tbh winz won ESWC 2005 in UT (not familiar with names on their scene) along with ESWC 2006 in Q4 with cypher, forever, cooller, etc competing, so I wouldn't say it was a weak competition.
edit: just checked the wiki entry, apparently winz got 3rd in eswc 2007, right behind cooller & av3k, so 3 podium finishes in 3 consecutive years, with 2 of those being top spot certainly beats strenx's accomplishments any given day.
yeah the feg even borrowed evil some money to play at qcon. awsome strenx on the other hand always cried that he has not enough money for tournaments when he won zotac basically every week.
Why would you compare winz and strenx when strenx was like 14 at best when winz won titles in quake 4 and ut ? I'm pretty sure strenx was never a quake 4 addict either, and I doubt he's ever played UT.
The better overall resume I'd say winz then obviously, but that doesn't answer the 'who is better' question.
Also sorry to cut it like that, but strenx was a constant top3 finisher in QL during a golden era: av3k, dahang, rapha, cooller, k1llsen, cypher, spartie, fazz, fox, noctis and he hasnt only achieved at ESWC but also at qcon, dreamhack and IEM.
Finishing 2nd in quakecon or 3rd at IEM5 World Finals sounds better to me than lifting a ESWC quake 4 cup of 8 players including clampok, forever, socrates and 2gd and a cypher who had just turned 16 at the time, eventough it's still quite an achievment indeed.
I would say winz has a higher potential for both duel and tdm, to bad he never really got into ql dueling.
strenx is very enjoyable to watch when his already super aim in on fire.
winz can play team games/gametypes as well as duel (but for duel, only if he cares about practicing it)
strenx is a pure dueler imho, yes, he was good at shootmania, but it's still a 1v3 game basically like instagib (he started quake with instagib when he was very young), and if you look at his achievements both online and on LAN, you can cleary see that where he shines more is duel.
that said i think that if strenx still played QL duel and winz cared enough to practice it, then strenx would be better than winz (at duel, not tdm nor ctf)
maybe at hiddenfortress lg room and sometimes with rail.
but the last quakecon winz won the TDM and CTF tournament, strenx played with clawz cypher etc, and they didn't even reach top3 afaik.
it's not disrespect or clueless to say that about strenx, i actually enjoy watching this player a lot, but like i said, he can be insanely good at duel, but at TDM and CTF he can still play it and be good at it, but nowhere near winz's level imho.