WinOut

When you got your shot in SK.swe there had to have been some pressure on you since you were replacing a legend in SpawN and SK is a team with expectations of winning major tournaments.  Did you feel like the downsides of those circumstances like them being used to SpawN's playing style or there being such a short period of adjustment time is what prevented you from being successful?

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund:  It was kind of hard for to just jump in 2 weeks before the tournament and play really well and maybe go and win a big tournament.  Even if we did have a 2 week bootcamp to fix everything it's really hard for any team to just get one player and fix him to the team, their playstyle and just to take spawns spots and so on.  I don't really think I had a lot of pressure on me, or I didn't really feel like that at least but it was obvious there was some kind of pressure on me.

It seems like you're a player who needs to feel really at ease with his team-mates and his playing situation to be successful.  With all the different teams you've been in what is about fnatic that has made this the team where you've blossomed as a tournament player finally?

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund:  It's really a big thing to play in fnatic than in another team.  They have great personalities and they are open to new people in the team even when they had played with ins and archi for a long time (2 years!).  I think it was good for both gux and I to join the team the same time.  I think we would have had more pressure on ourselves if he joined the team alone or I had.

With your time in NiP and SK your name has always been one brought up in rumours of teams recruiting new players.  Your current team-mate Gux, however, seems to have flown pretty low under the radar internationally and may have surprised some when he was announced as one of the new fnatic players.  What are your thoughts on that?

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund:  I think Rasmus is a nice guy, he has awesome skills and I thought everyone knew before of his skills.  I have seen him before do stuff that I can't even do (most of them is "rAsMustuR" as I call them :P) So I thought he had an even bigger chance than me to get into fnatic when everyone was talking about them changing the line-up.

With so many veterans at the top in CS it seems as though their CS activity goes by how well they are doing placement wise, so they practice a lot when they are doing well and lose a little interest when they are underperforming.  The public perception of GeT_RiGhT though is that he practices CS a lot every day.  How true is that perception and do you worry about getting burned out from playing too much?

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund:  I think that's true, yes.  But I'm not really worried about getting burned out or retiring for a long time.  I will stay on the scene till it die or I'm getting tired of it... but I'm not really feeling like that right now!

Your style of play is that of the big numbers fragging aim-based player who outskills his opponent thanks to confidence in his abilities.  Despite that being a style so many fans and young players try to emulate it seems like it's taken for granted now that there is only one, two at most, of those kinds of players in any great CS team.  Yet in fnatic you seem to have become vastly successful in spite of going against the grain of that common wisdom.  Can you think of any other top team in CS history who were able to win major tournaments and had as many of those type of aggressive, aim-heavy players in one team?  What do you think it about fnatic's approach which allows that setup to work?

Christopher "GeT_RiGhT" Alesund:  I can't figure out any other team that had that so I guess we are the first.  It has always been said that you only need one "madfragger" max two, one sniper, two backup and one in-game [leader] so I guess we are the first one without that kind of line-up.

We have tactics of course, but I think we have only "simple" things and not really any hard ones where you need good flashes and so on.  We've got our things and we know about the other team, what they are doin' and we are trying to figure out what we should do to own them.