As many people already know, my path to coming to this WCG final has been long. My career started around 2007, getting into Begrip, left to join up NiP and later on been on the bench for SK for almost a year.
It took me almost 365 days to get a spot in SK, in 2008 Extreme Masters, I got my chance to finaly shine as I always wanted to. In SK, beside with RobbaN, walle and those guys. But somehow, I coulnd´t shine as I wanted to. A week later I got kicked.
Weeks after I joined up with blank (former begrip mixed lineup) before we went to our first event, I got kicked out of the team with playing insanely hours on Steam. I puted up personally 120~ hours on steam before WCG/DreamHack summer tournaments.
At this very tournament, I got my first 0-14 on a officel match... Was I overrated? Was I that bad?
Re-thinking about what I should do, I tried out CS:S for abit, always joined up a team. But I didnt feel that joy that I had with 1.6, so I left the team we had there after 2,5-3 weeks of training.
After this little spell with the CS:S team, I started to talk with a friend of mine. Björn (threat), as one of the reason I joined up Begrip lineup in the first place. As he took me in that team. I convince him to make a new team with me, so he took kHRYSTAL and qp from his team back then.
As I was trying to figure out the last player, I talked with FYRR73 for a bit, as I´ve been mixing a lot with him and I knew he was a good guy! I asked him and he was pretty sure on trying out the team!
After the team was made we called ourself, 0E1F23/Evilzone.se or as the lastest part. Giants!
We achived different goals with our lineup, as winning DreamHack Skellefteå, over fnatic/SK and my former team blank, won a pre-event for IOL, hazard event with blank attending, played a Intel Friday Night Game in Denmark against ATS (ArcadioN, trace, faaag, friis and waz0rn)
But as the last event of the year for us, DreamHack Winter 2008. We played a pretty bad event, as we had a tight against SK on the first map (nuke) but managed to blow it away. I got a offer from fnatic to team-up with legendary -
cArn, dsn, f0rest and Archi (Gux)
The later guy, will be replaced by Gux.
I wouldn´t really belive that actually fnatic wanted me in their lineup, after had a tuff year with CS 2008. Kicked out of teams, in and out and fought my way up again. I would get my chance to get better and travel around the world and feel how to be a real PRO player in the scene!
I think most of the people already know how that year ended for us, 2009...
- - #4 ExtremeMasters Season 3 Continental Finals Europe
- - #1 ExtremeMasters Season 3 Global Fianls
- - #2 ESL Pro Series Scandinavia Season I
- - #1 ESWC Masters Korea
- - #1 KODE5 Finals 2009
- - #1 DreamHack Summer 09
- - #1 e-Stars Seoul Korea 09
- - #1 WCG Sweden Qualifier 09
- - #1 ENC 2009
- - #2 IEM: Global Challenge Chengdu
- #1 IEM: Global Challenge Dubai
- - #1 Hazard 29
- - #2 WCG 09
- - #5-8 DreamHack Winter 2009
- - #1 WEM 2009
Pretty nice year right? haha.. But still.
Fininshed the year with style, we couldn´t win that WCG gold as everyone in our team wanted so badly, as we saw ourself lose to the polish team and some bad words came from loord and me after the game... I think most of the people know the famous line loord said to me..
"Co jest kurwa GeT_RiGhT?!"
Fast going into 2011 and jumping over 2010 ( I will probably write a another blog about this and how that year felt for me, don´t worry!)
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"The three N" - New motivation, New strength and New goals to brake
As the year wasn´t that bad in fnatic, but for me personally I needed something new and that came with going to SK.
Doing our so to say, dream lineup. The scene had hyped us to much for the first event as we FAILED big time in Kiev that people just laughed at us and wrote news about that "dreamteams" dosen´t work as people might think.
After change Allen, for being to sick to play to dennis. Things started to get better and better. We placed 4th at the global finals, second on Copenhagen Games and first at IOL pre-tournament. But we felt we had everything except one thing, a AWP-Player.
After looking for different kind of Players, we asked Delpan joining us, fast-going the history and fight between SK/fnatic. We attended Dreamhack summer with a new Player and new goals.
IOL Finals
Dreamhack MSI Tournament
WCG Sweden Finals
Winning Dreamhack summer with style, going into the tournament having big Questions on how good / bad it will go. We went in, winnning _all_ three tournaments there with little practise time as only for _FIVE_ days and a new era has started for us...
Going to ICSC8
Going to GameGune
Going to eStars Seoul
in less then 3 months, we won 5 out of 6 tournaments out there!
Pretty good, right? ;)
Jumping over tournaments, for exampel SEC/IEM:NY/ESWC and Dreamhack Winter. We are at this time.
World Cyber Games 2011 Grand finals.
Going into this tournament, with big hopes and only just one thing left to do this year.. Winning this.
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World Cyber Games 2011
I had bad memories back from WCG before, losing a final that we had in our hands and let it slide out of our fingers and gave it to the polish guys with standing there with empty heart and tears in my eyes and see the polish guys standing there with Joy and Happiness that should be us... Not them...
I´m going into this final with more hunger, will and desire that noone else has actually seen. People have seen that Ive been showing more emotions this year then the two other years. You want to know Why? It´s because I play this game for Win tournaments, not to lose them again, like before.
As we are going into the server against the poles today, I will close my eyes and think for a small second and tell myself.
I will not give this gold to the polish guys again, never. Not that easy like last time. Never.
