Nice one :D Lets drop one down the well. What kind of job do you want to do after you quit active gaming? ^^

I'm not really sure. I've thought about it a lot, but I'm not sure about what I want to do yet. If e-sports continues to grow, I could see myself working with it, trying to give back some of the experience I have from being a player and developing products with sponsors etc. I'm not really one of those persons who have their whole life planned -- I don't spend a lot time worrying (or thinking) about the future and thus I don't have a specific answer yet, sorry.

Is there a miss dsn?

No, there's not.

Hmm, I could only think of one boring one for now, but i guess its okay too ask more than one question?

Anyway, why do "pro" players always play with vsync off? As far as I know theres no reason to if you can play with 100fps anyway?

I guess it comes from back in the days when all the monitors didn't handle 100hz. I'm so used to playing with 100hz and vsync off -- the flicker in the middle of the screen doesn't bother me at all. I don't think there's any particularly good argument for having it turned off nowadays, I guess it just comes down to the fact that a lot of players is used to it (and the majority of the tournaments use LCD:s now, so you have to turn it off a lot anyway).

harley why u move from 800x600 to 640x480 (resolution) ?
what better for awp?

I tend to switch from time to time without any apparent reason -- if I feel like I could need some change in CS, I mess around with my settings. Right now I like 640, because that's what I'm using, but there's not really any "better" resolution. If your using AWP exclusively and not playing the other weapons a lot, I think I would choose something high -- like 1024 -- due to the fact that the picture is a lot clearer and you see more pixels and therefore you can hit your hard long-range shots a bit easier I reckon.

Can we expect new game with a question like when you teached someone randomly?

Yes, of course. I hope that some of the other guys in the team will do it this time, but if they refuse, I guess I have to do it again. I enjoyed doing it and I think that it's a good idea to run more competitions like that for all our fans.

Do you think that Hyper could have been considered as the best player of the world back in time when he was playing for EYE (winning CPL Summer 2004) and then playing for SK. What do you think of him and his playing style?

That's a pretty weird question but I really want to know your opinion about this player! Thanks.

Best regards,
Ezail.

I think he was considered the best back them. He was a very solid, smart player, clearly ahead of his time. He's a very good guy for sure, we met him a couple of months ago in Stockholm, before one of our trips to China next year. I've played hours and hours of Counter-Strike with and against Hyper, so it was really fun to catch up and we talked a lot of gaming memories.

Back to your topic: Yes, yes and yes, Hyper was one of the best, if not the best player at the peak of his career. Personally I think the latter.

hay harley!
which mouse f0rest use at the moment ? DeathAdder or Krait :D

The Deathadder.

you should save this question for f0rest kid

This is a genuine question Harley, how many people do you think you have killed in your Counter-Strike career with the AWP?

I tried to do some math on this, but I really couldn't come up with any good estimation. If I would guess, it would be tens of thousands. I can't really make an educated guess though.

Hey, my question: why u dont answer my other question i asked @ pm?:P

I'm sorry, I'm a lazy bastard. I think I should just delete all my messages and just start fresh now when it's a new year and everything. I promise to get better at this, but right now I have tons of questions that I haven't answered, so I guess I could delete them all and start new. Sounds like a plan?

lets ask another one :D
In your opinion what is the TOP5 team in the world at the moment ?

mibr, emulate, noa, sk, fnatic, with us being the best team and the other teams sharing 2-5, because I'm not really sure about how I would rank them separately.

what do you think about MYM.pl atm ??? think they are still a big threat to fnatic, or are there days gone?

Yes, they are, but they have a lot to prove after their recent slump. If they can get back in their good old shape, they will be very hard to beat.

I seize my chance to get answers, so here I go:

-Have you kept a unique way of playing (How you handle the mouse, how you sit, the distance between you and your desk,...) for all the time you played for fnatic or do you change from time to time depending on your state (after a good night / when you're completely tired...)?

-And how would you describe your relation with cArn (or the other three)? Intimate? Hot? :)

Whatever this is a great idea, thank you.
May you perform well this year also!

I think the only thing unique about my playing style is that I keep my mousepad a lot more to the left than most players. I almost have it in the middle of my screen. I like it because I feel it's easier to aim better that way. I don't really think I hold my mouse in any special way, I guess the mousepad setup is the uncommon part of my gaming setup. And oh, I don't change anything depending on state of mind.

We're very good friends. He's a great guy and I admire his CS smarts more than any other player in the world. He's also the only guy in the team who has as bad (or good) humour as I have. All in all, we have a lot of fun, but we are also always trying to improve in CS (we both hate to lose, obviously) and during 2008, we're hoping to be better than ever.

Is there any chance you might pick any other game in the future, If CS1.6 is dropped in all leagues and competitions?

If some more good games are created. Right now, there aren't any other games I would consider playing. I may re-think that though, depending on my gaming hunger if or when CS 1.6 fades away.

