Team Estonia
Previous Captains:
NC XIII: 
Allen
NC XIV: Raul
Previous Achievements:
NC XIII: 
NC XIV: Loser bracket round 3 (elimination by
The Netherlands)
This Year's Applicants:
Sinnu- Entry:[quote]Well motivated, I have played for the Estonian team 3 times. Won once. Should know all the best players.
Thanks.
[/quote] - Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: Hello. My name is Severi " Sinnu " S., I'm 20 years old and I live in a city called Tartu in Estonia. I'm studying psychology and English in the University of Tartu. Been playing ET for ages, around 5 years or so.
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: I think I'm the best man for the job because I have played NationsCup in Team-Estonia thrice now, even won once. I know all the best players that this amazing country has to offer and I mostly get along great with all of them. I'm also driven and motivated to lead us as far as possible.
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: Well, to be honest, I've spoken to some players of Estonia all ready, not mentioning any names ( mant), and well, I kind of have an idea of which players the team should consist of. I could get almost all of them, not only Reload, since he isn't playing any more.
Q: Would you mind giving us a sneak-peak in your cards and give us this line-up? (including backups)
A: I wouldn't like to give anything away just yet, since I might not even be the captain. I would only like to share with you that my lineup will include a player like Mr. Enemy Territory. I would also like to point out that our strongest hand, which has been all ready been played once, is our backup nordaN.
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: My goal is to take this team sky high. We're going to go as far as we can and we're not going to be stopped easily. NationsCup play-offs - here we come. - Shoutout to mant, freeze, raul, nait, all, hell, bff, yench, subbi, jyrkz, sh1zzle, stib, h3lix, joshua and dAAaaaF (read: dave).
Edgar- Entry:[quote]Just because I am Edgar. The most known Estonian person in ET and in real life for all his different aspects.[/quote]
- Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: I am a 22 years young student who likes to party a lot. People from the community most likely know me from playing with "cheater" 
crod and for just being lame.
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: I think I am well known in Estonian scene, been on different ee-lans and pwning squad.ee guys there (though lost all except one where we were playing 6on6 together).
Got contacts online and offline with the key players from the scene. I actually don't think I'd bring in new talent since there actually isn't any, but we'll see.
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: Haven't contacted any yet, since the voting is still to be taken and I can't be 100% sure I'll be captain after all. The line-up should be obvious already, though I'd make some changes compared to the previous NC's. (just to say, I do have line-up in mind, but I'd skip that part for the future ;))
Q: Would you mind giving us a sneak-peak in your cards and give us this line-up? (including backups)
A: It should of course include Night and perhaps Anderson (if he got the time and interest to represent his nation).
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: Obviously to win NC.
JyrkZ- Entry:[quote]I know all the players, played before in NC. Would be fun to be captain.
JyrkZ[/quote] - Q&A:
I haven't heard back from this player yet.
Conclusion:
At first sight it looks like
Sinnu is the right man for the job. However
JyrkZ only applied late and has thus had less time to check his inbox. So I'm waiting on his reply to finalise my opinion on who might be the best pick for
Estonia.
Team Finland
Previous Captains:
NC XIII: ENSJAM
NC XIV: ENSJAM
Previous Achievements:
NC XIII: 
NC XIV:
This Year's Applicants:
twidi- Entry:[quote]I'll finally get a proper connection at the beginning of next year (just in time for NC!) so I'll be able to play ET again.
Why should I be the captain?
- I'm one of the most experienced Finnish ET players left playing the game.
- I have previously presented Finland in several tournaments (NC/WC/All-star) and also been the captain once or twice before.
- Although I haven't been playing that actively for a while I still have a pretty good knowledge of the current Finnish ET scene and thus know who to ask for the team.
- I have played tons of tournaments organized by CB and mostly been responsible for my teams so I know the rules and how the system works. This should help the team avoid getting any unnecessary cards/forfeits!
