Interview with Team Team

As we finally found all the players and somewhere to talk where we could here each other better we sat down and talked about DreamHack, GosuGamers and most important; DotA!

Last DreamHack event we could see two of the Team Team members here in Elmia playing for MeetYourMakers. Loda and Akke was here then, especially Akke is a DreamHack guru with his eight times here. He tells us that last winter event was the first with a big DotA tournament which is very good, but before that he was here playing other games and hanging out with his friends. The rest of the guys have not been here before but they all agree that it is a very nice event. The only one complaining about anything is Bogdan.
- It is very little space for each seat and it would be great if they turned of the trance music over the nights, but others than that it is great!And the others agree with him, it is quite loud here.


They are happy about the tournament here at DreamHack, it was not that long ago it was not even a tournament and now it has the second highest prize sum for the top three players of all the DreamHack tournaments. According to Loda you never really had to wait either, everything has gone very quickly from the start, you never had to wait to play as online and the double elimination is a good way of securing that you really get the best teams to the final. Acke tells us that the tournament has been hosted well but that he thinks it is sad that not so many good teams have come here.
- We are only two good teams here, us and MeetYourMakers, so you already knew who would come to the final and therefore there were not that many fun games. Others than that he thinks the tournament itself has been very well carried out.

About MeetYourMakers, we talk about the previous meeting in the MYM Prime Defending where Team Team took the MeetYourMakers team down and when asked about how it will turn out this time Loda tells us that he is very confident that they will win this time too.
- They have been practicing a lot, playing on a cyber café together but we know each other and have been hanging around and know each others playing style. Loda and Akke graduated from high school together in Gothenburg this spring, so they have known each other for a while. The other three were found online but as Renji and Bogdan also lives in Gothenburg they all have met before and know each other very well.

Before playing DotA they all have tried their fair share of games, but apparently it is DotA which has really got them captured. Akke tells us that he has been playing Nintendo a lot, winning the Nintendo Swedish Championships twice and ending up as a runner up twice so he has been playing a lot of other things before. He also says that DotA is fun because of the team play, he does not like to play on his own.
- DotA is fun because you are five people, not only yourself. You really have to work as a team and the team play makes it funnier. I don't like playing by myself but it is really fun playing with the people you know.

Both Loda and Renji have played a lot of Blizzard games before and of course some video games as kids but still now there is only DotA. Same goes for Bogdan, who had never played anything seriously before, but when he tested DotA he admitiatly bought WarCraft 3 and started playing.


Team Team playing MeetYourMakers on stage. Nearest we see Renji.
We move on to talking about our new announced DotA section at GosuGamers and they all see it as a good thing. There are a lot of DotA players out there and it might help them to catch up and grow as players says Loda.
- Many players out there who think they are very good are not really, and this might give them an opportunity to watch replays and from that getting better and help the game grow too. Renji thinks that it has gotten so big for a similar reason as Counter-Strike; It is a team game and you are very social and talks a lot while playing too. Loda agrees and tells us that it is getting bigger because you do not have to be very good at it to go somewhere or to win. It is all a bout the team play and if you play with your friends they can help you. Also you can chose on which level you can play.
- If you play on Battle.Net you can win easily and feel good about it but if you are looking for something more you can join some international cup or league and get some more competition.

When it comes to favorite heroes Kwom tells us that he likes heroes who move a lot and help the other ones instead of staying at your spot and do your part from there. Everyone likes different heroes but there is a lot of heroes that you can play with. The most important think is that you feel like playing the hero you pick, otherwise you wont end up winning no matter how good you are says Bogdan and Loda agrees saying he likes playing in different ways and not just to stick to one as Kwom. In the MYM Prime they were the only team really sticking to a strategy but now there is about 20 heroes that they all are alright with anyway so usually it is one of them you pick. Loda also points out that nowadays they play with feeling, meaning that they trust their ability to read the game and their reflexes to help them through it.