Ex6TenZ: "We all have to improve"

18-12-2012 20:33

Vakarm.net sat down with VeryGames captain Kévin "Ex6TenZ" Droolans and discussed with the Belgian veteran the team's first months in CS:GO.

After dominating the CS:Source scene for several years, the France-based team switched to CS:GO soon after it was released with hopes of achieving the same level of success in the new game.

However, almost four months later, VeryGames have yet to win a major international competition in CS:GO, having lost to Ninjas in Pyjamas in the finals of four different tournaments.

In this interview, Droolans shares his thoughts on VeryGames' results in CS:GO so far, the team's rivalry with NiP and the plans for 2013, among other topics.

Three weeks ago, during an interview, we discussed about your team and how you felt after your performance at Electronic Sports World Cup. Today, you come back from two events which are DreamHack Winter and ESH, where you both ranked second. My question stays the same as in November, you defeated former world champions and excellent 1.6 and source players such as ESC, Dynamic and other teams but still finished second: Despite this, are you satisfied?

Yes, we are quite satisfied of the wins we took, because considering how much we invested ourselves into the game, I think we deserved them. There is something that I find less satisfying, even disappointing: I am well aware that we have been far from our best level. There are various reasons for that, and I will be honest with you, let’s get into details…

I think we all have things to get better at. Individually, I was not at my best skill level during three tournaments, with a 0.9 ratio. It is just inconceivable, even for a leader. But my team-mates also have to work on some things. SmithZz has to work on his lack of investment as a co-leader during our trainings, RpK and NBK for their lack of inventiveness on their positions and kennyS for his lack of maturity in general.

Here are all the things we have to improve in 2013. About the positive aspects, I would say that SmithZz was really good individually and that he helped me a lot as a co-leader during our official matches. We got back the impressive RpKTanK after working on his positions and kennyS and NBK managed to get their skill out when it was the time to. As for me, I feel more confident regarding my leader position.

If we work on our mistakes, our memories are likely to be way better than these past months. I mean, honestly, even when finishing second at each event, the tournament intensity, the atmosphere and the trips in general made us live great moments ! The CS:GO scene is really exciting, I can’t wait to be in 2013 !

You can find the rest of the interview by going here.

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2012-12-18 20:34

suick

"kennyS for his lack of maturity in general." i lol'ed

2012-12-18 20:37

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H@H@H what he mean they never win vs NIP and .

2012-12-18 20:39

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neither did any1 else @ lan :)

2012-12-18 21:36

Maturity does not necessarily mean the opposite of being directly childish. What ex6tenz means is that kennyS is young (less mature, less experienced) and therefore is sometimes inclined to doing poor decisions. I could imagine pushing/being too emotional/not listening in a bad way.

2012-12-18 20:54

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This.

2012-12-18 21:23

Or quite possibly his general lack of experience. He is still'very new to high level competition.

2012-12-18 21:25

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Yea you can see that he just falls apart on some games, i guess its that he is not that experienced yet. Hope he can perform more consistantly in the future.

2012-12-18 21:27

Yeah, was more or less what I meant, just imagined that some of the HLTV'ers would continue to be confused due to their English capabilities :p #5 and #8 looked like they were.

2012-12-18 21:38

From what I've seen, he seems to have the emotional side against him. Once he misses his shots, he keeps missing more and more, which is pretty much what being immature means in CS - not being stable.

2012-12-18 22:45

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he miss lot of shot, but a usual awper make one shot , kenny already made 3, this guy have insane reflex and potential and is maybe the best awper right now on go

2012-12-18 23:16

I agree his awp is one of the best in CSGO, way more impressive than fifflarens for sure for instance (I know theres quite a few better out there). but if you read well that is certainly not anything x6 is critisizing.

2012-12-19 00:07

hes very very very fast but he does seem to miss shots.. but hes still good

2012-12-18 23:15

good ? he is a beast, always in the top players in lan stats

2012-12-18 23:17

Yes, he's still better than almost anyone with the awp, have to give him that :)

2012-12-19 01:36

Just to note, it's obvious that the awp isn't that efficient compared to the other games. Many teams don't buy awp at all on T side, when playing some particular maps. Also a handful of teams let their weakest fragger hold the AWP. I bet it's unsatisfying for him, when he was used to top the scoreboard 90% of the matches in source. I bet it'd be good to invest his skills in rifling.

