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As you need no introduction, please begin by telling us one thing the majority of people don't know about you.
What's your favorite alcoholic drink and why?
Give us a rundown of your gaming history: what were you doing before CS, how did you start with it(CS) and the happenings throughout your career.
With the intercontinental version of NoA during WEG 1. From the left: ShaGuar, method, elemeNt, XeqtR and Naikon.
NoA was very unstable after WEG 1. was it due to you being unable to find the right team mates to play with?
The previous version of NoA seemed to have quite a large amount of talent and you weren't performing that bad either. What was the cause of these internal conflicts that led to the break up?
| I cant sing for shit. |
What's your favorite alcoholic drink and why?
| Whatever gets me drunk is a-ok. But I rarely drink at all, so thats why I have no favourite one I guess. |
Give us a rundown of your gaming history: what were you doing before CS, how did you start with it(CS) and the happenings throughout your career.
| I didn't do anything abnormal before I started playing CS, just your basic: go to school, be with friends and play sports. I was introduced to CS by a friend of mine at one of his LAN parties. He was a map-maker for one of the real classic maps of all times in CS, cs_desert. We got to test the map and that's how I started playing it, on someone else's computer, since I didn't have a computer good enough to play Half-Life or CS at that time. I actually played Starcraft a lot online and didn't really like fps games like quake because I got motion sickness by playing it. It was only one day when I was really bored that I wanted to play some other game but StarCraft and by a random chance I had installed HL with a valid CD-key, so it was the only other game I could try out online. That's how it started I guess. After a couple of weeks a friend of mine from Starcraft was going to try out for a clan in Norway, that was the best at that time apparently, and asked if I would do the try out with him. Back then it was all about how made the most frags on public servers, and I had gotten to be quite the public master so I made the cut and that's how i got introduced to the team aspect of the game, by joining the top fraggers of the Norwegian public servers. I Didn't really play that many clan wars back then, and during the next couple of years I just drifted through various clans such as N.A.T.O, HIFI and MAD, finally ending up in SoA with whom I was going to participate in the first CPL tournament ever. It went really well there with a second place, losing only to a Finnish team called Z who actually knew more about how to tweak their configs than playing CS, but hey- they won a cpl by doing it so I guess that worked out for them. Sadly for them, it didn't work out so well later when CPL actually enforced some rules about configs in their next tournaments:). To cut a very long story short, at that CPL I got to know Potti for the first time and from there on it was all about me playing with NiP, being kicked from NiP, rejoining them, winning a lot of tournaments with basically the same guys, with couple of stand in performances for various clans and winning some more with them until I joined up with eoL and then later on with team9. Both were very successful periods of my career. |
| Then in the beginning of 2004 after some personal issues I decided to take a little break from playing CS and focusing more on real life issues, never really quitting though as I played with adrenaline at the ESWC that summer. But I never felt that was a team I truly believed in, like nip or eol or SK or team9 were. After that the plan was to just quietly stop playing CS and start studying in Bergen, but faith had other plans for me. I was still pretty close with some of the guys from NoA and when they underachieved the summer of 2004 they were looking for new players, and I got asked to join them and see how we'd perform playing some random tourneys, it went pretty OK for my own sake so they took me in as an replacement for knoxville who had lost the motivation for the game or something like that. With NoA we won first CPL Winter 2004 and WEG 1 and I took over more and more of the responsibilities with the team, and here I am, still playing under the NoA flag and preparing for the upcoming events of 2006. |
With the intercontinental version of NoA during WEG 1. From the left: ShaGuar, method, elemeNt, XeqtR and Naikon.
NoA was very unstable after WEG 1. was it due to you being unable to find the right team mates to play with?
| NoA as an organisation was build on air and when the air went out it all fell apart. Ever since that time we've been trying to rebuild both the team and the organisation and finally I think we're getting somewhere. The different roster changes have been a part of that process, and that's it, nothing more nothing less. |
The previous version of NoA seemed to have quite a large amount of talent and you weren't performing that bad either. What was the cause of these internal conflicts that led to the break up?
| Everything was going as planned before WEG, we did well at the CPL UK considering the short amount of time we had to prepare, and we cruised through the WEG qualifiers. But I guess you learn a lot about the team and its players when you have to live together for a longer period of time and the experiences we got from Korea led to the break-up of the old team. |
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Comment by 
teQuila - 2 yrs
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i like him right off the bat and this interview just confirms my impression .. good job!
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detectR - 2 yrs
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Good interview, XeqtR one of the best counter-strike player in the world imo. Always playing with great teams and preforming well. Keep up the good work!
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fract1on - 2 yrs
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Good one there Tamir (: GJ
the q's about DarK were considerably interesting. Damn it, even I can sing :o
the q's about DarK were considerably interesting. Damn it, even I can sing :o
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endon - 2 yrs
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Top notch i-view with one of the most impressive players in the scene.
Gj Tamir.
Gj Tamir.
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alba - 2 yrs
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great interview spirit!
and XeqtR is a really cool guy aswell as down to earth which is a good thing!
good read overall.
and XeqtR is a really cool guy aswell as down to earth which is a good thing!
good read overall.
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