tl;dr, just listened in russian ¦]
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Must listen to this while reading.

meh. Tiesto done this right once.

On strenx: "during practice matches he is imba" :D

On alfaomega: "the guy who has been playing for no more than half a year"

really?? half a year?

yet his quakelive acount is 2 years old ;-)

naw its a lie/he's poorly informed, that alfaomega guy has been playing for a long time in ql :p

hope so, it would almost contradict what i said in another thread about necessity of loooong experience ;D

still, two years would be interesting. a top player with anything less than 5 years experience in q3 would be interesting really.

i always thought you had to actually offer smth for it to be considered a bribe :p

noctis-noctis.....

hehe

that's why it didn't work

daaaaaaa!!

awesome read. thanks for the translation toytiger!!

From my point of view that situation looked slightly more interesting. I saw the lags happening, saw that the admin is inadequately unresponsive to them. Eventually I ran up to him and told him to call timeout and that the players were lagging. And that taube guy was just sitting on his spot and looking at me, as if nothing was going on. I was repeating that the players were lagging, and he was just shrugging. Eventually I went back to watch the match, you made a frag, and he paused the game. And then lights went out.





gg taube, hope to see you admin world championship as well.

Nice interview

years later.. still the same players...

A scene is stale when no one is breaking through, I try to keep an interest in this as I used to be obsessed.. but the operative word is "try".

There are no new duellers making their way up through the ranks, no incredible freaks defeating top guys.. its the same.. 5 .. guys.. always.. argh

would like to see more enw blood aswell but you making it worse than it is...
the late q3 days showed us the rise of cypher and rapha and now strenx is on a good way to get into the top 3
besides that we saw some upsets in ql by dahang and k1llsen, far from boring

Don't forget Stermy :O

stermy isn't really new blood.

No, but he did upset some?

?

- he likes cs :=)
- he gets 1000€/month
- esl doesn't pay even the big guys. Fuckers

Based on what I've been told by players ESL have always been at least 1 year behind on payments.

Some german 1.6 players said the same. Still a shame because u won't make a living from it if u don't get your money in time ...

You can't expect players to give up their jobs or pause a year uni to be a full time professional if you don't pay them right away.

yep, and that sucks cocks.

esports wont get anywhere if it always takes year to get pesos :s

Do they pay the previous year's winnings with sponsorship money from the current year? Because if so, that's really shady. It would be a Ponzi scheme except they're probably not making any money.

I find a lot of interviews boring and usually stop reading after a few questions. I liked this one a lot though, and read it to the end!

thanks for sharing

Geez, another outstandingly epic effort by ToyTiger. Where is he so we can spend some pluses on him?

Really nice interview.

I found the questioning order a bit odd though, one second they are talking about QL then the next Cooler's workout plan (What I would actually want to find out more TBH because I need to start working out again).

its bcoz they where just reading comments wich wrote users on site

OK, Fair enough.

thanks a lot for translating it, was well worth the read

what bind of strenx's was he asking about?

i think its the russian one? where hes quoting cooller/cypher~
has a v in it

not sure about the wording, but its quoting cooller from that esl-tv interview with carmac where he schoolled strenx about knowing when to be aggressive and when not to be aggressive

ZADROT YEBANIY DOMOY TI VSOSAL
sr smthng like that

this

Lol so not even the IEM tournaments pay up? Seriously what is going on at ESL? They must have some serious economic problems. And the strange thing is that they keep producing these flashy competitions but still fail to pay out relatively small amounts of prize money to the players. Strange priorities.

Strange ? :) How so ?
I remember in south africa world cup, people were promised to be paid to help out in stadiums and they weren't.

Economy my friend.

Oh and they money that goes into making the competition more flashy, makes them have more view which = more money from ads partners, so its a good investment.

Paying players is not, how will that money come back ?

Ok. Not being able to differentiate between the main act of a show and cleaning personnel might explain why some countries stand where they do.

where's the g7 when we need it

I like how the interviewer picked on him and asked some pretty retarded questions too.( DO YOU USE DRUGS TO WORK OUT? DO YOU FUCK THIS RAZER CHICK?) Was a good read, nevertheless.

These were mostly questions from community, asked in a cyberfight.ru post comments, interviewer just read them.

Still the attitude was picky imo. And what I criticize is the quality of some of the questions, lol

protein and creatine aren't drugs, so it wasn't that rude

Creatine -but maybe I'm wrong- is known to give behaviour disorders like sudden anger and stuff. Some of the guys I used to go to gym with took it a lot and let me say it, sometimes they acted like total nutcases.

lol. i can't give an exact explanation in english on how creatine works, but you shouldn't act any diffrent if you take it.