One that is maybe he most important for my gaming: How do u practice your awp,especially quick and no zoom shots(after one scope shot),how do u practice the none-xhair stuff?

Thats all 4 now from me.
Thank you for answering.
Nice idea,respect!

I just play a lot of CSDM, but also a lot versus bots. What I do is that I basically just try to mess around with my sensitivity so that I can control it flawlessly. When you know your sensitivity inside and out, AWP-ing fast becomes a lot easier. I just try to look at my opponents name, and when their names popup on my screen, I shoot them. I use the names as a crosshair when I'm nozooming.

what kind of csdm you play ?can you give me some adress at pm..or right here pleease!
Best regards from romania !

what kind of csdm you play ?can you give me some adress at pm..or right here pleease!
Best regards from romania !

får du skavsår på fingrarna av eXactMat?

No, but I use the Razer Destructor now and have been doing so for a while. It's not made of metal, so I guess if you have a problem with getting your fingers killed by the Exactmat, you should check that one out.

nej jag får inte, fast jag använder den iofs inte heller. :D

Really nice idea Harley !

Sadly for my ping, for the blond chicks and for my skill I'm not swedish but French !
I love my country and as many people I'm really proud to have finnaly, after many and many years of shame due to the fails of our different cs teams at each or almost international lan, a team such as emuLate!.

So I would like to know what do you think about emL latest perf, their increase ?

Have you ever watch some povs or hltv of the guys ?

what do you think about their style of game which is pretty slow and not really common, what's your feeling when you played against us ?

Do you play never, sometimes or otfen the guys on practice game ?

And to conclude do you think, you too that mSx is one of the best player of the world as we can read in a lot of increasing number of threads, comments or news on the web since the Gamegunme, or maybe one of the next ?

additional question : Which european teams do you play mostly on practice game ?

Thank you for taking the time to answer Harley !
Best Regards and see you on hltv ...not amynore behing you like at the eswc in Julyin Paris...San Francisco :(

Emulate is a very tricky team to play -- they have really, really good players and they aim very well. They will end up on the podium (top3) a lot in 2008 I reckon, if they continue to perform as they've been doing lately. I've watched some HLTV games with them, but I can't really remember anything special about their game right now, other than their superb individuals. MSX is really insane. It seems like he's the f0rest or Neo of the team, if you will, doing a lot of superb things on his own, winning loads of important rounds for them. Needless to say, they're all very good, not just MSX. We've practiced versus emL on LAN a couple of times, but not so much online.

Is MSX the best players of the world? It's very hard for me to say, he's certainly up there with a few others.

Teams we practice against: If I have to guess I would say that we practice most versus NoA/Gravitas and aTTax.

OK i've got a guestion too.
Your team earned the most $$$ during 2007, what did u do with your part? and I mean the money you spent, not how much u're saving

Traveled a lot, bought a lot of electronic gadgets (like a ps3, an itouch, a 30" dell lcd monitor for my computer). Most of it is saved though.

DSN.
Do you ever play deathmatch nosound? Whatsoever yes, what's the big clue with it?
Nomatter what I don't like to do that. It's bothering me. :)

I almost always play DM with sound turned off. I like to listen to music and just fool around, trying to get my aim warmed up. I don't really take it to serious, the only thing I want from it is aim, and I can get that without sound.

Hi dsn
How could you explain your "epic fail" at dreamhack?Was it due to the lack of practice or u just got unlucky?(14/16 SK)

(l) fnatic hop you will get every gold in 2008 :) regards

I think it had a lot to do with us actually not wanting to play BYOC with a looooot of background noise. Also, they said they playoffs were supposed to be run on tournament computers, which were only the case for a few matches per round. It feels lame to say that we didn't want to be there, but in all honesty that is the truth. We lacked motivation and that without it you can't play your A-game. Dreamhack wears you out, you have to play a lot of matches and they made the seats so you could barely fit your keyboard and mousepad, which sucks. Anyway, it was our fault that we didn't motivate ourselves and we've learned a lessson for sure. In the SK-game we just played like a bunch of tired idiots and I'm surprised that we managed to get that game end up 14-16, because we played sub-par alabama, almost like when we tied TBH ESPORTS at GameGune on inferno in the first game of the groupstages.

Came up with another "boring" question :]

I know that the MIE 3.0 performs UP TO 9000fps, does the Razer DA perform 6400fps constantly or does it perform up to 6400fps? (I dont know if you know the answer but i thought you might be able to ask someone from Razer?)

I have no idea right now, but I will forward the question to the Razer people and edit this post later.

Have they answered yet? :P

Sorry for the long time before the answer, simply forgot to look through the thread. Sorry, sorry, sorry. I think with 6400 fps they mean that it performs at 6400 all the time. I'm not 100% though, haven't found anybody to answer this :(.

