Hello Hunden, thanks for agreeing to interview today! I’ve been looking forward to writing some articles about professional CS:GO players and getting some insight into what it’s like to be in that kind of scene.

Can you elaborate on how it all got started?

Hello! Its always nice to interview with guys like you! Im very happy that you chose me to interview with! The beginning of my CS career started in 2005 in Counter-Strike: Source, I played for a lot of shitty teams until the beginning of 2009 were I started to made some top finishes at Danish events. In beginning of 2012 I played for Epsilon-Esport who finished 3rd at Copenhagen Games and became the 2nd best team in the World at the time! In CSGO I played for Copenhagen Wolves in the beginning of CS:GO and won the 1st big Danish event, and reached 5th at Dreamhack Winter 2012. After that I went on a break for almost 1½ year and became back june 2014 with myXMG.

Very cool. How much of that myXMG roster is now a part of the current CPH Wolves squad? Did you play with the same guys back in 2012 during Copenhagen Games?

I’m the only one that’s a part of the original lineup of myXMG — who was kev1n, pnx, MSL and tenzki. After tenzki left for Copenhagen Wolves (The old one), me and MSL made some big changes and bring in friis, smf and acilion and wanted to create a top team. A team who could fight with the best in the world. We have done some good results, but also some shitty results especially in the beginning of 2015! Back in 2012 I played with some more unknown players in CS:GO who was JOKERN(ex-Fnatic player), Frozt(hasn’t played GO), gla1ve and kev1n.

Gotcha. Well, in lieu of recent news, MSL joined the new dignitas roster. Does that leave you guys in some sort of limbo? Who is doing the shot calling at the moment?

Its sad to lose a player like MSL. He had a lot of experience but again, we weren’t growing as a team. So bringing in snappi and friis for CPH games seems to fit the team even more. I have done the calling since day 1 and will always be the guy who is doing the calls. Msl never did anything like that, so if people was thinking that, it was bullshit! But at the moment he is doing a great job with the Dignitas team, and that’s good for their team because they needed some real changes for sure ;-)!

Yeah I’m really excited to watch you guys grow as a team and be a top contender. Definitely seen great improvements so far. On a different note, Do you think playing CS:GO professionally is a viable option living in Denmark? Or does it end up being a part-time activity?

We try to grow as much as possible every single practice day!! The salaries you can get by playing CSGO, can pay your bills for sure! So you can live by playing CSGO in Denmark. But you have to be a top contender, or be extremely lucky by finding an awesome sponsors to pay you!

Seeing your recent results in CS:GO, you seem to have a core team together for some time now (hunden, smf, acilion, friis, snappi). How often would you guys say you practice as 5? Can you describe what that looks like?

Me, acilion smf and friis have been together for 4 month now. We have started to improve even more on our teamplay and communication have been the key word for our team when we have won important matches against some of the stronger teams! We try to practice as much as possible, we trying to get into 5 times per week with 4–5 hours each day. So that’s just a normal schedule when we don’t have any official matches, we try to keep the weekends off because in hard time you play almost 7 times because of qualifiers and you want to be ready for every single tournament!

How far ahead do you prepare for your next official match? Do you craft different strategies depending on who you are playing, or is it more focusing on your core defaults and rotations based off of that?

Its hard to say! It depends who you play against. At the moment I got a lot of school work so I cant prepare for every single team, so the teams I don’t prepare for, we have to focus on our own game and what we can read while we are playing against them! So sometimes we create some different strats but not every single time, its hard to prepare for every single team!

In terms of finding practice matches, can you explain that process to me, who finds the matches, what types of teams are usually there to practice against?

We play against the top teams, we start searching at the beginning of the day around 12:00 and search for the upcoming night on specific maps so we focus on 2 maps each night! That’s how it goes and I’m the guy who finds the games eveeeeeeeeery single night ;-)

Gotcha. I heard through another player that most teams use Get_Right’s secret facebook group. Is that one of the best ways to find scrims in EU ?

A new secret group had been made ;-) So that’s pretty much the best group at the moment, GOTCHA!

What would you say are your top 3 (in order) best maps, and top 3 worst maps? as a team?

I will keep that secret and let the statistics talk!

That’s fair ☺

What goals do you guys have as a team for the upcoming future? Are there specific tournaments you guys absolutely will give it all to qualify for?

Our next goal is for sure Copenhagen Games, try to make it as good as possible since it in Denmark. I would really love to create a good result at the event this time! So Copenhagen Game is our main goal at the moment, for the upcoming year it will be ESL Cologne!

Great! Who would you say are your biggest rivals atm? dignitas? TSM? CPLAY?

It have to be dignitas, we are in a close fight for the 2nd spot in Denmark. So we are in a close fight with them at the moment because MSL left for them ;-)

Haha that would have been my outsider pick as well ☺ — This may sound like a strange question, but do you guys feel like you have a sister team? Like someone you guys practice against a lot and are at a similar level? Today you win, tomorrow they do?

Nah not really! We try to play against as much possible teams as possible so we can try our strats against teams who dont us that good! So no “sister team” for us at the moment :-)

Is there any team that you guys … really don’t like playing against in officials? Trash-talk aside, a lot of teams tell me they really hate playing against GPlay’s style… super passive T side and hyper aggression towards last 20 seconds of each round, kind of similar to Na’Vi, but lesser known.

I hate to play against Team-SoloMid because they are danish and have extremely good team play. Gplay seems to be good because teams don’t know them yet, when people try to watch their demoes and stuff I guess they will have an extremely hard times against every single team!

Awesome. Well, thanks for agreeing to interview with me today. I will definitely be rooting for you guys to make it to Copenhagen Games and ESL Cologne as well. Really excited to see where you guys end up. Any last words you’d like to add? Things you might want people to know?

Thanks it was awesome!! I hope we will show people how good we can play if everyone is in top form! Thanks to Copenhagen Wolves and their awesome sponsors (CMstorm, komplett, dxracer, kinguin) and you can find me on Twitter http://twitter.com/hundencsgo) and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hundencsgo