Could you start by introducing yourself for the lovely viewers?
(lc-|madSpunK) Hallo
der! My name is Sean otherwise known
online as madSpunK, I currently lead the UK CS team Lastchance
Lets
start with the roster, what is your current line up?
(lc-|madSpunK) Our current line-up is madSpunK, Undone, AdY, hih1 and
LozZA. HeaDBulB is getting new headphones soon so will be able to play again
and Song is currently finishing some of his A levels off, but hopefully will be
joining the party again soon.
With the
recent recruitment of Undone and return of LozZA to the lc ranks, how are your
thoughts on the potential of your current line up?
(lc-|madSpunK) We've done a bit of practice with the new line-up (playing
in some online tournaments), and I can already say we are improving a lot on
the old one. Undone has brought quite a lot to the clan, and is especially good
with the magic boom stick, and he definitely knows how to keep the clan morale
up :) LozZA is solid as usual, he has played for us countless of times hence
why he is back in our roster. He has always been a consistent CS player and is
improving everyday. I do not doubt any of these two's abilities as CS players
and can trust them in-game 100%.
You’re
currently competing in ESL’s CSCL qualifier and CS UK cup and have put in for
pretty much every competition that is going, but lets look at the CSCL first
your seeded #1 and have had a fairly easy ride to the quarter finals where you
now face virgins, do you see them as being obstacle to the semi finals?
(lc-|madSpunK) I'm happy to have such a good seed however that means
we're going to have to work harder to reach that number 1 spot. We are still
with a new line-up so teams that have played together for more than 1 month
have the upper hand against us. We see all the teams there as competition as CS
is a very random game and anything can happen, plus its all done online.
Virgins is actually Undone's ex-clan, so a lot of them will be hungry to shoot
him in the face :P I think they have been together for a while, so their team
play will be spot on. We will play quarter finals game like we will play the
finals :)
If you progress into the semi finals you will have to come up against Landed.cs or Caution, with the rivalry with landed that fixture looks very tasty and a match up with Caution would be sure to make good viewing, are you worried about possibly facing either side in the semi finals?
(lc-|madSpunK) Both teams are very good, Landed's new line-up is solid
and I think they have potential if they can stay together for a long while. CAution's
players are not as 'legendary' as Landed’s but I have played in a mix against
the CAution players and they were very good. We don't have a rivalry with
Landed, all of landed are nice guys and if we do play them it'll be a fun game
:) CAution on the other hand have had a lot of talk about them. I'm not too
sure about their players but I know Realf!re is a good CL (as Indy has rated
him a better CL than me the bastard!), and can be trusted. All of these online
games are really just preparation for the next LAN tournament, either teams can
probably beat us so any losses won't be taken too seriously. Just a learning
curve.
Right, lets move onto the ESL’s UK CS cup, once again you’re seeded as the #1 team in this competition also and are currently in the last 16, you’ve been paired against Mayi (ants.eu?) I know little about this side, are you confident of progressing to the next stage?
(lc-|madSpunK) I get mixed up with both of these tournaments, they both
look exactly similar and they have an identical structure. We've seen Ants.uk
at the UKT Lan Finals, but I've never seen them play so I have no idea how the
game will go. I've heard they like to overclock PCs at LAN so god knows what
they do to their PCs at home...
If successful you could face up the possibility of facing Played or Forsaken in the quarter finals, a possible Lastchance v forsaken is sure to raise some interest and would be an interesting tie, how do you fancy your chances in this clash if it was to occur?
(lc-|madSpunK) I think some of the PCGamer guys play for Forsaken, so it'll be a tough game, and even without the PCG guys playing for them it'll still be tough. I have a soft spot for Kenny :(
Being the #1 seed I’m sure you fancy your chances for taking this competition and the chance of racking up an ESL double, there is of course the likely hood you could meet Team Drake in the final and it could go either way, so how do you fancy your chances for winning the competition?
(lc-|madSpunK) We take these tournaments game by game, we aren't
preparing as much as we should be but we're doing a little. Unfortunately we
aren't under the best circumstances online with myself on my Uni connection and
LozZA and hih1 with ISP problems that could be seen in the culpa game we played
earlier this week. The most we want to get out of these games is fun and some
practice before our next LAN. We've got as much chance in winning the
competition as every other clan out there.
Well I noticed on your site your going to be competing in about every competition there is going online right now, is there any LAN’s in the pipeline?
(lc-|madSpunK) We want to go to most LAN’s (that offer sufficient prizes) the UK has to offer, as that is where we get the most out of CS. The reason we're still playing online is to practice together as we don't have enough money to really bootcamp. Our next LAN is hopefully GGL5 if we can find sufficient support, and EOGC a lot later in the year.
Well
that’s me done, thank you for your time Sean and best of luck, any shout outs?
(lc-|madSpunK) yeah shout out to dustworld for providing us a great
server and gamerzstuff for giving us some mousemats!