An other question about money and gaming$$$

I bought a razer tarantula few months ago...with a pic and some sentences of you on the package, really cute :D

My question is to know, do you earn money for each tarantula sold or have you such a deal about sponsoring with razer ?
I don't wanna know things like how you earn and stuff like that, it's not my buisness ! Just understand if you earn money as a salary of fnatic and razer or just from fnatic.
What is your real relationship with razer as a player.
Everybody who know and study marketing can understand that you guys, especially f0rest and you are the players who have the most important marketing image for the gamers in the world, and I think that's pretty important and use by and for the brand razer.
YOu know, each fan of f0rest bought a krait and now have to change for a new DA...because f0rest is still f0rest :D
Patrik Lindberg have changed it mouse ? OMG it's such a revolution on the forum :D

It will be nice if we could have some enlightment about the life of a progamer as a "marketing product", sorry for the word "product" I didn't find the correct word in englsih to explain my thought !Fortunately you're not a product :D

And thanks for you answer of my emL question, this kind of moove is pretty unique and rare and it's all of your honour !

No, we don't have personal deals with Razer. It's all handled through Fnatic. We have a great relationship with Razer and we try to do as much marketing as we can for them, because -- and this may sound cliché -- we enjoy their products a lot, and a part of our success comes from them. When Patrik (carn) and I went to Thailand and Singapore on vacation, we had a few sessions at the Razer office in Singapore, shooting some photos and testing and giving comments on future products. I know that they listen to us and our discussion with them will probably generate a lot of good ideas. Some of the ideas will become future products, I'm pretty certain about that. And some of the pictures we took will end up on future product boxes. From an economic perspective it is obviously good for us to be seen a lot as well, as it generates interest for us, which in the end can lead to more promotional trips (or money =D) down the road.

do you have any OLLDDD POV's still on your computer? I'm sure everybody would absolutely LOVE to see a classic dsn demo package!

;)

I'm at my laptop now, but I will look at my old HD to see if I can find any, will edit this later.

EDIT: Sorry, don't have any old demos, I've formated my C: too many times :(.

hi now its time to sleep so just answer my question later ;)

-what mistake u notice a lot, that many players do?

-how u use the glock succesful?

thx 4 u're answers :)
(i know my english skills are funny xD)

A lot of players fails on their movement I would say. Other than that, I'm not really sure. Some players don't think through what they are doing. You have to remember that CS is a team game and most of the errors are made during team play, meaning that they're not necessarily individual mistakes.

With glock, you just have to shoot a lot slower than most people do with semi. Glock is insane if you just shoot really, really slow.

Hello dsn,

Question:

If CS1.6 fade's away.. what would the reason be not to play CS Source?

Thnx in advance and good night =)

Right now, I don't enjoy playing the game, which is key if you want to become good. I might be able re-think the whole source thing if I just play more, but for now, I don't want to care about the future and CS 1.6:s end too much.

.......

I will answer the rest of the questions in the morning, going to bed now.

Hi mate, im your n1 fan from Spain (u like?:D)

When do your team start/end to play in a normal day and how many days in a week?

When you are not playing cs, what other games do you play?

Before tournaments we play 18.30 to 23 or smth like that with the team. When we don't have any tournament coming up in a while, like over XMAS, we barely play at all. I've played some CSDM since Dreamhack, but that's about it.

I play RA3 and StarCraft for fun.

highlight one of your most memoriable experience/trip overseas and the best beer you ever showered with ;p

Our recent trip to Seattle and LA for three weeks was awesome, even though the results at WCG is something you want to forget. We had loads of fun, going out, relaxing by the pool in LA, shopping and then we managed to win the ESL Masters, going home victorious. (I assumed you meant USA by overseas?)

I don't think I've ever showered in beer though, that's something I might look into.

im actually talk about trip outside Sweden not actually across continent well its okay tho...

Hi dsn, my question is what is the best way to get better(gamesense/smarts/etc)
Ive been playing CS competitively for maybe 2 years and 2nd team was CEVO Main.

and is there anyway to improve movements?

Thanks~

Try to play a lot with players you feel are better than you. Watch a lot of demos and just _THINK_ a lot about the game and what you're doing good and bad and use the knowledge to your advantage. I like to play a lot of CSDM, I feel that it gives me the best training, but I bet players like different things.

For movement, just jump around a lot and try to move around on the maps. I'm not really a movement god, but that's how I improve my movement.

Xtreme jumps!

Hey Harley, when you're in a clutch situation 1 v Xs, what is your mindset? What kind of thinking do you do? Thanks in advanced ^^!

I just gather all the information I have -- which players am I up against, how tricky are they, how aggressive are they, what do they know about my position etc etc. Basically I just try to use all the information I have to make a correct decision verus the player or players I'm up against. Oh, and also, I'm fearless, so I'm going to out-aim them.

