Blog: WW - The story so far
13-8-2013 15:50
Just a heads up, everything I write is 100% my own thoughts and my own opinion. Also the blog is very long, so I have chosen to split it into two parts
A lot of action happened since our move to Western Wolves from Anexis. I mainly wrote this blog so I could give you guys some insight into what that went through my mind during the different events I've experienced. It takes you from the very start of Copenhagen Games to where we are right now!
[HEADLINE]Table of Contents:[/HEADLINE]
Part 1:
1. Copenhagen Games 2013
2. The week after Copenhagen Games --> Madcatz Birmingham
3. The time after MCZ.Birmingham / Break
4. Theblast/GDK
5. Nille came back
Part 2:
6. Preparation for DreamHack and the DreamHack Event
7. After DreamHack, EMS, summer break, and the change with Nille --> Inzta
8. A fresh start, No more Nille, Hello Inzta
9. So what is up?
10. Giveaway: ZOWIE MSI 1.1 Blue edition + Madcatz G.L.I.D.E 7 bundle + 2x Madcatz G.L.I.D.E 7
[HEADLINE]1) Copenhagen Games 2013:[/HEADLINE]
Only a few weeks after we officially joined up with Western Wolves, we attended the Copenhagen Games 2013 CSGO tournament! A tournament that I still believe has been the best, in terms of skill and participation of teams. More than 32 top notch teams attended and I don't think that any other tournament has been close to that, yet.
Anyway, the tournament also came just after Madcatz Vienna where we for the first time attended an international event with the new lineup. As a lot of you might remember, and myself for sure, we did very very well. It was the first time we really showed ourselves to the public, that we are a team that you can count on doing some damage at big international events.
With that said I never belived that we would do as great at Copenhagen Games as we did. Taking 2nd place in a tournament like Copenhagen Games was and still is the highlight of my career. I also believe it was a relief for the team, to prove that Madcatz Vienna was not just a one-off thing from our side. However, I still dont like the fact that we lost 16-2 in the final against NIP. I think everyone who saw the match can agree that NiP played extremely well, and that playing Train maybe wasn't the right choice for us. It was also a tournament that we were well prepared for, and unfortunately also the last one in a longer period. More about that later.
If anyone is waiting to read something about the Admin problems I dont really like to comment on it, except that I can somewhat understand the pressure that comes from teams and players during such a tournament. Anyway it was not good enough from them, but I believe that it will be like we are used to see from Copenhagen Games in the 2014 version!
[HEADLINE]2) The week after Copenhagen Games ---> Madcatz Birmingham:[/HEADLINE]
The Copenhagen Games "victory" was of course celebrated, so we didn't really play the days after. Also I had to go on a school trip, so it wasn't really possible to pracc togehter the week after Copenhagen Games.
When we arrived at the Madcatz Birmingham tournament we still believed that we could win it. We had beaten both Fnatic and Verygames at Copenhagen Games, and they were the only two teams that we really believed we could get in trouble against.
As the tournament started everything was going great. We won the first 4 matches in our group stage, and unfortunately we lost the last one against Fnatic on Train. To those of you who were convinsed after the match that we lost on purpose to save tactics I can say both yes and no. I would _never_ go into a match just to lose it, but what I will do is try to win it as much as I can, but saving crucial things that might help us the day after. The true story is that Fnatic played well in that particular match and won fair and square. The day after we saw Fnatic win a close 2-1 match against Anexis and found ourselves against Fnatic in the semi final. A match up that we really believed was good for us.
We started out on Train which we lost the day before, but a combination of us playing a lot better, and Fnatic maybe not doing so well, we won the map 16-9. After the first match we felt even more comfortable than before the match started, as the 2nd map was Dust2, a map that we felt we would control against Fnatic. It turned out we couldn't, Fnatic started out playing really really well as they did on train the day before, and won the first half 10-5. With that said we still believed that it was our match. Our CT side at that moment was terrible, we also showed that by going down 3-10 against Vitrus.pro in the lower bracket final at Cph Games, but in the end we turned it around and won 16-11.
