EPT[AMA] My Best Friend is an eSports Newt - Page 3
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GenesisX
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Mawi
Sweden4365 Posts
Does he play better if he takes drugs? How many hours a day does he play? Does he watch GSL/Tournaments etc? Must know :3 | ||
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
Who will win Proleague? Do you like Kpop? Favourite artist/song? | ||
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Tortious_Tortoise
United States944 Posts
On January 14 2012 10:48 Mawi wrote: Does he rage? Does he play better if he takes drugs? How many hours a day does he play? Does he watch GSL/Tournaments etc? Must know :3 He used to get pretty upset when he lost-- luckily he isn't really big enough to do any real damage to the computer-- the most he's actually done physically is knock a plastic cup on the floor. Recently though, he's taken a much more proactive approach to learning the game though. The way he sees it, it's more about getting better personally than it is about winning games. He's lost a lot recently, but he's very positive about his prospects. He doesn't really do drugs-- funny story though-- one night, he had a massive headache after a long and stressful ladder session. He had dropped about ten games in a row and he was about to lose his mind. So I gave him 2 advil to help with his headache. Turns out 2 advil is a LOT for a tiny gecko-- he started getting really relaxed and kind of sleepy. I thought he should go to sleep, but he wanted to play another game, so he queued up. Next game he rolled Zerg against a Terran. He started giggling and told me he was going to win with a fool-proof strategy. The map was Tal'Darim Altar. Newton decides to 12 pool 11 gas, and instead of getting speed with his first 100 gas, he gets lair tech. He has only made Drones thus far, and neither player has scouted the other yet. By the time Lair finishes, Newton knows it's cross-spawn because his second OL made it to the other spawn location. When Lair finishes, though, Newton starts OL speed. He's been making queens by this time-- he has 3. When OL speed finishes, he starts OL drop. By the time that finishes, he has all his OLs together, loads up all his drones except four or five (which he leaves mining), and his queens and floats to the Terrans base. Terran is still on 1 base and has about 25 marines. Newton lands all his drones and starts spreading creep in Terrans base. He's lost a bunch of OL, but still has about 15 drones to make 15 evolution chambers in the base. Terran focuses down a couple, but about 10 still complete The Terran doesn't focus the evolution chambers one at a time, so they aren't all that far behind. By some crazy coincidence, 7 evo chambers fall at the same time, and the 35 broodlings kill about 12 marines. The rest of the marines kill the evolution chambers-- 2 more fall and take out 3-4 marines, 3 more fall and clean up the rest of them, and the last 2 go straight for the mineral line. The Terran just leaves. Newton had about 1k left in the bank, and still had 5 drones mining. Newton doesn't play all that much-- he tries to do at least 1 game a day, but sometimes even that is really hard. He wakes up early sometimes to watch the GSL-- he watches MLGs, Dreamhacks, and generally any other major tournament-- when he has time. On January 14 2012 11:04 Mobius_1 wrote: What are your thoughts on HOTS? Who will win Proleague? Do you like Kpop? Favourite artist/song? Newton is kind of excited for HotS. He jokes that he hasn't been around long enough for WoL to be "old news" yet, so he can bare to wait a while before the expansion. Newton was really hoping Team 8 would be an unstoppable monster, but he has his money on SKT1. He doesn't mind Kpop at all, but he never really got into it. When he listens to the performances in the GSL, he likes it, but he doesn't know the artists very well at all. | ||
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