Creatine doesn't cause behaviour changes at all, that is AFAIK a myth that has no scientific value.
I believe that some people who take extreme stuff can be rather unstable individuals. So the fact that they might flip out once in a while is not necessarily related to the stuff they are taking =)

They said themselves that they are sure that their anger management issues are related to the stuff. But honestly, I don't know.

anabolic steroids can cause aggression('roid rage). Creatine doesn't affect behavior any.

AHAHAHAHAHA

That's steroids.

they make u look ugly though, especially when u stop working out

He is wise to not take them. I prefer eating eggs and tuna instead as well, the 2 months that I workout every couple of years.

cuz the protein in protein is different from the protein in eggs and tuna and makes you look different... y0, makes sense much.

Though there is actually an argument in there in the sense that eating habits are generally more persistent than taking protein shakes, if we're talking about stopping your work-out regime.

well if someone takes it very seriously than his eating habits are fine, everyone (should) know that drinking protein shake doesn't replace a good diet

I don't give the average Joe that works out much credit for insight into what he's doing really, even if he's "very serious". Most people think that following the traditional bodybuilder routine (isolation exercises, supplements) gives excellent health and performance, but they're wrong. As such, I'm wary of hyping up the use of the aforementioned methods to people who don't know better.

The beginning of ztn was revolting, but at some moment I drew a conclusion that I should stop giving away frags just like that and should take the game back

Cooller wins just because he concludes he should win :)

I won't rain on your parade, but don't think for one second that people don't realize you are a cooller fanboy. I always look at the username at pro-cooller comments and the common theme in many of them is the word "p4r4".

It's not even the normal way of being a fan where you might say "OH cooller is #1 and he's world champion", it's the pathetic kind "cooller bangs every razer chick lawlzzzz", "cooller wins because he thinks he should win", "when cooller loses it is all pretense because if he really tried no one would be able to beat him"

I am not anyone's fanboy. You see a lot of posts from me about cooller, because sometimes people have wrong ideas about him and I just correct them, because I read his formspring page and various russian interviews and simply know some things better.
In my comment above I don't show any personal judgement of cooller, I just restate his own statement because I find it fascinating that a person is able to draw a conclusion in his mind that something untrivial is going to happen before it actually happens.

hello rapha

So is this a fact? ESL still owing him money for last year? Would be a little bit Intel Extreme, wouldn't it.

ultima online lol :D

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UO was fucking amazing before it got ruined, forming mass PK squads and walling in peoples houses was awesome fun

Awesome interview. [+]

Cooller spectating CS threatens the mental stability of ESR, though :p

No problem. We can file that under "giving back to his sponsors", specifically mousesports.

Cooller, the fatal1ty fanboy :-)

best cooller interview till date, where can I plus ToyTiger ?

edit: ToyTiger post a comment here to gather the due [+] es

Gotta love how he calls Cypher out on being cocky..and then does nothing but talk about how great his playing is in the rest of the interview (example: he learned how to dodge Strenx's shotgun allowing him to get away with 12hp..obviously not lucky...). Fact of the matter is, if he doesn't change his attitude, he probably will not beat Cypher.

I never expected Cypher to say "he'll never beat me" because he doesn't seem like that kind of guy...but I suppose if someone keeps calling you "alltimes lucky" then I guess you'd get fed up with it to.

I like Cooller as a player and a person but he needs to get over himself sometimes...

His said everything right either about Cypher and himself

That's a problem with the lack of voice. All those things were spoken normally, not with a dead-serious face. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think you overestimate how emotional he was about stuff *a tad bit*, because I noticed the difference myself: when you read something all the time and then hear the guy speak it sounds different and the mood is different, and you know that you slightly misjudged him before. It's like when you see strenx typing stuff online that makes him come off arrogant and offensive. Although the difference is not as extreme, it exists. Let's say the voice sounded normal, not absolutely non-chalant but at least half non-chalant, instead of totally serious as it reads on paper.

Example: When he says that fazz disappointed him completely it might read differently than it sounded, that depends on your mood and how you want it to sound. He said it in a normal voice, but on paper it might sound insulting, although the translation is literal.

There you are ...

You should've just posted this here, rather than sending it to SK Gaming where only ESR users will read it anyway :P

And you're just a Cypher fanboy.

I'm a Cypher fanboy, a rapha fanboy, an avek fanboy, a cooller fan boy, a noctis fan boy, and a spartie fan boy too!
I'm a fan of all the top players :DDDD

Cooller: "I'm a fervent fan of CS"

ET TU, BRUTE :(

great interview but wtf is cooller saying about protein? Damaging for your stomach? lol? even mechanical proteins shouldn't harm your stomach...

insert *lol russia + dealers selling broken glass as protein* joke here

Protein nutrition from suppliers like Olimp or Kraft may cause some random stomach problems like diarehea or smth like that if ur guts are sensible, know it because im having also this sort of problems from time to time, and this is prolly what cooller was talking about.

