So we’re back for another installment of the X3O’s Behind the Gamer interview series. Every couple of weeks an interview with one of the professional gamers within the team will be released. Through this series, you will get to know all of the gamers within X3O, including our CS 1.6, CSS, Q4 and COD4 teams.

For the fourth installment, we will be talking with Ediz “goodfornothing” Basol. Ediz, currently an X3O.cs player and most recently a 4th place finisher at Spain’s GameGune 2008 tournament, will be giving us some insight into what is to be “good for nothing”.

To start things off, could you please introduce yourself?

Hi, I'm Ediz "goodfornothing" Basol and I'm am the strat caller for x3o's CS 1.6 team.

Outside of Counter-Strike, what keeps you busy?

Well I just graduated from college so right now I'm job hunting, going to the beach as much as possible, playing golf, and putting on concerts with my band. (www.myspace.com/theofersures Check us out!) When I'm not playing cs i try to go outdoors as much as possible because this game is too addicting and I could definitely spend all day locked up in my room playing it.

For those who may not be familiar with your CS 1.6 past, can you briefly give us a rundown on your previous teams and experiences?

Well my big break came from SoCal LANs. I had a cal-im team and we decided to start hitting up the SoCal LAN scene and after winning a few tournaments, Team Turmoil approached me to join with them. I joined their cal-m roster and we made it to cal-i in two seasons. After attending a CPL with them I left when they attended WEG because I couldn't go. I then joined up with a few teams : WEW, AGN, and iDemise in a brief period. After my time on those rosters I remade Turmoil with mostly this current roster and have been playing with these guys since (about 2 years now I think).

Now, in regards to the GameGune LAN, the group stage did not appear to go as planned. How were you feeling after your performance in the group-stage, and how confident were you, and the team, that you could bounce back?

I think the group stage was a good thing for us. Playing terribly like that and losing to some teams that we definitely shouldn't have gave us a kick in the ass. We spent the night going over what we were doing wrong and what we needed to change for the next day. It helped us perform better in the double elim stages.

How was your experience of Spain as a country? Is it a place you would like to revisit after professional gaming?

The part of Spain we were in wasn't the part that most people go to visit. We were in a suburb of Bilbao and when most people think of Spain they think of Barcelona or Madrid. We didn't have a whole lot of time but I'm not gonna lie, there was not a lot of fun to be had there.

With GameGune 2008 being X3O’s first international tournament of the year, are you satisfied with the 4th place finish?

We aren't satisfied, but we aren't all that dissapointed. We feel like we could have done better, but it was a good start to our summer LAN season. Hopefully we can take what we learned there and apply it to ESWC.

Next up on the docket is X3O’s own 2008 Dust-Off Championship Final. With the two other top American teams (EG.usa and MoB Gaming) having won the last two X3O Dust-Off tournaments, is there some added pressure on you and the team to win this final event?

This LAN is definitely the American CS showdown. I don't think the fact that we haven't won an x3o event adds to the pressure, the pressure comes from the fact that it's gonna be the first time in a long time that all the top US teams will be attending a LAN. There is definitely a lot of pride on the line for all the teams attending because this event is for the #1 spot in America.

With the ESWC Grand Finals in San Jose, California happening shortly after the Dust-Off Championship, how excited are you for arguably the biggest CS 1.6 event of the year?

We are really excited as a team. This is our chance to prove ourselves and I think after GameGune we are definitely ready.

Last question, and somewhat of an off-topic one: with complexity returning to CS 1.6, do you foresee any other veteran players/teams returning to 1.6 during the CGS offseason? Also, do you think such returns are good for North-American Counter-Strike?

I think it is definitely good for North-American CS. Our first match vs coL had almost two thousand spectators which is unheard of for a CEVO match. I, however, don't think any of the other teams will be coming back to 1.6. It's a lot of work to relearn the game and get back into it just to go back to source for the next CGS season.