The 1on1 series continues with an interview with Paul “czm” Nelson, arguably the best Quake 3 player in history. In the feature Paul talks about life, Quake, switching to other games and how dumb he can be at times, despite graduating from Princeton with a degree in math.
This week’s 1on1 features the legend that not many gamers will know. He is one of the most prominent players in QuakeWorld and the winner of DreamHack’s QW tournament, David “ParadokS” Larsen. How does one stay faithful to a nine year old game and what is a QW player’s perception of today’s esports? Find out in the interview:
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The 1on1 series is making a comeback at GGL Wire with another interview. This time the victim is Sujoy Roy, the General Manager of London Mint.
London Mint is, of course, one of the teams of the Championship Gaming Series, and the predominant topic of the interview is the CGS itself. Enjoy:
In part 2 of this week’s 1on1, Carmac talks to Jens Hilgers about building an audience in esports, the various obstacles ahead of competitive gaming, the requirements that a game has to meet to become an esport and getting a monopoly for the ESL.
Next week, the 1on1 series will feature Quake 3 champion Paul “czm” Nelson. Part 1 of the Jens Hilgers 1on1 can be found here. Continued…
This week’s 1on1 is going to be a long interview and as such, it will be spread out over two days. The target this time is Jens Hilgers, the CEO of Turtle Entertainment and the face of the Electronic Sports League. Wire’s Michal “Carmac” Blicharz talks to Mr. Hilgers about the esports industry, ESL’s vision of growing competitive gaming and about other businesses, such as the Championship Gaming Series.
The second half of the interview will be published on Friday. Continued…
This week’s 1on1 interview comes with one of the most popular StarCraft shoutcasters in the world, Nick “Tasteless” Plott. Otherwise known as the “Storm Observer,” Tasteless has made the depth of his understanding of the game and his passion for it his trademarks. Wire’s Michal “Carmac” Blicharz got the opportunity to interview Nick in Seattle, at the World Cyber Games finals.
This Friday brings us a new 1on1 interview, this time with the father of the Warcraft 3 Champions League, Sebastian “Baschi” Weishaar. Wire’s Michal “Carmac” Blicharz talks with the German about Warcraft 3, Blizzard and StarCraft 2 and the RTS genre in esports.
Next week, the 1on1 series will bring an interview with the StarCraft commentator Nick “Tasteless” Plott. Continued…
The time has come for another weekend video interview with an eSports persona. In this week’s 1on1, Wire’s Michal “Carmac” Blicharz talks to the Meet Your Makers CTO, Markus “Army” Stefanko.
Among the subjects mentioned in the conversation are the big millions behind MYM, Jang “Spirit Moon” JaeHo’s reported monthly of $9,000, money in the eSports industry and the Championship Gaming Series’ influence on Counter-Strike 1.6.
Each Friday we do our best to bring all you esports nerds a 1on1 video interview with a gaming celebrity. This week it is time for the WCG 2003 champion for Warcraft 3, Zdravko “Insomnia” Georgiev. The SK Gaming player from Bulgaria is one of the most popular players in the scene, even though despite his consistent shape, he rarely wins big events these days.
Carmac sat down with Insomnia to talk about his life, pro gaming and StarCraft 2. Enjoy.
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.
GGL Wire got the opportunity to sit down with one of the most successful Warcraft 3 players in 2007, Olav “Creolophus” Undheim. The Four Kings Night Elf player has joined the ranks of the world’s elite players by finishing second in the Electronic Sports World Cup and winning the BattleNet Season V finals at Blizzcon, but is going into retirement in order to focus on college.
Is money, fame, traveling around the world not appealing to him? And if he does not have enough passion for gaming, then how did he get to the very top in the first place? How did he come to be the Creolophus that we know today? Those questions and many more will be answered in this week’s 1on1 with Olav “Creolophus” Undheim.
