‘Reflections’ with lurppis
Tomi 'lurppis' Kovanen, former CS 1.6 in-game leader of 69N-28E and Evil Geniuses, and current CS:GO journalist for HLTV.org, is the star of the 33rd episode of 'Reflections'. This episode was recorded on May 9th.
Time line of topics discussed:
- 00:19 How did wings get good?
- 02:17 Winning the WEG S3 EU qualifier
- 05:32 His impact as an in-game leader in wings
- 07:45 A modern team as a reference point for wings
- 08:55 His role in 69N-28E
- 11:01 Was there another route that team could have gone?
- 13:40 The social component
- 16:15 Similar problems in Evil Geniuses
- 19:16 Theories on why his best Finnish teams had problems closing out games against top teams.
- 21:12 EG as frontrunners
- 24:07 Leadership
- 27:42 Changing good line-ups to upgrade a position, but potentially making the team weaker.
- 30:25 His criticism of fifflaren
- 33:24 The threshold of how bad a support/utility player can be.
- 36:27 What a role player should do.
- 40:19 How roles in a team are divided up.
- 42:51 f0rest vs. GeT_RiGhT
- 44:24 Thoughts on cArn's opinions on GeT_RiGhT
- 46:17 Considering the talent difference between cArn and lurppis' teams.
- 48:31 Thinking of other in-game leaders who had better talent.
- 50:43 Which great team would he most like to have led?
- 51:41 Comparing cArn and RobbaN's results when leading f0rest and GeT_RiGhT.
- 54:27 cArn's career if f0rest had joined the NiP superteam.
- 58:15 Our bias in favour of the super genius in-game leader.
- 1:01:30 The success of the strict super genius leaders.
- 1:04:30 Great players who don't win.
- 1:07:09 His job as a journalist making it so that fans think less highly of his playing career.
- 1:09:56 Fans not wanting CS to be complex.
- 1:14:09 Giving an example of separating who you think will win from who you want to win.
- 1:16:49 Players knowing more about CS than other players they are better than.
- 1:19:37 Quick-fire: most underrated CS player ever
- 1:20:02 Most overrated player ever
- 1:20:56 Most underrated player who was actually better than cArn
- 1:22:15 Could he have played in a team with cArn
- 1:22:31 Which player would he pick to win a game of life on which his life depended
- 1:23:21 Which player could lurppis have developed into a great player.
- 1:24:34 If lurppis joined a top NA CS:GO team how would it go?
- 1:25:41 Final words