With that thought in mind we still felt that this was our match. But Friis wanted it different. In the terrorist gunround we were 4v2 against Friis and a mate, our positions were a little off guard, and with Friis buying a kit and a smoke grenade he wanted it different. He smoked the pack, defused the bomb and we stood back with a lost gun round down 11-5. From that moment I felt that this could go wrong, and that was coming from a feeling of "easy guys, this is still our match". That fast it turned around, and we eventually also lost the map 16-11.
3rd and last map was Nuke, a map that Fnatic seemed strong on, and a map we sucked on at that time. Fnatic completely outplayed us, and won the map 16-4 and therefore the match 2-1. And believe me, it was a huge huge huge disappointment for us. So many factors played in, one thing is losing a match that you felt comfortable with, another thing is losing to a fellow Danish team. There are, and will always be some kind of rivalry no matter how good friends the different teams are. A third thing was that the tournament was sponsored by Madcatz, our new main sponsor in Western Wolves. A victory at that event would have been awesome, also because it was the first event we attended without NIP participating - at that time the only way you could win an event.
[HEADLINE]3) The time after Mad Catz Birmingham / Break:[/HEADLINE]
After Birmingham our motivation went straight down, we agreed to take a little break from gaming, and then go back to normal practice schedule. Eventually after the break it didn't happen. People started to make other plans, bailed practice a little more often that we could live with, and some had problems in their life to fight with. All honor and respect for that, but in the end it requires alot of time to play on a top level in CSGO. If you don't put the hours in, you won't be good in the long run. That eventually led to the departure of Nille. He was as some of you might know the guy who fought with some things in his life. It was in a period where we tried to practice as much as we could, but in the end we just couldn't due to some of the things I mentioned.
[HEADLINE]4) Theblast/GDK:[/HEADLINE]
In that period we went to a Danish local LAN event called Theblast where we were going to play Gaming.dk Steelseries Leauge finals and the Theblast tournament. We started off with the GDK league, where we met Fnatic in the Semi final. Before the match we knew that it would be extremely hard to even take a map from them, since we played with Isenbo as a standin, and had not really practised constantly for a while.
We started out on Train if I remember correctly and played an extremely close match. The score was if I remember correctly 15-14 in our favor as CT's. Friis took a peak from link down to back alley and got me and Nico in an almost impossible double kill. Turned out to be the winning move from the first map, as Fnatic won after overtime 19-16.
I still remember how frustrated i was after the first match. It was a close match all the way, but that what I would call extremely lucky shot won them the game was just so !¤#%#&. Anyway we took a 5 min break, got some fresh air and came back to the 2nd map which was Dust2. Also extremely close, it ended 16-14 in our favor. The last map was once again Nuke against Fnatic and for some reason we played pretty well, while they might not have had their best game, which gave us the victory 16-7, and all in all 2-1.
That was a great victory both for us, and for Isenbo. He bailed some of his good mates to play with us, and I felt that he deserved the win. He played great and a lot better than we expected so that was a positive thing to take from Theblast!
The final was against the former Copenhagen Wolves with Wantz and CajunB in their lineup. We knew before the game that we had nothing to lose, as Copenhagen Wolves have practiced like crazy up to Theblast. The first map was Dust2 which was a map that both us and CPH are known to be good at. We won the first half 11-4 as _CT_ on dust2 and was pretty comfortable that we would win, but somehow our strong T side just got completely runied.. We lost 16-14 and I was more or less devastated, cause we could have taken a map from them with a standin with not even half the hours they got for 2 weeks. I myself was at least not impressed by their play after so much practise, but they could have had a bad game.
The 2nd map was on inferno, and on that map they showed their class and won 16-8 or something like that.
The day after - Theblast started out with a groupstage which we pretty much sucked in. We won over 2 mix teams, and then played draw against ZET-esport, with former Anexis players Berry and Lomme. The draw put us down as 2nd in the group and that was the start of a rocky and very unstable tournament for us. We managed to pull it all the way to the upperbracket final mainly by winning some close matches, using the momentum and the fact that we haven't been playing for a while to pressure us a lot!
