Welcome to the Author Showcase, a project founded by Natzke on Trackmania Nations Exchange. We already made a lot of Interviews, with famous users like Ron Turbo, Panis and GanjaRider, but also normal TMX users like Quat or SeaDevil! We have gotten a lot of positive reactions to it. And we now got the great news that we can publish our Interviews on TMX Blog! We hope you enjoy it!

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Hello, readers….this week we bring you one of Power Rangers that comes from Germany and want to express how serious is situation on front of good and evil xD Really, this week we only can say, for sure, that he is gr8 track builder and to meet him closer you need wear helmet ;) Boys and girls, let’s meet…

Dartz4!

1 Please tell us more about yourself (birthday, real name, place of birth, height, weight, favorite color) and your background?
Hello, my real name is Valentin R. Deuschel. I'm from the south-west of Germany, where I grew up, finished school and do my military service which lasts 9 months. I am 20 years old, 172 cm short and I weigh 65kg. In my free-time, I do sports besides trackmania, preferably jogging and soccer. At the weekend, I go to clubs, parties or watch soccer matches of my favorite team FC Bayern Munich together with some friends (in case I can convince them). I'm planning to study something about mechanical engineer somewhere in the future.

2 What made you become a track builder and who make biggest influence at your beginning?
Honestly: I don't want to hold a laudatory speech about any builder, because I'd like then. The biggest influence has been my old clan Spieleplanet (SP) which I still ride on but left on my still lasting search for a new clan. Mostly the tracks my aWu, Foulie and the wish to play a track by myself on my favorite server [SP] Geekzock motivated me to improve my skills. Once I conquered the world of SP and Geekzock, the doors of the TMX-universe opened for me, where I had to start from the beginning once again. "Brown Stains" by GanjaRider and Panis' "Moving Power" have been outstanding tracks which I wanted to keep up with.

3 Can you please guide us through a typical track project from start to finish and what part of track building do you find crucial?
Let me answer the last part of your question first: Working with the mediatracker. You need to put in lots of time to achieve something that just slightly satisfies you. Once you get the hang of it, you can do impressively much with it - as you can see on TTC 1 and 2.
But back to the main question: In the beginning I always try to think of what exactly I want to build: Speed, Tech, Speedtech, fast Slides, slow slides, grass, dirt, platform, transitions.. Once I've decided this, I try to think of a smooth start or a nice slide and then I keep on building. Then I try to randomly get inspired by everything I've seen yet or just try out some crazy combinations of specific building-blocks. While building, I keep on test-driving my tracks to find out the biggest amount of fun. Even the scenery will get added and edited while building because it often develops into later trackparts, which makes the track more winding and gives you some cooler re-uses and crossings. After finishing the actual track, it usually takes up to 2 or 3 weeks until I can bother to add some MT-work. That's about it.

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Welcome to the Author Showcase, a project founded by Natzke on Trackmania Nations Exchange. We already made a lot of Interviews, with famous users like Ron Turbo, Panis and GanjaRider, but also normal TMX users like Quat or SeaDevil! We have gotten a lot of positive reactions to it. And we now got the great news that we can publish our Interviews on TMX Blog! We hope you enjoy it!

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This week we bring you one of the new edge tech followers :) He’s not from this planet and you will not understand him at whole, but try to read between the lines and you will see that you are wrong! We are all one alienized family :P Aliens and monsters we bring you ….

n4meless!

1. Please tell us more about yourself (birthday, real name, place of birth, height, weight, favorite color) and your background?

My actual name is Lars and I was born on Valentines Day 1993 in Germany. I'm neither small nor tall - In fact something around 180cm. I currently live in fairly small village close to the Dutch border in the west of Germany.

2. How did you get your nickname?

Well, I never had a real name - The nick I first used here was "Lars2008" or something like this. Since "Lars2008" is sparsely catchy I eventually started to grope around for a new nick. Like 1 1/2 I ended up using nameless, due to a lack of creativity power.

