Bracket http://125fps.challonge.com/sundaycup22
When: 17 Jan 2016, 10:00 CDT
MapPool: sinister, cure, t7, bloodrun, battleforged, lostworld and delirium.
Mapchoice - drop first.
PrizePool: read original post http://125fps.com/en/season-28
Rules:Full Double Elimination, Winner Bracket: BO1 till the semifinal, BO3 WB semi, WB final and Grandfinal (two BO3 if it will be needed); Low Bracket: BO1 all matches (including LB final).

You will notice that the core questions are the same for every interview minus some more personal or situational questions that I thought were relevant given the context or the very own experience of my interviewee. The interviews are raw, I haven't edited them so if there is any mispells or weird sentences, don't be freaked out.

Tell me a bit about yourself, what is your personal approach and your own experience of esports ?

I've always been a competitor and someone who shoots for the stars. With the birth of online gaming, I found a new passion to compete in this unknown virtual world. I quickly found my skillsets were a match for this emerging sport, landing me as the first full time professional eSports player in the world.

How I approached eSports was just like I would train or practice for a traditional sport. Work on strengths and weaknesses and practice a lot. I trained against tons of competitors on a daily basis to work on my technique and hone my skills to take out my opponents faster than anyone else.

My experience of eSports starts from the very beginning when I was 13 years old before it was even called eSports. I competed over dial up, IPX networks, and then eventually just basic TCP/IP Connections over broadband. As eSports grew, I was there every step of the way. Being a fanatic of competing with players from all over the world, I felt the playing field was level for everyone. It didn't matter where you lived, what the weather was, as long as you had a powerful PC and an internet connection, you were in the game! My endless pursuit of winning led me to participate in tournaments around the world, winning 12 eSports World Championships throughout my career. "Fatal1ty" became a household name in the gamer world and my life was never the same.


What is esports actually ? How do we define it ?

eSports is commonly known as competitive video gaming for the best of the best. I definitely believe that, but I also believe eSports includes playing games casually in the same manner as you play traditional sports with your friends. It is an activity requiring skill in a competitive nature.


How does one actually make a living out of esport ? Not just the competition aspect but more generally around video games as a whole ?

There is several different ways to make a living out of eSports now. Obviously winning Tournaments is the big one, but there is also possibilities making money in eSports with Events, Broadcasting, Twitch and/or businesses built to support eSports.

I personally competed in tournaments and built the Fatal1ty brand to make products for gamers in eSports.


How have the constant evolution of new technologies and faster internet helped esport grow to such an extent ?

Faster internet really helps for training and playability of the games. Makes it more enjoyable and also helped bring a lot of new people to the sport. As for technology advancments, it's night and day from the birth of online gaming. Powerful gaming PC's and Consoles are readily available to hop online and play some of the most advanced games. Even mobile devices are getting somewhat powerful.


How do you see esports in the future, say 5-10-20 years from now or even further ?

eSports popularity will continue to grow every year. There are new opportunities everyday in eSports, and with mainstream attention as of late, it shows us there will be a bright future ahead of us.


What about potential new technologies yet to come, such as virtual reality ? How do you think these would find their place into esport and video games in general ?

Virtual Reality has a chance of being a great entertainment piece or tool to use for a lot of different applications or games. As for it being used in eSports, I feel its obviously possible, but I feel a lot of people will stick to the more mainstream way of playing games just on a regulard LCD or Monitor. I'm personally excited to dive more into Virtual Reality, but its more about the experience.


Is esports a sport ? What is your personal view on that matter ?

eSports and sports are so similar, minus the physical exertion of losing your breath in some sports. There are a lot of sports out there that dont have physical exertion characteristics, but still use all the same skillsets as eSports. So to me eSports is a sport and I am a sportsman.


A lot of recent studies have shown that contrary to before, more and more women play video games, albeit arguably different type of games or usage of them. But what about esports ? How do they fit in ?

