Humba — Howdy, guys. As you probably noticed, I didn’t post a new interview on Tuesday because the previous one was rather long and it should have been enough for the whole week. But now, when you were just starting to relax and didn’t expect on the next interview.. BAM! Here we go. Mordi from the team DG e.Sports agreed to doing this interview.
If you want to know, why they called themselves “Team renoB” (in fact: you got it), and why the Norwegian community is a little bit small – read more.
REMINDER: Not so long as the previous one, but still – check your time before read.
Good day, Mordi! Can you give us a little introduction of your team – Defiant Gaming eSports?
Hey there, mate! My team DG eSports is a competitive Team Fortress 2 team and we’re at the moment participating in ETF2L and ESL, as far as I know. We’re competing at a division 1/2 level and we’re aiming for top 10, even if it will take years :D
Me and my good friend Old_Grandma made this team almost a year ago and we played at a division 4 level. Within this year we’ve played with many different players, but we’ve had to do changes and replacements to reach the skill we’re at now.
Our team:
Fish – Medic. A raging English man with a wife that loves me.
Vero – Scout. A Swede that doesn’t know the difference between Swedish and English
Old_Grandma – Soldier. A Swede that is homosexual in a very good way.
Erectus – Demoman. An Israeli who never listens and knows the best way to be irritating.
Poxie – Scout. A English man who likes to lick veins all day long.
Mordi – Soldier. A Norwegian that is in love with Fish’s wife.
Agent 0 – Backup allrounder. A reliable guy from Bulgaria who always can step in if we’re missing a player.
Big Chief – Scout/Inactive. A Brittish guy that always sleeps and is always late for practice.
Tell me about your competitive way
I personally started playing competitive TF2 about two years ago. I have played in several teams that have given me both positive and negative experience, but I’ve finally settled down with my favorite team.
Especially the Swedish TF2 community is a great community with people with great personalities and some with huge skills when it comes to TF2. I think those people are the people that have made me the TF2 player I am today, and has brought me up in the divisions. The Norwegian community is also a bunch of awesome guys, but sadly very small. Shout out to my biggest idol, Dr Leon!
As a team we’re playing to win, but at the end of the day we don’t mind losing as long as we learn something. We’re a bunch of individuals that are trying to improve every second we play.
Watching through demos is important for us, we often go through them together to find out what we could’ve done better, and what we need to improve on. Some months ago we found out that our medic was too much under pressure, and that we needed to become better at defending him. That day we had I think 2 or 3 maps where Fish refused to uber, and gladly dropped them. I think this is a good way to improve our individual pocket skills.
I think it’s important for a team to do something together in the “spare time” (when we’re not practicing), like for example mixing, offclass pcw’s and playing other games together. This helps you build up a better relationship which also makes the team spirit better. As I see our team now, there are no conflicts and no doubt the we’ll play together as a team for a long time.
What are you doing in real life, Mordi? Any hobbies or jobs?
I’m going to school in Trondheim/Norway, 2nd class at high school. I will be doing biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics which will keep me inside for the next 2 years :D Hoping to be engineering after university.
On my spare time I love playing football, being with friends and playing TF2. I just love listening to music, I could easily sit here hour after hour listening to music. That is because of my baby, Logitech z-5500 This summer I’ve been helping my parents together with my brother painting our staircase. Took us about 2 weeks to do all the walls and ceilings, still got some small details left, windows etc. I’ve never been any painter, so when I heard we had to do like 3 coats I was kinda surprised. There was a lot of pre-work as well, spray paint, primer and then normal paint, it was very exhausting, but we’re done pretty soon!
I won’t be going to any LANs this year, but hopefully next year. I’ve heard these LANs in The UK are pretty awesome. I would love to participate together with my team some day. Hopefully this will happened. Unfortunately our demoman lives in Isreal and won’t be able to come all the way up to England, but we always have Zdravko! :D
You’ve joined the Defiant Gaming. How were you picked? I have never heard of them, actually.
Defiant Gaming is a new Multi Gaming Organization founded by iRaz3R in 2011. The org contains one TF2 Team, one CS:S Team and two COD4 teams. We’ve got 2 teams (we’re not) which are going to participate in i43 (afaik) and they’re both looking extremely strong.
When iRaz3R posted in ETF2L’s forum that they were searching for a TF2 team we contacted him, got to know him well and joined them as the main TF2 squad. Defiant Gaming contains a bunch of great guys and we’re trying to get bigger and bigger as we speak.
The first time I spoke to them I noticed that these people are very kind and very engaged to different games and generally esports. They bought us servers immediately (game servers and mumble servers). The first servers we got didn’t really work out for us, so they got us others that worked perfectly. This makes them look very dutiful and reliable.
