BFB 2 Teams Overview IV

What has been an amazing series and all the great feedback we’ve had thus far, makes it for us - the coverage crew - all worth while. We can’t help but wrap this up with Anexis eSports, Finlantic 6, NBS, and Team.PDEG. Stay tuned to hear more about us! Same Crossfire-time, same Crossfire-channel!


Anexis eSports is an Enemy Territory team that was formed in October 2011. However their team leader R0SS has been leading them for almost 2 years. It all started under Impact Gaming tag with R0SS, sqzz and XyLoS. In addition of Meez and hayaa they took second place on Antwerp e-Sports Festival 2010. After that, mAus has joined a team instead of Meez and we could see his amazing skills in his first official game with that team in EuroCup XXI LB Final. In the same composition, already under Anexis tag they won SAGE LAN 2011 without losing any game. Shortly after this event hayaa decided to quit ET and we switched back to 6on6 format so the team needed two new players. Since dignitas was inactive, the team decided to get into roster two former dignitas players - Night and Squall - which makes new Anexis lineup looks perfect. In that team they had participated in previous edition of Battle For Berlin, but sadly they couldn’t manage to schedule the final game versus Queens what means they lost it by forfeit. It’s the only loss that they experienced, because Anexis with this roster hasn’t lost any other official game yet. With seeing this line-up, one can only imagine which team can take a victory over them..

Achievements:

• SAGE ET LAN 2011
  
• SAGE Seeding Tournament
  
• JeeSports Challenge 2011
  
• Excello ZOWIE ET Challenge 2011
  
• CB EuroCup XXI 2010
  
• CB EuroCup XXII 2010
  
• Dignitas Invite Cup 2010
  
• Crossfire Battle For Berlin 2011
  
• Antwerp eSports Festival LAN 2010
  
• ESL Major Series VII 2010

Some games worth mentioning:

• Anexis vs Queens - ZOWIE Challenge Grand Final
  
• Anexis vs g2p - LB Final of BFB
  
• Anexis vs mCon - Battle For Berlin
  
• Anexis vs Queens - JeeET Series #1 Grand Final
  
• Anexis vs Dignitas - SAGE Grand Final
  
• Anexis vs NEVO - SAGE Seeding Final
  
• Anexis vs NORDIC - EC XXIII

Current lineup:

• R0SS
  
• sqzz
  
• mAus
  
• XyLoS
  
• Night
  
• squall

[bInterview with mAus[/b]]
You are not that active recently, how can you explain that to your fans that you are being semi-active?
Well after so many years of the same game, it gets a bit boring, not the game itself, but well let's face it, et was/is pretty dead, thanks to Tosspot and others for still putting effort for trying to make the game like it used to be.

You, as Anexis, are the biggest favorite for the final victory in BFB2. Do you practise anything, or you are confident that you can take it without any prac?
We're praccing again but still not like the old times, we personally all need to get back in shape, not only myself, hello sucky italian Xylos! <3

BFB2 is the only online tournament in which you are participating. What is the reason that you don't take part in any other ET cups (for example CB EuroCup)? Lack of time, no prizes or maybe something else?
I guess for players that have played the game for years and won online cups etc it isn't interesting anymore to play a cup just to put the award on your profile.

Of course you are going to play on ET Masters LAN in June. Everyone hopes to see mAus at LAN in the best shape, any special preparations before this event?
Well we will play some praccs and believe it or not, but the best way for me (not for the team) to get in shape is playing public. Why? I put some music on, not too loud so i can still hear people walking ingame etc and i'm farming these frags brainafk, just to get my aim to a 100%. Do this one week straight every single day before lan for an hour, and you will rock.

Going back to BFB2 and your last game vs STAR which you won, it was an easy game right? Do you think any of participated teams is able to push you to lower bracket?
Well it was kinda easy, but I guess they aren't in shape either. We are going to have a hard time with some of the teams in this cup, atleast if we don't step up our game soon enough. Let's hope for the best!

Which team will battle it out in the final? And where do you see your own team ending?
I have no idea about the teams, the only team that jumps in my mind is chry's team! This guy has grown from being a noob public player to a player that everyone should look out for, and he is still not on his maximum potential. When i look at him I see myself 4 years ago, good, but not finding the thing yet that makes him one of the best. Talking about butchji, mystic in their glory days. Anyway I guess the final would be anexis vs Queens.

If you won Battle For Berlin II, you would be happy about getting new "mAus" from Razer? Or you would stay with your current one?
Ofcourse I would be happy, but I wouldn't use it, I used it in the past and I made it die so often, maybe slapping it to the wall and stuff could be the cause. Anyway it is a great mouse to play with, but I prefer the Steelseries Xai. What I am looking forward to is the headset! Seems the bomb!

Did you use some of Razer products in the past? What do you think about this brand?
Over the years I've tested different mousepads headsets and mice, so yes I did had my share of razer products, it's a great brand if you want to play at a serious level of gaming.