We then met CPH Wolves again on dust2, and won the first half 11-4 as CT on dust2, AGAIN... This time I think all of us felt that this can not go wrong again. And hey, this time we won the pistol round as terrorists and were leading 13-4 before they bought up and started winning rounds. And as the previous meeting we lost the map 16-14, and this time it was really devastating to lose like that once again. When it happens once you have the feeling like, alright shit happens, but when it happens for the 2nd time in 2 days, you just kinda gets confused. What the hell was happening there? O.o I don't really remember the 2nd map, just that we lost it big time, and was a bit down after the match.
It's frustrating to play at a LAN when you don't feel in top shape, especially when you lose mainly because of that.
After that we met Fnatic in the lower bracket final, and instead of playing a close match on Dust2 as we did in Gaming.dk Leauge, we lost it big time and crashed out in 3th place. Expected yes, disappointed yes, cause I really sat down with the feeling that this was completely our own fault, and no one else to blame than ourselves.
[HEADLINE]5) Nille Came back:[/HEADLINE]
After Theblast Nille came back to us and told us that he was fit for fighting again. At that moment we all felt the same about Theblast. Isenbo was not doing bad in any way, he played great if you look over the whole tournament, but we all agreed that it would be best if we took Nille back, and kept working with the foundation we had.
At that time our recent bad results at both Birmingham and Theblast started to affect us ingame also. There have never been problems or negativity ingame, but with the bad results, all the other things apprantly followed. We started to have some internal issues that some of you might already have read about (I promise, it wasn't like the Golden 5 :D ) But there was something that wasn't like we were used to. But with the comeback from Nille we all agreed to let the past be the past, and let's start fresh with the obv. good foundation we have shown at Madcatz Vienna and Copenhagen Games!
The first tournament after Nille's comeback was EMS One Cup #3. Only two days after we officially started to play with eachother again we performed well in the EMS ONE CUP and won the entire thing beating NIP 16-3, and winning the final against Fnatic 2-0. That was actually our first win over NIP ever, but it was in a period where NIP have just had a well deserved break from gaming. They came back to play the EMS ONE cup #2 with almost no hours and lost to Copenhagen Wolves, and only a week after they started they lost to us. Not fair to judge anything out of those matches.
6-10 - stay tuned for part 2 tomorrow!
Jacob "Pimp" Winneche
http://Facebook.com/PimpCS
http://twitter.com/PimpCSGO
@PimpCSGO
A lot of action happened since our move to Western Wolves from Anexis. I mainly wrote this blog so I could give you guys some insight into what that went through my mind during the different events I've experienced. It takes you from the very start of Copenhagen Games to where we are right now!
[HEADLINE]Table of Contents:[/HEADLINE]
Part 1:
1. Copenhagen Games 2013
2. The week after Copenhagen Games --> Madcatz Birmingham
3. The time after MCZ.Birmingham / Break
4. Theblast/GDK
5. Nille came back
Part 2:
6. Preparation for DreamHack and the DreamHack Event
7. After DreamHack, EMS, summer break, and the change with Nille --> Inzta
8. A fresh start, No more Nille, Hello Inzta
9. So what is up?
10. Giveaway: ZOWIE MSI 1.1 Blue edition + Madcatz G.L.I.D.E 7 bundle + 2x Madcatz G.L.I.D.E 7
[HEADLINE]1) Copenhagen Games 2013:[/HEADLINE]
Only a few weeks after we officially joined up with Western Wolves, we attended the Copenhagen Games 2013 CSGO tournament! A tournament that I still believe has been the best, in terms of skill and participation of teams. More than 32 top notch teams attended and I don't think that any other tournament has been close to that, yet.
Anyway, the tournament also came just after Madcatz Vienna where we for the first time attended an international event with the new lineup. As a lot of you might remember, and myself for sure, we did very very well. It was the first time we really showed ourselves to the public, that we are a team that you can count on doing some damage at big international events.
With that said I never belived that we would do as great at Copenhagen Games as we did. Taking 2nd place in a tournament like Copenhagen Games was and still is the highlight of my career. I also believe it was a relief for the team, to prove that Madcatz Vienna was not just a one-off thing from our side. However, I still dont like the fact that we lost 16-2 in the final against NIP. I think everyone who saw the match can agree that NiP played extremely well, and that playing Train maybe wasn't the right choice for us. It was also a tournament that we were well prepared for, and unfortunately also the last one in a longer period. More about that later.
