Closer, Karmine Corp’a transfer oldu! Transfer sonrası ilk röportaj.

Hello everyone
, 3 and a half years after the new episode of 1v1,
I am Christopher "tonbaliklimakarna" Willekens
and I am with you with Can "Closer" Çelik and
the new forester of Karmine Corp.
Can, first of all, hello
how are you, how are you feeling, are you happy?
Let me start quickly by asking this – I’m fine bro,
I spent the last 6 months or so
idle
, but now I signed with a LEC team
and I’m generally happy, I continue the same,
I don’t have any problems.
The questions coming from Twitter
directly from the tweet I sent
and a few from me. I added questions,
let’s start by asking them,
let me give you
some information for the audience,
there are 24 questions in total
in the video, I have already marked them in time
from there, if you want, you can directly
skip to the question you are wondering about
and I will start with the first question. Can
I start, the first question was asked by Eysandralol,
why is it in America? You did not continue ,
did you not receive an offer
or did you want Europe more?
Actually, now there is something like this,
when I first played in TCL and became such a champion,
became MVP and won everything, I
did not feel like I was in a vacuum,
I felt like I had completed my duty.
I mean, America
is now the first place for people. When he hears it,
he wonders why he came back because he was so good and so on.
I stayed there for a long time,
like 4.5 years,
I became the champion there,
I became the MVP in the finals there,
and after experiencing these and
playing in the finals, I
actually got a little bit there, too.
I felt that I had completed my duty
and
after the last season I played, the viewership in America was dropping
considerably and now
a lot of changes were made
, whether it was salaries or the league’s views in general,
it dropped to 8 teams or something.
So, instead of playing in a low level team there
, I wanted to play in the LEC just for the sake of playing.
Because the popularity of the LEC has increased lately,
it is seen as a prestigious league.
When I first went there, LCS and LEC were actually
the same thing,
even America is a little bit
cooler like this, should I say,
it was now seen as a prestigious league,
but over time, even with the star players leaving,
European production in general has decreased.
Maybe because it is better,
LEC has risen a little bit,
so did I. Naturally,
after the LCS,
I wanted to play in the LEC team.
This is how things developed.
Okay, moving on to the second question
, how did you feel mentally after being without a team last year
? I had a thought like I should never quit.
Or did I think, "No, I’m going to work and find a team again, I’m already a good player."
Grontann
asked
the
question.
I already know I’m a good player.
It didn’t cross my mind to leave directly
as a member of SoloQ or something.
The only question is should I stay vacant or
should I sign with an EMEA Masters team
or a bad team? I had to think about
whether I should sign or
play just to make money
. I mean, playing just to make money
didn’t seem right to me.
I never had that mentality.
I didn’t have such a "let me make money" mode when making
full decisions in my career
. In fact, after our main squad was disbanded
in the last LCS season I played,
Bjergsen And I actually accepted a lower offer
to play with the Doublelift squad,
just to play with that squad,
because think about it like this,
everyone who started this game at the time
wanted to play with those legendary names, so
I
didn’t want to miss this opportunity,
even though
I’m looking back now. All in all, it wasn’t a good year,
even though I accepted such a situation, Bjergsen
retired after the first season.
He quit the game,
we hired a Korean who doesn’t speak any English, so
when you look at it, it seems like a terrible year
, but I don’t have any regrets like that,
I generally
know how to learn a lesson from everything
in life , and that was a decision I made at the time, and
I accept it that way,
there were things I learned from it
. That’s why I didn’t want to play in a league
just to make money in this spare time,
I just want to do something better.
I don’t know when you win
the EMEA Masters or
TCL or any other LFL league,
after LCS it
seems like you fall a little bit lower
so I said, ‘I’ll start broadcasting for a while,
I’ll improve myself a little
, I don’t know, I’ll start a sport or something
in life
, I’ll do sports, I tried to do better things, and
I knew that I would come back
when the opportunity came and when the time was right
, so I evaluated it like this.
Well, let me ask a question that is actually
related to what you said,
RusselLuxford. He asked this question.
