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Hello Joel, for the start let's talk a little bit about your personal life.
Tell us something about whats going on in your life at this moment besides gaming?
Hello everyone! I have started working in full time job for a year and half ago.
At the moment my workplace is a Bank in Portugal and i am working as Web Developer in a temporary project there, the bank is known for the Portuguese fellows as BPI. Anyway i am employee from Lusodata.
Please describe a normal day from your real life ...
Currently wake up early in the morning and go to the Bank. Like to give a walk by Lisbon, for me a city that everyone should visit :) In the evening, the normal, take the dinner with my parents, and go a little bit to Computer to check how things are in the esports, ESL and Excello before sleep.
Do you have any idols? In your life and in the esport world?
No idols i guess, but God is special :) In eSports i consider Team Excello my idols ;)
When and where were you born?
I was born in Lisbon in 12th September 1984.
Tell us something about your family. How big is it, do you have any brothers
and sisters?
Have one brother, who got married in last year. I am living now only with my parents.
Talking about some special memories, do you remember your first love? What's
her name and how did you meet her?
Always have few good memories from past about it. The details i take it very personal and save them for me as i am a bit shy hehe.
Nowadays do you have any serious relations?
Nop, no girlfriend.
What's the best place you have been to in your life, anywhere else that you
would like to go?
Besides Portugal because i love the South and of course Lisbon, my special place, I have been in Spain in few occasions. In future, i am wishing to visit countries like USA or Japan
or even Australia.
Ok, skipping now to the esport world. When did you got your first contact
with the fifa scene?
It was in 2002. In that time, i had internet in home and started to play
FIFA with school friends.
There are some special moments from that time? Any great match or maybe a
person that you remember?
Well, all moments were special, i was really addicted to FIFA and always
had fun with it.
What is the story behind your nickname?
My former nickname until 2005 was Blandus, that means something like
'nice' in romans time Latin language. Then some time has passed and my nickname was stolen.
Meanwhile as i always have listened, from high school times ,some Punk Rock,
i chose NoFx to be my new nickname as it was one of the shortest ones from a band name.
How did you begin to play fifa and what was it that convinced you to begin
to play this game professionally?
With friends in the beginning. Then i started on finding more interest on it
and used the IRC and FIFA communities websites to start playing online with more people.
But before you joined Excello, at what teams had you performed? Your gaming history...
Well, in 2002 and beginning of 2003 the clan scene in Portugal did not exist. I remember to start my team career founding, managing and also playing in Beat All in 2004. In that time i
never imagined that i could have passed by this and would become one of favorites hobbies. Today i am proud that i have been managing a team where we had players like Dignitas/Istvan or rC|Delfin1 and most recently cOL|KreeganBG.
In what position would you place your team in your country and what other
teams are there?
Excello in the beginning was Portuguese based and we won two EMS Portuguese
Qualifiers. I think we were one of the best as well as mindhack, and in last
tournament eXnet. Now that we are European based i consider my team as one of the best as in last
2 EMS seasons only few teams could have reached the Top 8 in a row, like us, SK-Gaming or Team NoA
did.
What do you think is more important in a clan, the individual skill or the
team work?
Team work undoubtedly. One player only can contribute with 4 points in a clan war.
We need 11 points at least to win it. The group spirit is important for each player can
improving their skills and also the confidence when playing. With this players in
the menu i think the team gets stronger easily.
Do you have many LAN/tournaments in Portugal? Could you tell us a bit about
that and the name of those?
Not so many as i wished. Currently we have the XL Party with the WGT PC FIFA Tournament
3 in 3 months with good prizes. Occasionally the Lan House Mindzone hosts 1 or 2 tournaments per season. The other chance and also probably the last one is to play in World Cyber Games.
I wished more.
Tell us something about the gaming scene in Portugal, how the things grow up
in the last years and what do you think is still missing to the Portuguese eSports in general, to really evolve?
I think things are going well but far from the other countries. Portugal has mainly
good talents in football games. Also in UT, Quake, CS, on this last one we had recently great scores in Spanish tournaments. I hope in the future Portugal will have better days and could be
spoken more in the eSports world scene. Maybe more sponsors, maybe more Lan competition
inside the communities, more great Portuguese base multi gaming organizations.
As you know i am only directly concerned with FIFA and at the moment i consider we are a respectable country in this scene but i wish more and i hope we could do more in the upcoming times and upcoming games.
Beside your position in the Excello organization you are an ESL Admin too. How are the things going in the fifa ladders?
ESL has been great for the community. Everyday we have been finding players from all countries.
We have more than 1000 players in the ladders and if the connections between different countries were better, i believe we could have players from America, because they know ESL but don't play there due those understandable reasons
If you could change something in the community of Fifa players, what would you like to change and why would you do that?
At the moment the community is stable and the most known teams respect one each other.
Sometimes good connection has been the reason for matches quit, etc. Players get nervous
and insults start. I think on internet, things should run better so i wished firstly a better connection and then a better mentality from some players. Insults are not a solution for nothing.
