WinOut has an interview with Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen who recently rejoined Finland's best CS team, who have just split with their organization GamePlay. lurppis discusses his return, the team's performances without him and how the new line-up stacks up against the rest of the international elite.

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Due to a packed tournament schedule GamePlay have a bunch of results without you as a member. That line-up seemed highly confusing for observers and analysts alike as over the space of 6 major events they were able to beat SK.swe twice, fnatic four times and mTw.dk twice without winning any of those events. Even though their victories might have made people consider them a top 3-4 team in the world the fact 5 other teams (SK.swe, fnatic, mTw.dk, mouz, MYM) won big events kind of precludes them from that grouping. What can you say about that line-up, their chemistry and performance? How do you account for those wild fluctuations?

Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen: I guess our playing style has always been a little more random than other top teams, and the team without me couldn't put in practice for the life of them so their style became more and more random as time passed by. I hear pretty much all their pistol round strategies were created during restarts and they basically had about 3-5 strategies they would run during a half, most of them pretty fast. That combined with people describing us/them as a team who would always ruin a top team's tournament yet almost never win a tournament. That being said, even during our horrible showing at KODE5 we beat mouz (who had just won EM II) and ruined their tournament so I guess we just always manage to take down one of the big dogs but still fall short of the title.

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