Quid seemed to be very lacking when he was playing with him,
but this year he seemed to be much more developed.
Or
were you having problems adapting even though he was always good?
He asked this question:
Quid was always good, actually
, because he
showed how talented he was in SoloQ or scrims.
We were seeing each other
, but think about it this way
, if I remember correctly, he was 18 or 19 years old
when he came to us,
he was quite young
, he is coming to America from Korea for the first time,
he will play in a big league for the first time,
in his first season,
it is actually very difficult for him to adapt when he does not know English,
and not only that, but also the top lane with the team has changed
and so on. The other teams were also really strong in the league
, so
it was difficult for him to adapt in his first season
anyway. The reason why they followed a different path in the 2nd season was that
River was added to the team, he is also Korean,
he is a Korean jungler and
they probably
speak Korean, between the mid laner and the jungler,
so Quid’s performance. But
I knew you were a talented player,
I just mentioned something ,
you said you didn’t want to go to EMEA and play for money
in a lower league.
Is the rumor that he rejected
SuperMassive’s
offer at the beginning of the season
true? If so, what was the reason for this decision?
Alperenqa
directly asked the team name. I won’t give it away, but
there were teams I talked to,
Turkish teams and
Karmine Corp’s
academy team.
We already have communication from there.
They also
offered me to play in the LFL
, but I told them the same thing,
whether it is the LFL or the EU Masters,
it is about motivation. I would n’t
say motivation or motivation,
for example, if I had to play, I would play there again,
work and do what I had to do
in a disciplined manner
, but it was just
something I didn’t want in line with my goals
– That’s it – Well, on top of this question,
let me move on to Alperen’s other question.
What do you think about the future of TCL?
Actually If we really had a Worlds slot
during my time off, I would like
to play in a Turkish team like Eternal Fire did
and be successful with such a good team and
raise the name of esports in Turkey
as much as I can on behalf of Turkey
. In fact, the purchase of our Worlds slot
was quite effective in my decision
because When you win, nothing happens in the end.
If they gave it to the winner of the EMEA Masters,
I might consider the Worlds slot again
, but
what do I think about the future of TCL? I really
think there are enough players, I see it on SoloQ
, but
in the last few years
there is a lot of support, whether it is from the broadcasters in the LFL or not
.
There are more players from other countries, it
is more popular. Actually, LOL
has lost its popularity a little bit
in Turkey . What do I think about the future of TCL?
It’s a difficult question, but I mean, I would like it to be better
, of course, but it seems a little difficult,
with the opportunities we have now,
yes, I think so too.
Well, then our last question about TCL is.
"Do you think Armut can go to LEC again?"
The person who asked the question was hanamichi, I thought I’d put this in between and
then we’ll move on to questions about KC.
I think he can do it if he wants.
If he wins the EU Masters again,
if he reaches high levels in SoloQ, etc.,
teams are looking at the players in the lower leagues
. They are also looking at where he is,
they are also watching the EU Masters,
so I think he can go out if he wants to go out on his own.
We continue with my question.
How did you make the decision to transfer to Karmine Corp?
Did you have other offers and
chose Karmine Corp?
Or did
you already want to play in the LEC and when the offer came, you accepted it without thinking about
a team with a
very high quality and high fan base
? – That’s right,
now the team may have finished
10th in the first 2 seasons
, but this does not really matter to me.
When I was going to play in TCL,
people had a lot of question marks
about me,
the team, etc.
I have always
been self-confident in this regard,
also in TCL. That’s how it was thought.
The first team I went to in the LCS
was considered to be
10th, Golden Guardians,
and even when we made the playoffs,
people were celebrating like that in the office, I mean,
they were happy,
I thought it was strange, so let’s not celebrate in the playoffs either
,
we
need to look further ahead,
we need to aim to achieve better things.
I don’t really care about
people’s or everyone’s expectations.
In fact, it
‘s a bit similar to this reason. I don’t go to KC
because I experienced the same thing in America and Turkey,
and now my team is thought to be weak,
but I trust myself and my team and
I believe that we can surprise people and achieve something
again
. The reason why I went to ,
as you said, is that
they have a huge fan base.
