Name: Damien Scott Roberts

Age: 18

Home: A small village called Burntwood in Staffordshire

Job: Design web sites and program software in Visual Basic, Visual c, C++ and assember (and Quake c) :>

How did you get into Quake and Team Fortress?

I started playing TF after being a Beta tester for the game about 3 years ago.

What is your favourite TF class?

My favourite class is the Scout because its the fastest and makes it hard for your opponents to hit you.

You play a lot of Mega-TF - what is the attraction of the game for you, and do you think it is better than regular TF?

I used to play a lot of Mega TF because it was something new. The only problem with it is that with everyone spamming, the server gets too laggy.  I prefer standard TF.

How did clan Satanic Verses come into existence?

Satanic Verses started at the same time as TF did. I had joined a Uk clan and was fed up with the lack of team play that was around, so I searched the net for 1/2 decent players and made up a pretty good team. Since then, we enter all the USA leagues and win cash prizes and trophies.

SV were a force playing on the net before you expanded into Wireplay. What made you move across to Wireplay?

When Wireplay started, I saw an advert and decided to give it a try. At that time, you could get pings of 130 so I decided to start a Wireplay clan off.

How many of the current SV Wireplayers came across in that original wave?

Hmm, to start with there were 5 players, after a few months some left and others came from net to replace them. Nowadays, there is only myself who plays in both clans as being in both was too time consuming for most people :-)

A lot of people on Wireplay, myself included, fully expected SV to win the first TF league, but the title eventually went to AVA. Why do you think that AVA won and not SV?

Hehe, well win some lost some :-) Came 2nd, but would have won if we didn't have to replay a match with AvA (and I would like to point out that they used 3 players who were not registered in the league for the last 3 weeks and if those had not taken part Sv would have won our matches against them and so would have Vod )

Do you think SV have improved enough to wrestle the title away from AVA in the upcoming season?

Sv has always been a top clan, but during the last league there was some major problems with admining the matches and playing in them, so that's why we lost. I didn't have the time to do everything :-(  This next league though, I wont be taking part, [Sv] Broo will be running the Clan in my absence while I play in the USA TF Open league which starts soon.

SV and AVA are probably considered to be favorites to win this season, but do you see any other clans having a realistic attempt on the title?

Vod are very good and so are Plz, either one of these clans should do very well in the league

Which non-SV players do you rate the most on Wireplay?

There are lots of good players on Wireplay. Some of the best players are [Vod] Wolfe, [Plz] Manstorm, [Plz] Storman, [Rvm] Red Hot Pepper,  Chippy, [Mp] Lord Caliburn (even is he does annoy people too much).

Who's the best TF player you have ever seen over the net or Wireplay?

That's a tough one, it not anyone on Wp as there are much better players on the Net. I would probably say a guy called Secret as he is excellent at every class and works well as part of a team.

Some of the clans from Wireplay have recently played matches against the Spice Girls, one of the top net clans. AVA, PLZ and a Wireplay Elite team have all lost heavily to SG, and I see that you have challenged them to a 3 game series. Do you think you can do better against them than the other Wireplay teams?

Yeah I reckon Sv Net clan could do the business against them, but maybe not the Wp side. Caliburn did challenge them to some matches but the rest of the clan bitched about it.

I watched the demo of SG against PLZ on Well6, and SG seemed to play unusual tactics. Lots of soldiers in defense, but no demoman or HW Guys, which is very unlike how the Wireplay clans generally play. Do you think this is a general tactic employed by a lot of net clans, or is it unique to SG?

Its a classic net strategy, because basically the HWGUY is a complete waste of code.

Are SV happy to stay on Wireplay, or will you be joining the UKTFL?

Most of Wireplay's Sv are happy to stay on Wp, but we wont ever play in the UKTFL. There is no real point in playing it, you are better off entering the Usa open Tourneys.

I see that Caliburn has left SV on a rather sour note. What's the story there?

Nothing much, he has just had enough of the Wireplay side of the clan and is going  to the Net side of Sv as Spy.

You seem to have a lot of influence at Wireplay with the TF scene, and the way things are set up. What exactly is your role with them?

Top secret :-)

Are there any TF maps you have seen which you would like to introduce to Wireplay?

Good maps are few and far between, but when some good maps turn up, they go on Wireplay.

On a topical note, there is a lot of discussion on the Quake scene about cheating. What do you consider to be cheating? For example, do you think water-hacked maps is cheating?

Water hacked maps are not really cheating as they give the same effect as a GL Quake. The really cheating are things like Hacked maps in general (ie holes in walls ), Autoaim bots and most other proxies.

Should the England football team play in White or Red shirts, or don't you care?

White definitely.

Thank you Satan.