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Don’t forget that we will be handing out official Brink T-shirts to two of our European followers on Twitter.com (tomorrow May 30th)!
With Brink released in Europe just two weeks ago one might think it would be impossible to come up with a European Top 10 Rankings. Nuts you say and you might be right. But as we started planning on a monthly Brink Top 10 feature we just couldn’t resist doing one for May.
To celebrate a very great week for BRINKish.eu where our numbers have grown back to where it once was and beyond following the successful release of Brink we’ve decided to give something back to you.
In the first wave of two giveaways we will be starting with handing out a pair of official Brink T-shirts to our European followers on twitter.com/BRINKish. All you have to do is to give us a follow and in one week from now (May 30th) we will draw 2 lucky winners out of the bunch.
We will contact the winners via DM on Twitter and if we have not received a confirmation, T-shirt size and an European address to send it to we will draw a new winner until we have found our two winners.
Best of luck to you all!
/BRINKish staff with <3
BRINKish talks to Mike “mikeX” Krack from Bumblebee To The Rescue, the team who recently won the first Brink tournament, the ESL 5vs5 Release Cup.
BRINKish: Hello Mike, first congratulations for winning the ESL Release Cup, the first official Brink tournament, so to speak. Can you tell us something about who team bumblebee is, what they do and where they come from?
Mike: You are welcome. Bumblebee To The Rescue consists of the following
players: cRks, wuki, HEADi, outc1der, Shortje, aFa and me.
We all live in Germany, except Shortje who is from Austria. We know each
other for a very long time and played under the flag of such clans like
OCRANA, n!faculty and Team-SPEEDLINK. The history of the team dates back
to 2008, it was originally founded as a team for Enemy Territory:
Quake Wars.
BRINKish: Having a look at the tournament tree and your performance, one may think that you got through it easily. What are your thoughts regarding to the performance of the teams and what do you think, how will the performance of teams change within the next few weeks?
Mike: That is hard to say. Within the next few months, the
game-play-experience will change constantly through new rule-sets,
patches, improved tactics and maybe even a promod. We will see which
teams can adapt to these new conditions at best.
BRINKish: What rules do you think will gain acceptance in the community and help the game grow? What would be your main suggestions? Some people are complaining about the use of adrenaline already.
Mike: Adrenaline should be forbidden. It is a nice public feature, but not
for use in professional competition. Mines and turrets should be
restricted to a special amount per team or map.
BRINKish: Your team mainly shares an experience, ETQW and BC2. Has it been hard for you or your mates to switch to smart game-play overall? What would be the main differences in an 5vs5?
Mike: Oh no, it wasn’t hard at all. BC2 was just an experiment, during a time
when ETQW was already dead. But we still prefer objective-based games
and 5on5 over 8on8 of course. More compact teams, more real team play,
less confusion in voice etc.
BRINKish: Can you tell, do you feel like there is any difference between the launch of ETQW and Brink, when it comes to the community and the acceptance of the game? Is something better or even worse?
Mike: It is comparable. Many players from different games and communities
united by one big new game. The only distinction to ETQW: In 2008,
Counter-Strike 1.6 was still very strong, but nowadays you just can’t
deny the silent downfall anymore.
BRINKish: Have you had the time to watch some Brink matches via Brink TV? Will there be a revolution in spectating and casting a game too?
Mike: Unfortunately I’m very busy with my job, the team and of course Brink
itself. So I only managed to watched half an hour or so until today. But
it’s highly necessary that Splash Damage finally integrates the 1st
person mode for spectators and Brink-TV in a way as we know it from HLTV
or ETQW-TV.
BRINKish: What are your plans for the future and will you be still playing Brink when BF3 comes out?
Mike: We are totally focused on Brink now. It is highly unlikely that we
will ever switch to Battlefield 3. It may be a graphically impressive
game and fun to play on a 64 player server. But it is for sure not really
suitable for professional competition, because of the huge teams (8on8
due to vehicles) and the lack of support on behalf of EA.
BRINKish: All right then, thanks for brinking by and good luck for the future! You have the final word.
Mike: Thanks for the interview and a special shout-out to acemachine and faux!
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