Should stick to more well known brands, such as Whey80 then =)

toxic farts, rotten egg smell :D

Excessive protein intake may aggravate kidney damage, I'm assuming he meant that, but the correct organ got lost in translation.

true mass ftw;p

1k euro monthly for Quake is quite a lot I'd say. How much rapha gets and srs boys?

according to this old interview, around 600E. CBA to find out exactly at what point he says that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3qApRG3kyc

so he still hasn't gotten paid from any iem tournaments from last year...why are these players even showing up and supporting ESL?

the interview was like about 3 hours :)

awesome

"They're too large, I never take such things back home with me, I present them to somebody or simply throw them away."

Somehow made me smile :'D

after reading this i imagined that hes giving it to some homeless guy , wich runs away with check in happynes ;]

"I plan to add an analysis, not a shoutcast of the matches but an analysis of how I think, so that people could understand my thinking."

Freaking awesome!

dont think it will be in english

Translators! Get on it Nukm!

I hope some good person will translate it for us <3... or plus whore :D

hope so aswell, but it takes so much time... some site (or maybe his team) has to step up and pay someone to do it i think

Nothing like it if a Russian brother hooks us up with the translated version. If no one's available, I could give it a try by making a post on my blog about it and going google translate on it.

No idea about how accurate it would be but you can give it a spin on www.g4menation.com and select the language you want the blog to show up in from the right hand side pane. I'm guessing there will be a ton of grammatical mistakes.

Ok, finally through and this translation was sure worth the effort. It's particularly pleasing to see how cooller's coming across as a rather modest and frank guy when talking to his people, as compared to his english iviews. Hugely enjoyed his game analysis regarding both, technical and mental aspects. Specifically his perspective on his ztn cumback vs avek was ... informative.

Thanks again.

About lags with Strenx... beginning with "From my point of view..." these words said Shadow - commentator at the event, but not Cooller

the check is in the mail

"rapha isn't to be scared of that much in the game, but I think very highly of him as a person, and I love the fact that he beats Cypher all the time."

i srsly lol'ed

And they where supposed to be friends :D

They are.

supposed to be

friends :D

"but I think very highly of him as a person"

Best Cooller interview ever.

thx

Cooller's frag movie needs to be titled "Unstoppable" and this song needs to be one of the songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvV-SE3dDZ0

no

it has to be one hour long and use all of these songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNKL22rpcr4&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVVrNOQtlzY
this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=733O0xJDx8o
how about this? :\

quoting a comment of that video:

"Someone on YouTube synchronized this track with several cutscenes and trailers from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and they accomplished the impossible...

They made Modern Warfare 2 even MORE EPIC than it already is!"

..I think you owe me a new keyboard.

Haha saw that and it made me cringe beyond belief.

"You'll be shocked, the topic was so intimate! She asked me to find some free time in future to play Quake 3 CPMA with her brother."
actually she never said 'brother' but whatever, Q3 cpma ftw:D

Wanna elaborate on that?

not really, its just en excuse to point out that cpma is ftw:d

excellent interview, thank you ToyTiger.

"As a girl I don't find her exciting at all."

OUCH.

she's gotta be fat


NO FAT CHICKS

Seems like a proper down to earth individual. I really admired him when he answered "If one of your children wanted to become big in e-sports would you let them" or something along those lines and he replied "No, I would make them do something more interesting and beneficial with their life"

So true;

I actually thought it was going to be such a tl;dr but I was hooked throughout. Great interview.

so u r a kid

To all immature kids things like that sound very mature, but as you gown up you realize that the most mature thing is to do what u like.

I don't understand what you're getting at?

He's basically saying there's plenty of other activities in life that are alot more fun and beneficial to your health, future, happyness etc

Gaming should be used for recreation tbqh. I don't believe it will ever become mainstream and gross money like sports such as darts, cricket, football etc

But yeah, this is a forum and your opinion should be validated.

Thanks god it doesnt becomes like football or other popular sport, that would mean big money and thus corruption. QL is on the sweetspot of high competitiiety with low out of the game factors influencing results. Best things in life arent for money at all but i understand your unenlightened mindset trying to justify its lack of inner joy.

btw C O O L L E R

If you're directing this at me then wtf are you actually on?

It brings joy confirm. Should you try and go "pro" and waste your education / life

no

Now sit the fuck down cunt.

IMO wasting your life is doing what youre supposed to do rather than what you truly love.

Epic, cooller was a UO player!
kinda a fail game now though.

The winner!

http://cooller.org/uploads/demo/FINAL%20IEM%20EURO.rar

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