Last Friday, we gave you a “1on1″ with the Warcraft 3 player Olav “Creolophus” Undheim. Today, we give you one of the most important people in German esports, Cengiz “django” Tuylu. Django is the manager of Mousesports, one of the world’s most affluent teams and a founding member of the G7 group.
Find out about the difficulties in being a team manager, how many German teams have budgets of over €100,000, the wages of the best players in the world, how much it would cost you to buy Navid “Kapio” Javadi, handling cantankerous players like Anton “Cooller” Singov or Ola “elemeNt” Moum and django’s views on differences between the CGS and the ESL.
Come back next Friday for the next 1on1 interview with the World Cyber Games 2003 champion for Warcraft 3, Zdravko “Insomnia” Georgiev.
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Very nice and very interesting interview :)
Great interview, he gave a lot of insight into the industry which is something you rarely see, people are generally very protective when it comes to information.
Carmac you blatantly started fishing for some big numbers, shame on you.
When you talk about Moons salary it’s a bit of a different beast compared to other players. If MYM take a cut of his prize money, which isn’t that unusual, you’re talking quite a lot of money.
This year alone Moon has won over $100,000, so MYM is liable to make a good percentage of his yearly fee back through winnings.
Plus product endorsements, advertising opportunities and the amount of opportunities that come from having a player of such status as a part of the team, it’s a very worth while investment.
What the hell happened to discourse on this site, it took a nose dive around about the time it switched to Wire. Rarely a decent discussion happens now.
(off topic I know but it has been bugging me.)
Sad face?
I was fishing out those numbers for you, because they are no secret to me ;P
As for discourse, it’s a bit of a shame people don’t comment, but the only way I can get them to do it is by providing them with content they would not be indifferent to. And that’s what I want to keep doing.
Seriously people, this is the place to give me/us the feedback that we need in order to satisfy you. I sure as hell don’t do those interviews for myself - I have django on my MSN.
If you want something improved, if you want us to go more in another direction, the comments section is the place to tell us!
nice interview. Django had a hard time speaking english.
I’d like to see another interview with a german or at least european manager (maybe with more english skills *sorry django*) to get their opinion about the CGS, EPS and ESL in general because django mentioned an important difference between he US scene and the european where are a lot more established teams and a lot more sponsors involved
Agreed, can we get a video interview with Bds, it has been fucking years.
He done one with g3x at ESWC 2005 right?
Nice interview Carmac, I’ve never heard of this guy before, but he seems like a really kewl guy, and has the right mindset when it comes to E-Sports.
Keep the good interviews coming.
shagrath, I havent’t seen bds live in a long, long time. It’s been a year or so.
vry nice iview, i would like to see more like this! django did a great job for the community in this iview, carmac asks the right questions, i could listen to it for hours :D hopefully we see more managers/players who tell us more than one sentence in a answer :> but why the f*** u look so depressive in this iview? ur girlfriend hitted u again before this? :D :P
PS: go for an iview with theslash! u know, about the mental trainer of the cs team, the upcoming talent ixi, the new 2 players in wc3… you know what u ask but i think it would be vry intresting :))
and i forgot, do a grubby and tod 1on1! even if ur not so intrested in wc3, u r the best iviewer in esports around the whole world, so u gotta do it! ;)
Haha, I will get Grubby if he feels like it. I’ve done stuff with him before, by the way. I will make an interview archive video player where you will find the better video interviews we’ve done.
yeah i’ve seen it/em but was muuuuuch toooo short for me ;D …there comes an idea… u should do a talkround on a event with all these players who speak english ;D that would be so great, one hour or something, talking with the players XD i bet even tod would take part of it! but i think u would prefer to do stuff like that with the FPS players ;> especially with avek, cooller & pgs … u need to get more into wc3 ^^
this interview is great … thank you
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