Some of you might know him, some of you might not. I got a chance to interview Team Turkeys' Nationscup Leader, TanQ.


Hello TanQ, could you tell the Crossfire community something about yourself?

My name is Serkan Gözkaya, I am 17 years old and I'm living in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. At the moment I'm studying in college.

As you have recently returned from your break, have you got the feeling that the community of both Enemy Territory and Crossfire has changed?

Well,it has changed a bit as I see. I see lots of ET teams getting created and I see more activity and I realise that the sentence "ET is dead" has decreased in usage. I am happy to see more challenge in ET :)

Being back for only a week you have already created your own clan, Team Salvation. What are your expectations of this team, and what are you aiming for?

I was planning to create a team while I was away from ET. I got in touch with my mates and made the team. My expectations are to play lots of officials during the summer and to play Summercup in the Premier. And last but not least to have fun with my teammates.

After the whole drama concerning Motif and CC5, how do you feel about taking this player in your team?

I knew Motif from before (Nknn). I still think he should have played in cc5, the admins made their decision too quick in my opinion. As he is a friend of both me and Shaky, and we trust him, we decided to take him into the team. We can't blame him for the fact that this happened during cc5 so I never really hesitated about him joining Salvation. None of the players from our team really care about the fact what happened. I am just glad to have a good player, and a good friend, as Motif in my team.

You've been around for quite a while in this community. If you look back on those years, what have been your best moments?

Well my best moments were in unpatched, I played and leaded 2 best teams in that patch(rS & FS). When I came to patched I played a lot to improve myself. I got chosen to be the Captain of Team Turkey in the Nationscup. Those probably were the best times I had in this game. Yet, after my comeback, I still feel that old days' atmosphere.

A lot of players in the community know you as managar and co-founder of the old multi-gaming clan Zero Empathy. What was your reason for quitting this and not picking this up again, after your break?

Well I did this manager job for a long time and i liked doing it. I think me and Reshep did quite a good job with Zero Empathy. Just at one point my life in ET became too busy, so I decided to give up managing teams and rather focus on playing.I am glad that I picked this choice, I've never regretted this decision. I don't think I will return to Zero Empathy as a manager again, since you need to spend a lot of time and hard work on it.

What's your biggest personal goal, when it comes to gaming, that you want to achieve in the nearby future?

Well I love gaming, it's something that makes me relax and I can find my joy in. My biggest goal is to attend a LAN, to play there and meet my online friends. Next to that, I want to achieve a lot more with Team Turkey. There is only a small ET community in Turkey, so I want to set the bar higher for my country and prove that we can play on a high level as well.

With Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2 expected to be released this year, will you step over to this game, or will you remain faithull to Enemy Territory?

I think I will give it a try with the new game, I don't know what to do at the moment because it's too early to judge. I watched the trailers and read the information about the game but as I said, I am not going to judge the game yet. So I don't want to say something certain yet. But with the comments I've read and heard I don't beleive the new game can get more fans than the old lovely ET.

As the admins have already announced, there might be a cc7 taking place in September. There have been some questions if there will still be an Enemy Territory competition after the release of RTCW 2. What is your opinion about this fact?

I think ET should take a place in cc7. As we can all see, there was a big ammount of applies to cc6 from ET, so in my opinion there will be ET.Some people think that the new Wolfenstein is just a fail, and they already decided not to play the game even before it's release. There is a big number of people who are expecting an Enemy Territory competition, so I think there will be ET instead of RTCW 2, or perhaps they will both take place in the LAN.

I would like to thank you for this interview TanQ. Is there anything you would like to say to the community, as a last comment?

You are welcome wra1th, I thank you for interviewing me. I want to thank all people who helped me in this game and I want to give a shoutout to all the people who made this game fun for me. Also, a special shoutout to all Kebab-lovers. :)