This interview is taken from the French website www.wolfarea.org where Clown is answering about his career, his gameplay and his best line-up all seasons mixed.
wolfarea.org - Hello Clown, could you please introduce yourself?
Clown - Hi, well, I think everyone already knows who I am, but just in case, I'm 21 year old guy from Latvia playing ET in my free time.
wolfarea.org - Why did you choose ‘Clown’ as nickname ?
Clown - When I was young I used to play a game on PlayStation called Twisted Metal and there was a character called "Sweet Tooth", an evil clown. When i started playing ET, which was my first online game, I saw a lot of people playing with weird nicks from other games, so I just thought to take this. Now that I'm 21, though, I regret it a little bit, but I'm not going to change it for ET :)
wolfarea.org - Could you describe your career into gaming from the beginning to present?
Clown - Well, as I said ET was my first online game that I played a lot, before that I tried RtCW on a 28k modem, which was horrible. I had 500 ping and I had no idea how to play it, I just played panzer or sniper on an assault public. I played it maybe 1h in total, since back then dial-up costs were very high in Latvia.
I still loved single player, and the whole RtCW atmosphere, so I just kept playing it over and over again until I got my DSL connection. Ofcourse first thing I wanted to do is play RtCW but I couldn't find any cracked servers since I didn't have a cdkey. So i just searched for other game to play. I wanted to try CS but then I found ET, which looked great to me back then, it was free rtcw with lots of servers to play on and lots of new things to do. Basically that's it, if you don't count few months trying out ETQW and COD4.
wolfarea.org - About the way you play the game nowadays. What would you say are the noticeable difference in your style in play in comparison to when you first started playing 'professionally'.
Clown - Hard to say, but I guess my style hasn't changed much, I'd like to think that I'm playing smarter than back then, and more patient.
wolfarea.org - Did you give Wolfenstein a try ?
Clown - Yes, I played it in one 1day cup, where my mix team finished 2nd behind mamut. The game was pretty bad, so I never gave it another chance after that. I just somehow could never get back to it... ETQW at least had fun publics, and even some maps in competition, but here, it felt so empty.
wolfarea.org - Choose 3 adjectives which describe you
Clown - Purposeful, Honest, Friendly
wolfarea.org - Your best moment on Enemy Territory?
Clown - Winning CPC2 lan.
wolfarea.org - The worst?
Clown - Losing CDC4 felt really bad, because individually it was my worst lan, so I felt kind of responsible for it.
wolfarea.org - If you could change something in Enemy Territory, what would you want to change?
Clown - I would want a better anti-cheat, but it seems that my wish might be granted very soon.
wolfarea.org - Enemy Territory is an amazing game and yet this game is not very popular in e-sport in general. Low cash prizes even when they exist, few LAN events etc... Do you have any idea why E.T is not as popular?
Clown - Because it's fun for everyone, it is a fun public game for casual players, and it's "deep" enough for more advanced players. I think gaming lately has not got that right, most games lately are only fun for casual gamers, and don't offer enough to us, competitive gamers.
wolfarea.org - You have an awesome list of achievements, why don’t you change game for one which has better cash prizes, hardware rewards etc.?
Clown - I honestly don't want to be the owner of gaming, I'm happy playing an active game that I enjoy. If there comes another game like that but that has more prizes, I will most likely switch, but otherwise, I'm not going to play a game I don't like just to TRY and get some prizes.
wolfarea.org - I guess you know some top French players. Who is the best one according to you and why?
Clown - I know there are few around, but I guess
karnaj is the best right now. Haven't watched him play, but he is very noticeable when playing against him.
wolfarea.org - Who's gonna win the EC ?
Clown - TAG!
wolfarea.org - Could we see ButtonBashers back in business knowing that dAv1d and aCoZz are inactive with mAus and XyloS are playing others games, is there the possibility of a reunion ?
Clown - Most likely, yes!
wolfarea.org - Do you think that you could repeat your performance with team latvia during the NC XI, finally losing out during the 3rd leg of the competition?
Clown - I'm always highly optimistic, but I can't see us doing that in the near future, maybe in a year or something. We had the perfect mix back then and every player on the team was active, so it was really nice and the reason why we were playing good.
wolfarea.org - What would be the best line up in the game for you, all seasons mixed ?
