such as virtual reality ? How do you think these would find their place into esport and video games in general ?

It’s something really big to experience and surely almost every casual being a bit interested in technologies want’s to experience some real feeling in the virtual reality, this already has worked with old technlogoies -> 2nd Life where you could go to some work for money, selling CD’s on just a playing platform/world and now it comes in a way way more realistic feeling. This just opens a new dimension to Console/PC technology overall, but it will take a while until going to be a part of the competitive e-Sport.


Is esports a sport ? What is your personal view on that matter ?

This is just like as if you would ask if chess is a Sport and actually Chess counts as a Sport. Lets change this question to - what do you need to get a Sport? You need real Competition – you need at least two or more people battling it out until someone can says he counts as the proven best because he won the title. You need disciple and have to think about the way you practice to be able to compete, just like tactics in Chess or Soccer. And of course a Sport itself needs the possibility to create Idols, so the Fans cheering for their Sports start to think I would really like to play for example like Marco Reus (BVB). The Generation we have right now it’s like 50% (older Generation) barely using a PC/Smartphone/Console and the other 50% now growing up with all the technics, give e-Sport like 10-15 more years and it might be as big as Soccer is in the World since everyone growing up right now gets directly confronted with gaming and we have more and more media coming writing articles and posting news about eSport.


A lot of recent studies have shown that contrary to before, more and more women play video games, albeit arguably different type of games or usage of them. But what about esports ? How do they fit in ?

It’s always hard to compare female and male gaming if it’s in eSport or any other Sports, the main focus is most likely about men’s Sport and so is my opinion. If I’m watching female sports there is just something missing like speed, power and even knowledge, but they keep trying, that’s good no doubt but they just have their own competition. It’s just not as interesting. Over all the years I’m in e-Sport I remember only a single female cs-Team that was able to compete with a top male teams in CS and that’s already quite a while ago I think it was some ESWC and it was a female team of SK. Overall I think it will always be a men Sport, just as example if you have a look about female streaming these days, most of them don’t even know what they do but as soon as they are a little bit beautiful they start being successful in it, because men’s like to have girls in their business and some really know how to use that the right way. I know just a single Hand full of female Streamers that have some quality.


Several schools, notably in Sweden, have emerged recently and are aimed toward esports. What do you think those schools should teach youngsters ?

I think that’s something good to do, to show them like what’s the best way to use the pc when you are interested in eSports, there are still many guys out there losing the sight of the social aspect in real life, so this might just works in the opposite way. You always need to have a healthy balance between everything that’s one of the most important things.


You are currently working on creating your own brand and expand. Can you explain to us a bit about it, as in, what made you want to do it ? How hard is it ? What are the goals you're trying to achieve and why ?

I try to realize my dream, make your hobby and something you have a passion to, to your job. Quite a while has passed since my champion title, not everyone has forgotten about k1llsen and there are others where it’s like they just have to be remembered. It’s the passion inside me to eSport and the experience of being a big part of it, the experience having thousands of people in front cheering for you, that is what made me think to try it a last time creating something BIG for eSport with k1llsen there are still so many ideas and right now we just getting started.

I mean when it comes down to Streaming there is some competition going on so you always need to have good ideas and of course you want to have your community as big as possible so you have to attract new people. When I got started with like REAL streaming 3 months ago, it was like 8-12h of work a day for 1.5 months making everything work and get into all the stuff you need and I still have so many ideas about optics and the technics behind.


You've been a professional player. If you could go back in time, would you have done anything differently ?

I wouldn’t do anything different. All the different people/cultures I met, the city’s/country’s I’ve seen, the friends I made, the experience I got in so many ways. I don’t want to miss that!


Let's pretend you are now a 16 year old kid who has yet to achieve anything but who has the knowledge that you have now. What would you do ?

To know the right way of practice already helps much. I will always remember the first 2 losses against d1ablo and pRo-Dragon in Quake 3 on t4, it was something about -2:45. I always looked up to d1ablo - he became my idol - and somehow he still is in a way – Kept saying to myself I really want to beat him to call myself the best German Duel player and that’s the way I got started into competitive eSport. After some time he became my mentor. I still remember some words of him when being in a tournament. I don’t really would like to skip that, but if I’m 16 with the knowledge I have, I could skip the first years of practice and getting directly started into competition what sharpens your thinking even more every single time.

madrigal €300
christoph €200
wckd €100
fazz €50
Infector €50
raptor €40
v1igilante €40
RiesiG €40
t41TG €31
johnny83 €30
whezz €30
grandbolus €25
lokario €25
hanti €25
blau €25
intrique design consulting €25
goFlipMeaBurger €20
johan €20
kevz €20
al cas €20
kenneth €15
torment00 €15
simo €15
anthony €10
Anonymous €10

Anonymous €10
pecka €5
chino3000 €5
janne €5
eburb €5
daBONDI €5
aleksey €2
Anonymous €1


Total : 1219€

Lineup: Spart1e, Silencep, eXodus, dem0n.

In order to get there, expendables welcomes any help ! You can help us with that by donating just a little bit. Our goal right now to make this trip more affordable for us is to reach 500€.

- our eternal gratitude;

- pleasure of watchin' pure ownage;

- we're going to produce a movie documenting the trip and the event itself from our team's perspective and we will include nods towards the contributors (with their permission);

- random bonus included in the aftermovie (personal message from Spart1e or something along the lines, we'll get creative).

madrigal €300
christoph €200
wckd €100
fazz €50
Infector €50
raptor €40
v1igilante €40
RiesiG €40
t41TG €31
johnny83 €30
whezz €30
grandbolus €25
lokario €25
hanti €25
blau €25
intrique design consulting €25
goFlipMeaBurger €20
johan €20
kevz €20
al cas €20
kenneth €15
torment00 €15
simo €15
anthony €10
Anonymous €10
Anonymous €10
pecka €5
chino3000 €5
janne €5
eburb €5
daBONDI €5
aleksey €2
Anonymous €1


Total : 1219€

k1llsen (1st GC Cologne)
6 Slots Europe
4 Slots America
1 Slot Australia

MorroW (1st GC Cologne)
4 slots Europe
2 slots Americas
5 slots Asia

fnatic (1st GC Shanghai)
7 slots Europe
2 slots Americas
2 slots Asia

dem0n 2-1 reyn1r (dm13 is pretty close)
dem0n 1-2 fooKi (1xOT)
dem0n 2-0 stalq3r (left midgame both maps)

qztourney4 : 1-22 for fazz (no demo)
qztourney7 : 6-5 for dem0n (3xOT)
qzdm13 : 8-5 for dem0n (3xOT)

qzdm13 : 9-2 for dem0n
qztourney7 : 14- -1 for dem0n (quit @ 5:30 min)