andreasaswardh is in The Spotlight!
Hey Guys!
Marru here, This time I'm doing a Spotlight by myself, next time Mr D might be back doing it himself.
With me at The Spotlight today I have a really good Swedish player - andreasaswardh ;)
Im catching him after his friendly game against Cronos, which was really even!!
Andreasaswardh took home the win, well done!
Were you nervous during the game?
Hello there marru. Yes of course I was nervous, I've always had that problem... being really nervous during those kind of games. But it was a really fun game as well : )
Okay, well I don't think anyone noticed =))
And now, maybe a stupid question to ask but for those who hasn't figured it out, what's your name?
My name is Andreas Åswärdh so now you all know and don't keep calling me anything else ; )
Oh yeah now you folks know what his nick stands for ^^,
Before we go on to the questions about SP, I'll ask some more personal questions.
How old are you?
I'm nineteen years old.
Cool, where do you live and are you born and raised there?
I live on the Swedish east coast in the city of Norrköping, I've lived here all of my life.
So, do you like it there? Have you ever thought about moving somewhere else?
Yeah, I think it's quite ok just a little too small. I've been thinking of moving for some time now but I'm still going to school here. I'll probably move when I'll start studying on university, but that will not happen until the autumn of 2009 because I'm so tired of school at the moment and need a break from it. Where I don't know but I think and hope it'll be somewhere far far away from Norrköping =)
That answers my next question about whether you study or work.
Cool, is Örebro too close? ;)
Hehe, I really don't have any idea of where I'll study at the moment, but does Örebro even have a university? ; )
Hahahhaa, I should know - of course we have one here, I live nearby it ^^,
Do you have any other hobbies besides Shockplay?
Yes I do. I like being with friends of course and I'm in to sports especially ice hockey and football (soccer), but I don't practise neither.
Although my studies take a lot of my sparetime so I have to give priority to the studies.
Okay another football freak on my hands ^^, but good your prioritization is in the right place.
Now we will move into more questions about SP.
When did you find your way to Shockplay, and how?
I started playing couronne at the Swedish site Blip and played there for three months. One day someone, I don't know who, gave me a tip off Shockplay and I was stuck the moment after I registered. This was sometime during the late winter or early spring of 2007.
So you haven't played so long, as you are good at this - did you have someone that teached you some shots or trained you up?
The only one who taught me any special shot was Orebronx, he taught me the ungluer, but the most of my shots me and Bobby.C figured out on our own during the summer of 2007.
You see, Örebro is a place with nice ppl hehe. Oh you did? How awesome =)
Now you are up in Elite chasing the elite golds - do you think you will get another in the near future?
Yep, hehe. Yeah I've been quite close the latest four or is it three weeks? But Zimond is an awesome player so he has been a well-earned winner. I'm going for the gold every week but if I can get rid of those stupid mistakes I always do I could actually win another gold in the near future. =)
Yes he sure is, sounds good - keep on going for it :)
Is there anything else you want to achieve at Shockplay? Like getting up to backgammon elite? ;)
I surely will, hehe, but well I want to make friends of course. The gammon elite you say? It will take some time I guess, haven't got a single match played in my division this week but that hasn't anyone else so I'm placed first with zero matches played : D
Hahaha oh not a single game yet? That's bad ;) I know the feeling, it's hard to catch ppl
in the lower divisions these days...
What kind of new games would you want to have at Shockplay when version 3 arrives?
Hehe, so you've been there as well? =)
I can't come up with any ideas at the moment I'm very pleased with those games that already exists today.
Yes I have, I was almost about to quit because I got bored of not being able to get my games played =D
Sounds good that you are pleased, and hope there will be many new games that will be as fun as these old ones.
Is there anything else you would want to see changed at Shockplay?
I have given some proposals to DaCa and Rocketman. The main one is to be able to change the resolusion on the monitor when you play shockplay.exe because I find it very annoying that the couronne board is so streched when I play on my widescreen monitor.
Ok, hope they will listen =)
Who are your favourite player(s) to play against?
There are very many players I like to play for fun but to name a few: GodisGuden, Orebronx, and MrCarl.
