Summer is coming and many people are now thinking about the holidays, but let's discover the history of one of the top players on the trackmania world scene.

Kalle "FrostBeule" Videkull has played in renowned international organizations and the most important are H2k, n!faculty and current YoYoTech.

I hope many people want to know what is trackmania, is and arcade machines game.

Currently the European scene has reached really high levels, especially in some international competitions like WCG and ESWC. So let's discover the secret of life of the most well know player in the TrackMania Nations scene.

Tauan: Hey Frostbeule, you are one of the best and famous players in the world and you are one of those few players familiar to everyone in comptetive esport scene, introduce yourself to our readers and tell us a bit about you.

Frostbeule: Hello. My name is Kalle Videkull and I go by the nickname FrostBeule. I come from a small village in the north of Sweden called Pajala. I have played TMN since its release in 2006, and more seriously starting in 2008 when Forever came out.

Tauan: How all this happened? I'm very curious about your story before you get to these levels, I think our readers al interested too.

Frostbeule: Well I discovered the game by seeing a topic about it at a forum I frequently visit. I noticed that it was a free racing game and that it was a bit unrealistic to its form. Since I was a big fan of other games in that category, namely Mario Kart and F-Zero, I thought I�d download it and try it out. In the beginning I played a lot in the ladder, as I didn�t really know about anything else. In just some weeks though, I managed to reach the first place in it, so I kind of stopped playing the game as much. Luckily, the team captain of Sweden in the Nations Cup 1 was looking for players to add to the team, and he saw me play on a server one day, and thought I should join, and so I did. And that�s how it all started.

Tauan: What are the secrets to get to these levels you are at the moment?

Frostbeule: Just play a lot. Try to join the Rounds-servers with maps being played in tournaments such as ESL, ET or WCG. That�s where you will find the best players. Also try to join a team and play a lot in tournaments but also in individual tournaments or ladders at ESL. The best training is to play matches I believe. That�s the only way you will know if you�re improving or not. It doesn�t hurt to check TM-Exchange as well for replays so you can compare your own replays with the world records.

Tauan: You have attended many international tournaments, which were the most important and what is more substantial prize you won?

Frostbeule: Definitely ESWC, before I knew they would get bankrupt and never pay the prize money, which was beyond disappointing to find out.� But if you just look it as a achievement, it�s the greatest for sure. Sweden didn�t even have ESWC qualifiers in 2008, so I had to go to Paris and try to get top 3 among those who weren�t already qualified to be able to go to the grand final. Luckily I did manage to do that and then in the grand final I think I showed everyone that I wasn�t just an online phenomenon that everyone thought I was, but that I also could perform offline.
In the final I won with a 40 point marginal, which was unheard of before. So definitely ESWC when it comes to my best achievement. The most substantial prize ive won was actually back in 2006 in this online tournament called �Playlinc� and which was sponsored by a huge American company called Verizon. I only got 2nd but I still won 8000$. Even though I actually tied for first place with Sandder, so perhaps I should have complained a bit about that so I could have won some more hehe. But at least I got the money, which seems to be quite rare these days. I am still missing money from 2 events besides ESWC, those being The eXperience, and The Gathering, and they don�t even answer my emails any longer.
I really hope the e-sport scene can mature in the future so we don�t have to have these issues any longer, because it�s just sad and it�s a HUGE problem.

Tauan: Really soon will be the ESWC Grand Final in Paris and WCG in Los Angeles, do you attend these events?

Frostbeule: I will try to qualify for WCG. Our qualifier is in June on the 19th, so I will definitively attend that.
As for ESWC, there�s a negotiation with G7 and the new owners of ESWC about trying to compensate the previous winners, but so far the discussion is very slow, so it seems like it might not happen. The new owners of ESWC got a very bad history, with previous events where they announced big prize pools without paying out anything, which makes me extremely careful since I have been screwed before. If they can compensate the previous winners good enough and polish their past reputation, I will try to attend, but it doesn�t look good at the moment.
WCG feels A LOT more important right now.

Tauan: Have you got some particular player may give you some trouble along your career?

Frostbeule: Yes for sure. In 2006/2007 it was mostly Sandder who was my biggest opponent, atleast online as he never attended any offline tournaments. Carl has also been a rival, ever since 2006 actually and he still is. But my biggest rival these days is for sure KarjeN who beat me in WCG last year and who I think is just an incredible player.

Tauan: Now you are a YoYoTech player, in what team you was previously and wich organisation supported you in the best way?

Frostbeule: Let�s see� My first team was a team called FiSh, which was also the national team in Nations Cup 1 actually. After that I joined On Deathrow or OnD, which was the best Norwegian team at that time with players such as Bergie and MarioKid. We later changed to an organization called Crossed which we didn�t play that long for as the team disbanded because of lack of motivation. 3 of us from that team, me Bergie and the Italian old school player Rask got asked from the at that time number 1 team Hard 2 Kill (H2K) to join them which we did.
Shortly after though, we left that organization and became New World Order (nWo) which became my home for almost a year. In 2008 though, I really wanted to play the game a bit more seriously, and try to play in ESWC.
However nWo couldn�t sponsor me for that, so I had to leave them, and I joined up with the German organization n!faculty which sponsored me quite ok for about a year, but then they kind of didn�t want to sponsor me any longer, so I had to leave them as well in the beginning of 2010.
And so right now I�m with YoYoTech. n!faculty definitely supported me quite well even tough there were some problems in the communication we can say. I haven�t been that long in YoYoTech yet so I can�t really say if it will be better than n!faculty. But so far so good.

Tauan: If you have something to say, if you want to greet or thank someone in particular, to you the word.

Frostbeule: Shoutouts to my team YoYoTech and to everyone doing good work in the community.
Let�s enjoy the game and try to build a nice community surrounding it. TMNF is a really unique game I think and it�s worth supporting it. Cya on the tracks!

Tauan: Thank you Kalle for the interview and the time you've dedicated to us, a greeting from me and all the staff OX.Enermax.

Frostbeule: Thank you

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