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Jul 21, 2008 at 11:10 AM CDT
The GM on the grill
Posted by: bsl
- We have not done a good enough job
Berlin GM Jonas Alsaker Vikan answers questions about the team on the CGS League page
«bsl» posing during an early TV shoot in Los Angeles. Photo: Jonas Alsaker Vikan
On site in Los Angeles
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.
21. July, Los Angeles, USA
Over at the CGS League page there is a series of interviews that deal with the General Managers. «On the grill» has the boss of each team answer questions about past and present.
This week's edition feature the Berlin manager Jonas Alsaker Vikan.
This week's edition feature the Berlin manager Jonas Alsaker Vikan.
The Nominees
The GM talk in detail about what the Championship Gaming Series mean to him personally and what it should mean to the players of the team to be part of Berlin Allianz. Here's an exerpt:
"First of all -- and I know a lot of people ask ex-players this constantly, but I'm sure it changes often – do you miss competing?
I am still competing, albeit in a different form. Many ex-players miss the adrenaline rush of playing on a big stage but that's not it for me -- I get that by GM'ing as we have matches. What I miss is control over what's going on -- not having it is the worst part of the GM job as opposed to actually playing. You prepare the people you have faith in as well as you can, but when you climb onto that stage all you have left is the faith that you did your job well enough. That can be scary and difficult to handle.
What do you think caused so many single point defeats in the international competition? With your win over STOCKHOLM MAGNETIK, the BIRMINGHAM SALVO's overtime win, your loss in the 2007 World Final to the CORE... is the competition that close? Are people having trouble on stage? What is your insight?
There is no doubt that there is talent in abundance in all of the teams you have mentioned above. Playing on stage is a seize the opportunity kind of thing, and as it happens it seems like people handle that differently. Even the most experienced players have off days up there and that can be the spark an opponent needs to jump at the possibility of actually winning.
We have had our share of close matches and I am conflicted about it -– I'd take a one-point win over a blowout victory any day of the week and twice on Sunday, BUT losing by one stings like you won't believe..."
"First of all -- and I know a lot of people ask ex-players this constantly, but I'm sure it changes often – do you miss competing?
I am still competing, albeit in a different form. Many ex-players miss the adrenaline rush of playing on a big stage but that's not it for me -- I get that by GM'ing as we have matches. What I miss is control over what's going on -- not having it is the worst part of the GM job as opposed to actually playing. You prepare the people you have faith in as well as you can, but when you climb onto that stage all you have left is the faith that you did your job well enough. That can be scary and difficult to handle.
What do you think caused so many single point defeats in the international competition? With your win over STOCKHOLM MAGNETIK, the BIRMINGHAM SALVO's overtime win, your loss in the 2007 World Final to the CORE... is the competition that close? Are people having trouble on stage? What is your insight?
There is no doubt that there is talent in abundance in all of the teams you have mentioned above. Playing on stage is a seize the opportunity kind of thing, and as it happens it seems like people handle that differently. Even the most experienced players have off days up there and that can be the spark an opponent needs to jump at the possibility of actually winning.
We have had our share of close matches and I am conflicted about it -– I'd take a one-point win over a blowout victory any day of the week and twice on Sunday, BUT losing by one stings like you won't believe..."
Read the feature here: On the grill with «bsl»
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