With the new fifa version from 2008, will start the ESL Major Series too
qualifiers very soon. How many countries do you think will be involved in this competition, and please talk a little bit about the tournament structure.
I am expecting 9 countries, at least the same amount from last season.
Unfortunately there are more countries where there are players but the clan scene does not exist. Others, the ESL Section is not so active.
Anyway we have some new ESL sections interested in host the qualifiers. Examples are Bulgaria and Italy. I hope these countries could start their way in the clan scene.
The tournament structure is not really defined yet. Anyway the best chance is to keep the same one:
2 group stages and a playoff.
This winter Excello and Fox conn started a fifa tournament, with 8 online
qualifiers and a lot of great prizes. Explain to us and to our readers something about the cup.
This is a new step for the FIFA Community, Excello and Fox conn. At the moment we thought in the idea of having a lot of qualifiers. So the season will take at least two months, and all the players have the chance to win Fox conn products in the weekends. A note for the community is that we are making bets calling and expecting players from Scandinavian scene, the minor FIFA scenes as you know. This is our way of defining excellence.
Make a short comparation between Fifa2007 and Fifa2008, with some advantages and disadvantages.
Personally i had few time to play FIFA 2008 yet. Once again it seems there are some major bugs in the game that all the community did not appreciate. Anyway, thanks to Lupus work and some few persons, things will be back to normal. Every year i expect improvements so thumbs up for the FIFA 08 :)
If you would have the possibility to create an all star fifa team would be the line-up?
Cool question, yes let me be like Jose Mourinho now heheheh I won't pick up players from my current team because they are the excello stars so:
Hero
Mario
KreeganBG
Delfin
Walkman
In the end of the interview I want to thank you for your time and answers.
Any last words?
Thanks for the interview and wish best of luck to you mainly and SK.
Let me remember that teamexcello.com is defining excellence and thanks all the support from
the organization and its sponsors as well. Regards to the others :)
Tell us something about whats going on in your life at this moment besides gaming?
Hello everyone! I have started working in full time job for a year and half ago.
At the moment my workplace is a Bank in Portugal and i am working as Web Developer in a temporary project there, the bank is known for the Portuguese fellows as BPI. Anyway i am employee from Lusodata.
Please describe a normal day from your real life ...
Currently wake up early in the morning and go to the Bank. Like to give a walk by Lisbon, for me a city that everyone should visit :) In the evening, the normal, take the dinner with my parents, and go a little bit to Computer to check how things are in the esports, ESL and Excello before sleep.
Do you have any idols? In your life and in the esport world?
No idols i guess, but God is special :) In eSports i consider Team Excello my idols ;)
When and where were you born?
I was born in Lisbon in 12th September 1984.
Tell us something about your family. How big is it, do you have any brothers
and sisters?
Have one brother, who got married in last year. I am living now only with my parents.
Talking about some special memories, do you remember your first love? What's
her name and how did you meet her?
Always have few good memories from past about it. The details i take it very personal and save them for me as i am a bit shy hehe.
Nowadays do you have any serious relations?
Nop, no girlfriend.
"Today i am proud that i have been managing a team where we had players
like Dignitas/Istvan or rC|Delfin1 and most recently cOL|KreeganBG."
like Dignitas/Istvan or rC|Delfin1 and most recently cOL|KreeganBG."
What's the best place you have been to in your life, anywhere else that you
would like to go?
Besides Portugal because i love the South and of course Lisbon, my special place, I have been in Spain in few occasions. In future, i am wishing to visit countries like USA or Japan
or even Australia.
Ok, skipping now to the esport world. When did you got your first contact
with the fifa scene?
It was in 2002. In that time, i had internet in home and started to play
FIFA with school friends.
There are some special moments from that time? Any great match or maybe a
person that you remember?
Well, all moments were special, i was really addicted to FIFA and always
had fun with it.
What is the story behind your nickname?
My former nickname until 2005 was Blandus, that means something like
'nice' in romans time Latin language. Then some time has passed and my nickname was stolen.
Meanwhile as i always have listened, from high school times ,some Punk Rock,
i chose NoFx to be my new nickname as it was one of the shortest ones from a band name.
How did you begin to play fifa and what was it that convinced you to begin
to play this game professionally?
With friends in the beginning. Then i started on finding more interest on it
and used the IRC and FIFA communities websites to start playing online with more people.
But before you joined Excello, at what teams had you performed? Your gaming history...
Well, in 2002 and beginning of 2003 the clan scene in Portugal did not exist. I remember to start my team career founding, managing and also playing in Beat All in 2004. In that time i
never imagined that i could have passed by this and would become one of favorites hobbies. Today i am proud that i have been managing a team where we had players like Dignitas/Istvan or rC|Delfin1 and most recently cOL|KreeganBG.
