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May 29, 2008 at 12:25 AM CDT
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Blazing CS:S team
Posted by: bsl
Name:
Jonas Alsaker Vikan
Position:
General Manager
About the author
Jonas Alsaker Vikan is the General Manager of Berlin Allianz. He led the team to a European championship and a third to fourth placing at the first CGS World Final. The twenty six year old Norwegian is also a journalist.
- My first experience with professional gaming was playing «Return to Castle Wolfenstein» - way back in 2003, Spierenburg said.
His career was founded at the ripe age of 15-16. «Blaze» excelled at the game early on.
- I was quite successful in that game, and after some time with it I decided to change to «Call of Duty». We joined «Fnatic» and won many events under their name, he said.
His name was already established with a stellar career in those two games. However it was his next career move that would ultimately set him on the course to the Championship Gaming Series.
Photo: Daniel Jensen / Readmore.de.
According to «Blaze» the highlight of his already long career in competitive gaming came as team «Fnatic» ploughed through the international ranks last year. They were the definitive team to beat.
- My highlight so far had to have been last year. Our team won every event and we were undefeated for almost six months.
Their aspirations to take that streak into the Championship Gaming Series came to an abrupt end at the 2007 draft. As the story goes Fnatic was not selected for any of the two European teams. «Blaze» and his team mates had to go back to Holland disappointed. Perhaps the hardships they faced as their dreams lay shattered on the Omega Sector floor took away from their concentration as they could not uphold their stellar level of play throughout the later months of 2007.
In 2008 the Dutch team fought back. They came to the CGS European draft again – with a vengeance. During the competition they seemed more inspired, more hungry and more hell bent on proving the GM’s, that failed to pick them last year, wrong.
- I was very confident in my individual skill. I was sure that it was not going to be a problem, he said.
«Fnatic’s» CS:S team are from Holland and speak Dutch in-game. Berlin and Stockholm’s teams speak Swedish. As General Manager Jonas Alsaker «bsl» Vikan only protected one CS:S player (franchise star David «olander» Olander-Persson) it became apparent that some, but not all of «Fnatic’s» players would wear a CGS jersey during the upcoming season.
- The only issue I could foresee was the language barrier, «Blaze» said.
- Counter-Strike: Source is a team based game where communication counts for everything. I would not say the language is a problem, we see it as a challenge. And a challenge that we have to face and overcome in the matter of weeks, General Manager Jonas Alsaker Vikan said.
Spierenburg is convinced that the five CS:S starters will be able to communicate adequately – even if they have to do it in something that is not their first language.
- I don’t see it as much of a challenge since we all speak English fluently. However, we do have to work on naming the different spots on the different maps to ensure our communication flows well.
For «Blaze» it means that endless hours of preparation are in order.
- The first thing we are doing is going through the CGS maps to put English names on all the corners, boxes and positions. Then we are turning to tactics next, he said.
- When those are laid out we will simply play as many matches as possible – analyzing strengths and weaknesses as we go, he said.
Right now the team is looking into different ways of gaining the edge they will need to have to compete in Los Angeles.
- Hopefully we will be able to meet in Holland prior to the European Final. A bootcamp there would do us good and allow us to finalize the last details and eliminate any kinks that still exist in our arsenal, Spierenburg said.
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