j4rno: hi! My name is Jarno Kyykkä and I'm 20 years old. I'm one of the few Finns, who play Quake 4. First time I started gaming seriously, was with CS - around 3-4 years ago. We were quite good untill we just got bored. Then I founded Quake 3 and started playing RA3, CTF and a bit of TDM. Last year I was in the army, so I couldn't practise much. I got into dueling maybe ~6 months ago and I started to practice it more seriously, and in Q4 it has been all duels :P.

Well, as I said, I played CS first, our clan [oath] won Finnish CS championship (or something like that) at year 2002-2003, and after that we were in some CPL qualifier in Sweden, which didn't went to well. I've never played UT for DSky, I was in their Q3 squad. Quake III was never so serious for me, just some fun with me and my mates. I still knew that I had some skills in it, but back then I wasn't that interested to practice hard enough. During the year 2004, I played Q3 TDM with clan deluxe, which is probably best Q3&Q4 TDM team in Finland (not so much tho;)). Nowadays, dueling is the thing for me, TDM is just for fun. Latest achievement is maybe the first place Q4 tournament, sponsored by Creative, wich was held at Cafe Level7 @ Helsinki. There were all Finnish Q4 players around, so it was quite fun.

It was obvious for me to leave Q3 and start playing Q4. The tournaments, bigger scene (is it?), and golden opportunity to show what I can do in game! In future maybe competing in professioanal level, all sounds so fun and great experience. I really didn't believe that I would do this well in EuroCup and other tournaments. Now I just got to find a good team and start practising hardcore and try to get nice placing in big tournaments.

I hate playing online, where I have over 20ms, you have to change your whole style and start rail bitching and forget about the LG. Can't do anything with it, with a little higher ping. So I definately prefer LAN game. When I practice, I usually play with 5-7ms, so it isn't that big difference, comparing to 0-1ms. Hard to find a place to practise at LAN... or you can do it in a netcafe, but I'm not interested in paying few euros, to get the ping down by few ms.

Well, the main reason is that I don't have a sponsor, but even if I had, I was in army. It would have been hard to get in proper shape considering that other players was practising 24/7 and I was jumping in forests with a rifle gun :).

Thinking now - the EC was a big success for me, I got my name known a little bit more. But also, I could have done better I think. I had a little bit of bad luck vs. winz, cuz my routing was f***ed up after the first map, so we had to play in Germany, but later during the tournament, winz has proved that he is a very good player. So to sum it up: EC went well but I will certainly do better in future!

The last match vs SK|tox was quite fun to play. Both picked fleet and both are quite good at it. So fleets went 1-1. Galang as a last map was a success for me, at the start tox had lead something 7-6 frags to zero. Then I got control of the map and was able to keep it long enough and catch ~15 frags and it was enough for me to win the match.

Both matches against polish guys, mess and av3k, were played with relatively high ping. Match vs mess was played quite soon after q4 release, there were sg bugs and other shit in it still. I don't really remember the score but if I remember right it was quite easy win for me. Against av3k I won phrantic (which is a miracle) and managed to secure fleet also. Still believe that high ping matches shouldn't be looked too much, quite a different game with 40-50 ping.

Clan Deluxe is friend only clan, and its based only on TDM. We have played maybe less than 10 TDM practice matches in Q4, and none after the last EC match. So you can't consider clan deluxe so competitive TDM clan, we are here just for fun. I'm staying in deluxe TDM team, but in duel there's different teams and so on. Atm I'm not in any 'duel team' but there might be some news coming up.

I got some things under discussion, so you can take that as a yes :)

Since no contracts have been accepted yet, I'm staying quiet ;)

If things go well, I get sponsors and such things, surely the whole WT and of course any other smaller tournaments around Scandinavia.

The movement is great in Quake 4, I just love crouch sliding. I think people are dissing Q4 too much, sure it has now some minor bugs and so on, but still its very good game to play. Demo bugs and no GTV... they can be fixed (I hope!). But the game part of q4 is just great imo. Only thing that I really dislike inside the game is the freaking random shotgun spead, damage is way too random at certain distances.

LG

Tight

Duel

E-sport of course

Alchohol mixed with juice

Thank You :P