If anyone is waiting to read something about the Admin problems I dont really like to comment on it, except that I can somewhat understand the pressure that comes from teams and players during such a tournament. Anyway it was not good enough from them, but I believe that it will be like we are used to see from Copenhagen Games in the 2014 version!
[HEADLINE]2) The week after Copenhagen Games ---> Madcatz Birmingham:[/HEADLINE]
The Copenhagen Games "victory" was of course celebrated, so we didn't really play the days after. Also I had to go on a school trip, so it wasn't really possible to pracc togehter the week after Copenhagen Games.
When we arrived at the Madcatz Birmingham tournament we still believed that we could win it. We had beaten both Fnatic and Verygames at Copenhagen Games, and they were the only two teams that we really believed we could get in trouble against.
As the tournament started everything was going great. We won the first 4 matches in our group stage, and unfortunately we lost the last one against Fnatic on Train. To those of you who were convinsed after the match that we lost on purpose to save tactics I can say both yes and no. I would _never_ go into a match just to lose it, but what I will do is try to win it as much as I can, but saving crucial things that might help us the day after. The true story is that Fnatic played well in that particular match and won fair and square. The day after we saw Fnatic win a close 2-1 match against Anexis and found ourselves against Fnatic in the semi final. A match up that we really believed was good for us.
We started out on Train which we lost the day before, but a combination of us playing a lot better, and Fnatic maybe not doing so well, we won the map 16-9. After the first match we felt even more comfortable than before the match started, as the 2nd map was Dust2, a map that we felt we would control against Fnatic. It turned out we couldn't, Fnatic started out playing really really well as they did on train the day before, and won the first half 10-5. With that said we still believed that it was our match. Our CT side at that moment was terrible, we also showed that by going down 3-10 against Vitrus.pro in the lower bracket final at Cph Games, but in the end we turned it around and won 16-11.
With that thought in mind we still felt that this was our match. But Friis wanted it different. In the terrorist gunround we were 4v2 against Friis and a mate, our positions were a little off guard, and with Friis buying a kit and a smoke grenade he wanted it different. He smoked the pack, defused the bomb and we stood back with a lost gun round down 11-5. From that moment I felt that this could go wrong, and that was coming from a feeling of "easy guys, this is still our match". That fast it turned around, and we eventually also lost the map 16-11.
3rd and last map was Nuke, a map that Fnatic seemed strong on, and a map we sucked on at that time. Fnatic completely outplayed us, and won the map 16-4 and therefore the match 2-1. And believe me, it was a huge huge huge disappointment for us. So many factors played in, one thing is losing a match that you felt comfortable with, another thing is losing to a fellow Danish team. There are, and will always be some kind of rivalry no matter how good friends the different teams are. A third thing was that the tournament was sponsored by Madcatz, our new main sponsor in Western Wolves. A victory at that event would have been awesome, also because it was the first event we attended without NIP participating - at that time the only way you could win an event.
[HEADLINE]3) The time after Mad Catz Birmingham / Break:[/HEADLINE]
After Birmingham our motivation went straight down, we agreed to take a little break from gaming, and then go back to normal practice schedule. Eventually after the break it didn't happen. People started to make other plans, bailed practice a little more often that we could live with, and some had problems in their life to fight with. All honor and respect for that, but in the end it requires alot of time to play on a top level in CSGO. If you don't put the hours in, you won't be good in the long run. That eventually led to the departure of Nille. He was as some of you might know the guy who fought with some things in his life. It was in a period where we tried to practice as much as we could, but in the end we just couldn't due to some of the things I mentioned.
[HEADLINE]4) Theblast/GDK:[/HEADLINE]
In that period we went to a Danish local LAN event called Theblast where we were going to play Gaming.dk Steelseries Leauge finals and the Theblast tournament. We started off with the GDK league, where we met Fnatic in the Semi final. Before the match we knew that it would be extremely hard to even take a map from them, since we played with Isenbo as a standin, and had not really practised constantly for a while.
We started out on Train if I remember correctly and played an extremely close match. The score was if I remember correctly 15-14 in our favor as CT's. Friis took a peak from link down to back alley and got me and Nico in an almost impossible double kill. Turned out to be the winning move from the first map, as Fnatic won after overtime 19-16.
