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Cooller: "I dislike playing av3k"
Mouz's Quake Live ace Cooller took part in a one hour Russian video interview after DreamHack Winter. A helpful ESR user has now translated the legend's words into English.
By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields
Jan 29, 2010 01:19
Mouz's Quake Live ace Cooller took part in a one hour Russian video interview after DreamHack Winter. A helpful ESR user has now translated the legend's words into English.Over on ESReality a character named ToyTiger has kindly transcribed and translated a video interview done in Russian with Quake phenomenon Anton 'Cooller' Singov. Cooller talks openly and honestly about a lot of topics in an interview which ran for one hour. His DreamHack Winter games are discussed as well as such disparate topics as what he thinks happens after death and what limits he plays online poker at.
All in all it's a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most enigmatic and brilliant Quake players of all time.
Taking about his semi-final game at DreamHack Winter Cooller interestingly explains his and cypher's situation with playing against their friend av3k, something which would be important at the recent IEM IV European Finals:
Addressing Quake Live's new duel maps the Russian legend says:
Commenting on a player from Cooller's era of dominance in Quake 3, Z4muz, and his performance at DreamHack Cooller is brutally honest:
Revealing something about his past few fans will have known Cooller talks about a past which included some time in CS:
Cooller recently placed third at the IEM IV European Championship Finals, losing to his friend av3k in the semi-finals (again) and winning the third place decider over strenx.
Source: ESReality
(Photography copyright of goodgame.ru)
All in all it's a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most enigmatic and brilliant Quake players of all time.
Taking about his semi-final game at DreamHack Winter Cooller interestingly explains his and cypher's situation with playing against their friend av3k, something which would be important at the recent IEM IV European Finals:
"And it's worth to stress that av3k's style was clashing with mine, I dislike playing av3k because his style is disgusting, well, for me personally. Cypher is very comfortable with playing av3k, but not me. Av3k moves around the map in a specific way, and he shoots in such a way that everything he shoots connects with me. So, he was a tough opponent for me, and I lacked warmup, too, and didn't feel comfortable in the game. It's sad that the tournament uses single elimination system and there's no second chance."
Addressing Quake Live's new duel maps the Russian legend says:
"There are two of them, t9 and t7. One of them I love. The most significant moment for me is that it lacks railgun. I feel absolutely comfortable with this map, I always know what and when to do, I know how to steal control. The second map, t7, is rather specific. It's rather big, it has many armours, mega, all weapons, and at this map it's easy to reach a distant opponent with a railgun shot. This map is very comfortable for railgun players. I don't like it at all, there's some water there, weird columns, endless teleporters... I don't like to play this map, because raling became really easy in Quake Live, and all good players just don't miss at all. So at this map everything comes down to luck. The one who is luckier will win it."
Commenting on a player from Cooller's era of dominance in Quake 3, Z4muz, and his performance at DreamHack Cooller is brutally honest:
"Well, judging by the fact that he made it to the final... Although his brackets were rather easy, because the entrance to semifinals he earned by beating destrukt. It's a guy from the USA, he's a kind of good average player, so to speak. As for his semifinal game with stermy, of course Z4muZ had luck there, I can claim this with certainty, at the last map he got lucky."
Revealing something about his past few fans will have known Cooller talks about a past which included some time in CS:
"Yes, when I began playing I was a member of a Shaitan club team. It was a CS team, and I was playing best of all in that team. By the way, in past there was a player Hostage in c58, they played with Xenitron, I was on the same team with him. Starcraft I played, too, but not at the highest level, but I played at battle.net, I was registered there. But with time I chose Quake 3."
Cooller recently placed third at the IEM IV European Championship Finals, losing to his friend av3k in the semi-finals (again) and winning the third place decider over strenx.
Source: ESReality
(Photography copyright of goodgame.ru)
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