Moving over to the various events yourself and the team have attended over the last few years, what do you think the highlight of your pro Counter Strike career has been so far with the fnatic organisation?
fnatic\cArn: Many things, winning tournaments is always something I can recall. But I’m also happy with my own improvements during the year in Fnatic, when I joined back in 2006 I was inactive and didn’t played that much at all, but I think I have evolved a lot in this team and I have to thank my teammates that they put their trust in me.
And what do you personally feel was the best event you’ve been to, based on the atmosphere and the way the event was organised.
fnatic\cArn: Maybe not best organised, butt going to Asia, for example China and Korea is always special. Especially China, where we have a fair amount of fans that come and support us.
If I have to pick a specific tournament arranger who is doing a great job, I would say ESL, because they always good referees and rule-sets.
What do you feel a good event needs to have besides the obvious factor of having a large prize purse?
fnatic\cArn: As I stated above, good referees and fair rules is always necessary, far from all tournament is having this sadly.
Except the rules, I think communication is very important; events which think about that aspect are great.
What would you consider to be the optimal tournament layout? A system like ESWC with double group-stages followed by single elimination stages best-of-three matches, a best-of-one double elimination bracket system or possibly something else?
fnatic\cArn: First it should be a seeding system based on a long-term data of results. Then the teams should be divided into groups based on their seed. The top 2 teams in every group should be proceeding to a 8/16/32 bracket system depending how many teams attending, where you should play best-of-three single elimination.
Do you feel that most organisers design their event in such a way to meet the demands of the professional players or do you feel like they should take the demands of the players more seriously?
fnatic\cArn: Both yes and no, I’m sure they all work hard to hold the perfect event. But one factor why far from everyone does not succeed, is that they tend to “space up” the tournament, it can be everything from an exclusive opening ceremony to weird tournament locations which do not fit in with the demands of the gamers.
If they try to think basically, and try finding the answers for what the gamers actually want, which roughly is; enough space, good PC/monitors and a venue where communication is possible.
As a team, Fnatic.cs has won many prestigious events and also some smaller ones, but as a gamer I guess you have certain goals you want to achieve before you can actually say to yourself that you are the absolute nr1 and can be completely satisfied with yourself. With gold medals from ESWC and WCG to name but a few. Are there any events that you personally and the team are really eager to win and why?
fnatic\cArn: After a 2nd and 3rd place at the ESWC I really aim for claiming that title, it´s a very prestigious tournament with all best teams attending, so I’d say ESWC.
Having already visited South Korea, Germany, the United States and France earlier this year, what does the rest of 2007 have in store for fnatic when it comes to events?
fnatic\cArn: We will head for the Dreamhack, the biggest lan-party in the world, I think two different tournaments will take place there.
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