UKTerrorist

Amadeus: My name is Anton Ericson, I'm 17 years old. I live in Sweden in a small town called Nyköping. My role in #QRadio is commentating CS-games and I'm also trying to dj music from time to time.

Woozy: I am 20 years old, from Sweden and I started Qradio so I am an Admin.

Amadeus: I've only been on Qradio for some months so I don't know so much about the history. But, #QRadio provides gamers online with live broadcasting from a lots of big games, tournaments, etc...

Woozy: QRadio was started by me. I was supposed to play some nice tunes for some friends, then it got very popular so I started the name and channel QRadio. Then my friends started to play and other people that wanted to be a part of QRadio to and the channel got very popular then I got a message from Beefcake that wanted to talk to me about starting commentating UT games so we did.

Woozy: I think it is now, before we started noone hardly knew about Live radio shoutcasters and now they got used to it its taking a big place in online gaming.

Amadeus: Well, I really do. There are a lot of problems with HLTV and matchbots and so on, and HLTV only allows like 128 people watching. QRadio is covering up for about 7-900 people so there is enough room for everybody that wants to hear the best music and the best commentating on the net!

Amadeus: I only knows that it stands for QuakenetRadio, and NOT QuakeRadio :)

Woozy: Hehe no that’s wrong, it doesn’t stand for Quakenet Radio and not Quake Radio, its only QRadio. I got the name because we are on Quakenet so then I thought the Q would be nice, but its not Quakenet Radio.

Amadeus: Umm ok my mistake :)

Amadeus: That's a decision for Woozy and other admins to take. But if that is the decision, then we should have different channels for CS/UT/RtCW/etc so that everyone can enjoy their favourite game at anytime.

Woozy: We're taking it slow, we are still a very small radio. we cover so many games that we can, this is only a spare time thing. But you never know what happens in the future.

Woozy: I like to stream and I know other people do too, but they don’t have any servers to do it from, so you could say that I created this because I like to stream myself and it would be nice to let other people try it as well

Amadeus: Will it ever be "finished"?

Woozy: I can answer it like this; that's not up to me to say, that’s up to our listeners...

Amadeus: I hope QRadio one day can be the official CPL-commentator station.

Woozy: Don't know, that depends on our admins, djs, etc. Without them this wouldn’t work at all.

Amadeus: You know, Swedish people trying to commentate games like 2 hours, then your English really suck, at least mine does. So a lot of people often complain about my speak-speak and so on.

Woozy: Nothing really, everyone that listen to us like what we are doing, and for them who doesn’t we're not forcing anyone to listen. This is only supposed to be fun for all.

Amadeus: I'm impressed by Woozy and his work with QRadio, I really am.

Woozy: Hmm, hard questions, I guess I am because this was only supposed to me for my friends at first, and it have already got this big on 5months and I never expected that.

Woozy: Hehe yes a big thing, listen to us! And tell your friends about us, and of course we need more djs and commentators.

Amadeus: I think the best way to make us better is to criticise us with good opinions and tell us what we could do better, that’s a good way how to improve QRadio's standard.

Woozy: When I commentated last time QRadio wasn't that big so I only got on the stream a couple of minutes before and had a lot of fun. But I'll leave this question to Amadeus.

Amadeus: Well, I try to gather some information about the teams, talking to some players and stuff like that, I go to the local Turkish-shop and get a lot of coke and then I get back to my house and try to be alone for some hours, lets say the time for me to prepare commentating a game is about 1* day or some... But it's very funny though!

Amadeus: First of all I go to Clanbase and check up what matches that is going to get a lot of publicity, then I talk to Woozy, tell him that I want to do commentating on lets say NiP vs. Matrix. He sets me up for it by talking to the Clanbase Admins and I'll start to make a commercial for it when I’m DJ'ing.

Amadeus: I'll hand that one over to Woozyz0r.

