The Fnatic|Vo0 Interview

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He is known to most as the King of PainKiller, even with the new release of PK he managed to take the CPL Spain Qualifier this weekend, beating Fatal1ty in the finals. He has now won over $20,000 in PainKiller events, thats an impressive achievement in a scene so new. I was able to catch up with Vo0 before he departed for Turkey, there was a few more questions I had, but he was hard at work training for this event, hopefully he can answer them when he returns. Vo0 talks about his past gaming experiences and also somethings he expects for the future, here is a small snippet of the interview.


What is a normal day pre LAN event for Vo0?

All of my 3 events I attended I had a bootcamp one week before the event for a couple of days. At that bootcamp I just play for several hours a day, usually three to five. I just play 15 minutes matches and try to get the game down as good as possible.

If you could setup a Match of the Decade, obviously you would be in the final, but who would you have as your opponent?

Fatal1ty. Everytime we play eachother in Painkiller we have thrilling matches. I dare to say that both at CPL Summer and Winter both our matches were the best of the tournament.


Check out the full interview HERE (free registration required).

UK LAN Painkiller Tournament

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Moongames, based in Kettering in the UK, are running their next 48 hour event starting 1st April 2005.

As part of the LAN there will be a Painkiller 1v1 tournament, hosted on possibly the best network infrastructure you could imagine.

There is seating for about 60 players, however, these seats sell out quickly. The venue hosts a bar, food, big screens, and the best damn admins out there!!

Moongames is a multi-gaming LAN, with prizes for each of the tournaments.

More details can be found at http://www.moongames.co.uk/nextevent.asp

IRC #moongames on quakenet

There were over 100 signups for the last event, and over 40 people were dissappointed, don’t be one of them!!

Vo0 wins CPL Turkey Qualifier!

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Again Vo0 has proven that he is the best Painkiller player of the world. He has just won the grandfinal versus Fatal1ty in two rounds!

fnatic/Vo0 > Fatal1ty
sacred: 24-12
absinthe: 19-14

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CPL Turkey Qualifier: Day 2

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So far day two has had his share of upsets, bugs and overtimes. But dont worry, because Vo0 still hasnt lost a match, and is playing in the grand final.

Currently the tournament has been moved to another location due to problems with the venue. TsN cannot cast live from that location and will record the matches locally and upload them asap.

Semifinals:
fnatic/Vo0 > fnatic/Gellehsak

A match everybody was waiting for. It turned out to be an incredible tense first map, which needed four overtimes to decide the winner.

sacred: 18-16
absinthe: 22-15

stermyplay.uts > Fatal1ty

Both players playing pretty defensive, and no frags were made the first few minutes. Fatal1ty took the first round on psycho. After that stermy came back to win two maps and the match.

psycho: 4-8
sacred: 22-17
psycho: 17-14

Winner bracket final:
fnatic/Vo0 > stermyplay.uts

A match with a lot of problems, stermy and the server crashed six minutes into the game. At that point the score was 8-3 in favour of stermy. It was decided that the map would be continued with a 9 minuted timelimit. In these 9 minutes Vo0 managed to even up the score to 15-15 (8-3 + 7-12). Because the server score at that point was 12-7 the game did not go into overtime.
Instead of restarting the server with a 2 minute timelimit, they replayed the map with a 15 minuted timelimit. Vo0 took the map with 26 to 15.

psycho: 26-15
sacred: 14 – 21
sacred: 24 – 1

Lower bracket round 4:
estar*Ztrider > SK|SteLam

This match was quite an upset, Ztrider beating SteLam in two maps. The first map was incredibly exciting, going into double overtime, after which Ztrider won the map with 19 to 18.

psycho: 19-18
absinthe: 20-15

Lower bracket round 6:
Fatal1ty > estar*Ztrider

Painkiller showed us once again why we love it so much. After Ztrider lost the first map versus Fatal1ty with just 1 frag, he ran into the FPS bug in dm_psycho. With a very close score near the end of the map, the bug denied ztrider a couple of spawnfrags that wouldve won him the map, and wouldve given him the chance to play a third map.