Although everyone in North America knows you and your history in eSports, for our European viewers can you state the history of evolution and how it is you became a member of one of North America's premier teams?

I started playing cs around 9 or so years ago, and started playing in online leagues and tournaments after joining a clan from a public server. After playing competitively for a bit I eventually joined some more serious teams and started going to lan tournaments. After going to some lans and doing well myself, I was asked to play for a cal-premier team who attended many local east coast lans. From this I basically worked my up the North American ladder over time and now find myself once again on compLexity!

In one of the largest roster overhauls in North American CS history, your current team compLexity has made headlines by picking up Xp3, yourself and former member, hero and saying goodbye to longtime members NineSpot and Irukandji, how do you feel about the new "revamped" coL roster in comparison to the former one, and what are some major changes that you guys are going to implement in your play style compared to the former coL team?

I feel great! When I initially heard of the roster they were trying to put together it's something I immediately wanted to do and thought it had serious potential. I think the previous compLexity roster had sort of a identity crisis in my opinion in the sense that I believe that players such as Thomz and dboorN are a lot more aggressive players and Irukandji is more of a by the books type strat caller. I think the personality and play style of us as individuals much better suits the style in which David calls and I feel like it's just a perfect mix.

In the past recent seasons of ESEA there seems to be a lot more teams that are challenging the likes of favorites EG and coL, like Excello US of last season for example, how is it that you stay on top of your game and make sure you don't fall victim to the new breed of hungry players that seem to be breaking into the scene in recent seasons?

I think the only way we can combat that is to have dedication, passion, and hunger of our own. We exhibit all of these qualities because I think we see the potential that this team has and we don't want to really "half-ass" this opportunity that we were given.

Either from watching your movie or your matches it is pretty easy to see that your main weapon of choice is the AWP, however your teammate Jeff "hero" Mattetel is also a very talented sniper and the AWP'er for the former coL roster, what is your role on the new lineup as a player and how did you change your play-style to accommodate the new team?

Coming into this lineup I had been rifling while I was playing on Loaded for the past few months prior so there really was no argument and we all knew that Jeff would be awp'ing for us. So there really wasn't really that much of a change for me personally, and after watching Jeff awp'ing and just playing in general these past few weeks I wouldn't have it any other way. He's insane.

Last week we saw the conclusion of the CEVO-P Grand Finals between coL and EG, after thrashing them on two maps and winning the championship it is clear that your lineup has the potential to be the best team in North America, do you feel that your lineup is more talented than EG or do you feel that EG still holds the North American crown as best team?

Given what they've accomplished in the past so many months and given the fact that we are a new team I would have to say they still are number one. Until we consistently beat them at tournaments both online and on lan only then could I say we are number one. However I believe that them being the number one team also offers us advantages as we continually have hunger and motivation to prove not only to the community but to ourselves that we are indeed a better team.

With the ESEA season starting this week, what are you guys doing to prepare for the season with such short time together as a team? and out of all of the new lineups we see this season who do you believe are going to be the teams that stand in your way of the championship?

We've just been practicing, scrimming, and getting our teamwork and communication down on the 4 basic lan maps that we see every tournament. As far as the ESEA only maps we will probably take them on one at a time a few days before we have to play them. In regards to teams standing in our way of course I'd have to say EG, also teams such as Underestimated, Graffiti and Loaded are all to not be taken lightly.

Although it seems that North American CS is reviving itself a little bit domestically, EG is still the only NA team to have consistant International success in recent time, do you feel that your new lineup has potential to compete overseas and do you have any plans to attend any International events over the summer?

Yes, that was the entire purpose of creating this team. We want to compete, attend, and place well at as many international lans as we are invited to and or qualify for. Off the top of my head to name a few would be Dreamhack Summer, ESWC, and perhaps GameGune.

I like to ask every player what are their opinions on CS:ProMod, what do you think of the latest beta release and would you consider switching to CSP is major leagues and tournaments did? and if you could make your own changes to the game what would they be?

Honestly I have not played the most recent beta of the game and as far as switching I don't think I would do it. The Half-Life engine is what makes Counter-Strike what it is, and I really think the ONLY way they can truly emulate 1.6 as much as possible would be to create an entirely new engine in which to create this ProMod on. I don't think they have the time nor the resources to pull off such a task however.

As many would agree, you are considered to be on North America's best snipers, are there any special training or practice techniques that helped you to become such a good sniper? and what advice would you give to someone to improve their AWP game?

Aside from death-matching a lot to make sure my aim is on point, I really think the only way to become a better sniper is to play with the gun a lot in practice and matches as only then will you be able to experience and learn how to play different situations and how to position yourself in the best way to hit shots.

If you could make any changes to the CS community, regarding the leagues, tournaments, gameplay, rules, etc, to make the game more successful and marketable worldwide, what would you change and why?

It's hard to say. I enjoy the game the way it is now, and the only tournament format that ever really appealed to me was when ESWC use to have one group stage, followed by another group stage, and then bracket play following that. I think that the more matches that teams get to play during large international tournaments the better.

Thank you for you time Scott, you are as always a gentleman and professional, any shout outs?

Yes, a special thanks to my teammates, the compLexity staff, Brittany, and of course our wonderful sponsors Creative, XFX, Qpad, and G8 clothing who make fantastic products and allow us to travel to great places and participate in something we love to do.