2012-12-19 22:52

Well, there's also a lot of players that have been very efficient with it (RattlesnK or steel for example), I'm not sure how efficient it is or isn't, but it seems like it's what teams need against NiP. RattlesnK did his job more than well and they managed to play a very close match with them thanks to that.

2012-12-19 22:55

gl :)

2012-12-18 20:38

Now improve so much that you can beat NIP.

2012-12-18 20:41

Means no lineup change in first half of next year :P

2012-12-18 20:46

2012-12-18 20:52

"and kennyS for his lack of maturity in general."

2012-12-18 21:01

#13

2012-12-18 21:18

The interview was pretty interesting. I reckon VG will be up there challenging, and 2013 will be a far more interesting and intense year than what we've seen so far, with teams starting to pour in the hours into the game, to catch up with NiP. If ESC manage to take this weekends StarLadder StarSeries event, then ESC will have the upper hand, so VG need to get themselves up there on the board at some point to get some of that VG "strong confidence" they had once in Source. They have the players, especially now RpKTanK has decided to get it back, they now need that mental awareness to get back the confidence.

2012-12-18 21:02

Hope that especially ex6tence and smithzz can improve and get on their level, they both seem pretty bad atm.

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smithzz seems bad? u haven't seen any of their matches? well, seems like because smithzz has been their best player for sure.

2012-12-18 21:44

not really on lan? kennys and rpk were best from what i have seen

2012-12-18 23:19

smithz has been playing great. yeah rpk was a beast last lan, but smithz has been performing well.

2012-12-19 16:37

SmithZz is sick man, Ex6tenZ yeah though.

2012-12-18 22:04

GL VeryGames.. hope u can at least challenge NIP in 2013

2012-12-18 21:37

lol they won't curse/a51/esc/fnatic have a higher ceiling..even then this game mechanics makes the skill gap far closer..

2012-12-18 22:46

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LOL ALL DE 1.6 TEAMZ HAZ A HIGHER CEILING HEUEHUEHEUHUEHU

2012-12-18 22:52

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u are from 1.6 ?

2012-12-19 00:44

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???

2012-12-19 00:56

ur saying that 1.6 players > css players in GO ?

2012-12-19 01:56

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Did you not get that I was taking the piss out of m4chklove?

2012-12-19 02:41

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You sucked his penis?

2012-12-19 08:05

You dont get it moron??

2012-12-19 08:39

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Dont you get it moron?*

2012-12-19 10:25

Yep but either youre too dumb and cant get it or just very bad troll without any sense whatsoever

2012-12-19 13:43

fuck yourself

2012-12-22 17:26

gl bring in shox

2012-12-18 22:50

Retire already ex6... you are always going 5-15 or something.. get rid of smithz as well and get shoxie + screaM and run around like NiP and just win..

2012-12-18 22:51

he say nip anti strat them ,their game is just to easy to read for a team like nip , eXtence lead is way too overated it seems..dunno why so much hype.. i think he don't realize the difference of level betwen his team and Nip.. Nip play the same way as in 1,6 lan groups stage for now just relax 16/5 16/4 scores..

2012-12-18 23:36

true.

2012-12-18 23:32

nd kennyS for his lack of maturity in general. 5 min later kennyS leaved verygames 10 min later fifflaren kicked out of nip 11 min later kennyS joins nip 12 min later verygames prefers to play as 4 then with fifflaren

2012-12-18 23:43

That was almost funny ...

2012-12-19 00:03

lol. no.

2012-12-19 01:01

fail

2012-12-19 16:38

"they change they play style, anti-strating us from all over the place. It is really difficult to adapt its game style in order to play against a team… The score difference is not representative of the difference of level, it shows a better adaptability and unpredactibility" AKA Xizt=BEAST IGL

2012-12-19 00:02

It's not only about Xizt, though he obviously has a big part in NiP's success. Just look what GTR, f0rest and Xizt himself can do individually, that's probably 3 of 5 best players in the world atm, what can you do about that?

2012-12-19 01:40

Xizt is just purely underrated How can an IGL be such a high fragger?

2012-12-19 09:27

Yeah, always admired him, especially in fnatic for his last few months.

2012-12-19 16:23

"The CS:GO scene is really exciting" how about no?

2012-12-19 00:10

4 sure it is more then the 1.6 one atm :)

2012-12-19 00:40

sure. but who said anything about 1.6?