Wdup yo,

few questions sir

can you idle #forum.index on gamesurge?

can you buddy me on gotfrag?
acc name:coopeus

any chance of us being freinds irl? THANKS

ill trade being freinds for you tagging <3 coop in your name at the next big comp, up 2 you champ

YO.

Don't use GSURGE, so sorry, no. Sure, you can add "dsn1" and we can be friends. I already have my TW-ballin crew, so no -- nada nickname for me.

Who's the best player you've ever played against?

Best fragger in the world in your opinion?

Neo at his prime and f0rest at his best is the best player imo, but might not be the best fragger. Hmmhmm, that might be like NEO or MSX, but who knows. There are a lot of good players out there. Mibr:s bit1 is very good, I like his playing style.

do you have any regrets concerning your cs career?
e.g. not become a rocket scientist
if so what? :P

No regrets at all, 2008 is our year -- even more so than before.

Do you have any interest in any other games(console, PC) besides CS 1.6? And what are your thoughts on Source and Promod?

I like StarCraft and RA3 for PC and I play a lot of Virtua Tennis for PS3 vs my friends. I have never tried Promod and I don't like Source.

Hey wassup, great blog idea

I'd like to know what is your favorite mouse and headset for gaming?

And also, what do you think of the current state of 1.6 in US?

Last one, What do you think about Source and CGS?

EDIT: I was just wondering what side of the eXactMat do you use?

I like DeathAdder and Pirahna headset. US clearly has a few decent 1.6 teams, but the scene seems a bit dead, with only a few teams attending qualifiers, which is sad. I think CGS is boring to watch, but might be fun playing. I think they can improve if they just look a bit more at the televised Starcraft games in Korea. And on E-MAT I used the non-smooth side (dunno which one it was - control or speed).

hey harley,

it may be a pretty stupid question, what what do you think is the small difference between a good and a top player?
There are so many talented players out there, but only few ever get on a top team. Is it just experience thats missing?

Besides, as you're playing with a quite high sens:

Have you ever used a cloth pad with your sens? I like higher sensitivities, but sometimes I just feel like my good old cloth pad is rather counter-productive (friction) and makes my aim inaccurate . On the contrary I've never used any hard pad, so I'm kind of unsure if it's a good idea to give it a try.

€ I forgot, what viewsize are you using?

I mean, you have to be quite lucky to get to the top, even if you're very good. You have to be a very good team player and somebody must have the guts to take a risk with you, because that's essentially what it is about. In the right environment a talent can grow, but he must be very comfortable from the get go to not get nervous at tournaments etc. As a player with experience, you would have to support him and try to help him get into the right mindset. So yes, there's probably a pretty small difference in skill.

About mousepads made of cloth. Meeeh, I get to sweaty using them, I prefer hard pads. It's pretty individual and I would say more top players use cloth pads than there are players using hard pads.

Viewsize: 120

Hey Harley,

Why are the top euro teams playing so well compared to other international teams? What trend do they have that we don't?

Thank you for your time.

Ben

Great internet leads to very good practice opportunities. There are a lot of good teams to play here every night and I can't imagine that it's very easy to find solid practice in Aussie, compared to EU. Then there's a lot of small tournaments for young players to attend and a lot of big tournaments for the pros.

thank you for your answer :D

LOLBEN

Hey Harley :D

serious question here if you could please answer :D

Do you believe that putting "str1zl" at the end of your name will have any effects (be they positive or negative) towards your gameplay and just generally how good you are at CS? Also furthermore, do you believe that replacing the "i" with a "1" is better or worse?

thank you for your time :D

davestr1zl.

I would use a "1". I think that it would make you more awesome, but I'm not sure. You have to experiment.

and i have #zeroremorse about wasting my 1 question to dsn on such a trivial matter.


(thats @ gamesurge btw)

QUakenet. QUAkEnET. QUAAAAAAAAAAAkeNEt.

if quakenet, enjoy: #aLiennn

chill..

To Harley, or Mr. Well-man :P

1. Just want to ask about your opinion on school and professional gaming. What's your experience of it? What comes first for you?
I've heard that for example, Patrik Lindberg did not finish his Gymnasium(High School) education due to his professional career. What are your thoughts about dropping or not?

2. What makes a good CS-player, solid level of preformance, crazy aim etc?

3. And a less(maybe) complicated question for you, who is your favorite Starcraft player?

If you have any questions about my sloppy written first question(or anyone else) you can find me in #spitzklasse @ Q-net (JOEB)

Over and out!

Stork for Starcraft player, no to dropping out.

A good player needs to be smart, have good aim, good movement but most of all be a very good team player.

hey dsn
how are u?
i want to ask u, how your parents react on you desision to be pro cs player.
One day u say mother i will be pro gamer and i will get my money from playing computer games? :D


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