3. What made you become a track builder and who made the biggest influence at your beginning?

The person who made me become a tracer prolly was GreenRacer.
In the end of 2007 I used to race on the "GigaLigaServer", which was riddled with a bunch of GreenRacers tracks.
Furthermore he probably also was my biggest influence in the beginning of my tracker-career . Later on dipl0 turned into my biggest influence.

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Welcome to the Author Showcase, a project founded by Natzke on Trackmania Nations Exchange. We already made a lot of Interviews, with famous users like Ron Turbo, Panis and GanjaRider, but also normal TMX users like Quat, Matto or SeaDevil! We have gotten a lot of positive reactions to it. And we now got the great news that we can publish our Interviews on TMX Blog! We hope you enjoy it!

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Welcome back dear readers, for our 28th interview! Well this week we bring you Danish football superstar that you maybe know, but it’s hide behind very mysterious name :) He’s playing for one very famous Premiership club and represent one very important part of squad! being FAN XD Girls and boys we present you ….

Mr.Mono!

1 Please tell us more about yourself (birthday, real name, place of birth, height, weight, favorite color) and your background?

- Eeey guys. It's mono here. In real life my name is Sebastian, so i guess you can wonder how my name is mono ? Anyway as it also can be seen in the birthday thread my birthday is on the 12th of August '93 and so I'll give you the chance of thinking about how old it am. I was born in a Danish city named Aalborg. I think I'm about 1 meter and 74-5 I think ? I'm about 67 kg so that's pretty normal i think. My favorite color is blue (i think ?). I do enjoy doing sports and working out and stuff like that. I've been playing football for 10 years and I've also went to other sports but football is my call.

2 How did you get your nickname?

- Because Mono means 'one' and I am the one ? Nah, just kidding. Actually, it's what I'm also called in real life. The story was: when I moved to the school I just finished, I had a t-shirt on for one day, and one of my friends saw it sais mono, and he asked cheeky: "Why don't we call you mono instead of Sebastian", and so that turned into my new name. I bet that some people doesn't even know my real name Because I'm known everywhere as mono, and so people know me as mono. So when I signed up to tmx, and I had to pick a user name, I just chose mono. In the beginning it was 'Mr. Mono' but now it's just Mono.

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Welcome to the Author Showcase, a project founded by Natzke on Trackmania Nations Exchange. We already made a lot of Interviews, with famous users like Ron Turbo, Panis and GanjaRider, but also normal TMX users like Quat, Matto or SeaDevil! We have gotten a lot of positive reactions to it. And we now got the great news that we can publish our Interviews on TMX Blog! We hope you enjoy it!

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Welcome back dear readers, for our 27th interview! You probably don’t know him, you probably don’t even care, but one thing is for sure when you try his tracks you will never forget him :) PPL we present you giant on the wheels …

Matty!

1 Please tell us more about yourself (birthday, real name, place of birth, height, weight, favorite color) and your background?

My real name is Martin but my friends always call me matty because I like that more I'm 17 years old and I live in Germany near Saarbrücken ( that’s near France ). Next year, I’m going to make 'abitur'; it's the university-entrance diploma in Germany. Well I’m quite tall, I'm 193 cm high and my weight is around 80 kilograms. My favorite color is blue At the moment I'm in no clan for online playing and in mapperworld for mapping in real life I love painting pictures, in school I’m one of the best.

2 What made you become a track builder and who make biggest influence at your beginning?

Well when I played TMN online I liked the freaky minis from fish because they were challenging and I had a lot of fun on his maps. I'm really a fan of this guy. When TMNF released I tried to build some tracks in fish-style, at the beginning they were really bad but after some time I learned how to make a quite nice track Even today I love his maps.

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Welcome to the Author Showcase, a project founded by Natzke on Trackmania Nations Exchange. We already made a lot of Interviews, with famous users like Ron Turbo, Panis and GanjaRider, but also normal TMX users like Quat, Matto or SeaDevil! We have gotten a lot of positive reactions to it. And we now got the great news that we can publish our Interviews on TMX Blog! We hope you enjoy it!

