Den kanske mest intervjuade personen inom CoD4-scenen är fnatic\mintR. Även denna gången har L2W valt att sätta micen under hans mun och frågan som var mest intressant var väl egentligen om mintR hade kvar något kul att säga. Och tro de eller ej, men intervjun är faktiskt riktigt läsvärd. Den tar bl.a. upp hur mintR ser på CoD4 som e-Sport och satningen inför CDC4. Utöver detta får gamla CoD-rävar lite kul läsning om legenden kickR. Visste nu t.ex. att grabben är gift numera? mintR passar även på att utse till wnkr till bäste sprayern i CoD4.

Saxat ur intervjun:
"Q: Despite you have been very impressive in the early stage of COD4 winning the crossfireQcup vs the French side oXmoze, you have been knocked out of codQcup by eSuba, did the swap from SveaRoyale to Eyeballers and now Fnatic has affected your playing in some way?
A: Yes of course it has, finding yourself in a situation where all you have worked for suddenly crumbles beneath you doesn't work well for you. Then again joining fnatic gave us a really good boost, has to be said though that we didn't go into codqcup with main intent to win it but to see what new stuff we could come up with. We are preparing for cdc4 at the moment and the preparation comes before winning a cup online.

Q: In March you will attend CDC 4 in Enschede, fighting versus the finest teams from all over Europe, what's your objective for this major LAN event?
A: To win off course, a top3 is acceptable in my eyes but you never know with these events, I know nothing of what to expect down there to be honest but I really hope they have updated the hardware used at the event or it will be a bit tricky, we'll see. As long as we do our best and not go out with a bang and can learn from any mistakes and play our game we will do good and a failure won't be, too hard to take if we can look back on something like that.

Q: Which teams do you think have the possibility to win this tournament and why?
A: I See, serious gaming, tek9, oXmoze, eSuba, fnatic, Speedlink as really good contenders to the first place, all of them. It's a lot tighter at the top in this game, which is only good.

Q: Ofcourse Call of duty 4 hasn't been around long yet, but who is the best player you have fragged against on this game, and off course explain us why?
A: wnkr is the best player I have played against, one of my absolute favourites is tidde, but I haven't played against him. wnkr has such talent for spraying and has a really good eye for the game, In my eyes he's probably the best player in the game, even though he's in the army now.

Q: We have been dealing about your personal life and question related to gaming in call of duty 4, I'd like to have your thoughts about cod 4 and its step into eSports. In the competitive gaming scene, there's often trouble with multigaming organisation and team players, it is mostly due to lack of communication, professionalism between each parts, what do you think of the professionalism in the cod 4 scene?
A: Professionalism doesn't come free, you have to work for it, and I think that knowledge has got us to where we are today, in one of the top teams of the world. When it comes to COD4 in Esports I think COD4 needs a smash in the finer rooms of gaming, like ESWC and WCG in order to further promote the game, but with an unwilling part in Infinity Ward and Activision (although the later of the two actually have shown more interest than the first lately) to help promote it we are very slow doing what has to be done ourselves.

We are basically learning how to mod this game from scratch with every title they release, with every title they release they also promise us support for the competitive scene and at the end of every game we stand there with a great game that never got the chance because the changes have always come too late and not from an official partner. However, I remain positive about its future."

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