DG has four sponsors so far (I think); visulaize media (made us an awesome website), Origin PC, Blue Elph and Game Play Servers. Shout out to them!
Feel free to visit our website: http://www.defiantgaming.co.uk (still under construction)
Who found the original Team Renob in 2009? I know that you have remade it in 2010.
Team Renob was made by the Swedish player ozonE. Together with many other Swedes and me we came 3rd Division 5 in Season 6. After that season some decided to quit the game and others decided to move on in a different direction.
When I got recruited I was very well received and everyone was very kind. Back then my Swedish was pretty awful, but they lived with it, and as the time passed I got better and better and today I’d say my Swedish is at least understandable. Thanks for the teaching lesions guys!
The only active player from back then today is me and Granny. 1 year ago we were both clanless and I considered quitting TF2, but then I spoke to Granny and we both loved the idea of remaking Team Renob, but for this time international.
Why did you choose that weird name? – Team renoB?
I didn’t play in the team when it was created (for the first time) so I’m not really sure. Though if I remember correctly, it was because “Boner” was offensive @ ETF2L or something. We’re all very immature, so we love talking about penises. Except from Vero who always is serious…
It was funny though, every time we were playing new opponents they were like “LOL, they have a penis as an avatar!”. Kinda miss that time..
You have won the Albert’s Cup #4, my congratulations! Tell us about it. Were they hard to beat?
Thank you! Personally I would say we made us through the cup without any big problems. We struggled against Team-Cido in the 2nd round, but we ended up winning 4-2. In the semi-final we played against LagTastic Gaming, in the beginning we had some problems, but after the first 10 minutes our focus got much better and we ended up winning 6-1. In the final against Vier//Red we had a tough game on badlands. We won 6-4, on granary we comfortably won 5-0.
I had just been on a vacation up in Lofoten, a beautiful group of islands in Nordland county in Norway. So when I got home the first thing my team told me was that we were playing a cup tonight, be ready. I thought to myself that maybe that wasn’t such a good idea because I was kinda rusty and I was afraid we were gonna play shit and there would be a lot of rage. But when I joined mumble they all told me they had missed me, which warmed my heart and my heart warmed up my body and made my play awesome.
We had a very good night, one of our better nights actually. Vier//Red won almost all their games and division 2 this season, sadly their scout Danny was caught cheating, but they’re still an awesome team. It delighted me very much to beat them on both maps. Would love to play against them more in the future!
You didn’t play with other good teams that were participating in that cup including RAGE.eSports, The Devil’s Reject, Elemental Violence. Would you play with them and how would you rate your chances to win?
RAGE, Rejects and elem.v are 3 very strong teams, teams we’ve played pcws against, teams we’ve always had good games agaist. We would love you play more against those teams in the future. And our chances to win, hmmm, we had a very good night that night, so I’d say our chances to win would be good.
Though I think it would’ve been tougher playing vs them instead of the teams we played against. Elemental Violence’s Ace is an incredible talented medic, he always does the right decisions and he’s very good at saving his team mates. They’ve also got sick soldiers, scouts and demo. They just came together again after a break I think, and they’re already awesome.
Rejects is a team with awesome DM’ers. I don’t know any of the players, but I think they’re a new team with a lot of potential. I’m also pretty sure they just did some replacements which seem to make them even stronger.
I’m not really sure if it was RAGE their LAN team or if it was Galant’s team. All I know is that both teams are sick.
Shout out to you guys!
Finally, do you have any words for our readers?
Yea, if you just read this and didn’t understand a word, I’m sorry for my bad English.
The TF2 community seems to get bigger and bigger, I love that people are volunteering to help out and mentor players that are new to the game. After Valve made TF2 free I think we beat CS 1.6 on people playing. TF2 is getting bigger every second, and we need to do everything we can to bring people into the competitive TF2 and help them if they need any.
I also want to encourage new teams to stop fold after two weeks. It kinda pisses people off, at least me, when 1/4 or 1/5 of the teams in last season of ETF2L dropped. Last time I counted I think I came up to 120 dropped teams from ETF2L. This is 120 too many! Make teams with players you know, or player you know you can trust and is reliable.
Anything else, umm, I want to give a shout out to everyone from my team, even if you didn’t want me to embarrass us in this interview.
That’s all, folks! The next one will be with MIKE from Infused, stay tuned.
Originally published on VanillaTV (vanillatf2.org) on 2011-07-29 by despair.
Recovered from the Internet Archive (archived copy) as part of tf2esports.com's preservation of VanillaTV's TF2 coverage. The original site is no longer online. All rights remain with the original author; reposted for historical reference.