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Counter-Strike: Interview with bds

By: Luis Mira - Published November 20, 2008 at 9:10 AM EST - Writer Archive
SK Gaming has conducted an interview with Managing Director Andreas "bds" Thorstensson.
Although Thorstensson is one of the two Managing Directors working for SK Gaming, he is still the face most of the community associates with the German-based organisation.

In this video interview, Thorstensson comments on his arrival at the organisation, the rise of World of Warcraft as an electronic sport and the differences between the 2003 Counter-Strike team and the current one, among other subjects.

An excerpt from the interview can be found below:

"One of the key mistakes we did was that we had, for a short period of time, GoodFella, vilden and Snajdan, three awesome players, but also three people calling strats.

"They did not want to listen to each other, everyone wanted to do his strats, then you had meetings where it was decided: for this tournament, Snajdan is going to make the calls.

"When he made the calls and it made us lose, the other strat callers were going to blame him."

The complete interview can be viewed here.

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Yep. Every interview from SK is definitely front page news on GotFrag.

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what an ass: "When he made the calls and he made us lose, the other strat callers were going to blame him."

the whole team loses or wins, it's not only the strat caller's fault, what and arrogant sunuvabtch

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#2 he only says that as an example, not putting the blame on anyone.
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#2 he's saying that the other callers used him as an excuse if they lost. Not that he made them lose
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THIS WORTHED A LOT TO SEE....


bds and Jlake should put they brains to work together and start and esport league around the world....
¯\(°_o)/¯
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He didn't say it was the strat callers fault, he said the teammates would blame the strat caller for the lose.

brUH
You cannot effect the outcome - #devastation
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great iview, its fairly obvious that this guy was ahead of his time...and was a big reason why SK was so dominant back in 03
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Even SK's supremo suggests that eco rounds should be modified to balance the competition of both sides.. Maybe Valve should entitle two rounds of free vest with helmets for each teams that's ecoing, or some other fresh solutions. Wake up those adrenalins ya'll..
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nice interview :D
-(Bravo)-Jan1uX
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Still probably the best mind eSports has seen, at least outside of Asia. He's the type of individual that just makes so much sense with everything he says or does, that it's impossible to disagree with. The only thing I'd like to see is the actions or effect he had on the SK/NiP situation in late 2004, but something tells me he couldn't really be to blame. Great interview :)
hello
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nice interview
BANKAI!

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