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SK-Gaming posted a interesting interview with  David "davio" Kaye from function-zer0, winner of the Australian ACON5 Qualifier.
Here is the entire interview:
First of all please introduce yourself in a few words to our readers?
Hi! I'm David Kaye, 19 years old and I live in Queensland, Australia, the greatest place in the world!
Since the Australian scene isn't that well known could you please tell us a few words about it?
The
Australian scene is decent, there is a few good teams going around. YGS
and XR are the best examples. Teams in Australia generally consist of
the best players in each state, rather than in the country which means
instead of having one really strong team, we have a mix of goodteams
from around the country. Major tournaments only really come up every
time there is a qualifier for WCG, ESWC, CPL ETC. Things are looking
good for 2005 however.
Why do you think that the gaming scene in your country is less developed if we compare it to the other scenes in the world?
Lack
of competition. There is simply not enough sponsors and not enough good
teams in the country to reach that level. On the other hand we believe
we have improved since our last international appearance, but acon5 will
be the time to prove that.
You were quite successful at this year's ACON5 Qualifier. How did you prepare exactly?
We
bootcamped @ my house for a week or so, practicing mainly online vs some
of the best teams in the country. Of course we played a lot of aimmap's
and stuff like that, kurandus played alot of WOW, me and skz played alot
of MVP Baseball, the 2 games essential to success in cs.
How was the whole event organised and how did your team evolve along with it?
The
event itself was not organised aswell as we would've liked. It was held
at a local LAN event in Sydney with only enough PC's for one match at a
time. It caused for a fairly long day and with PC's problems involved it
made it even longer. Also the other teams in attendence were Sublime,
YGS, and XR. All teams who have beaten us in past events and squads that
you must take seriously every time you play them. XR was our first
opponent on nuke, we won that fairly convincingly, and then YGS on
inferno, another good map for us which we won fairly convincingly with a
strong T half. In the end we didn't have to playthe final against XR
who came through the losers bracket, as they did not have their
passports organised before the event. It was a shame to win that way and
we would much rather have won the final, however we beat the #2 and #3
teams on the day so that is good enough for us.
How do you feel that you'll be the only team representing the so called "land down under" in China?
It's
always nice to know your representing your country and everyone back
home is cheering for you. It adds a whole other level of pressure when
your playing, but as a team we strive for high pressure games.
The Australian community is great when it comes to supporting their
team, plus we will also be an underdog which gains us more support.
Do you think that a positive result in China will help Australian gaming?
It
will probably help us more then the Australian scene. We are
finally starting to gain sponsors and the better our results the bigger
things will get for us. I guess if we went on to win the event or place
in the top 3 it would draw more attention to the Australian scene but
thats about as far as it would go.
What other plans do you have for the rest of 2005?
Three
days after we return from China we have the Australian ESWC qualifiers
which we will hopefully win and go to France for the second time. After
that we have WCG which is Source, none of the team plays source at all
so we are not too worried about that. After that we have a few things we
are looking to attend which we cannot comment on right now.
We
all know that the financial part represents a problem for 90% of the
teams in the gaming scene. Where does fzer0 stand in this situation?
We
have recently secured a very good sponsorship with ATi. We're
fairly sure over the coming months we will be able to work with them
and achieve a very good relationship, allowing us to attend the events
we wish to attend. Apart from that we don't have much else.
Any final words?
Can't
wait to see everyone in China, everyone else there better drink hard
with us or we will be disapointed :]. Huge shoutout to the guys at ATi
for all their support, makes a huge difference. Werd up to the
[LF]boys. Cheers for the interview :] |
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