The Crossfire Experience - Question 5

Looking back at the games played and your final standing, are you satisfied? Anything that happened during matches that decided a game in your favor (or the opposite)?

Tom "D1ablo" Newman (Reason Gaming): "Yes, for our first LAN as a team I think we played superb. We hardly practiced at all before the event and many considered us washed up previous to the event. Coming second at the biggest CoD4 LAN to date is an awesome feat and we showed that teams have still got character in this game. We've come from this event with a HUGE amount of knowledge on things that I hadn't thought of before. Things like mid round strat calls are something that we never thought of before, as well as some huge clutch rounds, which are things that decided our games."

Amir "George" Hajar (Team Impact): "This is a tough question, we never came here to win the LAN. We just want to test ourselves and have fun with a game we like to play (but I think CoD1 owns!). We thought we would never pass the groups, but we played with a smile and we played well against all our opponents. We were just unlucky when we chose the vetomap vs NCE. I made the plan to remove crossfire in this important match and when I noticed that in my previous veto it said crossfire and not crash I got completely confused. Maybe a mistake when writing down the map, I really don't know why I couldn't ban this random map ;). We played a map we never tested. As I said, we didn't come to win and in these 2 weeks together we just prepared 3 maps;/. That was quite sad.

On Saturday, we attemped to play YoYoTech and came in at 12:00. We eventually played at 21:00, but we always had problems with staying at the LAN location for a long time! But in our favor, we played all our games on the pc's in front of the girls bathroom. We never stayed focused during the game! YOU HATE US! AHAHh."

Max "mAx" Hartmann (n!faculty): "I think the matches were good, we played as good as possible and our result (3rd place in our group) is good enough for us at our first big lan. We had, like I already said, a lot of problems with the pc's, but I think it didn't decide a match in our favor or the other way around."

Jim "ownRrr" De Ronde (Rodcad Gaming): "Well, I think I could have performed better with the smg. Not that we didn't perform well, we actually did much better than we expected. So, ending up like 3rd in our group is a good result I think? We are satisfied."

Adam "vanner" Vanner in action with his teammates from NCE.i3D.

Adam "vanner" Vanner (NCE.i3D): "I was really disapointed. I looked at the teams above us and around us in the rankings and feel we are better than a great deal of them when we play online. We didn't play like we normally do and that is frustating to say the least. But, it's a learning curve and our main aim is to finish the summer in style."

Jakub "B33MN" Grotowski (1stCav): "Of course I'm not satisfied. We should have taken the game versus PGS, when we were leading on crossfire, our worst map. It was something like 8-6 and all we had to do is keep playing round by round.. But, they took a few rounds in a row and we couldn't do anything back. We just need to practise more on this map, we are sure about that. Also, the game versus Infinity Skills could be have been played more aggressive from our side. The same goes for the n!faculty match. Well, we just didn't play serious versus them, our chances of making it past the groups were 0%, so motivation dropped. We really wanted take our revenge on Power Gaming for what they did to us in Prague at the ProGaming World .. ;P"

B33MN (middle) and his 1stCav teammates in action at CIC7.

Joni "sarine" Laakso (4Sypher): "Of course I'm not satisfied, we should have won the Gamelimited game. We gave it away too easily because of stupid things. I'm not taking away any credit from them though, they won and we lost. The Infused game was a total disaster. We chose the wrong map and we were just totally clueless about everything, so they just ran over us. About the Reason and fnatic games: a few more rounds would have been nice, but both of them made it to the finals so.."

Darren "wannabe" Borrow (Team Infused): "I'm not satisfied at all. Going into the event I kind of knew we wouldn't get out of the groups unless we did something amazing. Unfortunately, I played our first game versus Gamelimited with a broken mouse, which didn't really help the team and probably contributed to the lose versus them, but all in all I don't think we can be overly disappointed, as the eventual finalists both came from our group."

Johan "miRACLE" Gärtner (H2k Gaming): "I think we did well, it was unfortunate that we had to play Reason so early in the tournament. We all wanted to win and we were really disappointed about getting knocked out. However, the other games we played, we played really well and we didn't play too bad versus Reason. They were just better this time."

H2k Gaming in action in the CIC7 playoffs.