Girls have been in eSports forever. Some of them beating the developers in their own game, creating their own gaming teams, organizations, and playing in professional tournaments.

It's great to see the number of girls in eSports growing.


How far do you think esports can go in terms of viewership and mainstream recognition ? Could esports be one day as popular and common as, say, a tennis grand Slam or a football/soccer world cup ?

I think in a lot of ways its already getting there, but remember everyday eSports is around, we are building our fanbase for the future. The 18 year olds today will become 50 someday, and they will always remember their past time as a kid growing up and understand eSports more and more every year.


What are the main obstacles and barriers that could prevent esports from growing even more ? What are the challenges still lying up ahead ?

Violence in games sometimes slows down the potential of some fun games getting on mainstream TV as the adult rating is to high. Games like LoL and Dota don't have as much violence and can be more easily played on TV for a massive audience.


You don't compete so much anymore but have become an esport icon. What is essentialy different from the esports world you knew when you were younger and the esports of today ?

I've been apart of competitive online gaming since Day 1, so obviously things have changed every year, and myself and a lot of others were responsible for shaping how eSports is today. In 2005 when I played at the CPL World Tour Finals in New York City, it was one of the biggest events ever in eSports. We livestreamed on MTV's network, and over 90 countries tuned in to watch the 2 hour finale.

Now today, you have Twitch who livestreams the events over the course of multiple days and obviously the prize money has went to another level with crowd funding and game developers investing in their own league in a more professional manner.


You have created your own brand. What drove you to this decision and how difficult was it to establish ?

I saw a void in product development for gamers, and also a lack of knowledge from corporate companies on knowing what gamers wanted and needed.

As being a player in the battlefield and living that life everyday, I knew what I needed to win. So that brought me to developing products and hardware for gamers through the Fatal1ty brand. I had this big vision that eSports would become a thing in the future, and I road the professional and business wave from the very beginning.

I worked really hard to partner with the best manufacturers to build stellar product for gamers. I'm always looking to make mid to high level equipment for gamers, so they can play to their full potential and own the game.


What do you like most about working in esports ?

I love the competition and the players who have that relentless pursuit of winning attitude like me. It's very inspiring to watch gamers go for it and never give up.


Several schools, notably in Sweden, have emerged recently and are aimed toward esports. What do you think those schools should teach youngsters

Being very well rounded is always important. To have a balance with excercise, mental strength and stamina are building blocks to being the best you can be. After that, it comes down to desire, will and talent.


What would you tell to a teenager who wants to become an esports world star ?

While your young and living with your family, you have an enormous ammount of time to develop any skills you want to have. Take full advantage of this time, because when you become an adult, those advantages will start to fade away. Go to tournaments and find out where you stand. Go for it, and see what happens! The worst feeling would be looking back and saying I didn't try my hardest. I wish you the best in your endeavors and always own the game!

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The main goal for this project is to show you how full video games are actually built. As I was working towards my master’s degree in video game technology, I was surprised at the lack of high-quality materials, either in book form or online. Books tended to be light on info, usually teaching a language at the same time as discussing games, so they weren’t able to go into detail in either topic. Others talk exclusively about game development, but either provide no source code or basic demos that just don’t get into much depth at all, and are not intended to be played as games themselves. Basically – I want to learn about games, so show me a game!"

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Overkill, Hidden Fortress, Trinity, Asylum, Campgrounds

Cointoss winner picks first. If third map is needed, cointoss loser starts dropping first until one map is left as third map.

Type !draft_a on our Quakenet channel #capickup until 08:30 CDT. If you are signed up and you want to remove yourself, just use command !draft_r

Five (5) pickups per last 2 weeks will be needed for a person to be able to add to draft cup. It will be possible to check games played by !gp.

PerpetualWar, rawx, Stormaren, ormey, Marcus, blaz

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When it is your turn you play you will be highlighted in discord if you aren't already on the server. Failure to respond will result in being skipped and moved to the end of the queue.

