his focus was pretty poor during this interview as well :D

Guess doing a interview and solving Millennium Prize problems in your head at the same time makes you a bit absent minded sometimes.

how old is he?

26

Really? Holy shit, I thought he was in his 30's like socrates should be by now.

you cant expect do win games with no practise even if you are czm (imho) and im pretty sure he knows but still would have wanted to perform slightly better :x

czm great respect from me, very good game in a short time comeback :) I hope he will continue playing and be much stronger next time. Old champion czm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He looks exhausted and extremely frustrated; really sucks to see him like this. :/

Always has my support though! First quake player I ever watched.

Yeah, visibly disappointed and not trying to hide it. Still highly enjoyable and interesting interview, he surely knows how to express himself. Hoping he's gonna enjoy the rest of his stay, and looking forward to see him again.

That's the same vibe I got.

But at least that means he cares!

Go CZM!

I love czm, he's a fucking legend! HAIL THE MAN, C, Z, M!

Yeah, great interview, great guy. :)

I'm really glad he isn't going to let this stop him. Also, he should definitely jump in and cast, he's got loads of experience and insight, and it was awesome to hear him cast a bit at the IEM NA championships.

f1, let us see some more czm casting!

I eagerly anticipate his form at QuakeCon and DreamHack... so glad to have him and ZeRo4 back in the NA Scene :D

Definitely. It would be nice to see other players like Chance and griffin and dkt make concerted efforts to get practice in and become contenders, but I guess they have other things going on they'd rather focus on. Or their mom took away their PC. :)))

just watched cooller czm vod, dno how czm thinks that that game could've gone both ways :D

I think he said/meant hub game.

He talked about his games vs. Cypher, not cooller

Good to hear that this probably won't be his last tournament.

Would be interesting to hear what he thinks of the skill-level "now and then", and how it was to play against cooller again. I'm pretty tired right now, so he might have said something about that without me noticing it.

Is he staying in Cebit until the end of the tournament?

Need some Hub showmatches if he is.

are you living in 2005?

I'M LIVING IN THE FUTURE!!!!!!!!

<3

cool guy, if those 13days were at least twice as more, who knows how well he would have done

ggs and wp anyways crazyman

Legendary name "Socrates" .... j'ai ri

socrates was probably the most talented quake dueler to ever come out of the US. Ever...exception rapha :D

Sorry what? He was always near the top but never top, kind of like cha0tics. Fatal1ty/Zero4/CZM were all far better at their respective peaks.

As for quake in general...Thresh.

cha0ticz \o/

came very, very close to beating toxjq at 2006 wcg monza italy. This was when toxjq was most dominant in Q4, and before av3k was right at the very top. Really talented player, doesnt get credit for how good he really is :(

Well fatal1ty nearly took out toxjq at WSVG finals and actually won 3-2 in maps but toxjq won the 2nd BO3 and that was when toxjq didn't even drop a map during the tournament. He 2-0'd toxjq in the first BO3

Look into GGL Transatlantic finals between cooller and socrates

WCG 2001

LEGENDS NEVER DIE! respect!

He sounds so deep thinking, Its like he is to smart when he tries to answer the questions or something, great interview tho, or its just that he has many things on his mind..
love u czm

princeton or some other big university if i remember correctly :)

yeah, he's the prince from princeton. ;)

i think its caltech now

great player =)
always a champion for me!

he looked hella tired/exhausted. looked like he was trying to dumb down his answers so us mere mortals could understand what he is trying to say.

What a thinker! Where he was with his mind when he was answering those questions? Probably solving the theory of everything or something.

Can anyone ask him about his future? What are his plans? I'm really curious about it.

Be quiet. Genius at work o> o/ <o>

It's evident from his replies that he's regretting not practicing enough. Also, clearly frustrated about how he has to play catch-up.

Great player and a true Quake legend in every sense. Go CZM!

I hope he continues because he kept pretty much every match fairly close. If he was lucky he might have been able to pull out two wins or so.

I think the biggest things I see in his game is that his aim is very shaky (I think he might want to adjust sensitivity or fov), and that he pulls out LG way too often, in close range, when rockets might be far more useful.

