Interview with [M] Bonehead | RTCW Tavern Rush LAN Build-up › The team at LAN

What’s your confirmed lineup, and roles of the players?

We got 6 players confirmed, and they are Me, Die, Sengo, Ter, Mister and finally our old captain and M founder Vert (we love you for all you did for us :*)

What’s your goal at LAN? Is there a finishing position you are targeting?

We got a real good roster, perhaps with Dan's defection, in some maps we could have some difficulties, since he is one of our best players, but certainly as we have already shown at the recent Quakecon where we finished third in the consolation group, we can maybe aim for a good placement also based on the choice of maps. Lately online, unfortunately, we have been a bit slow due to time-related issues, but in LAN I am sure we can give our best since we are usually the most penalized online (I exclude the poor guys of South America in this case).

What would you say was your best performance as a team to-date?

As a team as a whole, speaking of the good old days, we constantly qualified and passed the rounds often reaching the top 6 for the various Eurocups that were held (at the time the most prestigious competition in the game) and also as a national team we finished second against Sweden, after having beaten them during the group stage.
We also qualified online for the highly anticipated QuakeCon 2003 in Dallas, but for logistical reasons we had to drop our trip at that time.

More recently, however, at QuakeCon 2021 as we said before, after some wonderful matches in the upper bracket, we finished third in the consolation bracket, and in Division 3 of the RTCW Season placed in the first 2 places anyway;)

Who on your team is most likely to miss their flight and turn up late to LAN?

Surely Mister hahaha, Sengo will arrive later because the flights in his region are very badly connected

How do you prepare for games?

We actually try to have a 2-day schedule during week play, but unfortunately we often spent a period without playing because we were very messed up with work and personal matters. In addition to simple friendly matches, we have often recorded videos to share on our discord channel where we analyze the positions and strategies on the maps, and revised our demos to understand various mistakes made during official matches. When possible at least personally, I watch a lot of streams, both of gathers and other games