Basic info
Name: Pelle Söderman
Alias: fazz
Clan: excello
Games (currently played): quakelive and starcraft(1 game a day mb)
Favourite song: Kultiration - Lejoninna
Favourite movie: A Beautiful Mind
Star sign:
Hej kompis, can you begin by telling the ESReality members something about you that they are unlikely to already know.
They might not know that I have several pro gaming brothers, like fooki and cypher.

How would you describe your average weekday/weekend?
Usually here in Oslo, I work. But as I have taken the good old slacker position this summer, and me going to quakecon, my days basically only revolve around quake and food atm. With a very fucked up day rhythm!

You came from Quake 3 where you were quite successful; is there an accomplishment you rank higher than any others?
Yes, I must say that I put my first placings(WCG 2001 nations cup gold medal and ESWC 2004 gold medal with team Sweden) lower than my 4th place during ESWC 2003. First and foremost because of that it was completely individual, second that i was seeded next to last or something like that, and third that all good players during that time was there, with the exception of unkind.

What about your fondest memory from playing the game?
Have to say when I beat zero4 2003, when I did that, I had reached my goal of placing top5 in a main event. And that along with, well.. beating zero4, was probably the most satisfied feeling I've gotten from playing quake. If I could have more time to think I think could come up with more fun memories than that tho. :)

Do you think the scene is worse off with big old school names such as zero4, czm and cooller going largely inactive?
Maybe for the pre tournament epic'ness. Other than that I have to say no. I think the skill level already is as high as it would be with them. It would be fun to play them again tho, since I missed out on the last cpma years.

Having played QuakeLive since its release what do you think of the current state of the game? What needs changing? What features need adding?
First of all, I only started 2 months ago. Tried it a little bit last summer on a shitty laptop but other than that I'm 2 month in. I have to say I really enjoyed the game at first, but now I'm losing my temper more and more often. Mostly because getting hit of weird shots(due to the netcode). I don't care much about features or that stuff. This update that was just released is enough for me tbh. What needs to change imo is the weapon balance or the armor system. It's way to easy to play the brainless aim game and be successful as it is now.

What are your thoughts in regards to 10 minute matches?
I liked 15min more but I'm ok with 10 minutes as well. It would feel better if they could add balanced start spawns tho. Some maps can really fuck you up at the start of a map atm, and when that happens it's easier to make a comeback with 15min.

That being said do you believe dm6 should be removed from maplists due to its initial spawn problems?
I think dm6 should be removed from the map list either way. All maps have really fucked up initial spawns atm. They need to be set to a few scenarios like before.

You were recruited by nfinity and then, possibly setting a new record, left them 1 day later to join excello...What was your reasoning behind this?
Basically I joined nfinity believing I had made a promise to fisker, when that wasnt the case, I felt like I could at least look at the other offers I had. As I had said no to excello just with the reason that I gave fisker my word, finding out that was not the case, I asked them what they could do for me. And they gave me a plane ticket to quakecon within 24hours and so I joined up with them instead. Simple as that. Looking like a esports idiot has always been fun to me anyways so wth.

How are your relations with the members of nfinity now?
Haven't talked to anyone from there since that day. I knew them for 1 day you know!

Looking ahead to Quakecon what are your thoughts on the maplist?
I've played the new maps quite a lot now. And I have to say ca2 really is shit. I expect big blowout scores on that map during quakecon between evenly matched players. I would rather see a 5 pool with ztn, dm13, t4, t9 and t7.

What are your expectations on where you hope to finish?
First of course.

Who do you think will be the top 3?
Without including myself, and without particular order: rapha, fox, spartie.

When you take away rapha can the Americans even compete?
I doubt it.

Quick fire round
RL, LG or Rail: RL
Quake 3 or QuakeLive: q3osp > ql > q3cpma
Blondes or brunettes: FIRE
Nobody likes gingers =/ Number of times you've wanked this week: My girlfriend is ginger so you are wrong! Zero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hAYqlHQmPk - Marks out of 10: Sounds horrible in Swedish, 1.

I quite like it :( Thank you for taking the time to do this interview, any shoutouts?
Thanks to www.teamexcello.com for sending me to quakecon! And a lots of hugs to my 5 mothers!

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