I received a lot of support from
the tweet I sent
, in fact
, I have never received such support
from any team I have played for in America,
whether it is 100 Thieves or
Golden Guardians, it is really
Karmine Corp. I like that
he has a lot of fans.
I felt the same way about 100 Thieves.
When there are so many people supporting him,
I want to repay them for their support.
That’s why I will work for that.
Okay, I’ll move on
to İsmail Gürbüz’s question . Does he see himself
as a person
or as the king of the team and the league?
What role does he
assign to himself in the team?
What role I will take
will actually depend on the meta and the thing,
but I focus on making people teams,
I have learned this in my career,
we often
see the failure of superstar teams in every league.
In fact,
at the time, LEC They finally won this year
in Vitality, in the squad where Perkz played,
in the LCS, and again in Team Liquid,
and that was not a super star team,
we invested a lot of money and bought star names,
such as Hans sama, Bwipo, Bjergsen, etc.,
we saw that those squads could not win,
the most important thing is I think the thing is to be a team in this game,
so my goal
is to do whatever the meta requires, if
the carrier champions
are in the meta, I will do my best in my role,
but my most important goal
is to have a good relationship with my teammates.
I think providing a family environment
outside of the game and
after this is done,
other things look at your practice and training.
I think the most important thing is to be a team,
so I will do whatever is necessary.
Yes, I will move on to the next question.
Our friend’s nick, who asked the question,
said that he is a psychopath masochist. Does he find his team sufficient
, for example? When he is going to make an aggressive play
or receive a command, does he think that
the team
will be able to execute it completely?
He asked much longer,
I shortened it a little
, it’s too early to say
because the league hasn’t started yet,
just from what I’ve watched
how other LEC teams play
and the players I’ve played with in SoloQ. I know
I have to play with the team first,
I have to scrim against them, so even one player
is a big change, actually
I can’t say how assertive we are without scrimping,
so time will tell this question,
let me move on to another question,
this was asked by thatway333,
his question is also long, but his main focus is
on the tier in the future.
Does he see it possible to move to a 1 team? For example
, I would like to add my own comment here.
I think Karmine Corp is already a tier 1 team
– I think so – as you said, maybe
there may have been incompatibilities
since they have just entered the LEC.
Since it is a French team,
they are currently giving priority to French players.
Of course, this is a separate point,
but it is a team with an incredible fan base
and a team that aims for success in every game it enters,
so it is not a team that goes and says, for
example, I can be in this league
, but it doesn’t matter if I am the average team,
therefore it is the champion. So
, for example,
let me add to this and ask,
do you want to stay at Karmine Corp for many years?
I mean, think about it this way, what makes a team tier 1
is achievements, of course
, but I think Karmine Corp has already proven themselves,
both in terms of their fan base and, as you said,
their products,
their power in social media, these are very important things
, for example,
when I was playing in 100 Thieves and before I became the champion.
No team that came after franchising
could become champions in the new system before,
we achieved this with the top 100 Thieves,
the same thing applies here,
I don’t need to go to a tier 1 team
to become a champion,
I just need us to be a team,
so I don’t have that mentality at all,
so let me change teams. I don’t think of such things,
this, that, etc.
, we continue with my question
, I mean, KC’s fan base is really incredible,
maybe it can even be the number one in the world
, I mean, it has such a big fan base,
what do you think about them
and
will we see you tweeting in French from time to time
because Turkish? On the contrary, its audience
is very annoying to the French fan base,
especially Karmine Corp’s audience.
Do you feel stuck in the middle like that? I do
n’t feel stuck in the middle,
I don’t know, I don’t care about such things, I don’t
know if I will tweet in French,
hehe,
but I will broadcast in English. Sometimes
because, for example,
there are people I follow in the sports I watch
, if they spoke a language that I don’t speak, they would
be better with them
, I mean, I don’t know, I wouldn’t be able to watch their content, I
wouldn’t be able to establish rapport with them,
I wouldn’t be able to follow them easily.