Usually I prefer to read, not comment anything, however in this case I can throw an exception. I am very glad that there is no flame or hate in this thread yet (as you can usually find on ESR). Let's show this person the respect he deserves.

Great personality. Shame that his interview was this short. I imagine what he had to say if he was given a chance for a longer interview and was asked a lot more of interesting questions.

I do want to see more CZM in the future, as everyone here, I believe. Let's just hope we will!

Despite everything, well played, Paul.

yeah, he could really ask at least a bit about his studies and life in general since quake is just a small part of it now

he was always my favourite player, im glad hes getting such appreciation, hopefully he will continue to play

hes doing a phd in math. i suspect any more detail would be incomprehensible to the average esr user so why bother?

anyways i kinda expected the results although i still hoped he could win some games. hope we see him back for dreamhack, especially the tdm part. cos czm + tdm is just so much win.

edit: just saw from butchers post that hes finished his phd and moved on to a post doc.

Lol please, I think my pea sized brain could handle a little more definition!

dunno whats more funny - that u consider urself an average esr user or that u took my comment to mean that not comprehending the specifics of a specialized area in math equates to being dumb.

Its not your place to tell people what they can or cannot comprehend on a topic and simplify it to its most basic manner. If that were the case nobody would ever learn anything about anything.

Most people can grasp the concept that maths is split into many specialised areas which is what the guy was asking about. he wasn't asking for equations.

Trying to simplfy it as "math" and then making out that most people are too stupid to hear a slightly more defined definiton only makes you look stupid.

no one told him you can't be so aggressive in quakelive

Respect to the greatest player ever!!!!!!!
U r the best.Thx u.

I think it's absolutely fantastic that Paul is back at all, let alone how he performs. I'm happy he's showing up to events at all. So, anything he does after that is automatically awesome :D

So glad to read so much support in this thread for CZM, he definitely deserves it, i agree with what all you guys wrote here.

Great guy and awesome player, real quake legend, good interview.

Go Paul, hope we see more of your sick comebacks, flick rails in the future :)

Kinda sad its so few posts yet tbh

He did very good for the time put in

<3 czm

fuck oath :>

I demand updates to ultronoarena

considering his preparation he did pretty good (except vs dandaking and rapha)

Respects czm. Unamtched talent/ego ratio in quake history, also thanks for so many epic moments sprayin' on gtv :)) hope you finish that Phd before 2012 so you can practice practice practice.

he has already finished the PhD, I talked to him in a tdm server last month when he said he was going to do a 1-2 year postdoc somewhere outside Caltech.

I was rooting for Paul in all matches. he deserves it.

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Nice interview with some good insights. Interesting how analytic he approaches every aspect of his game. I'm glad to hear that he still wants to compete, I really thought this was his last tournament and that he would quite and focus on his job after the IEMs.

Job? He has a PhD in math, LOL. If anything we should see him more often now, there's nothing outside of Academia for a math PhD.

You forgot NSA:P

u clearly have absolutely no idea what ur talking about.

canada = STFU

See everyone... czm is proof that PhD's are evil. You should spend all your time playing Quake, it's the only way.

Once he has his PhD though, he can devote all of his time to playing Quake.

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Not sure why but I had to think of spiderman the whole time when I saw this vid....

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its... beautiful

A moment of inspiration to honor a beautiful mind ^^

<3 czm

epic casting today with rapha.

crezy not crazy

Apparently, some other people googling for him...

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Thanks for casting! :D (especially with rapha)

was one of the best (probably the best if you factor in his team play skills too I cant think of a better dueller and tdm in q3-tox would be close but I think czm was a better dueler at that time) in the world in his prime against the other handful of top top quake boys when everyone was trying and at their prime in 04/05.

Nothing to prove. He was at the top of the pile when it mattered and when everyone was at their best and the scene was at its peak.

Cooler in-particular, swedes, USA had several world class duellers,

Would have been fun to see Rapha, Cypher, Evil at their peak in that time too, but they were too young.

You can't dip your toes into top level quake years later and expect to do well against those fully immersed.

You look back a thread Thirteen years ago.

I have my Thirteen years in China Peking