The FinlandGods.Inc side of last season caused what some saw as a significant upset by taking the third position ahead of teams like United Kingdom one4one and Spain wArning!. Now they're going back to their past and returning to the all Finnish Finland Negative Image lineup that was victorious in the Spring 2005 OpenCup. Without the problems of the language barriers from a mixed-nation team, and with a side which has proven teamplay Negative-Image are aiming to equal or better their success of EC XII.

I found Finland Mulsu lurking in IRC and asked him some questions.

Adacore What is your lineup for the upcoming season?

Mulsu:

Finland Mulsu
Finland Kmble
Finland Lettu
Finland Irska
Finland Zzrpa
Finland Chmpp
Finland Hapero

Adacore With the former UQ-Gaming side no longer in competition, -img must now be in contention for the Finnish #1 spot - do you think you can live up to the job?

Mulsu Well it's gonna be hard to replace team like parodia, but we will do our best.

Adacore Having lost the undoubtedly skilled non-Finnish players from the Gods.inc side of last season (Spain Winghaven, Hungary Nonix, Hungary Future and HungaryPhobeus) do you think the all-Finn lineup can compete at the same level?

Mulsu We will lose some of our individual skill but we will improve our teamplay, mostly because we had so huge fights in gods.inc ventrilo with european players. So hard to say if our skill has improved or not.

Adacore Last season Gods surprised a lot of people in the scene by taking 3rd place - do you think the -img team will be able to match this success, or perhaps even do better?

Mulsu There are not so many "top" teams left. So we got good chance to get into the top three. But only time will tell.

Adacore Which of the new teams do you expect to step up and fill the void at the top left by so many of last season's top teams quitting?

Mulsu There are so many those 2 week teams so I don't really know which new teams are up and which have folded already, but at least the new uQ team should step up this season.


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