And the player that I think is best at the moment must be Zimond but Müller must be the one I think is the best ever... even though I haven't seen players like Hektor because as you all know I didn't play back then. : )
Ok, they are all a nice bunch of ppl =) Also top players.
Now we have come to the last question, If there was a team league in couronne with 2 players in each team , which player would you want to have by your side?
That's a very though question there are a couple of players I'd like to play with but if I have to pick one I'd pick Orebronx.
Yea, kinda hard decision hehe, good choice!
Thanks for participating in The Spotlight Andreas; I had a fun time interviewing you!
No problems at all, I had a nice time being interviewed : )
Cheesus, The Spotlight is back!
Hey folks!
Tonight its girls night, me (marru) and Kat have done a interview for the spotlight :)
We took over the Spotlight for this time because we have kicked out Mr D from the house for a couple of days! =D
Now he is home again when this is published but yeye ;)
This was meant to be a Spotlight of 2 ppl but for some reasons it wont be.
So therefore this interview will not be so long.
Well, with us we have our champ Cheese. =D
Lets proceed.. whats your real name?
Martin
Great... another Martin to pick on ;) as we already knew.. but maybe the rest didnt!
So... you are the admin for gammon league.. what do you like about that?
I like it, its mostly fun, but some people are complaining to much about nothing
OK must be tough sometimes..how did you come in contact with Shockplay in the first place?
like the most people i think, i was a member on miniclip first , and then somebody give me a free week.
Cool, is this your main hobby and how much time do you spend on having fun vs. being a admin? Also, which take most time?
Naa football is my passion, i will spend a lot of time on that this summer, I hope we will met the Swedish so we can show you how to play football, being an admin cost me less time (sorry for my bad english)
Okay, fun but me and Kat are not at all interested in watching football - at most if Beckham takes his shirt off ;)
So what do you do for a living so you can afford all the beer to the football games?
thats because you havent seen me :)
Oh are you suggesting something? Bring it on! But sure we have seen you, with your shirt on and it was a blessing for the eye ;)
well ............... maybe it was an ugly shirt but i have the body from a young guy :))
Lets move on.. Who are your favourite player(s)?
ittle boo 1 is a favourite and she lives in a great country and there is a finnish twin they like to sweep my but and there is a jong kid Mayhem I call him skipppy becouse he is from Australia and ofcourse the mad one Mr D and woodchip :)
oh i forget someone the Danish Bordherren
hehe wonder who those finnish twins are who you are refering too;) mm we cant forget about that danish maniac ;) And which player do you think is / has been the best ever?
I think Zimond is the best player at this moment but guys like godis, Puffe and Mathe are really good but i will beat them soon :)
Thats the spirit!
Well..so long - which of the current games on shockplay would you want to see in league games too that already isnt?
Two Tribes ofcourse
Hahah so obvious - are you really good at it? Would you win the gold every week?;)
in two tribes i think i am one of the better players but that isnt difficult becouse nobody play that game
Cool, or well not because you so often try to get me (marru) to play it against you =D I still havent accepted your challenge but as I have said I will play against you ONE time this year - and I decide when ;)
Hehe are there some games that arent on Shockplay yet that you would like to have here?
naa, i am satisfied with couronne, that was the game what tooks me to shockplay, but i am looking forward to play two tribes with you, youre twin and \mr D but he is a fegis :)
We know hes such a fegis ^^, Are there any other features you would want to have here at shockplay? (like extended profiles, to see who have checked your profile etc...)
naa i dont care who wants to see my profile, but it would be nice when we can see in our tournaments who beats who as the same in our leagues
Good point! And that was it.
Thanks for being with us on The Spotlight and keep doing a good job as admin!
Over and out / Marru and Katjziska
05-03 Hektor in spotlight his couronne story
Grab your popcorn, lean backward and enjoy, here is the story!:
My little Couronne story
My first contact with Couronne came from my older brother who introduced me to the free-of-charge site http://www.couronne.nu/. It was a really popular site which they eventually had to close down due to its high maintenance cost. Raketspel seems to refuce ads on their sites, which to me is ludicrous, I believe Shockplay would be a huge international site if they funded it with ads and made if free-of-charge. I was really terrible back then, when I played my brother we just pushed each other's chips behind the line. Neither of us really knew how to get them out of there so a one set game could last 30 minutes. But we had lots of fun, I guess I took a liking to it more than he did.