Anexis eSports predicted the following outcome of BFB2 sponsored by Razer:

• Anexis/Queens

Finlantic 6 is a recently formed team by Matias. As the clan name suggests, the team has been created especially for the upcoming LAN party. The team consists of some of the finest players from Finland. They’ve been playing in almost the same composition as in the current NationsCup. However we can see some newcomers in the roster that improved a lot the latest months. Mix of old dogs like olBaa, Iron, twidi in addition of some young guns such as Jewe and Salaneuvos is a perfect combination that has everything to go far. They’ve already shown that they have some awesome teamplay and they are able to play on the highest level. Next to Anexis eSports they are the main candidate to win Battle For Berlin II. WIll they have enough power to beat the almighty R0SS & co?

Achievements:

• #et.tourney 6v6 1st League

Some games worth mentioning:

• F6 vs tMoe
  
• F6 vs NBS
  
• F6 vs NBS #et.tourney Grand Final

Current lineup:

• Iron
  
• Jewe
  
• Matias
  
• olBaa
  
• Salaneuvos
  
• twidi

Finlantic 6 has already played against jari.et who was their first round opponent. F6 did not give any chances to jari and easily won 4:0. Their next enemy on Tuesday will be NBS players. This is going to be third clash between these teams in 20 days! So far Finns was able to won over NBS two times. Third time lucky, as people say, right NBS?

[bInterview with twidi[/b]]
Your team is one of the favorites to win BFB2. Do you practise often? How do you guys perform in pracs?
We’re practicing quite a lot (4-5 days a week), but the quality of our practices varies a lot. Usually when we start to practice we have a couple guys showing up late, having just woke up or something similar. So I’d say that we have been performing way under our full potential in praccs and that’s something I’d want to get changed.

What are your expectations for upcoming tournaments? Except BFB2 you are going to participate in EuroCup. You see yourselves as a favorites of these tournaments?
As for BFB2 Anexis is the clear favourite, but I’d say that we belong to the highest challenger category along with Queens and mPG. In EuroCup there’s no Anexis so the chances to win are obviously higher. I’m expecting us to finish in top3 on both tournaments and I think that it should be pretty realistic. Getting into the finals of BFB2 and winning EC should be possible, but requires almost perfect performance from us as the level of competition is really high this season.

I've also seen that you are going to play in Weesp on ET Masters LAN. Can you tell me something more about it, any special preparations? Did you find any MGC/sponsor? Have you found your 6th player, or olBaa is your 6th for lan as well?
olBaa isn’t coming to the LAN with us so we’re still without a 6th player. Problem is that we’re pretty much out of possibilities when it comes to Finnish players and we wouldn’t want to sacrifice our excellent comms by taking in a non-Finnish player. There’s not too much time left though so we have to make the decisions soon. I can’t really say anything about the MGC/sponsor part yet as many things are still unclear.

Are you happy about your team seeded as 2nd? What do you think about other seeds?
Obviously I’m really happy we got ranked as the 2nd best team, but that’s just something on the paper and we have a lot games to win to prove that we’re worth the seed. I think that the seeds are good in general. Some of the newly formed teams are pretty hard to rank as you haven’t seen them play so you might argue a bit about some of the seeds, but there’s no major mistakes, which is the most important thing.

You’ve already won your first game versus jari.et. Was it easy? Everything went as expected?
It was pretty easy and expected as well. Jari.et plays great as a team and they should be able to challenge most of the teams in the loser’s bracket, but their individual skills aren’t quite good enough to beat the top teams. Would be great to see them win some of the better teams and prove that they would’ve deserved an EC qualifier spot.

Your next opponent will be either NBS or bF. Who do you think will win in 1st round and face you? Against who would you prefer to play?
It’s a very tough call actually as NBS has been very active for a longer period already and bF players were inactive for quite a while. If bF was on their top form I’d be sure of them to win, but I think that they’re still pretty far from it. I don’t really mind which team we’re going to face, but we’ve already played NBS so many times that perhaps facing bF would be fun for a change :)

Which team will battle it out in the final? And where do you see your own team ending?
I think that the final is going to be played between Anexis and us or Queens, though you can’t leave mPG out of the picture by any means. Our team should place in top3.

Finlantic6 predicted the following outcome of BFB2 sponsored by Razer:

• Anexis
  
• Finlantic6/Queens
  
• Finlantic6/Queens

NBS-Gaming is becoming more and more known in our beloved community. Their Enemy Territory squad have been around for a solid 4 months now with the core of the team remaining intact. Grabbing up victories & maps versus respectively none other than Team Netherlands and Finlantic 6, it surely makes them a worthy foe for many teams. The search for a stable 6th however has been a long one and yet unfinished. With having to practice for both the upcoming ET Master LAN and BFB 2, only time will tell if they’ll battle for the prizes in this tournament!