Clown - Hard to say and Ill try to be unbiased:
wolfarea.org - According to you, what does a team need to suceed in results and gain a strong relationship between players ? Is there chemistry from the word go or is it all down to practice?
Clown - Could write a lot about this but the short answer is:
Everyone needs to know their role, and excel at it.
wolfarea.org - What do you think about the fact that the community is frozen because of the game (no more ETpro updates, no new maps, and no new competitions) and ETQW and Wolfenstein did not meet the community expectations ?
Clown - Maps are being tested all the time, but nothing really great has come out of them. Would be nice to see some improvements on etpro, and I'm hoping antipro will do that. But other than that it isnt that bad, some other games are in a way worse state.
ETQW was actually a very decent game in the end(if you ignore some maps), just not my type with the vehicles and stuff.
Wolfenstein was just a bad console port with no effort put into MP. Which is sad :(
wolfarea.org - A last word ?
Clown - Thanks for the interview!
Thx toPhaLoiD for providing banneer.
wolfarea.org - Hello Clown, could you please introduce yourself?
Clown - Hi, well, I think everyone already knows who I am, but just in case, I'm 21 year old guy from Latvia playing ET in my free time.
wolfarea.org - Why did you choose ‘Clown’ as nickname ?
Clown - When I was young I used to play a game on PlayStation called Twisted Metal and there was a character called "Sweet Tooth", an evil clown. When i started playing ET, which was my first online game, I saw a lot of people playing with weird nicks from other games, so I just thought to take this. Now that I'm 21, though, I regret it a little bit, but I'm not going to change it for ET :)
wolfarea.org - Could you describe your career into gaming from the beginning to present?
Clown - Well, as I said ET was my first online game that I played a lot, before that I tried RtCW on a 28k modem, which was horrible. I had 500 ping and I had no idea how to play it, I just played panzer or sniper on an assault public. I played it maybe 1h in total, since back then dial-up costs were very high in Latvia.
I still loved single player, and the whole RtCW atmosphere, so I just kept playing it over and over again until I got my DSL connection. Ofcourse first thing I wanted to do is play RtCW but I couldn't find any cracked servers since I didn't have a cdkey. So i just searched for other game to play. I wanted to try CS but then I found ET, which looked great to me back then, it was free rtcw with lots of servers to play on and lots of new things to do. Basically that's it, if you don't count few months trying out ETQW and COD4.
wolfarea.org - About the way you play the game nowadays. What would you say are the noticeable difference in your style in play in comparison to when you first started playing 'professionally'.
Clown - Hard to say, but I guess my style hasn't changed much, I'd like to think that I'm playing smarter than back then, and more patient.
wolfarea.org - Did you give Wolfenstein a try ?
Clown - Yes, I played it in one 1day cup, where my mix team finished 2nd behind mamut. The game was pretty bad, so I never gave it another chance after that. I just somehow could never get back to it... ETQW at least had fun publics, and even some maps in competition, but here, it felt so empty.
wolfarea.org - Choose 3 adjectives which describe you
Clown - Purposeful, Honest, Friendly
wolfarea.org - Your best moment on Enemy Territory?
Clown - Winning CPC2 lan.
wolfarea.org - The worst?
Clown - Losing CDC4 felt really bad, because individually it was my worst lan, so I felt kind of responsible for it.
wolfarea.org - If you could change something in Enemy Territory, what would you want to change?
Clown - I would want a better anti-cheat, but it seems that my wish might be granted very soon.
wolfarea.org - Enemy Territory is an amazing game and yet this game is not very popular in e-sport in general. Low cash prizes even when they exist, few LAN events etc... Do you have any idea why E.T is not as popular?
Clown - Because it's fun for everyone, it is a fun public game for casual players, and it's "deep" enough for more advanced players. I think gaming lately has not got that right, most games lately are only fun for casual gamers, and don't offer enough to us, competitive gamers.
wolfarea.org - You have an awesome list of achievements, why don’t you change game for one which has better cash prizes, hardware rewards etc.?
Clown - I honestly don't want to be the owner of gaming, I'm happy playing an active game that I enjoy. If there comes another game like that but that has more prizes, I will most likely switch, but otherwise, I'm not going to play a game I don't like just to TRY and get some prizes.
wolfarea.org - I guess you know some top French players. Who is the best one according to you and why?
