Head honcho here at the SK-gaming.com homepage Andreas "bds" Thorstensson has been interviewed by HLTV.org in a piece published today on their site. In the interview bds talks about Abdisamad 'SpawN' Mohamed and the possibility he will ever be an SK.swe player again, as fans often speculate or hope. He also addresses the topic of the ex-MYM and WICKED team becoming the Polish division of SK. There are also a number of questions put to him about SK.swe's current form and what they've been lacking in their recent bad spell of placings.

Asked what the SK.swe team is lacking right now bds told HLTV.org:



The bds story

Gather round children and be careful not to spill your cocoa as I tell you of a wonderful story of a magical German kingdom called SK and a young would-be prince named bds...

bds began life as a programmer for Spray, and played a part in coding the original XSReality sites (now known as ESReality) which were one of the first major destinations for esports coverage and pro gamer-fan interaction. Contributing to the CS side of those sites he helped get a number of POV demos from players who are now known as Counter-Strike legends during an era when squeezing a demo out of a pro was as difficult as finding which private channels they were hiding in on IRC. He also created the geekboy demo player and explained the netcode (though not so well the first time around)

While XSReality slowly fell apart in terms of drive and finance, thanks largely to Quake 3's death as a CPL backed game, bds took the website for his team, geekboys, and turned it into one of the first community sites. More important than that one of the first functional and exciting community sites. With its retro bbs text style and easy to setup and manage profiles geekboys, later to be renamed sogamed, became the myspace of gamers before myspace ever existed. It was akin to the phonebook of Counter-Strike and every player and fan had a profile there. We pause here in the bds story to recount his playing career as that ties into what came next in terms of his website activity.

As a player bds had played on the semi-elite level with geekboys who won the ClanBase Open cup and became the Scandinavian team for SK, who at that time were known primarily for their German Quake clans. As SK.sca bds and the gang headed off to CPL Winter 2001, site of the famous NiP-X3 war, where they placed 9th-12th. In early 2002 bds' role in SK.swe changed as he became the manager and they attended CPL Cologne taking 3rd behind aAa and Nordic Division. After this point in time the lineup was to change drastically as the implosion of the #1 team in the world, Ninjas in Pyjamas, due to lack of sponsorship led to a number of the world's elite players being free agents.

Into the team bds brought HeatoN and Potti, who were already Counter-Strike demigods at the time, as well as the great Norwegian XeqtR and he coupled the ex-NiP group with the only remaining geekboy, namely ex-QW and Q3 star Xenon, and Nordic Division's Norwegian ex-Q2 star DarK. With this lineup in place SK.sca went on to win CPL Summer 2002 and so began the era of SK.swe being associated with winning major titles and bds hovering around behind them saying things in Swedish and posing in the pictures with the oversized cheques.

With his involvement with SK.swe now running deep bds stepped back from geekboys/sogamed and gave its control over to MrKill and G3X who... completely messed it up and ran it into the ground where it now lies dead, destroyed and likely never to return. Thanks for that boys. Back in the blissful world of bds he set about reinventing SK's homepage to become a community site with many of the features geekboys had once had and in time, coupled with many championships from the Swedish CS side, SK would no longer be known worldwide as the Schroet Kommandos but rather SK-gaming.

Source: HLTV.org