[/quote] - Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: I'm a 22 year old fella from Finland (obviously). I've been around almost since the beginning as I started playing ET about 4-5 months after the release. During my time with ET I've played for such clans as murso, Insignia Cadre, vicious & evil and YoYoTech. I've also played at several different LANs (CPC1, CDC4, CC5 and CIC7), represented Finland in both Nations Cup and World Cup and represented Scandinavia in the European All-stars tournament twice.
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: I think that I should be selected as the captain because I'm the most experienced candidate as I've been playing on the top level for years already. I know how to fit the right players into the right roles/positions, have vast tactical knowledge and can also do the in-game leading. Also I'm in good terms with all the Finnish top players and should be able to gather the best possible team to represent Finland.
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: I have a good idea of what my ideal lineup would be and who are the next in line in case some of the players I would've wanted aren't available. I don't think that there are any top players who would say no to me just because I'm the captain.
Q: Would you mind giving us a sneak-peak in your cards and give us this line-up? (including backups)
A: Sorry, but as I've not been selected as the captain yet, I've not been in contact with any of the players yet. So I will not be able to give out any details of the lineup at this point as the only thing I have is a list of players who I'm going to ask for the team.
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: As I said my aim is to get the best possible lineup and the goal of the team will obviously be to win the tournament.
Swanidius- Entry:[quote]Why should I be the captain?
- I'm one of the most experienced Finnish ET players left playing the game.
- I have a pretty good knowledge of the current Finnish ET scene and thus know who to ask for the team.
- I have played tons of tournaments organized by CB and mostly been responsible for my teams so I know the rules and how the system works. This should help the team avoid getting any unnecessary cards/forfeits!
- Finland trust on me!
- Got lot of time to organize this stuff
[/quote] - Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: Playing this game for 7 years now. Got many fakenicks in the past but my 1st gaming nick was kirurG1 and -=SVV=- my 1st clan. They recruited me from public instead of TheDevil69 known as Squall these days. This was all you need to know about me.
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: Best man after twidi. I think he is the best option for captain only if he gets proper internet. I would build team finland from players who are still active and owning. And yes I know who they are.
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: Yes and Yes
Q: Would you mind giving us a sneak-peak in your cards and give us this line-up? (including backups)
A: Squall,x,x,x,x,x,x,mystic
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: winning the NC ofc
Pliisikoira- Entry:[quote]koska olen ainakin parempi kuin kumpikaan noista ylhäällä mainituista tai ainaki parempi kuin swani. ja erittäin olen kokenut pelaaja nuoreen ikääni nähden ja ammun +100 päätä puplikil 30 minuuttiin. kiitos jo etukäteen äänestäneille ja tiimiin voi kysyä sitten kun kirjoittaa tuonne IRC kiin että /q poliisi-koira tai jotain vastaavaa ja kysyy että pääseekö tiimiin mutta ei välttämättä pääse[/quote]
- Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: I'm poliisikoira from finland . i have played ET more than 6 years
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: because i am good info and can carry my team
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: Yes, I've contacted mystic and he might return for this NC
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: all the way to the finals and pick up the golden pocal!
LORDI- Entry:[quote]I would pick only very skilled players to the team and lead them to victory with nice results. If you want to see Finland winning this NC with fantastic line up consisting of young blood and old-school pwners then I am the right choice. I have leaded Team Finland 2.55 twice with great success (2nd in 2010), enough said?
BOOTS TO ASSES[/quote] - Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: I'm 17 years old full-time ET player from Finland. Crowned as the king of 2.55 some years ago. I like to beat up [flag=spede]Sankari in my spare time.
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: First of all, I wouldn't play myself. I'd just gather a good line up consisting of young blood and old-school pwners like I've said in the NC application. I'd be the match arranger and mental supporter for Finland, and I think I've good knowledge of the current Finnish scene so it will be quite easy to pick very skilled players to the team. I don't think other captain candidates have as much motivation as I have for this job.
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: No.