When they had closed, I kind of quit playing Couronne and took up my Warcraft 3 career again which had been on ice. But it wouldn't last long till I got curious of Shockplay. Back then they had a free week tryout, I took the offer and I was really impressed with the site. When the week was up I paid for another month, I was hooked. My first day at Shockplay, I believe was around the 10th of May 2003. One of my first games was against Rocketman, I was extremely impressed with his skills and wanted to beat him badly, when my brother joined the site we kind of competed to be the first one to beat him. My brother won that when he beat Rocketman two weeks later or something like that.
The first couple of weeks I didn't progress much. I just played with the first few friends I had at Shockplay for fun. But then I started beating a couple of good players which made me want to be even better. My points started increasing (points were the only way of measuring the skill of a player back then) and soon I found myself being in the top 15. At this time I had my first encounter with the two high score leaders, Royal and Ugglepuffe, to my surprise, I managed to play 2-2 in games against Royal and I believe I beat Ugglepuffe. I do remember though that I got really pissed at Puffe, I thought he was a prick cause he was talking too much, saying stuff like "nice shot!" and "you're so good" on almost every shot which I think is really lame, because most people who are competitive only do those things to annoy their opponent. I don't know his motives but at the time I thought he was a prick.
As the summer passed I kept climbing the high score list. At this time I had my first encounter with Inqy who was a real legend, he was the player who was the reigning champion of Couronne Masters. I had seen his cool trophy in his profile so I challenged him immediately. I remember asking him about that trophy and how he got it. I finished the game by telling him, next time it's going to be me! He didn't care too much about it because I wasn't all that good then. But we kept playing a lot and became good friends, we practiced a lot against each other and exchanged ideas about the game.
At the end of the summer, they introduced the Shocking News! at the frontpage of the site. They published clean sweeps and stuff like that. They didn't count them until a few weeks later. It was a really cool feature back then that they started counting sweeps which gave all the top players a new incentive to keep on pushing their game. After the first day, Jaya the Cat lead the charts with something like 12 sweeps, followed by Matrix Power and me. The following day Jaya didn't play that much and I took the lead with Matrix Power right behind me. After that I didn't let go of it for two years or something like that.
Matrix Power was sort of my nemesis on Shockplay. We we're rivals, both of us were fairly new but had advanced to the top during the summer of 2003. We played a lot against each other and pushed each other to become even greater. Hands down he is certainly one of the best players I've ever played and a really cool guy. He had a big mouth but that's okay when you can walk the walk.
At this time, the beginning of the fall of 2003, we got a new member at Shockplay who would really stir things around. S-M-V came over for a visit from Miniclip, there had been a lot of talk about him by the people who played at both sites. My first encounter with him ended by he beating me badly 2-0 in games. I was thinking to myself, who is this guy? He truly pushed you to be at you're a-game or you'd lose. Second time around I came out on top, I had managed to read his game and was able to take advantage of his weaknesses. I still think that he is one of the greatest to have ever played this game, he later changed his name to Cyclone although he never admitted it, at first Cyclone claimed not being from the same country, although his IP said he was from Bahrain like S-M-V. He later said he was S-M-V's son or something like that. Although I still to this day believe they are the same person.
Back to the stir S-M-V brought with him, some of the players at Miniclip had discovered that if you have two mice with a ball inside them you could remove the wheel spinning sideways, by plugging in both of them you had a straight shooting mouse and a normal one. I became aware of this fact by one of those players who played at Miniclip, I immediately believed this to be cheating, went to Rocketman to make him aware of this glitch, I also made the entire Shockplay community aware of the cheat. Mostly to make Rocketman act as fast as he could, I also came up with a solution to the problem, Rocketman was not as convinced by it as I was, he believed a lot of the more non-serious players would be annoyed and start complaining. It would take months and months before he implemented the Random Angle Fix.
The league started later that fall, I had been chosen to beta-test it and played alright there, didn't take it too seriously. When the actual league started I was stoked, didn't expect that much. But I wanted to finish in the top 3. To my surprise, I managed to be at my a-game that week and won all nine games. It really pleased me to have won the first league week ever and tried to focus on keeping my game up for next week. Although I lost one game the second week to Puffe, I managed to win the remaining eight games so I won again.
