Polosatiy: Hi! Can you tell me your name, how old are you and where do you live? mTw|cracken: Hi, i'm John Ide maybe better known as cracken. I'm 19 years old and live in Hamburg, Germany.
Polosatiy: What are you doing? Studing, working or maybe something else? mTw|cracken: I just finished school, so atm i am not doing anything specific.
Polosatiy: Are you at WWCL LAN right now. What is it and how is organization there? Can it be better than CPL Dallas or maybe kind same? mTw|cracken: Ye i'm at the WWCL lan finals right now. The only thing i can say about the organization so far, is that the tourney did not yet start as planned and has been delayed for 2 hours now. So i'm looking forward to some brilliant organization work :) The WWCL final lan is, as it name states, the final of the wwcl lan series. i only arrived a few hours ago so i can't say much about the event itself, but from what i've seen so far the location is quite ok. It started today with the top 16 CS and RTCW clans to compete for several prizes.. it should be finsished by saturday evening, we'll see about that though :) It is in Celle, near Hannover, Germany :)
Polosatiy: Please tell me about your gaming story. Is Counter-Strike this your first game or? mTw|cracken: Yes, Counter-Strike was pretty much my first online-game. Well it started with some first pc my mother owned with the accolade games played in black and white and just went from there over all the other games like duke3d .. quake.. up to counter-strike, which i started to play online.
Polosatiy: Since when you are in mortal Team work? I just looking for you at mTw's squad at WCG 2001 and can't see you. mTw|cracken: I joined mTw in october 2000. the reason why i did not attend the wcg finals in 2001 one, was that at that time i had joined GoL where i played for some weeks before returning to mTw. So i missed the WCG Event :)
Polosatiy: what was the best event for you? mTw|cracken: The event I enjoyed the most was probably babbages CPL in Dallas in December 2000. It was very well organized and the tournament area was set up nicely. At that time Scorp, Nykon, Speiky and Wirsing were in the team. we played 3rd after e9 and DoP. The only one still playing from the old team is me, Wirsing switched to RtCW a couple of month ago and will be competing at the upcoming Quakecon in Dallas. It was nice meeting all the american players which i also had the chance to meet again 2 weeks ago, at the CPL summer championship.
Polosatiy: Who are top5 best CS-ers in the World for you? mTw|cracken: The top5 cs players for me are at number 1: pre, 2: Megatefyt, 3: shah, 4: potti, 5: ash (only on some days).
Polosatiy: How long you gonna play CS and how many hours per day you practise? mTw|cracken: Well i'm gonna play until mTw stops playin CS or i find interest in a different game. I practive about 1 to hours a day.
Polosatiy: What are you doing in free time? How often you meet your mates in real life? mTw|cracken: In my free time i am chatting on irc, sleeping or going to the cinema ;) i see my mates about once a week becoz of the several lans :)
Polosatiy: Tell me about Lan Arena 7. I haven't been there, so how organization was there and tell about what you felt after you won the tournament? mTw|cracken: I liked the setup of the spectator and tournament area. As everyone knows the network wasn't perfect, to say the least. But overall i was satisfied with the event and has improved from LA5 and LA6. Winning the event sure was a nice feeling although many ppl say it was all lucky.
Polosatiy: And now about Euro Cup 5 finals. You did double win, so just little report about Holland and Eurocup event from your eyes? mTw|cracken: The event in rotterdam was setup nicely in the gamesyndicate lan cafй. no delays or anything. We didnt see that much of rotterdam though. Some restaurants and of course a coffee shop :P. About games... Since nordic didnt show up only the dkh mixed team and the finish ewoks were on location.. the few matches that we played were fun.
Polosatiy: How much time you practise before CPL Dallas? You lost too early at the tournament, so i want to ask why? What's happend? mTw|cracken: mh well we had practiced online a bit before la7 and after that played the eurocup matches and maybe one pcw before we left for Dallas so maybe we could have been prepared a bit better, but nevertheless the match versus gX was a very close one and i guess we just didnt stay calm enough as terrorists and messed up tactics big time :)
Polosatiy: I heared that german women like hard sex very much. Is it true, so did you try yourself :p? mTw|cracken: lemme just say -> lol :)
Polosatiy: What countries you visited? Do you get enjoy from trips or its just like to come to tournamemnt place asap and play play play? mTw|cracken: Well i've already visited quite a lot of countries and if we go to a city for a tournament i try to at least walk arround the town a bit. It's not my first need to get my keyboard and mouse set up so i can play .)
Polosatiy: Are you gonna participate WCG this year? What do you think about World Cyber Games doing for eSport? mTw|cracken: Yes we're planning in participating at this years WCG... I can't say much about WCG since i haven't experienced any of their events yet. But any professional event with big sponsors does helps the esports scene, so does WCG.
Polosatiy: Does mTw have sponsors? What are they paying for? mTw|cracken: We have our main sponsor alternate, therefor the mTw.alternate thing. With alternate as sponsor we have the abilitly to travel to all the events and also get some rate off their products which they sell at www.alternate.net. We also have AMD and MSI as hardware sponsors who supply us with various stuff.
Polosatiy: Have you ever play Quake3? Like it? mTw|cracken: Ahm actually i've been playin q3 more often than cs lately :) Its more fun than CS and it's faster. I mainly play 2on2s or some CTF pickup matches. i even played a 2on2 against your german cyberfight team :P But i had a good partner so :))
Polosatiy: What is your favorite map for Counter-Strike? mTw|cracken: de_nuke.
Polosatiy: What is your mouse and headphones? mTw|cracken: Microsoft Intelli Optical and Plantronics DSP 500.
Cracken's PC - Athlong XP 2100 +, RAM 512 SDRAM-DDR 333, MSI GeForce4 Ti 4600. You can take Cracken's last config for CS from here.