Q: Would you mind giving us a sneak-peak in your cards and give us this line-up? (including backups)
A: Pergament
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: I didn't announce my Finnish dream team yet but I can say my goal is to make it to the final and I'm quite sure you will see Finland there. Doesn't matter who will be the captain because Finland will have a strong line-up anyways.
Conclusion:
I think this one will be pretty straight forward. In my opinion
twidi has the best chance to become this years captain for
Finland since he's clearly the most experienced (imo).
Team France
Previous Captains:
NC XIII: 
HoreK
NC XIV: emoReJ.
Previous Achievements:
NC XIII: Loser bracket quarter finals (elimination by
Estonia)
NC XIV: Loser bracket round 3 (elimination by
The United Kingdom)
This Year's Applicants:
An7ho- Entry:[quote]Due to the lack of availability of some of the former players and the captain of the old team France, I'm applying for the job of captain in order to bring my experience to this team.
During the last NationsCup, I was given the opportunity to join as player and now I'd like to continue this experience as captain. I will do my best to represent the values of France and keep up the good work undertaken by the last captain in order to provide the team with the best results possible
[/quote] - Q&A:
Q: Can you introduce yourself for the players that are rather new to the scene?
A: My name is Fabien "An7ho" M. I’m 22 years old and I've been playing ET for about 5 years. I used to play OC Premiere for a couple of seasons & played last EC with mCon. I stopped to work few days ago & I'm looking for a new one atm
Q: Why do you think you are the best man for the job?
A: You just have to read my application on Clanbase : "Due to the lack of availability of some of the former players and the captain of the old team France, I'm applying for the job of captain in order to bring my experience to this team.
During the last NationsCup, I was given the opportunity to join as player and now I'd like to continue this experience as captain. I will do my best to represent the values of France and keep up the good work undertaken by the last captain in order to provide the team with the best results possible".
Q: Do you already have a line-up in mind and will you be able to get the people you want?
A: Of course I have a lineup in my mind but I'm not sure about 1/2 players. We have to play together before the beginning of the competition to see who’s going to fill these positions. Like I said to the French community, I'll add 2 or 3 new players for the NC.
Q: Would you mind giving us a sneak-peak in your cards and give us this line-up? (including backups)
A: So I'm pretty sure about 4 players including myself but there are 2 free spots because we have to replace emorej & maxuh who aren't available for the tournament. So, you’ll have to wait till the beginning of the competition to check our roster.
Q: What is your goal with this team and how far do you think you can go with this line-up?
A: The main goal is to reach TOP5 of course but if we can make the same results as last edition, it will be great too. I know it will be hard due to some strong opponents like Finland, Belgium & some others but I'm sure we'll make our best to represent our country.
Conclusion:
An7ho is certain of his captaincy for this season's NationsCup and I'm confident he'll do a good job. However I'ld like to mention that
SIMOON tried to create his own team under that banner of
Team Bahrain. I suspect he didn't see his chances high enough to run for the captaincy for
Team France. This application was however removed. ( I suspect since he played NC before for
France making it impossible to play for another country)
Grtz, psy
not at cf and not at cb
Here on crossfire you're are apparently named differently so that is why I didn't find you (quebra-tolas at CB). Feel free to answer the questions in a pm. They can be found on all 9 pages. There's no need to get angry with me here :s
btw before page 10:HATER
Hoe is men West-Vlaams?
Nice try
got some invites, but dunno what to choose :p
obvious win for Basty!
Aber dann mach mal gewinnen tun hier!
awsome job man !
You couldn't be arsed to verify whether all applies had a common sense (people applying for other countries).
Lol....The only words worth writing that this guy is a fucking joke, nothing else.
:XD
So, Simoon's apply doesn't seem to be a troll for you but Kamz does? :XD I'd like to remind you that Kamz was already the UK captain.
Overall, if you want to contribute, do some PROPER research next time.
Also, I don't like the layout but that's a subjective feeling.
