After 5 1337-trophies, the Swedish star, g0riLLA, still keep himself at the top and hunts down his 6:th one. I got the privilege to interview this Swedish star.

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Q1: First of all, gratz to the fantastic last 5 seasons in 1337.se! How does it feel too just earn a 1337-trophy after another?

Answer: Thx! :) Well ofc it feels good being able to continously staying in the top of the swedish divisons, but at the same time, I am not very satisfied with my results last 5 seasons. I think I could have done better, but at the same time its really close up in the top, so things like luck also affects the final outcome.

Q2: How do you manage to keep yourself at the top? When you look
at 1337.se it is always like;
1. Triad • wannabe
2. dss
3. dss
4. dss
5. dss

Answer: Well I guess just by keeping on having a good enough team I would be able to stay on the top. I mean as long as I can afford replacing my older players with trained younger ones I will be able to stay. And as the economical situation looks currently in CSM its honestly not really hard. I made a profit of almost 200k last season, hence I have no problem replacing players. But yeah, dss suxx. ;) (except hagelpump, Im still completely stunned in awe by his cup win over Spi)

Q3: Do you find it hard to keep yourself up at the top, due to dss-community, that is "up in you ass" or is it really a reminder to keep you taccs as good as possible and so on?

Answer: Well they dont really have any impact on me staying in the top, they just affect which of the ~4 first positions I get. Sometimes, when I get antied, I feel its hard, that I cant face two dss-opponents in a row playing with the same taccs, because then I lose. On the other hand, sometimtes I feel the older taccs I play, the better results I get. But yeah they are definately a pain in the ass. ;)

Q4: How would you evaluate your latest seasons, 24-26?

Answer: I think I could have played better in the leauge, except season 25 ofc when I won, while Im quite satisfied with my results internationally. I guess this has to do with that my swedish opponents know my taccs a lot better.

Q5: what goals do you have for season 28? Will you make some player changes, ect?

Answer: Winning the swedish leauge again, placing on the podium in either CL or wwt. I doubt that I will suceed with this though, but one must have ambitions. :)
Im changing players as we speak. I will probably try to never get 3x year old players, but it depends a lot on the transfer list situation and other things.

Q6: since you also are a member of Triad-community, I will just ask how it's going in the community, how you help each other, ect?

Answer: We always have a friendly athmosphare and nice discussions in our forums. We discuss player and economic strategies, as well as helping each other with taccs in our community FL. In my personal opinion, we are at our best during big competetions as wwt and CL in the end of seasons, when we cheer for each others and try to help each other with analyzing oponents and such. <3 Triad. :)

Q7: Since I did a interview with you about 6 seasons ago, I won’t ask you about hobbies, but if something has changed please be kind to tell us.

Answer: Hmm I guess my life is kind of similar to what it was last time you asked, guess my studies has become more.. intense though. I still manage to log in to CSM now and then! ;)

Q8: "And btw, did you know I train teamplay for my two best players atm? ;)" - Quote from you 6 seasons ago, how did it work out for the players? Did they work better together?

Answer: Well I did max out teamplay on my players as the 7th trained skill, but I really dont know whether it helped or not. Not saying it didnt help at all, it at least didnt help enough for me to notice. Now Im training creativity instead, just to try it out. :)

Q9: And once again, something you want to add for the reader’s interest?

Answer: Hmm I cant come up with anything special right now. I have been in a funny state of mind all since last thursday when I aged to 20. To much alcohol and too little sleep ever since, I think I need joolts to recover. :D

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Thanks for the lovely interview and GL with the trophy hunting

//Zorts