Tuesday, 09 May 2000 - Griff
MM Leader oWo Interview
RoPo, our new polish reporter was so nice to track down oWo, leader of the fanous Q2/Q3 Clan Memento Mori and interview him about the inactivity, Eurocup and more. I know oWo through columns and messageboard entries as a quite controverse person with interesting views and he prooves this once more. Here they go:

RoPo: Hi, first congrats to MM for great game in Eurocup
oWo: Hehe, EuroCup was never ment to be for us.. =)

RoPo: First question, you lost with AM in quarter finals, what was the cause ? Tactics, teamplay or something else ?
oWo: Right, I saw this one coming. =) Ok, I am not gonna make any excuses.. I will try to explain this from my pov though. MM has over the last 6 months slowly gone into a state of 'idleness' Scion, Shub, Dark, Msag and myself have started to play EveryQuest and in order to keep a Q3 team up and running we have been forced to recruit new members 
hm, how do I put this.. 
MM was no longer what it once was it used to be a bunch real life friends that went to LANs to have fun but when Q3 came out it simply didn't appeal to us we wanted to keep a team running though.. I guess because we like to compete at the highest level, and I guess also because we were expected to. 
In the mentioned match against AM, there was only one player from the 'good old MM' playing, Dark. and even he has a lvl 40+ EverQuest character now.
We just wanted to finish up the EuroCup thing before we called it a day fact is, we should have done so 6 months ago. 
AM played a good game though, and what was left of MM did not, they fully deserved to win, and thats that.

RoPo: You chose DM6, why ?
oWo: hehe, you should probably direct map and tactic specific questions about Q3 to Dark or Blue since I havent been playing at all.. I know its their favourite map, thats about it though. =)

RoPo: And now question about AM :) What do you think about AM and their chances in Eurocup ?
oWo: Hehe, they are obviously a good team.. but personally I think they will have some problems beating both Eye and SK. We'll see though. =)

RoPo: MM retire from fps gaming, when we'll see you again ?
oWo: We'll probably be back as the good old MM you saw in Q2 as soon as a new good FPS game pops up.. Hopefully we'll be able to get some better connections then ISDN in the years to come as well.

RoPo: but will you play q3 ?
oWo: Well, only time will tell. Right now the idea is not ll that appealing. But if we get some better connections this fall we just might give it another shot. 

RoPo: Other question now. What do you think about upcoming cpl map issue ?
oWo: Right, I have never been a huge fan of custom made maps. I guess if the maps are good and 'everyone' likes em its ok its not ok just because Hoony or Methos likes em though 
and since its kinda hard to determine these things, its generally just as well to leave them alone however, I'd be the first to admit that Q3 has some map issues.. and a couple of good maps might improve the game alot. Question is who decides what maps to use and not.

RoPo: will you go to Europe CPL, it's not far away from Norway to Stockcholm ?
oWo: I think I will go there as a spectator yes, I am not 100% sure yet though.. depends on work and stuff. 

RoPo: Now question about Blue :), he left MM to Nine, any opinions ?
oWo: Sure =] 
Blue left MM for 9 after we made it clear that we were putting our Q3 team on ice. 
Since Blue wanted to continue playing Q3 on a semi-serious basis, it was perfectly understandable that he would join another clan when the rest of us were gonna focus on playing EQ. In fact, I even encouraged him to join 9, since they are by far the best clan in europe right now they are swedish, they have a very nice connection etc 

RoPo: Doomer said he's one of the best players in Europe, do you think that he have any chances to won cpl Europe ?
oWo: I think Blue is the best player in Europe right now. It is my understanding that there will be a bunch of americans and maybe a few koreans at the CPL Europe event though 
so there might be some heavy competition. I think he is the best T4 player in the world, and I know that he is an amazing allrounder from when I played him in Q2 so he certainly has the potential if he practises seriously.

Ropo: Ok, that will be all, thx for your time, and gl in Everquest :))
oWo: Hehe thanks, going back to Norrath right now ;]