The first two players will do a coin toss with an admin, winner picks first map. Each map thereafter will be picked by the current challenger.

Players may pick a map from the pool or, if both players agree, any 1v1 map can be played.

The two players with the most wins will go through to the final best of five. Forfeiting in the final is considered BM and the forfeiting player will not receive second place prize.

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06 Jan: Esports interviews series #1 - k1llsen by dem0n

Bracket http://125fps.challonge.com/sundaycup21
When: 10 Jan 2016, 10:00 CDT
MapPool: TBA (season 27 maps with some minor changes)
Mapchoice - drop first.
PrizePool: 1st place 80USD, 2nd place 20USD
Rules:Full Double Elimination, Winner Bracket: BO1 till the semifinal, BO3 WB semi, WB final and Grandfinal (two BO3 if it will be needed); Low Bracket: BO1 all matches (including LB final).

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Tell me a bit about yourself, what is your personal approach and your own experience of esports ?

I’m Marcel alias k1llsen, 29 years young and I had good and bad times in e-Sport, but you also need to have the experience of losing and be disappointed about yourself to keep improving sometimes and so it was in the past with some event Organizations where you had to wait very long for the prize like 1-2 years or not even getting the money. But all those things will shape you starting as a raw diamant at some point you just start doing the right things.


What is esports actually ? How do we define it ?

E-Sport starts where Competition is going on - Playing on a Console/Computer on the highest Level possible. Practice for something to get to that point that you are able to challenge the Top of the World and hopefully call yourself the best (even there is always someone better) but maybe it’s you earning the World title, participating in Tournaments where only the best people all over the World getting invited to. E-Sport starts where ambition/passion starts to grow while competing on a Console/Computer against others around the world.


How does one actually make a living out of esport ? Not just the competition aspect but more generally around video games as a whole ?

There are a few ways to go with and behind e-Sport. In the past it has been very popular to earn money with e-Sport while studying, today it’s more like you have the guys there who just like to play some games as hobby. To get until a certain point in skill, but lacking of the interest in being awesome, they rather focus on their Study’s which is also a good way overall. But things changing already from the time I started, there are many guys out already who just focus on e-Sport and Streaming to make a living out of it.


How have the constant evolution of new technologies and faster internet helped esport grow to such an extent ?

The Connection we have today allows almost everyone to stream what he’s doing, it’s getting easier and easier to produce something on the PC. It’s still just a small part being called like real-eSport, but it keeps increasing getting way more popular since there are so many youngsters cheering for their idol and trying themselves and that continues until we hit a certain point where it will be just on a constant flow, like soccer has their players/talents. Get started early to increase your chance of being a Top Player. And it’s this way because all the games who belong into e-Sport does not need the really big resources anymore like it was 5-6-7 years ago, for example when Quake 4 came out, it was like 5000 people interested in the game, but just 2000 were able to play since you needed a real high end pc to be able to compete, and all the titles that are in e-Sport are not that resource heavy anymore this even opens the door way more for newcomers.


What about potential new technologies yet to come, such as virtual reality ? How do you think these would find their place into esport and video games in general ?

It’s something really big to experience and surely almost every casual being a bit interested in technologies want’s to experience some real feeling in the virtual reality, this already has worked with old technlogoies -> 2nd Life where you could go to some work for money, selling CD’s on just a playing platform/world and now it comes in a way way more realistic feeling. This just opens a new dimension to Console/PC technology overall, but it will take a while until going to be a part of the competitive e-Sport.


Is esports a sport ? What is your personal view on that matter ?

