Dignitas Painkiller Spotlight 18

Team Dignitas has once again put some effort in doing a nice interview for the Painkiller audience. This is the first time there is a non-gamer being interviewed for the famous Painkiller Spotlight. The honourable person being chosen for this is no other than Liuokin from TsN – Team Sportcast Network. He is one of the World Tour 2005 shoutcasters and have done an amazing job during all the stops he attended. If you would like to know more about him, painkiller, the world tour and his thoughts regarding the job as a shoutcaster you should definitely read this interview.

Here is a snippet of the interview:
Team Dignitas:
What is the best thing about being a shoutcaster?

TsN|Liuokin:
Getting the opportunity to work with such amazing talent in a completely new field and being able to spearhead a totally new form of eSports entertainment. You become the link between the audience and the event making the average layman understand the game as if he were a seasoned veteran. That link you get with the audience is priceless.

Team Dignitas:
TSN have improved their coverage all the time and now starts to be and look a bit professional. From your point of view, what should and could be improved for future stops?

TsN|Liuokin:
We always strive to be professional, in both our video product and our audio. Its not easy going from a radio station to a media station like we have so there is bound to be problems along the way, but we always strive for improvement as you can see throughout the past few tour stops. As far as what we will improve on you will just have to tune in to the next tour stop! =)

The whole Dignitas PK Spotlight interview could be found here.

If you have not read the other great painkiller spotlights go to www.team-dignitas.com and go to news archive and select Painkiller Spotlights and you will get all of them.

Enjoy!

//dREk

Dignitas Painkiller Spotlight 17

After the CPL WT USA event I had the opportunity to interview the new gaming talent Dj from team check-six. Dj managed to place 9-12th in this tournament which is his best achievement so far. In this Painkiller Spotlight we talk about his progress, plans and his thoughts regarding the World Tour 2006.

Here is a snippet of the interview:

Team Dignitas:
You have improved since day 1 of the World Tour, you think you could improve even more?
And tell us about your goal with this World Tour?

check6\\dj:
I feel that I have been improving on a consistent basis. I went into this event, thinking the top 5 or 6 players are untouchable but, after playing Stermy and Ztrider, I feel that if I keep practicing, I will be able to reach the level of play that they are on.
Originally, at the beginning of the world tour, my main goal was to consistently place top 16 at the stops and to do so in the finals. After summer CPL, I feel I have the confidence and motivation to keep improving. Even though I realize top 6 is almost unattainable for me at the moment, I feel I will have plenty of chances to place at least top 12 at future stops.

Team Dignitas:
And a question that is asked everywhere but sure is interesting. Which games do you want to have for the World Tour 2006?

check6\\dj:
I trust CPL has learned a lot from this first world tour and will definitely think twice about picking whichever game they choose. No matter what it is, I will try it. If I like it, I will balance school and gaming like I have been doing. If I don’t like it, I will instead try to concentrate on school for the year and get as far ahead as possible maybe even finish early, while i wait for the next big game. Personally, I hope the 1v1 game is quake 4. Even though I like 1v1 games better than team games, I will probably also give the Team game a try also.

The whole Dignitas PK Spotlight interview could be found here.

If you have not read the other great painkiller spotlights go to www.team-dignitas.com and go to news archive and select Painkiller Spotlights and you will get all of them.

Enjoy!

//dREk

Dignitas Painkiller Spotlight 16

Another painkiller interview has been made by dignitas and this time it was Deatz from check-six who was the lucky one to be interviewed. So far Dignitas have made 16 spotlight interviews and you can be sure that more interesting interviews are coming up. If you missed any of the previous interviews you could find them all under the painkiller spotlight archive on their site.

Here is a snippet of the interview:

Team Dignitas:
First of all, for how long have you been playing Painkiller?

x6|Deatz:
I started playing from the very first beginning, I guess it was the first alpha I played, “moerser” an I practiced directly after the release on LAN together, and we liked the game :). I think it is 1 Year ago or something like that :).

Team Dignitas:
The upcoming event is in Dallas (CPL’s hometown), what are your expectations there and who do you predict to be in the top 3?

x6|Deatz:
Like most of the events, Vo0, fatal1ty, Zyz :), but…maybe me this time ? 🙂 no just kidding :), ye I guess it will be like that.

The whole Dignitas PK Spotlight interview could be found here.

CPL WT Sweden Results!

Here is the final results from CPL World Tour Sweden:

01. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/nl.gif /> Sander “Vo0” Kaasjager – $15,000
02. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel – $10,000
03. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> Benjamin “zyz” Bohrmann – $7,000
04. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/se.gif /> Alex “Ztrider” Ingarv – $5,000
05. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/it.gif /> Alessandro “Stermy” Avallone – $3,500
06. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/ca.gif /> Andrew “gellehsak” Ryder – $2,500
07. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/ru.gif /> Alexey “LeXeR” Nesterov – $1,750
08. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/uk.gif /> David “Zaccubus” Treacy – $1,250
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> Christian “deatz” Dotzki – $625
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/de.gif /> Stephan “SteLam” Lammert – $625
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Mark “Wombat” Larsen – $625
09-12. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/it.gif /> Nicola “ForresT” Geretti – $625
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/fi.gif /> Iisaki “Beam” Ahonen – $375
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/se.gif /> Fredrik “Aim” Edesater – $375
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/us.gif /> Sean “daler” Price – $375
13-16. border: 1px solid #c7c7c7 alt= src=http://www.team-vip.se/images/flags/se.gif /> Joakim “Radical” Malmquist – $375

Vo0 once again did a flawless tournament without a single loss and played really well. Fatal1ty also did show that he really is going for that number 1 spot. The biggest surprises is that Zaccabus played really well during the whole tournament, even took a map against Fatal1ty and ended at 8th place. Same with deatz who impressed many by beating Worre and Daler and played really good against Zyz (1-2 in maps) and Gellehsak (1-2 in maps).

//dREk – www.team-vip.se

CPL WT Sweden site is up!

Finally after some weeks of waiting the CPL WT Sweden page is up with some info regarding the event in Jönköping.

Here you could find information about how to travel to Dreamhack, register to participate in the event as well as the rules for the WT game Painkiller among other things. I believe this site will consist of more information the closer we get to the event.

CPL WT Sweden site: www.cplworldtour.se

//dREK – www.team-vip.se