Shot in Woyton - they serve the best carrot cake in the world!

and what were the 2 of you having for drinks? :D

good one, it really was interesting

he could have spiced up that superhero story, I bet he's just told it too many times now ;D First time "There were FIVE of them, and I said lets Bring EM ALL DOWN ALEX" then by the 100th time "yea we just stopped a thief, no biggy" ;DD

Good thing to see interviews with people 'behind' eSports. But I get bored of that interview a bit after the first 8 minutes since the same topic is elaborated just too much and long. After that it gets more interesting :) Keep them coming!

Yeah, the answres are really good :) Hehe, yeah the feeling to cut a looong interview to like 10 minutes, feels so bad when you have to through a lot of material just away...

edit: eh sry, wanted to use the reply button

$10,000,000 clan would be interesting to see. Bigger and better than SK & MYM brands? :D

hes really into that "in the end of the day" thingy isnt he :D

one of the best interviews so far. keep the good work going :)

mby he watched too much esl-tv? with mark hoffman?

carcar carcar caaaaaar _smACk.

very nice interview :)

by the way, I think you've missed the 1on1 with kuben in the list

In the end of the day, this was a nice interview, enjoyable to watch.

p.s. In the end of the day.

ha good interview :)

His reasoning for the 'failure' of deathmatch was just diabolical, I really felt quite embarrassed that someone with such 'power' was so naive and unrealistic. He uses motor racing as an analogy for deathmatch citing that there's not enough continuous content, too few events, and that the community is too small (in scope and physical size). He had the nerve to draw comparisons to Counter Strike and say the community actually choose to 'kill' deathmatch; are you kidding me?

Why don't you use boxing as an analogy, seeing as it's possibly the most relative. Professional boxing, just like the CPL world tour (Painkiller) or WSVG had a small number of events per year. In fact, most professional boxers fight about three times a year, maybe less, maybe more depending where they're in the rankings.

Don't you dare say Quake III (or any deathmatch game) isn't good enough or suitable for the eSports market because you've issues creating a stable and profitable revenue stream. Every games player pool declines if the game isn't played competitively, that's fact.

You're horrifically naive if you think deathmatch as a genre is going to compete with a team based FPS in raw numbers, the genre is tough and the majority of 'players' aren't suited to it. That doesn't mean however that they can't or don't want to watch it, and it's partly countered by the fact the deathmatch community doesn't need a huge player base.

Your model is completely wrong, your ideas about generating revenue are as equally short sighted as is your reasoning behind deathmatches failure. If you stabilise the mechanisms behind eSports (competitions, organisations, wages), you can easily maintain a sizable player pool for the game when the stars retire etc. After all it's all relative.

You sir are nothing more than an advertising puppet. The ESL will happily line its own pockets by using titles like FIFA, C&C3: Tiberium Wars and World in Conflict, then quite happily say with a straight face, "the community made the decision" and "if you don't follow the trends you're going to fail in the long run".

I'm honestly beginning to think that Matthieu Dallon is the only eSports mogul with an ounce of honesty or self respect, how sad.

Best i.view thats been done :)