Hey everyone!

It’s been a long time since I wrote to you guys..
I wish you a happy new year to and I hope you had a lot of fun while celebrating with friends and family. =)

As you can see we actually don’t play at the moment. It’s a small “Christmas / winter” break but we will start with practicing in the next days and the ESL EMS matches will start probably soon.

My Christmas time with my family was nice.. I got a PS3 and a lot of other things.. so I have a new console to play with and it’s a lot of fun! But you don’t need to worry, I still play a lot of CS ;)

After Christmas time I went to Sweden. Ipsa, Irene and me played with face and GeT_RiGhT on a LAN in skövde called rendevous. This LAN was really small with around 200 people but it was with a lot of fun. Especially with this lineup! We got the 3rd place and a little price money. Unlucky that we lost two times vs tsGaming ( floreNz - hibb - keiz - kylie - pita ). They were sitting close 3 tables in front of us and when the game started they were screaming loud around the whole hall but after 4 or 5 rounds.. it was quiet because we won a lot of rounds. It was funny to hear because I think they didn’t know that we can also shoot back ;D A player called florenZ screamed one time “We cannot lost against them, its bad”.. that was so funny to hear..but for us it was just a little “LAN” to play. We didn’t took it so serious, we just wanted to do something and play.. :P

So what about more.. IpSa and me had a lot of fun in Sweden, we were out to the cinema, we saw Twilight - new moon with some friends and we were shopping a lot.

I was shopping.. and I found really really nice shoes. The first days I didn’t see any good shoes..I was so sad.. but lucky.. the last “shopping trip” and the last 30 minutes open time from the big mall I found a really really nice pair of boots.

Well.. I really need to tell you one weird thing.. Me and my friend were at the train station and we were waiting for the train.. and there were a box with really weird things? –> Picture.. Seriously.. I don’t know what it is. And I was so scared and afraid.. we were looking close to the glass and then this thing did really weird sounds ( you can hear it at the beginning of the Video ).. I was REALLY afraid.. :D Maybe you can tell me what it is? I hope at least.. :D

Well, I think that is sufficient for now. We will talk later =)

Babaaaaa, Julie

Hi, everybody!

It has been a while since I wrote a blog. I haven’t been doin’ anything special lately, just working as usual but I have started to work out! Only two times a week but its a start for now :) I am considering to also start something called “box” as well. It is a type of training where you use your hands and feet just like “boxing” moves.

Recently I have been playing a lot of CSDM and mixes, since we are going to Poland from 2nd-4th october, so gotta start preparing. Of course we will pracc to that event together in the team as well! We started practicing the 17th of this month and forward, probably from 18 till 23 o’clock every day. If you want to play against us just write to me on mIRC and we can find a time when we can play or leave a comment below this news.

I have come up with a lot of new ideas on what we need to change since Germany in our game so it will be fun to start practicing and fix the mistakes we did in the past. Always fun to try out the new tactics that I’ve thought of and to see how they work out. I am so looking forward to this event in Poland, so many great teams that are going and I have never been to Poland!

Out new player Irene is coming to LAN here in Sweden with me prior to the event. She will be here from the 26th of September till 1st of October when we leave together with the whole team from Copenhagen airport to Warsaw. I have been thinking of teaching her some other Swedish words so she can catch up better ingame, so far she has done a terrific job on learning the positions in Swedish and overall understanding our game. I think it is really fun to start doin this ingame-part in English as we now have a mix of talking Swedish and English. It is so challenging but I think we did good in Germany! I also get to speak more Spanish wich I only usually do when I talk to my mom or my sister. LOVING IT! xD

Well, well, that was it for this time I guess. I am going to write a new blog in a couple of weeks again so, keep up following here on the page. Keep up with all of our blogs! ;)

One more thing you have to do for me please! Sign up at www.zinicauction.com, I tried it out and it was actually really fun. I love to find new stuff for my PC or just check out new phones that I would like or a new Ipod! I also like the part where you have to bid and get the lowest prize to get the product. Overall I just think its fun, haha. Even though I haven’t really figured it all out it was really fun to try it out, haha.

Who can name all persons from left to right with the correct nicknames/names? :)

/ IpSa

It is known already since a few weeks that the Swedish based lineup from fnatic will actually not participate at this years Dreamhack Summer edition. Due to the fact that fnatic’s GeT_RiGhT and Gux will provide their services for the EPS SCA Finals participant Lemondogs which may make this team without any doubt to a top 3 favourite in the Dreamhack tournament. The tournament is hold from 13th until 16th in Sweden and next to the following teams also Pink ZINIC will drive up there to participate in this huge event.

