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As you are both well known personalities in E-Sports, please begin this interview by telling us something that majority of the people don't know about you.
What were you doing on new year's evening?
So you ended up 9-12th in Winter CPL a few days after winning the CAL Razer and that was your worst placement in 2005. What happened?
Isn't it disheartening to close the year with mediocre performance after constantly climbing through it?
Is it possible that Justin didn't manage to integrate himself back into the team?
What were the differences between the JMC you met during the LG bootcamp and the one that defeated you a few days later?
Exodus was cut as a direct result of the downgrading performance coL showed during the Fall. Do you see yourself at risk of being taken off the team as well if the Winter's results are followed by other disappointing results, particularly due to the fact that CompLexity provides you with all the resources to succeed?
Aside of JMC, American sides performed poorly in this CPL. Did European teams become stronger or Americans became weaker?
Will CompLexity attend all WT stops? You still have no head sponsor to cover your expenses like the vast majority of teams that will participate do.
With the high stakes this year there is bound to be strong competition. Which teams do you expect to perform best this year? Which underdogs do you think will surprise us in 2006?
After much debate on the eligibility of their title of CPL Champions from the Summer, SK.Swe won their second CPL Championship in a row proving everybody wrong. Do you think there is a chance they will become as dominant this year as they were in 2003-2004?
| Warden: I enjoy playing, reading and poker, although I do a lot more of the latter. Sunman: I call my car The Hulk if I refer to it by name because its green and ugly. |
What were you doing on new year's evening?
| Warden: Drinking vodka and rum and overall being completely worthless. Sunman: I think I was playing DOTA when the clock hit midnight, but I went out earlier in the day to my dad's house and won the Disney version of "Scence It DVD" in 4 turns. |
So you ended up 9-12th in Winter CPL a few days after winning the CAL Razer and that was your worst placement in 2005. What happened?
| Warden: JMC happened. They shocked everyone and came up big versus us on nuke. Although it was a map we had matched JMC on at the bootcamp, I'm fairly sure we underestimated them. I wish we could of played them on a map we hadn't just played them on a week before, but that's no excuse. NiP match was just a disaster as well. We won both pistols and couldn't win a gun round it seemed. We've gone back to the drawing board for the 3rd time now on a lot of our strats and hope that 2006 will bring much more success than Winter CPL 2005. Sunman: I don't feel I was at full strength at The CPL to be honest. Getting 1st at LG beating 4K and beating 3D for CAL Razer sure helped brighten the trip up though. Heck, we made as much money as 3rd place got at CPL just from those two tournaments. |
Isn't it disheartening to close the year with mediocre performance after constantly climbing through it?
| Warden: Always disheartening to under place from what you expected of yourself. Sunman: In a way, but that also makes me want to practice harder so we can win the next big tournament too. |
Is it possible that Justin didn't manage to integrate himself back into the team?
| Warden: Justin wasn't playing up to par at CPL. He'll openly admit this to me, but I think our superstar will be back in true form for 2006. I have all my confidence in Justin's ability and skill. Sunman: I don't think I was in top form at CPL, I have been working on that though. |
What were the differences between the JMC you met during the LG bootcamp and the one that defeated you a few days later?
| Warden: It wasn't so much what they did, but it was what we didn't do. We didn't try to anti strat and they did. I feel had we actually prepared more for the match the night before and actually reviewed those demos in depth we could of avoided our fate. Sunman: Everyone that plays CS knows that one day your team can win, and others they won't. That's just how CS is, but they played a better game than us and won. |
Exodus was cut as a direct result of the downgrading performance coL showed during the Fall. Do you see yourself at risk of being taken off the team as well if the Winter's results are followed by other disappointing results, particularly due to the fact that CompLexity provides you with all the resources to succeed?
| Warden: I feel no pressure of removal and niether do any of my teammates. Exodus' removal wasn't a result of our previous performances as much as the chance to get sunman (our championship lineup) back in the rotation. We are in this for the long haul of 2006 and hope to bring the great coL community as many solid placings as possible. Sunman: Having that mentality isn't really smart if you want to be able to perform at events. Thinking you are going to get cut if you do bad is just silly. |
Aside of JMC, American sides performed poorly in this CPL. Did European teams become stronger or Americans became weaker?| Warden: Well you're comparing an entire continent to a country. I think America always has the chance to take a top placing in any tournament we attend with the 2 teams coL and 3D competing as well as many other contenders such as Rival and u5. Europeans have always been and will always be strong opponents to play against. Sunman: American teams just don't stay together long enough. Take JMC for example, they got 3rd place, and now everyone left for another team. Player movements, teams disbanding, new teams created, all of which aren't going to help. I respect teams that don't change rosters after they do mediocre at an event. CS is random folks. So American teams will always remain weaker as a direct result. |
Will CompLexity attend all WT stops? You still have no head sponsor to cover your expenses like the vast majority of teams that will participate do.
| Both: We will be at every world tour stop. |
With the high stakes this year there is bound to be strong competition. Which teams do you expect to perform best this year? Which underdogs do you think will surprise us in 2006?
| Warden: coL for 2006. To name a few other teams I think will be strong: Lunatic, 3D, NiP, SK.swe Sunman: It's silly to guess what teams are going to do good or not. I think whoever practices the hardest will get the best results, or better than they expected. |
After much debate on the eligibility of their title of CPL Champions from the Summer, SK.Swe won their second CPL Championship in a row proving everybody wrong. Do you think there is a chance they will become as dominant this year as they were in 2003-2004?
Warden: Absolutely not. Sunman: Of course there is a chance, you have a chance to win the lottery too. So I guess there's a chance anyone can dominate this year as well. :) |
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SweepeRer - 2 yrs
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Hehe, me myself don't know what I'd choose. However, Jennifer Aniston isn't that sexy, at least for me, and with 150 thousands bucks in my pocket I guess I could have almost every sexy girl hanging out there in a club, so... ;)
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soulreaver - 2 yrs
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pretty neat interview =) Nice to see coL keeping the same roster for so long with only one little roster change.
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GeminiRius - 2 yrs
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wouldnt pick J.A !! unless she was like standing naked in front of me and I was like reaaaalllly horny=D
Comment by soulreaver - 2 yrs
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#6 are you gay ?????????? :P Me ain't good enough for cpl wtf so I wouldn't have any illusions however Jennifer Aniston is always welcome :P
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d1az - 2 yrs
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LOL nice asnwer Sunman on last question!
I LOVE SMALLVILLE BECAUSE OF KRISTIN KREUK TOO :X she's too.... wow!
n1 interview!
I LOVE SMALLVILLE BECAUSE OF KRISTIN KREUK TOO :X she's too.... wow!
n1 interview!
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nbm - 2 yrs
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> To conclude: A date with Jennifer Aniston or winning the CPL WT 2006. Your choice?
rofl, anyone saying the chick should think again... as if there isn't a girl next door looking like her or any other famous girl, damn, chicks are so overrated... looks like a 'i am too cool answer' to me
rofl, anyone saying the chick should think again... as if there isn't a girl next door looking like her or any other famous girl, damn, chicks are so overrated... looks like a 'i am too cool answer' to me
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XyiSti - 2 yrs
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Great series of write-ups about compLexity. Its very true that warden wasnt very well known before complexity. However he was on Green Berets in CALinvite when they were a really good american team :)
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