If I have this much support behind me
and I don’t broadcast in English,
I think it would be ridiculous
when I know how to speak English. A little bit because
I have a plan like this:
I will broadcast in English on Twitch,
I will broadcast in Turkish on Kick,
I have already announced this,
there is support from both sides, after all,
I will do as much as I can for both.
I will try to produce content
, this is logical.
Yes, you have separated it well.
If people want to watch in English,
they will follow Twitch.
If they want to watch in Turkish, they will follow Kick.
Yes, you have thought of that very well.
Akatrash asked, "Do you compare yourself with Bo?
Do you think I can replace him
?" Do you think that you can take KC
to a much better place than him?
I think it is the second one.
In fact, every player is different from each other.
Can you replace
Bo ? I mean
, Bo is not someone who won the championship 4 times with this team.
Even though he was a successful player in his last seasons,
I do not like that. As I have said before,
Bo is a very talented player mechanically and
individually,
but being a team player,
being successful with the team is a very different thing,
there are many things for this,
I will not have a goal to replace him,
I will have a goal to be myself
and how I can lead my team. I will have a goal like
I can move forward,
as I said before, I will do whatever is necessary.
Have you watched the LEC in the past season
– huh, I watched it – who do you think was the best jungler
or who were the best junglers,
who do you see as your rivals, in an individual sense,
I think individually? I like Razork
in terms of talent
, other than that, Yike is good, of course, but
I also played with Yike in SoloQ.
G2’s solo lanes are very strong and this makes the jungler’s
job much easier.
I don’t know,
individually,
there is no player
I would like to do such a thing with , but as a team, G2 I want to play against
both Sergen (BrokenBlade)
and the other player Nisqy. I want
to play against my friends
– it’s usually fun – the other player hahah
ha ha ha
It’s also fun against the other player Nisqy’s team.
Well, you know, if you have a power in mind? Is there any ranking?
Is there something that I think about like, I don’t know how I can rank myself first,
I’m in the top three,
I’m in the top five, etc.
I don’t get involved in these power ranking events at all
because
I have to see myself as the best
in every match I play, I think if you don’t think so,
you start 1-0 behind,
so I mean LCS at the time. We saw where they were placing me
in the Power Rankings, that’s why
I don’t think much about
it either, I don’t do it myself, I just focus on myself.
It’s a very good question from fellowvillain,
how effective does he find the jungle role?
Do you think the jungle changes after the LCS championship
were beneficial to the junglers? Or is it to your detriment?
Let me even add a little thing. Did it help or harm your playing style?
You
can
also
evaluate
your
current situation
. I think it was all about
being a champion, regardless of the meta,
with the synergy we established
with the team we were on that day
, I think
the changes after that affected it a little bit, of course
Viego and Lee Sin are my favorite characters,
so a little more,
the weakening of the carrier champions
, changing the XPs, etc.
the effect of the jungle role. It actually reduces everyone individually
and pushes them to work as a team,
so I don’t know,
I’ve never sat down and thought about it,
but
I don’t really care about them, they are neither strong nor not,
it’s a jungle role,
you can watch the map since you kill the monsters,
you can see what’s going on in the whole map, I think
you have a lot of time, that’s why
You have a lot of influence in all kinds of games,
especially in team play
, so I still find it powerful,
even if you play fully functional champions, is it okay?
For you,
such a meta has come. Again,
I give an example in the past, Taric was a jungler and
played support in the middle lane. Taric is a jungler,
so even if such a meta comes, okay,
it will be very bad, very bad for you, man
– ha ha, the pleasure of playing a carrier champion – it sucks. It was a meta by the way,
so
there is even a meta like this.
You were buying Udyr and Hecarim and just clearing the forest and
moving around the map,
but frankly, it wouldn’t be nice if the meta came,
because when that meta came,
I understand that it didn’t really matter how good you were.