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Welcome back dear readers, for our 26th interview! This week we bring you terror, fear and a person that you all probably know from your worst nightmares :D No, it’s not Freddy Cruger, not even Candyman, people we present you the Legendary …

BLiNNeMaNS!

1 Please tell us more about yourself (birthday, real name, place of birth, height, weight, favorite color) and your background?
Well, most people just call me blin, but only my family calls me Jeroen, so that's my official name.
I am a 33 yrs old, 2,01meter bald male and live in Alkmaar, Netherlands. That's also my place of birth btw.
Beside TMX I got some other hobbies like drawing, web design, photography, music and dutch language in general.

2 How did you get your nickname?
Well, that's a loooong story ^^
It all started in the early 90's when i had to come up with a release name for my audio tracks I built with Protracker on the Commodore amiga.
As I was a big fan of the Gobliiins games and also had intentions to start warhammer, i chose Hobgoblin.
After a while i got bored of the fact people on bulletinboards (pre-internet filesharing) called me hobs, so i removed that part.
Then I started DJ-ing for a while, under the name DJ Goblin. However, due to the fact I didn't have a steady hand I ruined most of my records when putting the needle on them. So I decided to end my DJ career and trade my SL set for a CD player. (I know, not the smartest move )
Anyways, after the DJ career I went back to producing music. Now, with the rise of the internet, i chose Goblin as my online name.
After a few years of exploring the web and looking for cool games, I got introduced to my 1st LAN party, hosted by LANMANIAX. It was in an old (law)court, that wasn't used anymore.
There I got introduced to HalfLife Deathmatch and counterstrike. As I was the typical teamplayer for my clan (OOPS-Clan) I always saved $$ to be able to buy the machinegun and play on a support role for the rushing teammates.
As it was on a LAN I could see and hear my teammates. They were shouting Go BLiN, Go BLiN.. It sounded nice, and because the game itself also had a keycombo to let your character shout "Go go go!!" I decided it'd be BLiN from that day forward.
Well, that's about it. I still call myself BLiN nowadays. As i know most of my buddies In real life from the LAN parties, most of them call me BLiN instead of Jeroen.
Fun fact: girlfriends of those buddies don't even know my real name. So their friends don't either.
As BLiN is a bit short, some people added the word "mans" to it. Mans kinda means the same as "manly", "cool" etc.
So there you have it. BLiNNeMaNS

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Welcome to the Author Showcase, a project founded by Natzke on Trackmania Nations Exchange. We already made a lot of Interviews, with famous users like Ron Turbo, Panis and GanjaRider, but also normal TMX users like Quat, Matto or SeaDevil! We have gotten a lot of positive reactions to it. And we now got the great news that we can publish our Interviews on TMX Blog! We hope you enjoy it!

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Welcome back dear readers, for our 25th interview! This week we bring you one special rise-up trackbuilder :) His name is puzzle, but talent is very versatile! So, lady's and gentleman, we present you…

Mr.Zogger!

1 Please tell us more about yourself (birthday, real name, place of birth, height, weight, favorite color) and your background?

My name is Quentin Henner (yeah, I know, a strange name for a German guy, but my parents just like extraordinary stuff -.-), I am 18 years old. I come from a very small and rural town in Germany/Bavaria/Schwaben which nobody has ever heard of ^^. I was born on the 26. May 1991 in another town of Germany and I am about 1,75 tall and my favorite color is friggin’ green.
Well, my background…I live in a big family with 3 brothers and 1 one sister in the house of my parents and I just finished my formation to a bilingual secretary (office work ftw -.-), because everybody in my family is only skilled in languages, a reason for that might be that my father is from America, and we are complete noobs in math’s.
In my spare time I like playing football and sports in general, meeting friends and just hang around in our boring town and of course also Trackmania, let’s say PC in general