Woozy: You should have basic knowledge in shoutcasting. Only thing you have to do is to come to our channel or to our homepage and email us with your skills. We will email you back when its QRadio Tryout Night, and then we try everyone that’s wants to try. We won't explain anything with shoutcast stuff, because we don’t have time for it, so if you don't know basic things you will be immediately put off the test stream...

Although we do have a Soundcheck Admin that answer questions like 1 week before the tryout night.

Woozy: Of course there is, with the right offers.

Amadeus: Ohh long story. I started out as a newbie (didn’t we all?) in a clan called TSZ (The Snow Zombies) playing prodigy all the time :), this was around beta 3.5 or some. Then I moved on in CS joining a clan called Clan OSS, and when I got tired of that, I joined up with a clan called XiSM, doing different stuff for them. They were on first place in Sweden on the CB-ladder so they were pretty good. Then I got tired of playing with so high-ranked players so I moved down some divisions to a clan called okay player. But we had some different opinions so I just joined up with a clan called gNu with players like Wagberg, Larsson and them, my best internet-friends today I think, we changed our name to XscreaM and here I am. :)

Woozy: I've played Unreal Tournament for almost a year. I've played CS for 10 minutes as well. =)

Amadeus: Well, I would NOT want to play on levels like NiP's level (WC) or levels where it's about money. I have noticed good players on different clans now a days only care about the money and they don't use the game for fun. No no, now it’s about the money. So I think it's been a bad evolution. Play for fun for f***'s sake! :)

Amadeus: Nothing is impossible, some things are only a bit harder to obtain. That's my opinion. If you just have the right people to talk to and the right opinion about certain things, then of course you can get sponsored.

Amadeus: I really like Eurocup, nice admins, nice games, nice teams and so on. Although I think they should have certain rules for using wildcards (some teams use wildcard cause they have to screw their girlfriend and so on) so they should get better rules (if they have any) for using wildcards!

Woozy: I can't really answer that question as this is the first Eurocup I am in and it works pretty ok. You cant demand it to work to 100% when all supervisors and admins do it for fun, they don't get anything for it expect shit when they do something wrong.

Amadeus: Nah, rokkin all night long, tell them to listen to more QRadio though! :)

Woozy: As i said it works ok, you cant demand it to work to 100% when they do it on their spare time. But I am impressed it works so good that it is .

Amadeus: Well, you probably know NiP got out of EC5 (that’s good!) and now, I really think Matrix will get this one! They have the aim and teamplay to do it. Although, there are also good teams out there like Massive Attack, iddqd, Ewoks, etc.

Amadeus: Umm.

Woozy: Hehe, no not really, but it's fun for sure.

Amadeus: Both yes and no, I'm also trying to have a life outside only sitting and doing nothing on IRC, playing CS, etc, etc. But yes, some of my life are a lot of cybersports. Right now its too much into "usual" peoples lifes, everyone knows about this right now, and money's getting involved and gahhhh!! Get real, this is a game, no job!

Amadeus: It has grown too fast and too big. Newbies on CS play with luck, they can easily own me only because of luck. And 90% of those #R()=#€=) cheaters are under 15 years of age, so I think that they should put an age-limit on CS! :D

Amadeus: Haha, I also work at the site www.gamingeye.com so we write a lot about UKTerrorist.com - and I like the page but I don't visit it so often though. :/

Woozy: Hahah, of course we do, otherwise we wouldn't agree to this interview.

Amadeus: In my opinion, I think that regular CB-games are to common, they are so unsexy! :/

Woozy: It's pretty much up to the Commentator, I am not saying complete no to regular games but commentators usually want to commentate important and big games.

Amadeus: Hell yeah! :)

Amadeus: Well, we ain't connected with HLTV, commentators like me, connect as a spectator.

Woozy: We don't comment through HLTV, we have a spectator place on the server that we use.

Amadeus: Umm... 90% of our commentating is on ClanBase games, so it is very important for QRadio.

Woozy: We comment a lot of CB games but we don’t have any contract with them.

Amadeus: Same to you there! Thank you for doing this interview and good luck yourself.

Woozy: Thanks for showing interest in us.