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Clock Tue, 22 May 2012 21:59:52 +0100

Going South
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Whilst the ESWC saw some teams take home the glory and the cash a lot more went home with nothing but a lesson to learn, one of those teams was orgLess 5.

Nobody saw the German side coming in the Online Qualifier but they performed admirably against a number of quality sides to finish alongside FMToxic in the 5/6th position. At first it looked like they hadn't done enough to earn themselves a spot at the ESWC but after one of the American sides dropped out they were the next team on the list and were handed a lifeline by the ESWC, and a chance to prove to the world that they should be taken seriously by the big names in Europe. Their preparations for the event took a knock when they found out that they would be dropped by their organisation, ESC Gaming, just a couple of weeks before they were due to fly out to Paris.

Despite being dropped the team made the trip to France but after just a few games they would have been wishing they'd given their slot to someone else as they performed dreadfully, failing to pick up a single win in what was a humiliating experience. Upon their return they took a few days to analyse where it all went so wrong and set about improving for the future, and, more importantly, which organisation they would represent. Toni 'anakintm' Milicevic caught up with the teams manager to ask a few questions about the deal with Anexis eSports, what the future holds and what went wrong in Paris.

We all know you as a manager of the former ESC-Gaming team who recently lost their support just the prior to the ESWC. Can you tell us what happened with the organisation, why would they leave you in the dark after such a good result in the online quallys for the ESWC?
Hello, and thanks for the chance to talk to you today. During the whole season we were with ESC-Gaming and were very happy with the support and also very glad to play for such a big german organisation. But two weeks before ESWC, ESC-Gaming told us not to support us for ESWC or EPS / EMS anymore. To separate from the organisation was then the step we took to look for a new home.
BlackG7, one of the teams star men.


But I mean, what happened actually? Did they list a reason for such a harsh decision, maybe money issues, bad results in the German EPS or something?
Sure we were bad in German EPS we failed during the whole season and also had a lot of problems in the team, but as you can see in the Qualifier of the ESWC we were able to manage this problems. The management always gave us the support we needed so we were very suprised such as the community with this decision.
So what was the next step for the team, you decided to proceed playing as Orgless5 and we saw your calling for help on the forums where you asked for some donations. How did that work, did you get any benefits by the community?
The Community helped us a lot and we also have a bunch of very beautiful people around us who believed in us and helped us. My special thanks goes to Sascha, Christian and the Management of Anexis eSports who supported us without any limits and gave us this big chance to participate at ESWC in Paris.
Speaking about Anexis, how did you came across the management? Who took the first step?
Anexis eSports is a big name in the scene. So I took my chance and emailed the owner of Anexis, he mailed me back and after some conversation on skype we came to the point that we want to attend ESWC under Anexis eSports. I really want to point out the outstanding courage of the Anexis Management who helped us in this difficult situation just a few days before ESWC.
What is your take on the online qualifiers. You managed to beat some respectable teams like Epsilon, eSuba, LiNK, ... Was it just your good day or is there more to the story?
On the one hand it was a very good day for and on the other hand there is the big big preparation for this qualifier and the many hours of training every day. It was a hard time and it was the first time for us playing as a team together in such a big qualifier. So on the two days the qualifier took place everything went perfect for us. Except the loss against our german rival mTw :D.
Let's skip forward to the event itself. What are the reactions in the team now it is all settled down a bit. Do you think you could have performed better or that was the maximum unfortunately?
Unfornately both German teams were not good at ESWC. For our part we had very much problems during the season so we were prepared well as we could in the short period between qualifier and event. But the topteams of the other countries were better so we performed not really well, we hope to get a chance next year to show again that a german team is also able to play at this high level.
ESWC, not a good event for German teams..


So you think that your low seeds were a good prediction? Or maybe do you think you would've performed better if you had more time for the preparations?
I believe in my team and my mates we are now together now for one season and because of the problems we share a lot of things. When we stay together and practice very hard in the next year I am sure we will performe better, but for this time the international scene was too strong.
Fair enough. What do you think about the tournament format. Would you do anything different if you had the power?
It is the biggest tournament in Source so the teams which are attending are the best of whole Europe and for this time also the US. It was a good format but it showed the German scene were we stand and where the international teams are at the moment.
In a review on Cadred.org, I managed to remember this line crushing down to your players - "What they’re doing I don’t know but these five might remain orgLess for some time if the only sponsors out there looking are interested in LAN." What are your thoughts on that comment. Would you rate your team as onliners?
I understand that some people out there think that we are onliners. But this isn't quiet fair you have to see which Offlineevents all of our players took part in the past, it is a general problem of the german eSport that we are not attending as much lan events as other teams do. We learned our lesson and will show up very soon on other international and national lans like "Northcon" this year.
Speaking about future events, what does the future hold for the team? Are you closer to finding a new home since you will not be sticking to Anexis eSports?
We want to stick together as a team and want to find a new good organisation which supports us and which is able to send us to some nice offline events. Only if this is given we see a chance to fight against other topteams again and performe better in the future.
What's your take on Anexis as an organisation? Did you enjoy the time spent there and do you regret a bit that the move wasn't permanent?
It was the best what could happen to join Anexis eSports, and I regret that the move wasn't permanent. But I understand that the team around falsu- which is also very strong needs the support and the full attention of Anexis.
Could it have a future?


Let's move a bit from the competitive side and talk globally. What's your take on the CS:S situation at the moment? Where is the game heading right now?
The source scene is on a very good way at the moment, many tournaments are played with a lot of pricemoney. This year and the next year will show if some of the "old" 1.6 players will switch over to Source, if this happens it will give the scene the push it was waiting for many many years.
But the weird things at the moment are the other versions jumping in, like CSPromod lately and CS:GO... Can you share your thoughts with us?
I do not think that CSPromod has a chance to be played professional. But CS:GO has the chance to bring the Source and the 1.6 scene together, we have to see what the future will bring for us I can not tell at the moment were it will develop so we have to see and wait.
We all heard that all the atendees at ESWC were handed their beta key for CS:GO. Did your players get theirs?
Yes all of the players which were atendees at ESWC got one beta key for CS:GO including my teammates. They are expecting a whole new game with new features, redesigned maps and a new gameplay. Also we are expecting a nicer way to follow games of teams and hope that valve learnt from the past mistakes. We think that this is also very important for the scene how you can follow games if you compare it to the viewers of League of Legends Games at the moment for example.
True. We surely hope that this time the developers will listen to feedback by the competitive community. Anyway, it's time to wrap the interview, it was a big pleasure talking to you. Any final thoughts or shoutouts?
Thanks for the interview and the chance to state my view on the event and some other things. Thanks again to my team (Kai, Christian, Max, Fabian, Matthias, Marco) and to Anexis for their great support. I am looking forward to meet you on some future events.
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