I've tried my best finding out most obvious trolls. That's why SIMOON's application was removed alongside with some others before the votes were opened. The ones that are still in there are the ones that were allowed by ClanBase. I've based my article on the votes allowed by ClanBase so don't shoot me for the mistakes still in there. (referring to for example
And about the conclusions I wish to remind you that I've stated in my intro that these are my personal views. I didn't pick
Doesn't matter. You are here as a journalist. So provide proper information for your readers instead of asking them for correcting your mistakes.
Does a team captain need to play? Besides, if you want to go deeper by writing "Even his application on clanbase states he's trolling" - maybe that's a troll statement (and thus a serious apply?) You never know with Kamz +D
I know those are your conclusions, I was just laughing at your opinion about team PL capt. So basically, what pros and cons do you see @ dizel and dialer and why would you pick dizel over dialer? I'm just curious how did you make that pick.
Furthermore, as someone stated, you could've mentioned nations that played last NC but did not have a single applicant.
I'm not saying that it's perfect job, but you're being way too harsh here. There are/were some mistakes and some parts of the text could've been written in a better way, but you can't really argue about his personal opinions (you could argue about whether they belong to this type of article or not, though).
I would say that this article offers a good amount of necessary information for the voters and gives a good overall look of all the captain candidates. Interviews had good questions and the article included answers from most of the major candidates. I personally think that the format is decent. Of course it could've been better and more stylish like everything can, but atleast it was clear and simple.
Atleast I enjoy reading this type of articles and we don't have too many active contributors around here.. I guess you have some grudge against P5Y, because otherwise I can't really understand your comment
1. Mentioning SIMOON applying for Bahrain was pointless as it obviously was a troll, but there was a mention that the application was removed for the reason that SIMOON has previously played for France.
2. About Kamz.. best way to handle it would've probably to ask him for the answers and speculate the trolling part as a personal opinion, but taking a look at Kamz's original application I think that it's just fine to not take it as a serious application.
3. Some mix-ups with player names and NC/EC
I don't think that there were any major mistakes that disrupted my reading experience. How ever the writer could've gone through the text a bit more carefully to find the smaller mistakes. Of course the texts are always more enjoyable to read when there are no spelling mistakes and all the facts are correct.
What comes to the feedback, of course it is by far more useful to post your opinions and point out the parts you liked or disliked and why than just post a generic response like "good job". Constructive criticism is very important and writers should appreciate it a lot. I just don't think that you really succeeded in giving it by just pointing out those 3 parts in your original reply without giving any hint as to what's really wrong with them and how to improve. Also one of those pointed out parts was his personal opinion about the best candidate for Poland based on the information/answers provided by candidates and you can't really criticize him for that.
Do you really see these as proper feedback for the writer to improve for the next contribution? (I know that you explained them a bit further in your next reply, but you could've already done it in the original reply in a more respectable way)
Besides, I wrote my comment in paragraphs. Some parts refered to mistakes but some (eg. team-PL one) refered to opinion with which I disagree and comment in a way I did.
humM3L's case is different as he has presented Russia in previous tournaments. I'd say that everyone who has been following top level ET closely knows that and the information is easily available (unlike possible second nationality in case of hvk and IceQ). This mistake should've been noticed by both CB and writer of the article in my opinion.
I already said my opinion about Kamz's application and yeah, I have to agree that the part about SIMOON wasn't written well at all and it shouldn't have been included in the article.
I've discussed the situation of hummel before the votes were finalised but he was allowed to enter the world cup for germany when clanbase nc didn't take place and it was cf world cup or smth and now he's allowed to play for germany since then. If you want a better explenation ask the admins...
Also I feel a bit offended that you quoted my text as it would've been written by tornis :D
I don't know of the rules changed for this nationcup, but afaik zerender and hummel or even fireball have tried it before and they couldn't make it because rules were clear: once you play for 1 nation, you can't play for anyother nation anymore.
but in ET at first i tought it was same rules, but i think some russian ( hummer? zerender ? ) played for russia & also germany, its better to not change country, better if its not allowed.
:o
cheers
but if you're able to give criticism you should as well say what's good about the work and not only what's bad.
