Interview with piTu

Question: So who's this piTu guy? Tell us in short about the real person behind the nickname.
piTu: my name is Marc, 38 years old and living in Germany in a small village near Hamburg. I´m an electrical engineering technician in a chemical plant. I´m taking part in a motorcycle club and I´m a big fan from the HSV soccer team. Like to go fishing and cooking and i´m a member of the firefighter team in our village. And the PC, especially ArmA takes the other time of my life.

Question: Explain your online handle, what does it mean? why did you choose it? do you use any other alias? How long have you had it?
piTu: The name piTu is taken from a sugarcane-schnapps you need fort he Brazil cocktail caipirinha. It was my favorite drink in hot summer many years ago. I use this name since OFP-times. only in perfect world i use an other name: erie djavar. otherwise in all games i´m piTu.

Question: How long have you been in AGW and how did you find us?
piTu: I´ve played public with kju many times and he told me to try the AGW-tournament. After playing aas at the basecamp server nearly every day there was more and more contact to cat toaster. He also suggested to play with him in AGW. so I started with the scrims for C3.

Question: How long have you been involved with gaming in general?
piTu: I´ve had my first experiences with the game pong late in the 70´s . then my „career“ goes on with the Atari VCS and the awesome C64. Started PC-gaming in 1992. Online gaming since 2001 starting with OFP. i´ve played in several clans and leagues (ESL, AL, ECL, 511er) and tried out the real-war-league. Now i give AGW a hard time

Question: Which current AGW member have you known the longest?
piTu: With m@ddog, Charlie and scotch i´ve played in the OFP clan mdk. It´s very funny with this guys so we stick together till now. We did every clan switch together. If u want one of us u have to take all of us .

Question: Tell us a little about your gaming rig?
piTu: I´m using a amd x6 1090 @3,6ghz, ati 5850, 4gb ram, Seagate Barracuda 1TB, Logitech G500 mouse, Plantronics Gamecom 777 headset, 22” TFT and a 5€ 10 years old Cherry keyboard 

Question: What are games you play currently? List your top 5 favorite games with a short explanation of why they are your favorites.
piTu: 1-5 OFP 
Currently i´m playing ArmA2 most the time. It´s the best non-fast-food-shooter in my opinion. It depends not only on your reaction to be a good player. You have also to think about what you are doing next. And you have to act as a team to be successful.
For a change I play the mmorpg perfect world. This game is the easy going part in my game collection. You can meet nice guys and have fun for some hours without stress.
Another game for funny evenings is Trackmania. Some evenings m@ddog and me are driving around at the tmn servers. But this game has a handicap. If you got 4 or 5 beers or a bottle vino you can´t handle the car anymore .
Sorry, not 5 games. I think it´s better to play a game very intensive to be good than to play many games with no success

Question: What other hobbies do you partake in?
piTu:  As i´ve said above I´m a big HSV fan. I visit their matches in the stadium or watch them at the TV. With my teammate scotch I also drive to the away-matches in whole germany. Another hobby is fishing. Sometimes going to Denmark with my friends for a fishing week. And hanging around with my mates from the motorcycle club. Having party with drinks and girls is also available with me

Question: Describe a perfect game night/day?
piTu: There are 2 types of perfect game nights:
1. Meeting my teammates in mumble taking part at a public server have some beers and talk funny b*llsh*t with them.
2. Prepare a whole week for a battle. Try out everything at an arma map. Entering the chopper in the right time/way, take the fastest way to a spot, check every possible route, know every stone/house/bush and work out several tactics. If that works at the battleday in a league or a tournament with the whole team then it´s a perfect game night.

Question: Do you see yourself gaming when you are 75 years old?
piTu: Sure. I can see no matter to stop playing. And I hope gaming in 40 years will also be possible with sitting in a chair. The trend is to move your whole body like you do at the Wii. In 40 years this could be the primary way to play games. With 75+ it will not be so easy to move your body quick enough

Question: Do you have a favorite AGW moment? Tell us about it.
piTu: Yes, in a battle in C3 teasy and me wanted to support our team to take the blue bravo spot. But I was too dumb to drive the right way. I took our jeep to alpha instead of bravo. At that moment our team takes the flag at bravo. Teasy and me were standing in alpha without an enemy and could make the sweep. This sweep was only possible in fact of not knowing how to drive to the right position. Causes big laughter in our TS

Question: Anything else you would like to add?
piTu: I would like to thank the admins for the AGW-tournament. Good work. 

Thank you very much for your time, piTu on behalf of the media team.