Achievements:

• #et.tourney 6v6 1st League

Some games worth mentioning:

• NBS vs Euro Massive - RCUPSERIES #5 Final
  
• NBS vs bF - RCUPSERIES #6 Bronze Final
  
• NBS vs CodeLust - ESL Winter League
  
• NBS vs tMoe - #et.tourney
  
• NBS vs Team NL - #et.tourney Semi-Final

Current lineup:

• PlAyer
  
• fostruM
  
• Sinnu
  
• yEnch
  
• MOTiF
  
• bN
  
• slajdan

[bInterview with Sinnu [/b]]
In BFB2 you are seeded as a number 10 team. Are you happy about that or you expected some other seed? What do you think about other seeds?
I think we should be quite happy with that. We're still missing our final puzzle piece, which is a stable 6th who can attend to the LAN with us as well. I think the seeds are nicely done and should be quite accurate and fair.

Your first game of the tournament is supposed to be versus Belgian Fraternity. How do you see this match-up ending and how do you stand towards them not being able to play at the forced date?
Well, I'm hoping that we win this 1st game. It will give us more confidence and boost the morale. Sadly, we cannot play on the forced date, but I think it shouldn't change anything, at least, not the result. Hopefully a win.

Do you have any plans on attending the upcoming ET Master LAN hosted by Adroits?
Yes. We're fully attending the LAN, just have to pay the Entrance Fee. Plane tickets have allready been booked. Sadly our Canadian fellow bN_ can't come to the LAN, since it will cost him too damn much.We're still missing a stable skilled 6th for the LAN though. Just hoping that we find someone decent enough soon !

And final, where do you see your own team ending?
Well, im hoping that we could end in the top 6. We have played against all of the teams and they're all good teams. Can't really say the exact spot that we'll finish on, but we're hoping for top 6 :)

NBS predicted the following outcome of BFB2 sponsored by Razer:

• Anexis
  
• Queens
  
• Finlantic 6

Team.PDEG or better known as team oxid is not a new face on the scene. With players with the likes of powerhouse FiREBALL dating back to the ancient days of RTCW, you can be rest assured the bullets will come flying at you. stRay surrounded himself with a practically full German-speaking line-up Bl4d3, gr0ss, FiREBALL & eujen. Whether the French-speaking rifle An7ho will cause any communication problems is yet to be seen. Picking up all-star sNoOp as their back-up alongside with Ti+es almost guarantees spectacle!

Achievements:

• 5th - SAGE LAN 2011
  5th - CB EuroCup XXIV

Some games worth mentioning:

• oxid vs TAG - Battle For Berlin
  
• oxid vs haMMerzeit! - EuroCup XXIV
  
• oxid vs JL - YCN Spring Challenge
  
• oxid vs g2p - SAGE Seeding
  
• oxid vs Nordic - SAGE LB2
  
• oxid vs NEVO - SAGE UB1
  
• oxid vs Nordic - SAGE
  
• oxid vs Spot16 - SAGE

Current lineup:

• stRay
  
• Bl4d3
  
• gr0ss
  
• FiREBALL
  
• eujen
  
• An7ho
  
• sNoOp
  
• Ti+es

[bInterview with An7ho[/b]]
In BFB2 you are seeded as a number 9 team. Are you happy about that or you expected some other seed? What do you think about other seeds?
For this tournament, I think that our seed is more or less logical. Indeed, after having surprised a lot of people during the SAGE LAN with our beautiful fifth place, we came back to our respective teams for a while. Then we just met to prepare for the next LAN. Our seed is thus logical according to me. I am especially surprised by the presence of teams like star.et or jari.

Your first game of the tournament just finished vs. Polagz. How do you think everything will fare this matchup?
Our first match was against Polagz. We prepared this match for a couple of days, with Fireball. However, I stayed confident in the quality of game of sNoOp to replace him. It was a rather interesting match of an internal point of view in the game. This match allowed us to adjust some changes of strategy and positions.

Do you believe having FiREBALL working hard, might cause some problems for the preparation for this tournament?
We knew from the beginning that FiREBALL wouldn't be available every day. But we have no choice if we want to prepare properly for the next LAN. This tournament is a test for us. I don't think that the addition of sNoOp will cause big problems because he is also a top player.

Do you have any plans on attending the upcoming ET Master LAN hosted by Adroits?
We placed 5th at SAGE in 2011 with a "strange" LU, with some good aimers like FiREBALL or Bl4d3, teamplayer like eujen. With the addition of gr0ss, we can reach TOP5 once again in my opinion. It will depend on our teamplay during the LAN.

And final, where do you see your own team ending?
An online tournament is always more complicated because the TOP players who are not going to LAN will participate in these kind of competitions. Something having to look out for is more complicated then. But just as for our final goal for the next LAN, we aim to be in the TOP5 once again.

PDEG predicted the following outcome of BFB2 sponsored by Razer:

• Anexis
  
• Finlantic 6
  
• Queens