At this time I managed to convince my long time friends GodisGuden and sese to come join Shockplay. They had mocked me playing Couronne for a long time. They were playing "real games" like Counter Strike. GodisGuden and I met nine years ago while we were 15 years old playing Starcraft: Brood Wars online, since then we have met in real life a couple of times. Sese and I met eight years ago also playing Starcraft and the three of us has been really close friends ever since. At the beginning they were like my Guinea Pigs for practicing against, but they picked up the game really fast and were elite players after only a month or two at Shockplay.
During week four or five of the league, The Wolf got really mad at me during a league game because I refused to talk during games believing it to be rude to speak while someone else was playing. He was of the exact opposite opinion believing one should give credit to people after they did a great shot. He gathered up his posse of friends and they all accused me of cheating, abusing the straight shooting glitch. They convinced a bunch of people that I was cheating, how else could anyone win every week of the league. I responded to their slander at the forums and I got a lot of support from a lot of the respected guys at Shockplay. I sort of shook the most of it away after a week or two. While some to this day still believes that I cheated. My quest to fix the cheat had backfired at me. People who would have never known about this glitch if it hadn't been for me letting them know about it accused me of cheating. It was really annoying to me since I had really been pushing Rocketman to implement the fix while they were trash talking me behind my back and accusing me of cheating.
I sort of shook it off eventually, it took a couple of weeks. The seventh week of playing I only finished 4th in the league. I had been hospitalized for 3 days at the beginning of the week and wasn't able to play all that well when I got back. The week after that I managed to win again. But Matrix Power had improved his game a lot and won the 9th week.
The weeks progressed and I was waiting for the next Couronne Masters to come. It's early 2004 by now and I really wanted to get that trophy I had told myself to win the next time I got the chance. The league wasn't that fun anymore I wanted a bigger challenge. Since there was a lot of rivalry between Miniclip and Shockplay, Rocketman decided to invite everyone from Miniclip and Shockplay to participate in the tournament. It was named Shockplay Vs. Miniclip and was replacing Couronne Masters that year. It would take place in March to April of 2004 if I don't recall wrong. All the best players from both communities were participating in a showdown. Eventually Shockplay slaughtered Miniclip only sending 2 or 3 players to the final 16 round where none managed to stay in the top eight. In my first game I believe I played Cronos, I won, that's about all I remember.
Next game, in the semifinal I was facing sese. He had me by the balls that game, I believed I was losing it badly, I was down two to nothing in a best of seven game. He was just playing better than me, he was simply amazing. I couldn't get a grip of the game, but fighting for the third set, his temper got the best of him, missing an easy shot he got pissed and just wanted to leave, he started to get anxious and I managed to come back and win the game. Sese later joined the league where he had won all eight games, when he lost his ninth he resigned from the league, that's the kind of temper he had.
On the other side of the bracket, GodisGuden had beaten The Wolf in the other semifinal. So I was facing him in the final game of the tournament. I prepared as much as I possibly could to beat him off as GodisGuden was really amazing. Back then he actually played strategically too, he pushed and had marks for most shots. This game went exactly the way I wanted it and I managed to win 4-0. So there we had it I had won the Couronne Masters followed by my two closest online friends GodisGuden and sese, who had beaten The Wolf in the bronze medal game. Even though GodisGuden never really enjoyed pushing or doing gentle breaks he can still outshine almost anyone even when playing stoned or drunk. Amazing sweeper, he truly deserves the spot as the sweep king of Shockplay.
I had reached my goal to win the next Couronne Masters just as I had told Inqy, I was extremely pleased with myself to have reached my goal in Couronne. I had won 20 out of the first 25 weeks in the league. I had somewhere around 1500 sweeps, the runner up had around 600. I felt I had nothing left to prove to myself in this game. I left the league and after this I have only played sporadically. I have been in the Backgammon league where I've won one week. I was the admin of the Couronne league for a while and the Backgammon league for 101 weeks.
Well that's the story of my couronne career, hope you enjoyed reading about it.
Best regards,
Hektor