Clown - I know there are few around, but I guess
karnaj is the best right now. Haven't watched him play, but he is very noticeable when playing against him.wolfarea.org - Who's gonna win the EC ?
Clown - TAG!
wolfarea.org - Could we see ButtonBashers back in business knowing that dAv1d and aCoZz are inactive with mAus and XyloS are playing others games, is there the possibility of a reunion ?
Clown - Most likely, yes!
wolfarea.org - Do you think that you could repeat your performance with team latvia during the NC XI, finally losing out during the 3rd leg of the competition?
Clown - I'm always highly optimistic, but I can't see us doing that in the near future, maybe in a year or something. We had the perfect mix back then and every player on the team was active, so it was really nice and the reason why we were playing good.
wolfarea.org - What would be the best line up in the game for you, all seasons mixed ?
Clown - Hard to say and Ill try to be unbiased:
Winghaven (Fop) Gotta have his annoying, rambo, dmg giving abilities!
Night (Rifle) Can't have a dream team without him.
mAus (Medic) Aim, and smarter and more teamplaying than people think he is.
- RELOAD (Medic) Fast, awesome reviver and a great fragger.
Mystic (Medic) I'm going for aim in this dream line up, so can't miss this guy!
Sheep[CDC4] or 
Zerender[CC5] (Eng) They both were amazing at their perspective winning lans.
wolfarea.org - According to you, what does a team need to suceed in results and gain a strong relationship between players ? Is there chemistry from the word go or is it all down to practice?
Clown - Could write a lot about this but the short answer is:
Everyone needs to know their role, and excel at it.
wolfarea.org - What do you think about the fact that the community is frozen because of the game (no more ETpro updates, no new maps, and no new competitions) and ETQW and Wolfenstein did not meet the community expectations ?
Clown - Maps are being tested all the time, but nothing really great has come out of them. Would be nice to see some improvements on etpro, and I'm hoping antipro will do that. But other than that it isnt that bad, some other games are in a way worse state.
ETQW was actually a very decent game in the end(if you ignore some maps), just not my type with the vehicles and stuff.
Wolfenstein was just a bad console port with no effort put into MP. Which is sad :(
wolfarea.org - A last word ?
Clown - Thanks for the interview!
Thx to
PhaLoiD for providing banneer.
wat?
nice
Clown <3
was nice to hear some background about Clown :)
LOL'd with "he is very noticeable when playing against him."
He cant aim and still everytime he's in the highlight. He builds himself around with good players, reminds me of frozz :D
And somehow everybody can explain why he dont have good stats, it's called TEAMPLAYER or best engi of et. Please:D
Clown I like you personally i just cant get it how can it happen.
Probably he can help the team somwhow that we cannot see on ettv but how can you explain that when your team would win if he could shoot down the object guy but he is not that talented aimer ? "np Clown you tried, thx the information anyway, was useless"
Nobody will explain to me there is a reason why he has 15/30 stat all the time and half dmg than other teammates. I just cant take it.
Everybody has bad days, sometimes I am the best in my team sometimes i am the worst. But suck everytime is not the dog-tag of a good player
and having good ingame and normal leading skills can be much more beneficial to team than single player playing good
think about mulsu he wasnt the best player :XD but gods inc would have been nothing without him
he was super important to teams success, replacing him with mystic would have weakened the team
frenchfag <3
yes it is a competition of mixteams... everymix team lack teamplay... thats why teamleader [a guy whos leading] is a great asset for such a mixteam...
yet western europe pwns... because they base on aim... you CANT win against team made from aimers... because no mather how clever your teamleader is, his guidance wont win gunfights...
if u know whore kora it doesnt mean you are the smartest faggot on the world SO BURN MOTHERFUCKER BURN!
He is the type of player that would risk a full spawn to get the barrier up, which is the type of player that can win a game, just not as noticeably as a 5-man kill.
Never really showing yourself because you need to stay alive. He isn't the best aimer, but he has a better brain than most.
I suggest you watch CC5 for an example of Clown not "getting lowest damage every war"
MerlinatoR put it better.
you're right anyway
It's not whether it is easier to aim in rtcw or et, it is that et (nowadays) relies more on aim than rtcw. There aren't many teams you could name me in the last year or whatever who didn't have top aimers but had amazing teamplay which made them awesome..
idd, et is more aimbased but because shooting is easier... almost every player can take 3-4 guys with one smg clip
people make themselves out to be the victim "ohhh no good team will take me" instead of actually playing the game, working on their positioning and trying to garner a bit of experience and take their own team to EC
Take a look at cortana they dont have 6 of the best aimers in the game but they have awesome teamplay and have done so well with it.
