Player Spotlight: Dodz
Player Spotlight is a new article series that gives you the opportunity to get to know the players that are playing in BESL Pro competitions a little bit better. From historic achievements to favorite players. From their Baltic state dream team to what music and food they like. Player Spotlight has it all!
This week’s Player Spotlight goes to a player from LESGEDI:
Dodz
(Twitter - @DodzCSGO)
General
Name, Surname: Rainer Trossek
Age: 30 years old
Date of Birth: 12th of October, 1989
Nationality: Estonian
First nickname: can't remember my first nickname but my previous nickname was dodgedog
How did you come up with your current nickname: my best friend at the time shortened his nick from Palad1n to Palz so I did the same and came up with Dodz
Career
CS:GO hours recorded: ~5000 hours
Playing CS franchise games for: ~20 years with multiple breaks inbetween
Playing in BESL Pro for: 3 seasons
BESL Pro LAN finals reached: 2 times
BESL Pro winner: 0 times
Biggest achievements in CS:GO: winning some local Estonian and Baltic LANs, nothing special really
Peripherals & In-game Settings
Mouse: Logitech G Pro (the original one with PWM3366)
Mousepad: Zowie P-SR
Keyboard: HyperX Alloy FPS
Headset: Logitech G430
Resolution: 1024x768 (streched)
Crosshair: size “2”, style “5”, color red, gap “-1”
Sensitivity: 0.7 (accel enabled ingame, exponent 1.17)
DPI: 800
CS:GO
TOP5 best CS:GO Players in the world:
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ZywOo
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s1mple
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device
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electronic
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EliGE
TOP5 best CS:GO Players from Baltic states: ropz is very good (especially in 2019), broky seems to be good, rest don't really matter at the moment, maybe someone else will come along eventually though
Baltic state all-star team: -
Favorite map: train
Least-favorite map: mirage
Most underrated player: mmmmaybe dupreeh?
Most overrated player: s1mple (just because he can't find a way to win with his team)
The best AWP player in the world: ZywOo
The best AWP player in Baltic states: umm… sperr? :D
The best teammate ever played with: ropz, special shoutout to HeLIX
Worst teammate ever played with: can't really single out anyone, everyone has some good and bad qualities
The best LAN event you’ve attended: the WCG events many many many many years ago were pretty good and memorable, from recent times I really liked FCDB Cup
Worst LAN event you’ve attended: some local BYOC lans
AK or SG: AK
M4 or AUG: M4
Favorite position to hold: train popdog
Hardest bombsite to retake: dust2 B site
Worst gun in CS:GO: Glock
Win a game with bad stats or lose a game with good stats: Win a game with bad stats
One thing you would change about CS:GO: Delete mirage
Does age affect performance in CS:GO: Yes
Should VAC-banned players get a second chance: No
Best song to listen to while playing DM/Botz: something random from my playlist
Best song to hype yourself up before an official game: I really dont listen to songs before games but anything from my playlist would do
Miscellaneous
TOP3 favorite foods:
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Pizza
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Hamburger
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French fries
Does pineapple belong on pizza? No
TOP3 favorite snacks:
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Nuts (cashew, pecan, macadamia, walnut, etc)
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String cheese
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Black bread chips with Merevaik
Popcorn - sweet or salty? Salty
TOP3 favorite beverages:
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Milk
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Water
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A quality soda
Is Pepsi okay? Yes
TOP3 favorite music bands/artists:
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The Prodigy
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Metallica
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Nirvana
Band/artist that you would want to see perform LIVE: Nirvana
TOP3 favorite songs:
Music genre that you would never listen to: modern rap that all the kidz are listening to
TOP3 favorite movies/TV shows:
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Top Gear (2002-2015 obv)
Movie/TV show character that you would want to hang out with: Charlie Harper
TOP3 favorite streamers:
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reynad (old salty reynad during the golden HS times)
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RyuQuezacotl (D2 speedrun)
Favorite game to watch on streams: Dota2 (The International events)
TOP3 things to do outside of playing CS:GO:
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Spend time with my wife
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Watch NBA
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Watch a quality TV show
The first video game you ever played: Doom
What games do you play outside of CS:GO: Apex Legends once in a while and some old MMO called pristontale.