I still remember how frustrated i was after the first match. It was a close match all the way, but that what I would call extremely lucky shot won them the game was just so !¤#%#&. Anyway we took a 5 min break, got some fresh air and came back to the 2nd map which was Dust2. Also extremely close, it ended 16-14 in our favor. The last map was once again Nuke against Fnatic and for some reason we played pretty well, while they might not have had their best game, which gave us the victory 16-7, and all in all 2-1.
That was a great victory both for us, and for Isenbo. He bailed some of his good mates to play with us, and I felt that he deserved the win. He played great and a lot better than we expected so that was a positive thing to take from Theblast!
The final was against the former Copenhagen Wolves with Wantz and CajunB in their lineup. We knew before the game that we had nothing to lose, as Copenhagen Wolves have practiced like crazy up to Theblast. The first map was Dust2 which was a map that both us and CPH are known to be good at. We won the first half 11-4 as _CT_ on dust2 and was pretty comfortable that we would win, but somehow our strong T side just got completely runied.. We lost 16-14 and I was more or less devastated, cause we could have taken a map from them with a standin with not even half the hours they got for 2 weeks. I myself was at least not impressed by their play after so much practise, but they could have had a bad game.
The 2nd map was on inferno, and on that map they showed their class and won 16-8 or something like that.
The day after - Theblast started out with a groupstage which we pretty much sucked in. We won over 2 mix teams, and then played draw against ZET-esport, with former Anexis players Berry and Lomme. The draw put us down as 2nd in the group and that was the start of a rocky and very unstable tournament for us. We managed to pull it all the way to the upperbracket final mainly by winning some close matches, using the momentum and the fact that we haven't been playing for a while to pressure us a lot!
We then met CPH Wolves again on dust2, and won the first half 11-4 as CT on dust2, AGAIN... This time I think all of us felt that this can not go wrong again. And hey, this time we won the pistol round as terrorists and were leading 13-4 before they bought up and started winning rounds. And as the previous meeting we lost the map 16-14, and this time it was really devastating to lose like that once again. When it happens once you have the feeling like, alright shit happens, but when it happens for the 2nd time in 2 days, you just kinda gets confused. What the hell was happening there? O.o I don't really remember the 2nd map, just that we lost it big time, and was a bit down after the match.
It's frustrating to play at a LAN when you don't feel in top shape, especially when you lose mainly because of that.
After that we met Fnatic in the lower bracket final, and instead of playing a close match on Dust2 as we did in Gaming.dk Leauge, we lost it big time and crashed out in 3th place. Expected yes, disappointed yes, cause I really sat down with the feeling that this was completely our own fault, and no one else to blame than ourselves.
[HEADLINE]5) Nille Came back:[/HEADLINE]
After Theblast Nille came back to us and told us that he was fit for fighting again. At that moment we all felt the same about Theblast. Isenbo was not doing bad in any way, he played great if you look over the whole tournament, but we all agreed that it would be best if we took Nille back, and kept working with the foundation we had.
At that time our recent bad results at both Birmingham and Theblast started to affect us ingame also. There have never been problems or negativity ingame, but with the bad results, all the other things apprantly followed. We started to have some internal issues that some of you might already have read about (I promise, it wasn't like the Golden 5 :D ) But there was something that wasn't like we were used to. But with the comeback from Nille we all agreed to let the past be the past, and let's start fresh with the obv. good foundation we have shown at Madcatz Vienna and Copenhagen Games!
The first tournament after Nille's comeback was EMS One Cup #3. Only two days after we officially started to play with eachother again we performed well in the EMS ONE CUP and won the entire thing beating NIP 16-3, and winning the final against Fnatic 2-0. That was actually our first win over NIP ever, but it was in a period where NIP have just had a well deserved break from gaming. They came back to play the EMS ONE cup #2 with almost no hours and lost to Copenhagen Wolves, and only a week after they started they lost to us. Not fair to judge anything out of those matches.
6-10 - stay tuned for part 2 tomorrow!
Jacob "Pimp" Winneche
http://Facebook.com/PimpCS
http://twitter.com/PimpCSGO
@PimpCSGO
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