WinOut

fnatic superstar GeT_RiGht is 19 and comes from Spånga in Sweden.  Earlier in his career he played with Begrip.swe, NiP and SK.swe most notably.  Prior to joining fnatic his CS resume had few impressive placings but in the space of half a year with the Swedish titans he has racked up 4 major event wins.  Playing in the mix team lemondogs he also just beat SK.swe at DreamHack.  I asked him about his journey to the top within Sweden, his team-mates and the teams they are battling at every tournament.

As a member of Begrip.swe you were in a team which made waves with some upsets and collectively you all seemed to be on the verge of making it to the top of the Swedish CS scene, yourself in particular as you were considered one of the stars of the team.  How do you look back on that time in your career and are your good memories at all soured by knowing the disappointments you went through when you left to join NiP and rather than things continuining on to a higher level they kind of fizzled out?

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund:  My time in Begrip was about "improving" my skill level as a player and how to become a really good player.  Our team, Begrip, was when I think of it more of a surprise team that can take down a really high level team one day and another day flop with a 0-16 loss.  My best memory of the team is about the friendship we had with all the players, which in other teams isn't the same.  When I left Begrip for NiP, it was a great feelin' for me just to step up my skill level and improve even more than I did in Begrip but it was even more harder to me to leave them, because of the friendship we had in the team.  I think the "great feelin'" I did have, disappeared pretty fast after the company went bankrupt and walle/tentpole joined SK.

How did you take such a big setback after being so close to achieving one of your goals only to find yourself back at the previous step?  Do you feel like you were 100% ready to become a top tier player at the time or did you need more time to adjust to that level?

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund:  I think everything that has happened with all the teams and so on was only good for me.  I have grown as a player and as a human to understand things better.  It looks like it was good for me to grow as a player, get hurt and so on.  But back in that time I think I was more disapointed about how everything was and I was close to joining my old team EYE (Begrip as they were called after I left) beacuse of everything that happened in NiP, so I guess I wasn't really 100% ready to become a "pro-player" at that time.

When you first joined SK bds made the statement that the starting line-up would work akin to a football team so you would be putting pressure on the players to perform else you could take their place essentially.  That didn't really seem to happen as they left you on the bench, so to speak.  What did you think of that bizarre situation and do you think SK should have handled things differently and either offered you a starting spot or let you find another team?

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund:  I think the team back then was a really good team and I don't think it would have been good for me to just take some place and play with them.  So I guess it was better for me as player to grow and to leave the team and get experience by myself and become better.  I think I did grow a bit, I was most of the time in the it-cafe inferno online talking with budak a lot and knew he was behind me a lot and saw some part of me grow and get better even when I didn't play with the team.

The MYM team you were a part of seemed like an experiment with potential thanks to its established Norwegian core and hungry young players like you and face.  Did you feel like that was a team which could have done big things and how did you feel about the way that opportunity fell apart?  Also how was to play with a big name player like REAL and how does he compare to some of the other great players you've played alongside?

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund:  I think we had a big chance to hit the international level in tournaments, but it was sad when MYM let the team go after some disappointing results on the national level.  I don't really think it was so frustrating to go back to SK, mostly because I did know when we were at DreamHack (we were supposed to attend DHW07 with the MYM line-up) that we were going to get kicked from the organization because of the bad result and REAL being in the hospital.

REAL is a nice guy and a good player too, so it was nice to have a such a good player on the team but I don't think he was really that good to compare with the players I'm playing with now because of different playstyles and so on.