XANTARES: "Calyx is so good"

8-10-2016 13:47

At the third day of TWC 2016, just after Turkey walked over Tunisia to secure their place in the semi-finals, we managed to get a hold of Can 'XANTARES' Dörtkardeş to learn about Turkey's map-pool, Calyx and what's next for Space Soldiers.

Team Turkey had a dominant performance so far at The World Championships 2016, winning 9 maps straight and dominating in the stats section of the tournament.

Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş currently leads the charge with a 1.57 rating, followed by the DarkPassage player Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın with 1.34.

With that in mind, we talked to XANTARES to hear a few of his thoughts.

We are here in the arena today, how do you like the stage, the setup here, the national anthems and all thats going on here?

Everything is so good so far, but we did have some FPS problems with some computers here in the arena.

Here at the tournament, you’ve been playing a lot of the maps, but you’ve been banning Nuke all the time. Is that a map you don’t play? What do you think is your strongest map?

We have a deep map-pool, we play all seven maps. We are ready to play Nuke, but we just don’t want to play it yet.

XANTARES is dominant at TWC so far

I also wanted to talk about Calyx, he’s been playing very good so far, he’s showing that he is a strong Turkish talent. What do you think about him and general, and do you feel like he is someone that could step into Space Soldiers if there was a need for a swap or someone in the team couldn’t play any more?

He’s a young and a very good player. Calyx is so good at the game, but he has less experience, that’s the thing actually. If Space Soldiers would need him, he could easily play in Space Soldiers.

When this tournament is done, what’s next for Space Soldiers regarding upcoming tournaments, plans, qualifiers?

This month we will go to ESWC and we have another LAN tournament upcoming that I cannot reveal because it's not public yet.

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xantares & calyx are nice :D

2016-10-08 13:48

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allu still better

2016-10-08 13:52

he really is

Nt uz #1

2016-10-08 18:05

Nice

XANTARES on lan? I aren't think that

LANTARES

calyx join SS

yes

Calyx good XANTARES better

calyx will go ss

Calyx & Teebee?

5 replies

Elevate this sound !

2016-10-08 14:18

:))

2016-10-08 15:16

I was waiting for this =D

2016-10-08 19:41

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Big shout for HLTV dnb nation :)

2016-10-08 22:42

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2016-10-08 13:49

EZ xantares EZ calyx EZ Turkey

was that interview in english ?

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Nope, it was translated by Hardstyle.

2016-10-08 13:50

awww, this excludes any change to bigger team, at least in the near future...

do you have a video of this interview

2016-10-08 15:48

It should be, their coach can translate for him.

2016-10-08 13:53

Calyx, the third sex god, after Dosia and monne, should join the turkish CS:GO team Space Soldiers. Nice.

unexperienced Calyx > experienced TuGuX

puhh

2016-10-08 14:28

sure

2016-10-08 14:40

LANTARES >

Calyx > Turik confirmed

- tugux + calyx

2016-10-08 13:51

what a truly inspiring interview

2016-10-08 13:54

-tugux +calyxD

who is igl on spacesoldiers?

2016-10-08 14:09

tugux

2016-10-08 14:11

-tugux +calyx ss top 10

2016-10-08 13:55

lantares we know you are better

2016-10-08 14:00

X god Xantares v2.0

2016-10-08 14:03

2016-10-08 14:05

how many ppl watch this TWC fianl 150-200 ?

ezzzzz

2016-10-08 14:07

vs tier100 even HUNDEN would be wrecking

2016-10-08 14:08

tier 100 lol :) kids

2016-10-08 14:13

If Space Soldiers would need him, he could easily play in Space Soldiers. Confirmed

2016-10-08 14:30

I hope MAJ3R join Space Soldiers

2016-10-08 14:33

PARIS MAKES ME FEEL LIKE

2016-10-09 02:21

Both representing very well the Turkish csgo scene like the rest of the team. GG boys u guys makeing us happy

2016-10-08 14:35

Dosia being calyx true story

2016-10-08 14:44

tugux is igl so -ngiN +Calyx

2016-10-08 14:55

Tugux is the prob

2016-10-08 14:57

ive beaten Tugux 16-4 or smth in a match where he left after halftime cause he thougt i would cheat. Seriously everything is better than tugux

2016-10-08 15:27

get him on the team maby and maybe turkey can actually have a good cs team?

2016-10-08 15:03

......

2016-10-08 15:17

Kebabtares cant speak english

kebabtares ROFL

2016-10-08 15:31

Xantares my loveeee lul

2016-10-08 15:45

I like xantares but I think he is overconfident and a little bit arrogant ( and the whole SpaceS squad )

2016-10-08 16:25

all of our people are arrogant so its expected

2016-10-08 17:13

bro you need to be overconfident (even cocky) to be special sometimes.look at emre mor for example.if these kind of players weren't confident they would not be stars.

2016-10-09 13:06

who?

2016-10-08 16:28

lol what are those short answers??

2016-10-08 21:21

youtu.be/7QSGlWaNLJw?t=1m14s same translator(hardstyle) i think :D

2016-10-08 22:53

do you know how can be succesful at esport in turkey, its hard. find a team or create a team is hard to do. lol has office in turkey and thats good for lol players valve dont have office in turkey only localization for checkouts and some games language. i want to come to point. mentally esport think in turkey; nothing for people and goverment and companies, just nothing. they look them like geeks and cows. and hard to create good team in all ways in cs. this is the reason of the language problem. we have so much thing to resolve before language :D okay???? sorry for kebabenglish..

2016-10-09 02:30

+1 bro I understood I got you

2016-10-09 13:13

get tugux out lol, get this talent in

2016-10-09 13:12

hah. Dark Passage not confirmed this. woxic-maiko-sasuke-calyx old friends this is problem for calyx to space soldier and TUGUX best igl in Turkey. maybe not good fragger but so smart and good leader. SORRY FOR KEBABENGLISH

2016-10-09 15:28