He knows how to play and how to do obj like every good player does, but when he plays among 5 normal players is raped by the same team that might be spawnraped against one of its past team.
So he's not a key player for star teams, he's a normal player that plays with top players doing what he's expected to do. Replacement with any player that could do its job won't make any dropskill for the team.
LATVIA DOCET,
journal pls
I still remember the fun times with sneeuwvlokjes when we played with kris.
Nice interview!
Nice read
hope that his aim improves tho so he's absolutely awesome and stuff
thats what i always thought of when i saw 'clown'..
my ass
if me and my random "medskilled" friends can easily overrun so called highskilled players in random 3o3, it means they are not skilled as they would like to be... however i cant do it in 6o6... why?
Answer is pretty simple... ET, same as RtCW have to be played in certain style... while mastering gameplay of a team can take a long time [ FiF/YoYo needed 1,5 a year to become a true highskilled team ] most of current players know how to play, and whats sad they arnt awere of this knowledge... Ergo new teams prefer to take infact less skilled player liek Clown, whom they dont need to educate instead of player with much better aim and overall skills...
On the other hand ET is way too much defensive, and top players hide their tracking problems in spam and camp. Its really sad that top aimers are actually defensive as fuck...look @ azatej whos after taking few hits always run away and medpack himself...
of course no shit on them... aza, maus, butchji have really decent aim, but they enhance it with defensive play... But its not as great as many think...
Sadly many young players try to improve in same way, and agressive players are very rare today, same as highsensers... Aiming by raziel and crossfire kill the natural feeling of game, twisting it into another copycat lowsense monster, camping and medpacking all the time...
Fuck i hate this game...
But versus skilled opponent you cant just go on like that.. Thats why I like to play mixeds when you can take risks and roam on and it doesnt matter.
you can play agressive and be efficent ... just look @ razz
QUICK RUN BEFORE THE FBI COME AND KIDNAP YOU FOR THE SECRET WEAPON THAT YOU ARE.
OH WAIT.
(w/e about the majority not speaking the second language even halfway properly...)
i spend most of my day on vent with some polaks and get along fine with them, i just think hitsu is a retard (every country has them)
but im a nice guy, with my own very unique way of seeing things
Hmm.. this is called smart playing?
Its smart when you are alone with 13 hp against 3 guys... otherwise its lack of guts
but your fanboism blinded you... how expected...
The game hasn't LOST things, it's evolved. Watching old demos make us see this, what we have now is the things we never before saw. Rifle nades created by Raveneye, camp spots created by Hype, the list goes on.
If you are so foolish to not see this then i suggest you quit the game, as for calling maus butchji and Aza too defensive, I suggest you watch/play against them, getting rushed by Aza nearly every spawn on fucking supply in cave and never killing him really isn't that fun.
truth is just too obvious... most of so called best aimers are defensive as fuck...
Ive never heard of you, rot.
:XDDDDDDDDDDD
you're right about not many smg engi's tho, you're the best willy!
Sheep and Naga are pretty good examples of engeneers who can actually aim rly good.
No offence to you since I don't know you, but if the eng smg isnt a great ingame leader or has great aggresive aim, he's just the slut of the team...
still remember that 3o3 game where you had like 30kills nad 80hs =]
=)
Like basketbal and football ET works as a team game: the better your team, the better you will perform as an individual. Drop any decently talented (everyone with SOME evidence of a human brain) player in a top team, and he will do well. With great players around you, your skill will boost, maybe it won't reach the highskill status, but playing with idiots will likewise decrease your skill. That is why totally new teams have such a difficult time to progress to the Highskilled status in ET.
As for Clown: he adds his part to the team and say what you want: Noone wants to kick him from the teams he plays in. Do you REALLY think that all those egogamers on the internet add Clow out of charity or some other obscure (i.e. not internet related) reason? Be serious please...
nice banner phaloid haha :D
great player :D
nearly my dreamteam except snoop > winghaven (especially as field) :p
You should be the engi instead of zerender/sheep in your dreamteam!!
i have seen clown in IRL!
OMG_OMG
gl in future with bb!