Having recently finished 2nd at CDC4 LAN in Netherlands, as well as 2nd at i32, TLR are one of the biggest names at the moment in European Call of Duty 4. Cadred caught up with Mark in our pre-i33 coverage, where they will be attending as the 2nd seed team.

Since our site is predominantly CSS readers, tell us a bit about yourself. What's your history gaming wise?

Well, my name is Mark, I go to college full time and i play for TLR.cod4 :). My history gaming wise started out on cod1, then went to cod2 with finally a decent internet connection and didn't really get anywhere but i mainly played it for fun in lan mixes like EYErollers (4th at i31!!). While playing cod2 i took quite a break, started playing cnc3 and qualified for the WCG uk qualifiers at i31 but i wouldn't of stood much of a chance with apollo there but i had to play with the eyerollers instead!

I'm sure we can take what we achieved at CDC forward with us into this event and we are all hunting that first place which will be quite a challenge ! With the top placing UK team getting to the iPower finals at ESWC thats going to give us a hell of alot of motivation on top of our CDC performance to get to that first place.

I feel we are underrated due to the hype surrounding SMG's in the game, at cdc we did use them a fair bit which is why some haters are expecting us to fail at i33 with the limit on SMG's to 2. All i can say is wait and see because a limit on SMG's won't stop us getting to where we want to be ! I think people are expecting a european or even the canadian team to take it as i-series has always been a predominantly UK organisation based event and are suprised to see alot of foreign teams making the effort this time round.

I think our biggest threat will be fnatic who im sure we would love a rematch on lan against after CDC :D. Every top 8 seeded team is a potential threat but i think it will come down to who wants the win more and maybe the luck of the map.

I haven't been following the NA scene but i reckon they will be at a major disadvantage with the mega difference in rulesets with deep impact off over here and on over there, as is the red dot. If they have practiced enough im sure their unrivalled amount of experience will pull them to a top 8 position.

I haven't really seen much from the other UK teams but from what i have seen i think that you will see some very big upsets from UK teams such as the under rated exabyte ( if they perform as well on lan as they have been lately online). Other uk teams being able to maybe cause some upsets would be audacity, antix and VVV.

I know that three of their players have been to lan before which are attending this event, however the two that haven't been to lan there has been a few words said here and there by some teams about them. I think that they might just crack under the pressure as im sure people will want to line up to spec them after alot of hype surrounding their online play =]

Shoutouts to everyone at TLR and the sponsors. Everyone thats going to make i-series a 'proper bo' event :D you know who you are ! And not forgetting my long time chums from eyerollers!