Our referee Lt. R4ge, speaking for
GameReplays.org, recently interviewed Contador aka TOMITOMA, winner of CoH 1v1 Tournament XVI. Please excuse Contador's English; it is not his first language.
GameReplays.org: Hello Contador! Congratulations on winning the recent
GameReplays.org Company of Heroes 1v1 Tournament XVI!
Contador: Hello! Thank you.
GameReplays.org: Well, before we get to details about the actual tournament, let's learn a bit more about yourself. Where do you live, what you do, who are you?
Contador: My name is Mathieu, I live in Calais (in France
*big smile*), I am 17 years old and I am still in school, one more year before college.
GameReplays.org: Any plans on which university you will attend after graduation?
Contador: Nah I still don't know, I will talk about that with my parents, but I think I will do something in english or informatic.
GameReplays.org: Besides CoH, what have you been up to these past few months?
Contador: Well, I do sports like football, tennis, cycling etc... and hang out with a lot of friends
*smiles* I got two entire months of vacation before the tournament, so I did a lot of fun things.
*sticks out tongue*GameReplays.org: We all know you are a great Company of Heroes player, but do you have any other hobbies? Do you play any other games?
Contador: No Company of Heroes is the only game that I play. I play some FIFA 2010 on the Xbox360 but it's only with friends.
GameReplays.org: Well sports games are always fun with friends! Were you worried at all before the tournament, seeing as how there was much competition?
Contador: Not really, Seb was the only player who was able to beat me in my opinion, so I was afraid to play against him early like in the tournament 7 months ago. When I saw I got seed 3 and that Seb was in the other bracket I was 95% sure to go in finals without any problems.
GameReplays.org: Did you have a tough time in finals vs Guderian?
Contador: Yeah that was very hard, I never played four games that hard in my life. Plus, I was very tired before that finals, I did not sleep the night before the finals.
GameReplays.org: I saw the comments in the replays, I heard both you and Guderian almost died from not sleeping!
Contador: Lol yeah I think that was hard for us.
*sticks out tongue*GameReplays.org: In the first game of the finals, were you surprised by Guderian's odd strategy? It looked like a variation of the 4ES. The mine at the 11-12 minute mark that destroyed Guderian's two snipers was devastating, what was your reaction besides "LOL"?
Contador: No, I was not surprised. I used piospam in all my games in the tournament so he was probably expecting I would be going to use piospam again and he tried to counter it with a strange start. With a normal t1 I think he would have won to be honest. And when I killed those two snipers that was win for me
*smiles* He can't come back after such an epic mine.
The game-changing mine GameReplays.org: If I were you I would have lost the game, from spending my time laughing and not playing.
Contador: Hahaha yeah, this is not really pro. ^^
Clarification: Hahaha yeah, it would be very un-pro of you to do that.
GameReplays.org:Lt. R4GE: After losing, in the next game how did you feel after making a very close Victory Point win?
Contador: My aim was to win one game on Semois because this is the worst map for me, so I did my job. Ango is clearly a better map for my playstyle, piospam is imba on it, so I was sure to do 2-1.
GameReplays.org: Enough about CoH, let's get to the fun stuff. Random question time! Favorite ice cream flavor?
Contador: Lol penis icecream.
GameReplays.org: Interesting answer.
Contador: *big smile* Nah joking, Failkov told me to say that, what an idiot. Vanilla is my favorite.
"Failkov's" response: Tomi's English is just so bad haha. He asked me what R4GE meant with certain questions and he asked me: 'Favourite Ice cream?'. I replied with: Penis.
GameReplays.org: Hahaha, "failkov" I wonder who that is... anyhow vanilla is indeed a classic!
GameReplays.org: Stairs or elevator?
Contador: Stairs of course.
GameReplays.org: Favorite food?
Contador: Pizza, hamburgers (mcdonalds ftw
*surprised face*).
GameReplays.org: Favorite genre of music?
Contador: I dont have one, I love rap, r&b, rock, hip hop, pop. I love all genre of music!
GameReplays.org: But you didn't include, Jazz or Metal.
Contador: I dont like jazz, but metal is fine. Do you include Korn or Rammstein in metal?
GameReplays.org: I would say... Metal can be a very large genre, it contains a lot of different sub genres.
GameReplays.org: Riflemen or Volksgrenadiers?
Contador: Riflemen for sure, best unit in CoH.
GameReplays.org: Tiger or Pershing?
Contador: Tiger, Guderian and I both used it in finale.
*smiles*GameReplays.org: Likes and dislikes? (Holy crap, this is starting to sound like an online dating service!)
Contador: like and dislike in CoH?
GameReplays.org: In general, can be in game or just anything in life.
Contador: I like girls, beers, vodka, party, friends, and I love Rémy! I dislike racism and fish.
GameReplays.org: What are your plans for the future? In CoH and in real life.
Contador: In real life my first plan is to get my final exam and enter a university, and of course I want to enjoy life. In CoH I want to win the Sandland's invitational and the next 2vs2 tournament with Seb.
GameReplays.org: And finally, what does the man behind the glaring screen look like?
Contador: GameReplays.org: It was an absolute joy having you here, any final words to close the interview?
Contador: Final word: I want to say that I love Seb (EXPERT FAG), Zjoekov, Marvin, Wilson, Sannel and all people who like me in CoH
*big smile* and of course my lover Rémy <3 Thanks to GameReplays to organize nice tourneys and you for interviewing me, this is nice. Good bye!!
GameReplays.org: And there you have it! This has been Lt. R4ge for
GameReplays.org, hope you enjoyed this interview and that you'll stick around for the next tourney!