The i33 Contenders: fnatic zEm

The G7 organisation fnatic have one of the best Counter Strike 1.6 teams, one of the best Counter Strike: Source teams, and argueably one of the best Call of Duty 4 teams around. The Swedish line-up of their Call of Duty 4 squad were lead to victory a couple of weeks ago in Enschede, Holland at the Crossfire Devotii Challenge 4 event, where they beat TheLast Resort in the finals.

One of the teams longest-serving members,  Rickard "zEm" Intveld was absent at the event, as he was temporarily away in Thailand, but he recently returned to an on-form team as they were working hard in practice preparing for their upcoming attendence at Multiplay i33, which will take place this weekend in Newbury, England.

The event will be the first iSeries Call of Duty tournament to stem a larger amount of European teams, and some of fnatic's threats include TEK9, Roskilde Ravens and TheLastResort, so will they be able to pull off a second LAN victory at i33? I caught up with zEm to get his scope on the fnatic team, Multiplay i33 and the Swedish Call of Duty 4 scene.


Identity Card
Name: Rickard Intveld
Age: 20
Location: Sweden
Likes: eSports and Ice Hockey
Dislikes: Working outside when its raining!
Food Preference: Homemade
Favourite Music: Blip Blip! (ask mint about it)
Favourite Movie: Lord of the Rings
Favourite Player: Machtin
Favourite Actor: qwertYYY
Motto: Is niiiccceeee!!!

PC Configuration
Processor: Intel Core 2, 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Motherboard: Shuttle
Memory: Corsair 4GB DDR2
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
Hard Drive: WD 250GB
Soundcard: Onboard
Mouse: Razer DeathAdder
Keyboard: Razer Lycosa
Mousepad: fnatic Everglide
Screen: Samsung SyncMaster 931BF

fnatic collect their first place prize at CDC4. Picture courtesy of Crossfire.nu