In the sixth episode of my 'Grilled' interview series I spoke to Swedish CS legend Abdi "SpawN" Mohamed about his career, from his early days in matrix through to 2easy/team9 to SK 2003-2006 to NiP 2006 and the end in SK 2007-2008.

Topics discussed:

00:05 intro

00:21 matrix|ScreaM

02:18 ScreaM leaving the scene

02:51 SpawN struggling at LAN tournaments

05:03 2easy (ahl, fisker, filur and ScreaM)

06:31 Pressure after joining SK

07:27 Potti

09:23 back-to-back era SK

10:56 SpawN's style of play, did he see himself as an AWPer?

12:02 Winning CPL Winter 2005

12:38 Why the 2005 lineup fell apart in 2006

13:43 WEG Masters 2006

14:38 Playing in NiP in 2006

15:36 Comparing success in 2006 to 2003 and 2005

16:31 zet

18:42 walle

19:29 Winning SEC 2007 with SK

20:15 Going in and out of the lineup in 2008

22:10 Difficulty of trying to comeback

23:05 SpawN's all-time team of non-Swedes to defeat aliens in a match for Earth's fate

27:07 Differences between modern CS and the early days

27:58 The great lineup which never happened

29:29 final thoughts