Nick
Name: Cache
Real Name: Sean Shelton
Birthday: February 17th
Background: Cache
is widely known through out the world as the main guy to go to
for coverage at Cached.net on many gaming tournaments.
Questions
1: What do you enjoy most about the Holidays?
Answer:I
enjoy watching football and not having to go to work. I
enjoy going to rent 5 videos at one time and watching
them all in one day. (movies I want to watch, not movies I
think the rest of the family would enjoy)
Questions
2:Can you explain your current activity in the
gaming community? What are the games you have enjoyed since
you stopped playing Quake 1?
Answer:
I run a hardcore gaming, tournament coverage web
page. We like to focus on the competitive aspects of the
community. I stopped playing quake 1 way before I would
consider myself "hardcore". It was too
addictive.
One day I was into it
so much that I didn't realize my 2 and 3 year olds had
opened the front door and were half way down the block.
Right then, I knew I had to give that game up.
Fortunately, Q2 had just came out and it appeared to be faster
and have less latency for modem users (which I was back then).
I went with Q2 exclusively for quite a long time, even
after The PGL Died out, even after CPL had their last Q2
Tourney.
After a while, I
noticed Epic appeared to fix the latency issues in Unreal (a
game I had jumped the gun in purchasing), and so I wanted to
get my monies worth and started playing it. It had a small,
yet solid hardcore community which kept me busy. Once Q3 Demo
was out, I played it for a few month until I got board.
Once UT Demos was out, I played both occasionally until they
both were released.
Questions
3: In what way do you feel the Quake community has
changed since Quake III Arena came out last year?
Answer:
Since Q3 has come out the q1/q2 community has
merged together. You can catch all the big names from
both games competing as one whole in Quake 3: Makaveli, Kane,
Lakerman, wombat, fatality, citizen, Blue, etc etc. I would
say the Q2 Community from the past is 99% converted. A
lot of people still play Quake 1 and have leagues.
The Community has done a great job of walking the
thin line of playing for fun and playing for money. At one
point in August when I saw C|net, battletop and other
organizations jumping into the mix and offering loads of
money, I thought things were about to get ugly. We saw
people leaving long time clans and moving to ones that had
sponsorship. We saw long time friends turn against or
start beef with each other. Most if not all, was
based around money or the potential to gain money.
For the most part, a
lot of those big $$ Events never came to pass and/or the
Organizations didn't keep the steady flow of big $$
tournaments as expected. Currently, there are less internal
clan squabbles and we've even seen people who left their old
clans for more 'high profile' clans go back to their roots.
At one point it
appeared as if the Community would become heavily Team
oriented, as this year comes to a close, 1 on 1 is still
receiving it's normal share of attention.
Questions
4: Have you had a chance to check the Team
Arena Demo yet? If so, what do you enjoy the most about it?
Answer:
I played it for about an hour thus far. It's
hard to say what I like about it. I don't not like it.
It was fun being able to play CTF without having to log on to
a server.
Questions
5: With id Software's new project being
focused on Doom, is there any features you would like this
upcoming game to include?
Answer:
As long as it has Great multiplay, then that's all
I need. I'm not into playing by myself. If the
multiplay is as good as Q3, then The Community will create
their own maps and Tournaments.
Questions
6: What gamer besides yourself do you feel
comes to mind as one of the most respected gamers? This would
be someone who you felt is respected not only for his gaming
skills but for his/her attitude.
Answer:
One person I really respect in the community is hoony of
challenge world (not sure he still plays quake as a
"gamer"). He has been around for such a long
time and is still able to keep up with what goes on in the
community. Challenge Network has went thru some hard times-
mostly dealing with hosting companies like gamefan and
gameglow closing. Also, he has to manage several international
sites as well as oversee Challenge ProMode. He's always
looking on the bright side of things and he's definitely in it
for the long haul.
As for contemporary
Gamers, I like Makaveli. He's just a natural Gamer. He
doesn't tour the tourney circuit like most people, but when he
does play he makes a big impact. He skipped over Ground Zero
and Frag3 although he could have played in those events. He
went to Sweden as a high profile player of the past and
finished second. He then went to Razer/CPL and finished
Second. He hasn't played in any major 1 on 1 events since
then, but I hear he's going to Babbages. I think he'll
surprise people once again.
So I respect Hoony for
his atitude and Makaveli for his gaming skills. I'm not sure
there are many people out there who have both qualities that I
hold in the highest regards. For 1 on 1 I'd say I respect
Spezzer who helps me with the news and who's in Canine.
For Teamplay I'd say a|citizen from Team Abuse.
Internationally, I would say [9]Blue but I rarely hear him
talk.
- K9-Spezzer:
Sean has definitely had one of the largest
influences on my gaming career. I find myself amazed at
the level of dedication he has for professional gaming.
Despite having another job and family, he finds time to
dig for news and get interviews that involve the most
important parts of the competitive gaming scene. Whenever
he asks me to do a job for cached.net, I usually feel
obliged to get it done as possible, and in the best manner
I can.