"I hope in the future Portugal will have better days and could be
spoken more in the eSports world scene. Maybe more sponsors, maybe more Lan competition
inside the communities, more great Portuguese base multi gaming organizations. As you know i am only directly concerned with FIFA and at the moment i consider we are a respectable country in this scene but i wish more and i hope we could do more in the upcoming times and upcoming games"
spoken more in the eSports world scene. Maybe more sponsors, maybe more Lan competition
inside the communities, more great Portuguese base multi gaming organizations. As you know i am only directly concerned with FIFA and at the moment i consider we are a respectable country in this scene but i wish more and i hope we could do more in the upcoming times and upcoming games"
In what position would you place your team in your country and what other
teams are there?
Excello in the beginning was Portuguese based and we won two EMS Portuguese
Qualifiers. I think we were one of the best as well as mindhack, and in last
tournament eXnet. Now that we are European based i consider my team as one of the best as in last
2 EMS seasons only few teams could have reached the Top 8 in a row, like us, SK-Gaming or Team NoA
did.
What do you think is more important in a clan, the individual skill or the
team work?
Team work undoubtedly. One player only can contribute with 4 points in a clan war.
We need 11 points at least to win it. The group spirit is important for each player can
improving their skills and also the confidence when playing. With this players in
the menu i think the team gets stronger easily.
Do you have many LAN/tournaments in Portugal? Could you tell us a bit about
that and the name of those?
Not so many as i wished. Currently we have the XL Party with the WGT PC FIFA Tournament
3 in 3 months with good prizes. Occasionally the Lan House Mindzone hosts 1 or 2 tournaments per season. The other chance and also probably the last one is to play in World Cyber Games.
I wished more.
Tell us something about the gaming scene in Portugal, how the things grow up
in the last years and what do you think is still missing to the Portuguese eSports in general, to really evolve?
I think things are going well but far from the other countries. Portugal has mainly
good talents in football games. Also in UT, Quake, CS, on this last one we had recently great scores in Spanish tournaments. I hope in the future Portugal will have better days and could be
spoken more in the eSports world scene. Maybe more sponsors, maybe more Lan competition
inside the communities, more great Portuguese base multi gaming organizations.
As you know i am only directly concerned with FIFA and at the moment i consider we are a respectable country in this scene but i wish more and i hope we could do more in the upcoming times and upcoming games.
"We have more than 1000 players in the ladders and if the connections between different countries were better, i believe we could have players from America, because they know ESL but don't play there due those understandable reasons."
Beside your position in the Excello organization you are an ESL Admin too. How are the things going in the fifa ladders?
ESL has been great for the community. Everyday we have been finding players from all countries.
We have more than 1000 players in the ladders and if the connections between different countries were better, i believe we could have players from America, because they know ESL but don't play there due those understandable reasons
If you could change something in the community of Fifa players, what would you like to change and why would you do that?
At the moment the community is stable and the most known teams respect one each other.
Sometimes good connection has been the reason for matches quit, etc. Players get nervous
and insults start. I think on internet, things should run better so i wished firstly a better connection and then a better mentality from some players. Insults are not a solution for nothing.
With the new fifa version from 2008, will start the ESL Major Series too
qualifiers very soon. How many countries do you think will be involved in this competition, and please talk a little bit about the tournament structure.
I am expecting 9 countries, at least the same amount from last season.
Unfortunately there are more countries where there are players but the clan scene does not exist. Others, the ESL Section is not so active.
Anyway we have some new ESL sections interested in host the qualifiers. Examples are Bulgaria and Italy. I hope these countries could start their way in the clan scene.
The tournament structure is not really defined yet. Anyway the best chance is to keep the same one:
2 group stages and a playoff.
This winter Excello and Fox conn started a fifa tournament, with 8 online
qualifiers and a lot of great prizes. Explain to us and to our readers something about the cup.
This is a new step for the FIFA Community, Excello and Fox conn. At the moment we thought in the idea of having a lot of qualifiers. So the season will take at least two months, and all the players have the chance to win Fox conn products in the weekends. A note for the community is that we are making bets calling and expecting players from Scandinavian scene, the minor FIFA scenes as you know. This is our way of defining excellence.
Make a short comparation between Fifa2007 and Fifa2008, with some advantages and disadvantages.
Personally i had few time to play FIFA 2008 yet. Once again it seems there are some major bugs in the game that all the community did not appreciate. Anyway, thanks to Lupus work and some few persons, things will be back to normal. Every year i expect improvements so thumbs up for the FIFA 08 :)
If you would have the possibility to create an all star fifa team would be the line-up?
Cool question, yes let me be like Jose Mourinho now heheheh I won't pick up players from my current team because they are the excello stars so:
Hero
Mario
KreeganBG
Delfin
Walkman
In the end of the interview I want to thank you for your time and answers.
Any last words?
Thanks for the interview and wish best of luck to you mainly and SK.
Let me remember that teamexcello.com is defining excellence and thanks all the support from
the organization and its sponsors as well. Regards to the others :)
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