Lately i don't see much active journalists around here. Even EC was totally fucked when it comes to coverage untill baggiez wrote a newspost about the final...
Looking at it this way i think we should be thankfull for the work P5Y did here.
And ofcourse it can still improve but then that's for the next time as i think the consept is realy good to start with imo
Its not his fault he doesnt know every single applicant and that CB lets them apply even though they have no relation to that country. If you want to point fingers, point fingers at CB for implementing a ridiculous system that allows non members to apply.
As for your "criticism" on his personal opinions about captains picks, as he said it is of his own opinions concluded from the interviews he conducted.
He obviously spent a hell of a long time doing this article and putting aside CB's fuckups and his own opinions, then it was a great job. Most ppl didnt even know who had applied for their own country.
Your post wasnt critical, it was pointless.
I've been critical over mistakes. At opinions - everyone has it's own but I can comment it in any way I want to. If I totally disagree, I can laugh, cry, whatever and it doesn't need to be presented in a sophisticated way. So no, it wasn't criticism @ opinions, but it definitely was @ meritorical mistakes.
And don't call me a prick if I judged someone's work negatively.
he's became one of us!
EDiT: Robin Hood "Directors Cut" on Sky Cinema HD awweeee
as argument for ignoring his application
japan and who also left?
Thank you :-)
Found a small mistake:
http://www.crossfire.nu/?x=article&mode=item&id=272&p=2
Should be "NC" instead of "EC", shouldn't it? :-)
I'd have used enter a bit more tho :)
and
at "Previous Achievements" for USA.
but thumbs up for actually putting something like this together
makes it easier for us and is definately better than working yourself through this horrible FUCKING shit site called cb
Oh boy XDDDDDDDDDDD
Name Clan Game ICQ
abrakadabra hAbility - HIGH ABILITY
abrakadabra High Ability
abrakadabra Rainbow
abrakadabra sobotni MIX
abrakadabra specjalnoje naznaczenije
abrakadabra Yo! #contra.et
abrakadabra Yo! RIPAZHA
Atrje` FocuS!
Sprajt #dunno.et
Sprajt Bijemy Plebs
SprAjT blutSTURZ
SprAjT chakS
SprAjT Conspiration eSports
SprAjT Life-ending
SprAjT mindtouch Gaming
SprAjT nonpro-gaming
SprAjT some1s
SprAjT 1on1
SprAjT Team 4fun Digital Players
Sprajt Team Delvix ...
SprAjT Team Delvix NetGamers
Sprajt Team-Delvix
SprAjT unnoticeable
SprAjT venG gaming
Sprajt versus
SprAjT zajebisty team
sprAjtoslawny team-Serious
Spri7e duNNo
at least now the little kids get a chance to play since all the skilled Slovenian players have retired from ET \o
1. ping 250+
2. meth fail jump = no backup
3. rifle
4. RAMBO!!!11 ftw
The only reason he considers himself like this was cause he actually used hacks (and got busted) and thus could shoot decently.. but in no way could he ever beat the Codelust gang!
UPL <3
Not looking to start a fight or debate, just replying to this old comment for fun & clarification. What I said is the truth :) (and that's what most active 2.55 players from those times know to be true, by the way. The only ones accusing me of cheating for the whole time are mostly players that had already moved to .6b)
http://pastebin.com/W5vyk2NL
Though if you meant just missing countries which have participated NC in the past, I can't really be bothered to go through all the seasons, but atleast these countries came into my mind:
Italy
Spain
Latvia
Denmark
Ireland
Also I'd guess that atleast Slovakia, Greece, Lithuania and some other European countries have played in NC earlier
Thanks!
China, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Brazil, Kazakhstan applied at least once or more times :)
+ Marocco and Korea played 3o3 NC :)
wut, simoon team france?? :p
racist faggot
TALKING OFCOURSE ABOUT TEAM
No personal offence though.
gifted never thought u would be a cap :p
and xperia has a nice mindset