In short
, you are already a talented player
and
You want to contribute to your team as a carrier with these skills
, exactly, exactly,
now let me ask you this , you will play in the LEC
for the first time
and in front of the European audience,
even the stage is being renewed in Europe
, so are you excited,
let me ask about this, because
actually I personally – many esports followers are too. That’s right –
we were expecting to see you in Europe
because you expect to see a Turkish player in Europe,
but you are just
going to Europe at this stage
of your career , so do you have an
excitement
too
? I want the cup
, that’s the reason why I’m waiting,
I want to win the LEC, so
I will really do it
as long as it takes,
this is one of my goals,
I don’t have the excitement of anything,
I don’t have such an excitement that my hands will shake,
but I am enthusiastic about more
life-related questions,
we are now close to the last questions.
At the end, I will add another question.
BedoErol asked, "
How did you convince your family when you wanted to be the
first e-sports player
?" Do you remember there was a video,
I showed it on the air last night,
Naru’s mother is talking about
trielbaenre… Not trielbaenre, well
– Was it Lethilion? – Tyresse Tyresse
Dad, did I win ₺5,000?
There was such a conversation,
I was quite young
at that time,
I don’t even know if I was playing in an amateur team,
but I made my family watch it.
Look, there is such a thing, I
play games anyway,
I will deal with it from morning to night.
I had brought up such a topic
by saying something like that , but a lot of time has passed since that, of course,
I was preparing for the university exam or something, in fact,
there was an e-sports scholarship type of thing at that time,
so I convinced my mother
that I would take her to school and play,
of course, but later on the school turned out to be a lie
. I convinced him like this,
and then my family, thanks to my mother,
wanted me to do whatever I wanted in life,
and said she would support him,
so I pursued my hobby. Well
, do you recommend
the players who are
currently playing sports in Turkey
to become e-sports players? I mean, in the current state of e-sports in Turkey.
I think in order to be successful in something,
you have to really love it
because you will have to devote all your time to it,
you will have to not see it as a job.
I did not become an e-sports player
because I wanted to be an e-sports player at the time,
I really liked it,
I wanted to win,
I wanted to play the game well
, maybe I wanted to be famous, so I became an e-sports player
, but I am someone else. If he told me to go and be an e-sports player,
I don’t think I could be an e-sports player
when I don’t know anything or play the game randomly,
so if I tell you to be an e-sports player now, I think it would be wrong for you.
If you want to be one
, if you really want to be one
, you won’t pay much attention to what anyone says anyway
, so I think you should follow your hobbies
, that is, do whatever you want to do
. A very good answer.
HasanGurle asked,
how do you think it will be to
leave Antalya and settle in Berlin
? Let’s even add that
you don’t know what it was like to live in America if you compare it to that, but
I asked anyway.
I went to Berlin. The world championship
was in Berlin
in 2019. I went there after winning the TCL with Royal Youth.
Frankly speaking,
I am from America. Well, when I first went there, I was very young.
I actually
didn’t know what I was going to face,
especially because shortly after
I first went there, the pandemic started and
I was in a very difficult situation.
I couldn’t come back to Turkey for like 2 years because
I couldn’t go back because of my visa.
I couldn’t see my family
.
I wasn’t actually aware of the things I did at the time
, but I don’t know,
it doesn’t really matter to me where I live. America
was very nice,
but
I didn’t have such regret when I returned to Turkey.
I’m leaving America,
everyone’s dream is like this, I didn’t think much about it
, so I will live in Berlin
, but It doesn’t matter where I live,
I have one goal, the LEC championship
, which is played in Berlin, so I will live there.
Moving on to Samet’s questions,
how many more years
does he plan to continue his professional career
and what does he plan to do when he quits acting
? Hmm, it’s a difficult question,
what will he do when he quits acting? Actually
, if you had asked me a few years ago,
would I want to be a broadcaster,
when I quit e-sports, I would probably have said no,
why, because I am broadcasting,
I actually like it, but
do you want to be a broadcaster, after a few years, maybe
I can answer yes,
the same way to coaching
now. If you ask me, do I want to be a coach,
I would say no right now
because
it doesn’t seem like
something I want to do,
I don’t know what to do,
I want to play until
I am 25 years old, Faker won the Worlds, he played very well at the age of 27,
maybe
he
is the best midfielder individually.
