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Califax — Even though he tried to trick the speed-readers amongst you by mentioning himself in his dream line-up (“Maybe they will think I’m basH :D”), most of you were correct to guess it was Epsilon eSports’ boy-wonder  Stefan “schocky” Berends answering the questions in The Guess-Who-Interview #3.

Time for interview #4! Read on and post below who you think it is!

Tell us, who is your father, who is your mother? 

My father’s name is Avidan and he is a lawyer, my mother’s name is Tamar and she was also a lawyer, but decided to change her profession to air stewardess, and they are still happily married. I also have one older brother who is in the army at the moment.

 Califax — I guess Shintaz’ Mum made it fairly easy for you guys to correctly guess it was Team Infused’s medic  Duncan “Dunc” Wraight answering the questions in The Guess-Who-Interview #2.

Time for interview #3! Read on and post below who you think it is!

Tell us, who is your father, who is your mother? 

My father, Manfred, works as an electronics technician. He is happily married with Jutta, who works as a housewife. They have two children, a daughter and a son – me.

Califax — As most of you guessed correctly, Crack Clan’s very own  Gabriel “Longás” Longás was the one answering the questions in The Guess-Who-Interview #1.

Some of you have suggested this first one was a bit easy, but again, the goal is not to make it extremely hard on you guys. Though I can’t promise they won’t be more difficult in the future… ^^

Anyway, here’s interview #2! Read on and post below who you think it is!

Tell us, who is your father, who is your mother? 

My father is called Allan and is a nearly-retired Librarian. My mother is called Lesley and she’s a Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages. They’ve been married for nearly 35 years. I have one sister, who is married and has recently had a baby, so I’m now an uncle and a godfather!

Califax — I have always been someone who is interested in the people behind the pixels. Where do they come from? What do they do outside of gaming? And, where do they wish to go in the future? So, hoping I am not the only one, I’ve decided to start a new interview series, and the title kinda says it all…

In the coming weeks I will be publishing interviews, that go a little deeper on a personal level, with well-known members of the TF2 community, without mentioning who is answering the questions. It’s up to you guys, to figure it out! When I publish the next interview, I will confirm who the previous interviewee was.

The goal for these interviews is for everyone to get to know these individuals a bit better, not to make it super hard on you guys to guess who it is, as my expectations for this community are rather high (even the trolls), so i know you guys will figure out who the interviewee actually is quite fast.

So, read on, and let me know what you think about these series and post who you think it is!

Tell us, who is your father, who is your mother? 

Javier is the name of my father and he is teacher in a highschool, my mother is Carmen and she works in the department of customer service for the government. They are still happily married and I hope that won’t change in the future.

CommanderX – So Excello Invite is tonight! I almost completely missed this cos I thought it was Wednesday. Better crank this piece o’news out before it’s too late then. So I had a chat with Stark from team Perilous (Formerly WALE) and how him and his team caused some of the biggest upsets in recent TF2 memory.

Let me paint a picture for those of you who have missed the happiness. Division 4 team WALE sign up for Excello Open get a pretty meh 18th seeding out of 28 (28 sign-ups sort it out guys!) no expectations, no fears, just the following 7 guys having a good time taking on the world [of TF2]:

 Gonçalo ‘VoLuM’ Formiga (First 2 maps)
Skander ‘skeej’ Zouali(The rest)
 Luke ‘Stark’ Hageman
 Asaf ‘Sorrow’ Spira
 Alex ‘Dummy’ Slawinski
 Tim ‘Tim’ Moss
 Dovydas ‘ColDas’ Maziliauskas

 Greaver – I tracked down  enigma from Classic Mixup and caught up with him to hear his thoughts on ESEA LAN, upcoming changes to his awesome teamfortress.tv stream aggregation site and learn more about the man himself. For those living under a rock the size of Europe enigma has been around for many seasons playing at the top level of competitive Team Fortress 2 in North America – namely the ESEA Invite League.

I must be having a slow day – I used my headset mic for the interview but had my casting mic configured in my recording software, this would be fine if it wasn’t a few feet away from my face -_-

svfrey — ….in which we talk about their organization, their history with TF2, and sponsorship.

For those readers who may not be familiar with you, would you mind introducing yourself?

Hello, and thanks for the interview. My name is Jason Lake, and I am the founder and CEO of compLexity Gaming. I’ve been in the eSports scene for about 9 years now.

Given that you work at pretty well-known gaming organization, you must’ve had some history with the vidya: what games did you/do you still play competitively?

Over the past couple years I’ve spent a great amount of time playing HALO and Lego games with my young son. (Gotta start them somewhere!) Lately, I’ve enjoyed StarCraft2 and Battlefield 3 when I’m not playing with him. I’ve also built a couple Minecraft kingdoms for my young kids. Guess I’m not too hardcore these days, haha.