Cadred.org: Interview with dunc

cadred.org have made an extensive interview with dunc from the division 1 team Übersexuals.

Here’s a few snippets from the interview:

A lot of lower skilled players and teams experience rage and frustration when developing, is this still a part of high level play?

From a team point of view, every defeat is frustrating. I get frustrated every time we fail as a team – when the co-ordination is lacking or people are dying “too easily”, it gets frustrating. You HAVE to keep going though. It ruins the community when new teams form, encounter a few inevitable losses and then rage-disband. TF2 is about teamwork and teamwork takes time. Simple as that. Keep going!

When looking at the past, the present and the future, how do you compare TF2 to other popular competitive games from the moment?

In my opinion, TF2 is the best spectator FPS.. ever. That may sound daft, but what can compare? CSS? No thanks. CS1.6 was an enjoyable game but not the greatest spectator sport. StarCraft is arguably the greatest spectator game of all time, but that’s an entirely different genre – an entirely different kettle of fish.

Unfortunately, we don’t have the coverage and we don’t have the LANs. I personally think a single LAN would really help to get the ball rolling. A well organised TF2-oriented LAN event with a decent cash prize with good coverage and a number of well known sponsors would really help the community. When this gets off the ground, I think TF2 will get the boost it well deserves. Everyone gets the feeling that the TF2 community is stale now and then, but that’s purely because there’s nothing on the horizon.

We know your are currently involved in the organisation of a big European LAN dedicated to TF2. What are your plans for this LAN event and how can players, teams and organisations support this?

Indeed. A few of us from the ETF2L community forums have grouped together to try and organise a community-based, TF2-oriented LAN in Holland or somewhere equally accessible/appropriate. The LAN would probably be towards the end of February or beginning of March, depending on the feedback we get from the community. The idea is to split up the competitions a bit. The main competition would be open to any team but presumably dominated by the top teams in the game, with a large cash prize. There would also be “mid” and “low” level competitions (skill level gauged by admins/trialling/ETF2L S3 standings) with hardware prizes.

We hope to get a large number of sponsors involved and are looking at involving some of the big CoD5 teams – the entire emphasis of this event is to get more coverage for the community and hopefully by bringing some of the MGOs involved in the likes of CoD5 or whatever, we might get them interested in our community. We’ll be posting regular feedback on ETF2L once we have a location secured, so the only things I ask of the community are firstly to give us honest, critical feedback on our ideas and secondly to make sure you’re turning up!

Read the full interview at cadred.org.

15 November 2008 in Interviews