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Interview de Sephi, joueuse n!faculty
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| Hello Sephi, anyone following the female Counter-Strike: Source scene and more recently the CSGO scene knows you. In 2007, on CSS, you started to play at a competitive level, you endorsed the role of captain for the Female French team where you and your teammates won the European championship twice, against Spain and Germany respectively. With Global Offensive, you've joined Reason.Gaming where several nationalities were mixed (Belgium, Spain, Sweden...). You reached the third place at the World Cup. Looking back, what were the best memories of your career? My best memories were, by far, all the lan events I've competed in. I participated in so many with my ex-teammates Tetrah, Aphro and Chiffon (previously Crystal-Serv), and I always had a good time with them even if this didn't reflect in our results. I also have a fond memory of the competitions I play leading the French team, because, even with little preparation, we produced excellent results and it's the biggest competition Source has seen. Futhermore, I recently had the opportunity to play at the ESWC and it's one of the biggest moments of my "career". Climbing this high on the podium of such a huge event with a team created only a couple of months before, it can't be anything else than a great memory! Despite this respectable third place, Sonia has left Reason for Ubinited (World champions in title) and you seem to be playing for n!faculty which is, this time, composed of only three nationalities (three Germans, a Belgian and you). All of this is kind of foggy for us, maybe you can enlighten us as to the reason why Sonia left? What are your Reason ex-teammates going to do? And, more importantly, what can you tell us about your teammates and your project at n!faculty? Sonia decided to leave Reason.Gaming when we got back from the ESWC for personnal reasons which I am not going to expose here. I respect her choice and hope that she will do well in her new team. In the meantime, Anita made the choice to leave too, her gaming objectives had changed, she now wants to evolve in a Swedish team and values the proximity in her new team. Concerning Kaat and Abiii, I know nothing about their projects but I think they're taking a break in order to enjoy the festivites of the end of the year and that they're planning to rebuild a team by the end of January. About me, I've decided to join n!faculty with JeNnY and äliz. To fill this line up, we called upon Antonia, who played for Mousesport and ALTERNATE on 1.6, and KiTTy-KaT who was in PMS on 1.6 too. You will see us in Lyon (France) early February for the Espilan#10 and also at the Copenhaguen Games (Denmark) in March.
I find the scene finally developped enough to give a good show. I come from Source and, in that version, it was really hard to gain visibility because there were too few teams and not enough general skill. The scene is finally getting more professionnal with more sponsors, more motivated gamers and bigger competitions reserved for us, ladies. The players are getting better because they got the motivation to train and they strive to become the best and win the title of female world champion. That's what was missing on Source, for exemple. I was also very surprised to see, after the ESWC, many girls from 1.6 deciding to return to competition and creating teams with Source players. I'm sure that in the upcoming months, the scene is going to become even more interesting. Many lans seem to be interesting in the female scene, for exemple the CPH, the Anjougames (France) or the Epsilan 10, where you're already signed up. With so many competitions announced, how do you see 2013? Are you going to participate in all these events? 2013 is going to be really great for the female community. It was nice to have a tournament for us at the ESWC, but to see that even bigger competitions are interested in us and throughout the season is even better! With the Master Français du Jeu Vidéo (French Video Games Masters) establishing a female circuit in France, I hope the french teams will make the effort to invest in these competitions. It's a real advantage for them, in comparison with the other nationalities, to have a series of events in order to practice and train before international lans. About my team, we're already going to the CPH and the Epsilan for sure. Further down the line, we can’t yet know for sure. Obviously, if the Dreamhack organises something for us, we'll try to attend! So, you're training for your first offline event in February in Lyon. What is your training rythm? Who’s leading? How do you communicate and in which laguage? I can't answer that question yet, we've only been together a few days and it's Christmas time. I think that, in January, we'll start to train five days a week from 8pm to midnight. With regards to leadership, we're not sure about that yet. I used to do it when I was in Crystal-Serv, but, I'm not sure I can do it again, especially not in French, because we speak in English most of the time (even if I try to speak german from time to time but that's not going well!). It may be a bit too soon to tell yet, but who are the players and/or the teams you fear the most? Of course, Ubinited is the team I'm the most afraid of. They already put up a strong performance at the ESWC and I guess that they will do even better with Sonia. I'm also afraid of ALTERNATE. Even if they've been irregular these past few weeks, especially with their loss in the quarter finals of an ESL female cup against a mix, they showed a good level at the ESWC. Finally, I'm also watching out for the French teams. The move of many 1.6 players scares me a bit, because I know they can become really strong really fast and that they have a lot of experience.
Of course i'm interested in the male scene, but from afar. I try to be informed on what's going on, to follow competitions, to watch some streams and to see how things are evolving. But I must confess that I'm not really aware so I can't explain to you how and why NiP is dominating. For the favourite team, even if I like VG, I would say NiP. About the player, KennyS. He's so impressive and even more so when you know that he's the youngest and the last to enter his team. As a conclusion, we'll be talking about some technical stuff, gossip and there’ll be a bonus question. Technically, how does a team such as yours organise itself? In wich country is your server located in? Our server is in Germany. It's the only solution we found to prevent my teammates from biting my head off while shouting « Scheiße französisch server! » ("Shitty french server"). It's hard to live with three Germans... As for gossip, why did you decide to play with strangers? Not enough skill in France for you or couldn't you get along with the top French female players? That's a good question. Let say that after getting a feel of an international team with Reason.Gaming, it would be hard for me to go back with a French team. I learn a lot from the girls from other countries. It helps me with my English and recently with my German (even if besides insults I haven't learnt a word *laughs*); I can discover a lot of cultures, new things. I think I was a bit bored by the French scene so I tried an international adventure. And I've found that really interesting and enriching, so, why not keep going on with it? About French girls, for me they have more than enough skill and they have everything it takes to be the best, no doubt about that. I mostly have good relationships with them, we do a lot of pick-up together. I started to look somewhere else because I was on the look for a change, but I'm sure I could also find something as good in a French team. Bonus question: a question I ask myself a lot, aren't you too talkative during your practices? Everything depends on the kind of practices. For "official" games, we concentrate as hard as we can for the whole match. For training, we try to play as seriously as possible but we end up messing around sometimes. After all, it's a game and it's more pleasant to play in a relaxed atmosphere! Thank you Sephi for all your answers and happy Christmas and new year! Thank you for this interview and thanks VaKarM for your interest in the female scene, I also thank everyone who supports us. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Epsilan's staff for listening and for organising a tournament for us which looks as though it's going to be briliant. Finally, I thank n!faculty because it's thanks to them that we're able to go to the Epsilan. Merry Christmas! |
You can also read our previous interviews of NiP|Fifflaren (English), VG|NiaK (French) or VG|Ex6TenZ (English). In a totally different style, you can listen to the surprise interview of Sébastien "KrL" Perez (French) about his homecoming to France.
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