2012-12-19 00:48

i think both equally exciting and 1 is dead, it speak alot

2012-12-19 02:03

extremly excting 25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvi2lpXfh61qm.. it will never melt

2012-12-19 04:38

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2013-01-21 12:20

gl VG <3

No matter what they do, this lineup wont get better than Nip. They need better fraggers, only KennyS can match top teams and rbk once in a while. +Scream and +Shox or either one -smithZZ.

2012-12-19 01:08

A few months ago, I watched an interview with NBK and he tould Richard Lewis, that Shox was never going back to VG. Ever. But I think ScreaM is a posibility. :-) -NBK +ScreaM KennyS training he's awp to be more consistent = defeating NiP

jas could become better than Vg , i don t know css scene but from what i have seen it seems shox and scream team was better than Vg in france at some point?

2012-12-19 02:25

no, a team with ex6tenz would win anything. Ex6 at redline beatd VG with shox ,rpk,smithz and so on. And since ex6tenz joind VG , no one could beat them until CPH.

2012-12-19 05:15

Shox beat verygames (the only team to beat a line up close to their current. Which is when he joined them after. But yeah, in terms of css game play, verygames were always the best French team, they just haven't found their style or aim yet. Ex6tenz was always the worst fragger but he was better than he is playing.

2012-12-19 08:37

Wrong. Ex6 was playing for redline and got beated for years by old-verygames ( krL , regnam , mateoo, smithzz rpk ) He started winning only when krl retired.

2012-12-19 12:00

I miss KRL :(

2012-12-20 18:08

nip anti-strat them all over the place? or maybe its just that xizt can adapt quickly mid round???

2012-12-19 01:58

You cant out strat NiP, you have to out aim them. Xizt doesnt come from a background in calling and interviews from fnatic and forest/gtr, players have a lot of freedom during rounds under Xizt's leadership. The current situation with VG hasnt worked as of yet and to be honest doesnt look to be getting better so instead of going purely for tactics they should look at some madfraggers to come in like ScreaM and just try to purely out aim them.

2012-12-19 02:07

Xizt learned calling with carn ? thats not a background of calling?not sure i understand what you mean

2012-12-19 02:20

cArn announced his retirement from gaming and the question was asked then who will be fnatics IGL and he said he thinks Xizt should do it. You think thats a background in calling? lol. Theres IGL's like RobbaN for example who have been doing this for years across multiple teams. Not just suddenly thrown into it because no-one in the lineup has a background as IGL.

2012-12-19 04:39

nah i remember carn saying xizt is learning for the day he will retire , he learnt from the master, the igl with the most experience in cs and who played with the best it s not like xizt come from no where and begin to lead . why do you think he play in nip?since the begining everyone know xizt will end as the igl

2012-12-19 21:22

I think some team need to execute like FX play against fnatic in 2009, aggresive dynamic defence and shock start and win some maps with pressure.

2012-12-19 04:42

Nice nice

2012-12-19 03:31

I think most of the teams have to get used to the game.. except nip they already have there positions and skill level up.. we just need to wait for the other teams to get off there asses and start making good strats en play as a team! nip isnt going to dominate for ever cant wait for navi esc and fnatic to get there momentem! alot of big names are very bad atm!

2012-12-19 06:40

lack of experience

2012-12-19 07:07

Finally some good Belgian players on the top pro scene of Counter Strike.

2012-12-19 08:24

well if you payed attention to source they've been around awhile

2012-12-19 10:30

I haven't followed Source, never really got into that version of Counter Strike so it's like discovering new Belgian talent for me.

2012-12-19 17:32

he should be happy that hes still a member of verygames. shit player and if they just changed igl to smithzz and got scream they would be able to beat nip.

2012-12-19 12:45

god,

2012-12-19 15:41

i dont belive in god?

2012-12-19 16:14

letting go of ex6tenz as igl isnt wise.

2012-12-19 16:39

very nice interview! gl VERYGAMES and try hard

2012-12-19 13:30

gl ex6 ^

2012-12-19 15:54

ofc they have to improve if they want to have a shot at beating nip

2012-12-19 22:39

BRING BACK KRL

2012-12-20 18:09

Retire already ex6... you are always going 5-15 or something.. get rid of smithz as well and get shoxie + screaM and run around like NiP and just win.. its not good

2012-12-23 01:36

I suppose anyone who is not the best at anything should just give up. That's how it works in this world, right? Quitting is the best option? Then, once you've quit, you should tell other people what to do with their lives over the internet, because you've made so much of yours.

2012-12-27 08:27