2 How did you get your nickname?

Well, my nickname is a mixture of English and German :D
Mr. = Mister Zogger = means playing and gambling in German (actually it’s written with “ck” but I wanted to give it some personal touch^^)

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Welcome to the Author Showcase, a project founded by Natzke on Trackmania Nations Exchange. We already made a lot of Interviews, with famous users like Ron Turbo, Panis and GanjaRider, but also normal TMX users like Quat, Matto or SeaDevil! We have gotten a lot of positive reactions to it. And we now got the great news that we can publish our Interviews on TMX Blog! We hope you enjoy it!

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Welcome back dear readers, for our 24th interview!  This week we bring you person that’s become part of a history on TMX and his appearance is reminder to all of us how dose pure old school legend looks :) We present you …

Junavara!

1 Please tell us more about yourself (birthday, real name, place of birth, height, weight, favorite color) and your background?

Hi there,
First sorry for my bad English and forgive me for all mistakes you will read.

My name is Boris and I was born 22.12.1981 at Paris.
My height is 1,74m and I weigh 62 kg. The color what I like are purple and orange/yellow.
I live in Paris and I work at Technical Drawings Checker for aircraft, near an airport at 35 km north from Paris.
My daily routine: wake up at 6h15, start work at 7h45/8h15 and finish....when the work is finish.
Can be 16h30 or 20h30. They didn't leave me so much time for something other.
On my free time, I love to create something (can be all and nothing), sleep and rest! Go sometimes at country to rest too.

2 How did you get your nickname?

When I created a map for Age of empires 2. I need a name for an Aztec leader. I created the name Juvanara.
After I changed the name of character for Lineage 2 to Junavara. And finally reuse this name for Chronicles of Andros.
When I came here, use it again and find out that "Junavara" significant "Spare train" at Finnish, was funny for me !

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Welcome to the Author Showcase, a project founded by Natzke on Trackmania Nations Exchange. We already made a lot of Interviews, with famous users like Ron Turbo, Panis and GanjaRider, but also normal TMX users like Quat or SeaDevil! We have gotten a lot of positive reactions to it. And we now got the great news that we can publish our Interviews on TMX Blog! We hope you enjoy it!

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Welcome back dear readers, for our 23th interview!  And this one is special to every TMUFX user :) You know him for a very long time and we know that you eager to know him better :P PPL we present you one and only…

JumperJack!

1. Please tell us more about yourself (birthday, real name, place of birth, height, weight, favourite colour) and your background?

Well, hello guys. My name is Carel Fransen, and I'm 19 years old. April 30. 2010 I'll turn 20. I live in the Netherlands, and currently studying Industrial Design Engineering in Delft, second year. I comply to the standard representation of a Dutch guy: 1m96 long and somewhere around 73 kg. My favorite color is green. I recently started learning to play the guitar (I used to play the cello in the past) and I'm an amateur squash player. Regarding music, I listen to a diverse amount of genres but prefer folk (KT Tunstall is my favorite), and well, I've been playing Trackmania for about 4 years now.

2. What made you become an track builder and who make biggest influence at your beginning?

Hard one to remember to be honest . I know that when I started playing nations, I was only interested for about two days or so, and I got back to Battlefield2 again. However, since my BF2 mates started to play the game as well, I gave it another try... the rest is history. ^^ I actually have never played another game those years. I think that my motivation for building my first track (OverZeaS, it's still on nations exchange) was an idea to make a story-track (as in stories - multiple levels on top of each other). But the 7 minute track didn't lead to a success, which I can understand these days. ^^ My biggest influence is definitely DerFeineHerr. His tracks , and his help for turning "Iron Butterfly" into one of my best tracks ever, made me want to try new stuff, and keep improving my trackbuilding!! Besides that, Djoszee has also helped me a really lot to improve my skills, and it’s still a pity that he hasn’t got the amount of attention I once had yet, since he'd really deserve it.

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