Good luck ESC, You will need it.
Totte.
It took me almost 365 days to get a spot in SK, in 2008 Extreme Masters, I got my chance to finaly shine as I always wanted to. In SK, beside with RobbaN, walle and those guys. But somehow, I coulnd´t shine as I wanted to. A week later I got kicked.
Weeks after I joined up with blank (former begrip mixed lineup) before we went to our first event, I got kicked out of the team with playing insanely hours on Steam. I puted up personally 120~ hours on steam before WCG/DreamHack summer tournaments.
At this very tournament, I got my first 0-14 on a officel match... Was I overrated? Was I that bad?
Re-thinking about what I should do, I tried out CS:S for abit, always joined up a team. But I didnt feel that joy that I had with 1.6, so I left the team we had there after 2,5-3 weeks of training.
After this little spell with the CS:S team, I started to talk with a friend of mine. Björn (threat), as one of the reason I joined up Begrip lineup in the first place. As he took me in that team. I convince him to make a new team with me, so he took kHRYSTAL and qp from his team back then.
As I was trying to figure out the last player, I talked with FYRR73 for a bit, as I´ve been mixing a lot with him and I knew he was a good guy! I asked him and he was pretty sure on trying out the team!
After the team was made we called ourself, 0E1F23/Evilzone.se or as the lastest part. Giants!
We achived different goals with our lineup, as winning DreamHack Skellefteå, over fnatic/SK and my former team blank, won a pre-event for IOL, hazard event with blank attending, played a Intel Friday Night Game in Denmark against ATS (ArcadioN, trace, faaag, friis and waz0rn)
But as the last event of the year for us, DreamHack Winter 2008. We played a pretty bad event, as we had a tight against SK on the first map (nuke) but managed to blow it away. I got a offer from fnatic to team-up with legendary -
cArn, dsn, f0rest and Archi (Gux)
The later guy, will be replaced by Gux.
I wouldn´t really belive that actually fnatic wanted me in their lineup, after had a tuff year with CS 2008. Kicked out of teams, in and out and fought my way up again. I would get my chance to get better and travel around the world and feel how to be a real PRO player in the scene!
I think most of the people already know how that year ended for us, 2009...
- - #4 ExtremeMasters Season 3 Continental Finals Europe
- - #1 ExtremeMasters Season 3 Global Fianls
- - #2 ESL Pro Series Scandinavia Season I
- - #1 ESWC Masters Korea
- - #1 KODE5 Finals 2009
- - #1 DreamHack Summer 09
- - #1 e-Stars Seoul Korea 09
- - #1 WCG Sweden Qualifier 09
- - #1 ENC 2009
- - #2 IEM: Global Challenge Chengdu
- #1 IEM: Global Challenge Dubai
- - #1 Hazard 29
- - #2 WCG 09
- - #5-8 DreamHack Winter 2009
- - #1 WEM 2009
Pretty nice year right? haha.. But still.
Fininshed the year with style, we couldn´t win that WCG gold as everyone in our team wanted so badly, as we saw ourself lose to the polish team and some bad words came from loord and me after the game... I think most of the people know the famous line loord said to me..
"Co jest kurwa GeT_RiGhT?!"
Fast going into 2011 and jumping over 2010 ( I will probably write a another blog about this and how that year felt for me, don´t worry!)
–––––––––––––––
"The three N" - New motivation, New strength and New goals to brake
As the year wasn´t that bad in fnatic, but for me personally I needed something new and that came with going to SK.
Doing our so to say, dream lineup. The scene had hyped us to much for the first event as we FAILED big time in Kiev that people just laughed at us and wrote news about that "dreamteams" dosen´t work as people might think.
After change Allen, for being to sick to play to dennis. Things started to get better and better. We placed 4th at the global finals, second on Copenhagen Games and first at IOL pre-tournament. But we felt we had everything except one thing, a AWP-Player.
After looking for different kind of Players, we asked Delpan joining us, fast-going the history and fight between SK/fnatic. We attended Dreamhack summer with a new Player and new goals.
IOL Finals
Dreamhack MSI Tournament
WCG Sweden Finals
Winning Dreamhack summer with style, going into the tournament having big Questions on how good / bad it will go. We went in, winnning _all_ three tournaments there with little practise time as only for _FIVE_ days and a new era has started for us...
Going to ICSC8
Going to GameGune
Going to eStars Seoul
in less then 3 months, we won 5 out of 6 tournaments out there!
Pretty good, right? ;)
Jumping over tournaments, for exampel SEC/IEM:NY/ESWC and Dreamhack Winter. We are at this time.
World Cyber Games 2011 Grand finals.
Going into this tournament, with big hopes and only just one thing left to do this year.. Winning this.
––––––––––––––––––
World Cyber Games 2011
I had bad memories back from WCG before, losing a final that we had in our hands and let it slide out of our fingers and gave it to the polish guys with standing there with empty heart and tears in my eyes and see the polish guys standing there with Joy and Happiness that should be us... Not them...
I´m going into this final with more hunger, will and desire that noone else has actually seen. People have seen that Ive been showing more emotions this year then the two other years. You want to know Why? It´s because I play this game for Win tournaments, not to lose them again, like before.
As we are going into the server against the poles today, I will close my eyes and think for a small second and tell myself.
I will not give this gold to the polish guys again, never. Not that easy like last time. Never.
Good luck ESC, You will need it.
Totte.