Those teams already qualified for the playoffs, while ZINIC will try their best to run through the qualifiers and make it up to the big boys:

SK Gaming (zet - alleN - RobbaN - walle - Tentpole)
Begrip (JAEGARN - hibb - zneel - SnajdaN - pita)
Lemondogs (GeT_RiGhT - Gux - threat - face - kHRYSTAL)
Crack Clan (natu - naSu - SpikeOne - tihOp - dRiim)
Evil Geniuses (lurppis - fRoD - Warden - n0thing - Storm)
Spirit of Amiga (woodi - noas - Friis - zE- - Stagep)
Millenium (sixeR - Ozstrik3r - MAJ3R - Geno - Yoshi)
HSBG-Gaming (MILENK0 - swaarm - NECR0 - thrice - geko)

(flags from readmore.de)

We are all pretty excited to go up their to Dreamhack as it is a huge and interesting event with a good mixture of amateur and pro teams. A positive thing is also that more or less everyone has the change to win big here as of course some teams are invited but the qualifiers give everyone, also us, the chance to show what we are really able to do.

Expect video interviews, video coverage, pictures and a lot of more cool stuff about us during and before the Dreamhack kicks off - follow us on Twitter to get the latest updates and don’t forget to visit our homepage frequently!

Hey everybody!

Once again I’m gonna write a hopefully interesting blog. This time I wanted to discuss a thing which I think a lot about, gaming. I read Liefje’s (a person I respect for what she has reached during the last years) latest article on Cadred and it made me write that blog entry.

Girls will never be as good as male-gamers

I have been playing for a really long time now (too long) and I have spent hours and hours of playing public, mixing, practicing in different teams with different people. During my time playing, there has always been shit talked about female-gamers. No matter what it was about, there were always some bad-mouths here and there. “Girls will never be as good as male-gamers” - and you know what? Yeah, I totally agree on that. They don’t have the same talent as many male-gamers are “blessed” with; neither have they the motivation or the same “state of mind”. One thing that is really annoying though is that people keep on commenting by blindly generalizing the topic: “ALL female-gamers suck”. I think that shows, many people see things pretty superficially and don’t do enough research before making such a bold statement. Not all female gamers suck; not ALL of them.

I have seen girls kicking boy’s asses and I observed some girls playing kinda smart, they make wise, smart decisions ingame, have good aim, good team-play and overall a good understanding of the game.

SOME girls have potential

The only bad thing is that there are just three girls I have “admired” for playing in my whole five years of gaming and its thanks to them that I am the player I am today. I’m not forgetting about the males that have influenced my game as well, but this time I’m talking about the girls. Only three girls that I have “admired”, and compared to the male scene that has so many gamers that are good and they have different gaming-style to choose from that you can “admire” them for. It is not the same with female-gamers. Even if I have only those three girls in mind, I have seen that some girls have potential and they are better than many boys already now (and I don’t mean teams like mTw here - cause obviously that would be like comparing apples and oranges).

Sometimes when I’m bored I play on a Swedish public site called spelarenan, and I swear to god, I have never seen worse boys playing then there. The worst part is that it’s those kinds of boys that say we suck. There are a lot of sucky boys, but just because of that, I don’t say they all suck. Funny thing is, boys are a majority when it comes to playing Counter-Strike, aren’t there more boys overall that are worse than girls then? Whatever, just don’t forget the girls that stand out and try to be better. They deserve a chance.

Good looking equals = easier marketing

A while ago, when we started this whole project with Pink Zinic officially, there was a random-girl that commented on a news about us and said “We should practice more and stop putting on lipstick”. It’s so sad when girls get jealous, instead of embracing each other’s victory, they write stuff like that when they don’t really understand the situation. Just because we had pretty pictures of us does that mean we don’t practice? We are making a deal and trying to get ourselves where we want to be. We did those photos so they could promote us and while doing that they get their ideas and items sold. “Sorry that we look good and can use this for our advantage”. How can all that be embarrassing? We never said we were good or were gonna rock the world, we are just gonna do as good as we can. Keep doing what we have been doing for the last year. Yeah, we have played together for a whole year, so for the people that say “they will split up after a month”, try again. All stars from all industries are using their look in order to market themselves better. It is fine when tennis, football or basketball players do a photo shoot and it is fine when the male CS and WC3 players pose cool on pictures - but female CS players aren’t allowed to do so?

Maybe it is easier for people to be mean via the internet. You can say there whatever you want without the need to face the person eye to eye you are talking crap about! There have been so many comments about how sucky we are, from both female and males but to be honest, I just think many are jealous! Of course not everyone.

Counter-Strike is business

You might ask, why don’t you just play, but why do you have to do those pictures and all? What do we get from all this? It is business like whole competitive eSports is business. Without all that marketing there wouldn’t be tournaments with thousands of euros in price money around the globe and there wouldn’t be paid players. We are five Counter-Strike playing girls doing what we like to do. What we are doing helps us to visit events like Dreamhack, ESWC, SLAP and maybe other LANs. Our organization really believes in us and wants to help us improve our game by giving us the chance to attend more male tournaments, rather than one or two female tournaments a year.

And think about it yourself. If you had the chance to get your flight ticket, food and hotel paid, would you say no? If you would have the chance to focus on your hobby in order to get better and get offered a professional environment, what would you do? Like any other job, we do stuff and get what we want in return. Yes that is a job and that is business. While this is happening, when we are at home, we are sitting practicing our asses off to improve our game and try to perform better then we have done past times at events.

Want to discuss this topic? Please do it here in the comments and check out on IRC #zinic