It was one of the best
performances in the tournament , so as long as I enjoy this job,
I will continue to play
as long as there are things I want to do,
and then I won’t play, so
let’s go back a little bit
, let’s continue this conversation like this, if it suits you too,
what went wrong
in 100 Thieves. If you want to say
what went wrong
in the squad with Bjergsen and Doublelift, it was actually
difficult in our first season. Bjergsen and Doublelift are really talented names,
big names
, but there were 2 rookies,
Tenacity and Busio, who were going to play for the first time in the league.
It is not easy to be
a successful team in our first season,
Golden Guardians. We lost to
in the 5th game in the playoffs and we had Infernal Soul.
I remember that match well,
it was a match we should have won.
Golden Guardians went all the way to the finals
and even almost won the final. When I think about it
, we fought against a team that went all the way to the finals
with the squad I signed for
, maybe if we had had more time.
It could have been better
and after the first season, Bjergsen retired,
a new mid laner came in, the top lane changed,
our mid laner started speaking English for the first time,
he started speaking a new language,
the learning process started etc. I think one of the only problems was
that we didn’t have time, there was no time
, it’s always like this in America now.
There was a very popular meme
during TSM’s time saying Bjergsen and 4 totems.
Was that what you thought about playing with him
or
did things change when he came to 100 Thieves
? Or he wasn’t that kind of a player at all.
Bjergsen is really my favorite team both
outside the game
and in the game as a person. He was one of my friends,
as I said, maybe I wouldn’t have spent 6 months without a team
, maybe I would be in a much better place now.
We don’t know that
, but I’m happy that I made this decision.
Bjergsen was a very good person that I really wanted to know
and play with,
even as a friend,
so I didn’t have any problems with him.
I’m sure Turkish esports followers are also very curious about this.
If such a
Turkish super team were established in the future
and in the LEC. If there is a slot for that team,
I like it, here is
BrokenBlade, you, Nisqy, I am giving an example.
If there was such a team,
would you especially prefer to play in that team?
Absolutely, I
mean, I have never cared about money so far.
If a Turkish team is coming to the LEC,
there is no need for it to be a star squad
. I would probably like to play there, I
mean to see a Turkish team be successful
on such a big stage.
After that, there is also the Worlds, of course,
I would definitely like to be a part of it. Do
you follow the EMEA Masters? Well,
I’m looking at it lightly, not very much, I don’t watch every match,
okay, Turkish teams have a good chance. Do you see
the Turkish teams… I don’t know,
SUP came in 1st place,
Beşiktaş came in 2nd place,
BoostGate also left the play-in,
but I think
yes, SUP and Beşiktaş
are not bad, they have a chance, but
I think the academies of the European leagues
are much more developed
compared to us. I feel that way.
I agree with the academies of the European leagues.
I think they are more developed.
Their players come to my SoloQ games.
They play well.
However, I cannot say anything as I do not really watch the league as a team and
do not follow it fully
, but I hope they will be successful.
Then thank you very much.
There is something you would like to add lastly. Do you
want to tell Turkish fans
not to be too prejudiced about Karmine Corp
? It’s 2024. Don’t worry about such things.
Support the team you want to
support, the player you want to support.
I would be really happy if you support me too
. They already supported me throughout the process,
both when I first started and when I was in America
.
I would like to thank them especially,
thank you also, it was nice.
I haven’t done anything like an interview for a long time.
I hope people’s questions have been answered.
I would
like to thank you
because
I have been postponing returning to YouTube for like 2 years.
I mean,
really like Can. If I can do something with a big name,
then I will return
and you accepted it,
thank you very much.
You accepted it at a time when you were followed a lot,
it was beneficial for you
and it was beneficial for me even more,
thank you, so
what does that mean,
I hope you take care of yourself.
See you too,
like the video.
Yes, thank you and I’m sure
I really believe that
Karmine Corp will not be the last one this year, or rather this season,
and you will surprise people,
I’m very sure of that,
inshallah
– thank you, see you then – thank you, see you
in the next video. I guess I’ll take a break,
see you later Can, take care of yourself.