Hello, my name is Konstantin, I'm 19 years old. One of my hobbies is playing Counter-Strike and also I'm training for paintball. I'm not only captain, who gathered together all players, but also in-game leader. In real life, I'm web developer.

I'm playing Counter Strike since 2000. During my career played for different top teams, also tried to manage own team. The best known could be Hacker IT, when we qualified for ASUS series cup in Moscow. For the past two years I have no active team. My goal is raising counter-strike's popularity in Latvia and I'm hosting own project with free game servers for everyone.

Scene is very poor presented, almost no new talented players in last 3-4 years and few teams at all. We have up to 5 teams. By team I mean not the 5 random players who play everyday tournaments, but real squad, who practice and can compete with top teams from Lithuania and Estonia.

escalate, iGO, headache, koxx

Before the tournament, we played local online tournament once, where we managed to win, and then three on .de server, to get used to high ping. About team Serbia we knew almost nothing and prepared for the real battle, but when we started to win round by round, we knew it will be easy win for us. Then before the next round draw I though "any team, but not Lithuania" , because it's very inconvenient opponent. Before the match all odds were against us, but we proved, that we have guts.

There were two breaking moments. First, when I took eco round, by killing 4 players. Second, when we lost three on one. All the players were very sad, there was nothing to add. We did not even argued. It was very nice, that there was no tuscan on the server and we had time to cool down and get ready to fight again.

Before the match a lot of players thought that we will lose in two easy maps, because Lithuanian teams are dominating over Latvian for a long period now (5-6 years ago it was otherwise), but after the match I opened match channel, where more than 200 gamers shouted and celebrated our common victory.

Guys who where spamming this match made a great work and that's the result. By the way on the previous match we had up to 450 spectators. Thanks goes to our manager Casual and osi, they have performed great tasks. It gives us strength to fight :) I hope it will give motivation to our teams, we showed that we can beat stronger teams. It could sound sadly, but it will be forgotten very soon.

We'll try to focus on tactics, because personal skill is very competitive to my mind. Don't know the seedings yet, but I feel that we'll finish the group stage on second or third place if there will be six teams in one group.

Thanks to you for spending your time managing this great cup ;)