This is just like as if you would ask if chess is a Sport and actually Chess counts as a Sport. Lets change this question to - what do you need to get a Sport? You need real Competition – you need at least two or more people battling it out until someone can says he counts as the proven best because he won the title. You need disciple and have to think about the way you practice to be able to compete, just like tactics in Chess or Soccer. And of course a Sport itself needs the possibility to create Idols, so the Fans cheering for their Sports start to think I would really like to play for example like Marco Reus (BVB). The Generation we have right now it’s like 50% (older Generation) barely using a PC/Smartphone/Console and the other 50% now growing up with all the technics, give e-Sport like 10-15 more years and it might be as big as Soccer is in the World since everyone growing up right now gets directly confronted with gaming and we have more and more media coming writing articles and posting news about eSport.


A lot of recent studies have shown that contrary to before, more and more women play video games, albeit arguably different type of games or usage of them. But what about esports ? How do they fit in ?

It’s always hard to compare female and male gaming if it’s in eSport or any other Sports, the main focus is most likely about men’s Sport and so is my opinion. If I’m watching female sports there is just something missing like speed, power and even knowledge, but they keep trying, that’s good no doubt but they just have their own competition. It’s just not as interesting. Over all the years I’m in e-Sport I remember only a single female cs-Team that was able to compete with a top male teams in CS and that’s already quite a while ago I think it was some ESWC and it was a female team of SK. Overall I think it will always be a men Sport, just as example if you have a look about female streaming these days, most of them don’t even know what they do but as soon as they are a little bit beautiful they start being successful in it, because men’s like to have girls in their business and some really know how to use that the right way. I know just a single Hand full of female Streamers that have some quality.


Several schools, notably in Sweden, have emerged recently and are aimed toward esports. What do you think those schools should teach youngsters ?

I think that’s something good to do, to show them like what’s the best way to use the pc when you are interested in eSports, there are still many guys out there losing the sight of the social aspect in real life, so this might just works in the opposite way. You always need to have a healthy balance between everything that’s one of the most important things.


You are currently working on creating your own brand and expand. Can you explain to us a bit about it, as in, what made you want to do it ? How hard is it ? What are the goals you're trying to achieve and why ?

I try to realize my dream, make your hobby and something you have a passion to, to your job. Quite a while has passed since my champion title, not everyone has forgotten about k1llsen and there are others where it’s like they just have to be remembered. It’s the passion inside me to eSport and the experience of being a big part of it, the experience having thousands of people in front cheering for you, that is what made me think to try it a last time creating something BIG for eSport with k1llsen there are still so many ideas and right now we just getting started.

I mean when it comes down to Streaming there is some competition going on so you always need to have good ideas and of course you want to have your community as big as possible so you have to attract new people. When I got started with like REAL streaming 3 months ago, it was like 8-12h of work a day for 1.5 months making everything work and get into all the stuff you need and I still have so many ideas about optics and the technics behind.


You've been a professional player. If you could go back in time, would you have done anything differently ?

I wouldn’t do anything different. All the different people/cultures I met, the city’s/country’s I’ve seen, the friends I made, the experience I got in so many ways. I don’t want to miss that!


Let's pretend you are now a 16 year old kid who has yet to achieve anything but who has the knowledge that you have now. What would you do ?

To know the right way of practice already helps much. I will always remember the first 2 losses against d1ablo and pRo-Dragon in Quake 3 on t4, it was something about -2:45. I always looked up to d1ablo - he became my idol - and somehow he still is in a way – Kept saying to myself I really want to beat him to call myself the best German Duel player and that’s the way I got started into competitive eSport. After some time he became my mentor. I still remember some words of him when being in a tournament. I don’t really would like to skip that, but if I’m 16 with the knowledge I have, I could skip the first years of practice and getting directly started into competition what sharpens your thinking even more every single time.

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4v4 TDM, Double Elimination bracket. WB matches as BO3, LB matches BO1. LB final and grand final won't be played for time constraints; WB final will decide first/second place.

Dreadful Place, Hidden Fortress, Limbus, Purgatory, Ragnarok, Intervention, Realm of Steel Rats, Deep Inside, Grim Dungeons

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