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United States1719 Posts
Hot-Player  Tyson "Priority is Being a Good Backup"
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Team8 is a collection of ace's. Hwaseung OZ's  Jaedong and Killer, Wemade Fox's  BaBy, and MBC Game's Sea, Jaehoon and Tyson were designated as their respective teams' ace's, and picked up by KeSPA's new team. Among the players, Tyson is the bottom feeder for the 10-11 season in most-wins. He is dead-last despite his respectable 29 wins. This just shows the depth of Team8. Even after the team's inception, Tyson has been ranked consistently at 6th in the in-house tournaments. It is almost as if he was MBC Game's ace only in name.
On the 6th, however, Tyson reminded us of why he was deemed an ace: he executed a brilliant strategy against ACE's firebathero and steamrolled him. We met with this hot player Tyson.
Q Thoughts on your first victory this season.
A My results were poor towards the end of last season, and then our team disbanded. I am happy that I got my first win, and also that our team won. My teammates said if I win my match, we will win 3:0. That put a lot of pressure on me, but I am happy that it came true. I want to prolong this moment of happiness for as long as I can.
Q Did you prepare to play Firebathero.
A I thought I would use this strategy if I met a Terran. We have to do something about Terran these days because everybody is going greedy builds. I hope a lot of other players cheese the heck out of Terran so they won't opt for greedy builds so easily. However I am sad that the Firebathero had to be my scapegoat.
Q What do you mean?
A Our dorm is in Itaewon so I get to see him and his friends a lot when I go out. A lot of them are also very dark-skinned. I have a soft-spot for dark-skinned people I guess (laughs).
Q There is word that Coach Joo was worried by your gameplay.
A I went into a slump towards the end of last season and couldn't practice properly because our team disbanded. My gameplay suffered a lot as a result. I practiced very hard but I wasn't good enough to play in the last two matches. I am still lacking, but slowly making progress.
Q You used DT's.
A I put a lot of time into devising this strategy but I didn't want it to be exposed so I rarely used it. It was based on a lot of theory-crafting but it worked well today.
Q There was a long break [before the season started].
A It served as a time to look back upon myself. I entered into a new team and the other players were so good. I wanted to be just as good as them, but my hands couldn't keep up. I decided to go back to my rookie mindset. The team atmosphere is amazing. Everybody contributes. Everybody is nice. I just need to play better.
Q Team8 is going up against Woongjin Stars on the 18th.
A I'm still not good enough to have a spot on the lineup. It's a relief that I have two weeks to prepare for this match, though. I will prepare thoroughly and bring another good strategy.
Q How do you place in the internal tournaments.
A I am 6th out of 6. It's depressing. I see myself as an extra on the team. Coach Joo sometimes jokingly says "just play your role as backup well." It gives me motivation to practice harder.
Q Any last words.
A Team8 has a great atmosphere. I won today and our team won too, continuing our winning streak. I will do my best to maintain this positive atmosphere and momentum.
Source: Daily E-sports
Here is Fomos' interview with Tyson, translated by OpticalShot 
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Picture is so dark~
Tyson is my new anti-team killer. I have FBH main Tyson anti. Whooping -6 (or is it -8 considering team win/loss, forgot how the points work). Too bad he's 6/6 on the team ranks, but that's nothing to be ashamed of when you're against Killer-Jaedong-Sea-Baby (and Jaehoon, lol).
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United States1719 Posts
i have tyson on anti too T_T i had a bad feeling about it when the december calendar was revealed and saw team8 was going up against ACE, but couldn't find a suitable replacement that was higher than him in points...
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thanks for the translation rotinegg , however my personal opinion is tyson aka bridge has no honour , dt are just not fair for terran's , how can we kill something that can't be seen except with the help of turrets and scan . Fbh T_T
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
Tyson says that he is 6 of 6 on the team. What about the 3 rookies as well?
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On December 06 2011 23:42 amazingxkcd wrote:
Tyson says that he is 6 of 6 on the team. What about the 3 rookies as well?
Dont think they're even considered competition , if he did worse than the rookies I doubt he'd be joking about it lol.
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Thank you for the translation. Glad Tyson got to play a game, too bad he had to cheese FBH, but a win is a win.
As a side not it is interesting to see Valve already sponsoring Ongamenet, probably for DOTA 2 would be my guess.
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konadora
Singapore66357 Posts
i just realised that tyson kinda looks like ggplay...
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On December 06 2011 23:31 Sawamura wrote:
thanks for the translation rotinegg , however my personal opinion is tyson aka bridge has no honour , dt are just not fair for terran's , how can we kill something that can't be seen except with the help of turrets and scan . Fbh T_T
Protoss is fighting back, first the two base attacks in PvZ, now DTs in PvT. About time we see Terran greed being punished by Protoss. But poor FBH...
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United States1719 Posts
On December 07 2011 00:19 konadora wrote:
i just realised that tyson kinda looks like ggplay...
that's what i was thinking lol
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On December 07 2011 00:27 rotinegg wrote:Show nested quote +On December 07 2011 00:19 konadora wrote:
i just realised that tyson kinda looks like ggplay... that's what i was thinking lol
GGplay 2.0 ?
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Thanks for the translation.
Just out of curiosity, did they only interview Tyson, or did they interview the other two winners as well?
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He looked so tired in his games, this picture and interview confirms it lol. Fighting!
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Tyson
Thanks for translating. I'm really appreciate it.
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United States1719 Posts
On December 07 2011 00:36 e_i_pi_1_0 wrote:
Thanks for the translation.
Just out of curiosity, did they only interview Tyson, or did they interview the other two winners as well?
it says on fomos that he was interviewed alone. jaedong and killer refrained from giving an interview to give tyson the spotlight (i think)
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Glad Tyson received recognition, now for Jaehoon to step up! lol
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Q How do you place in the internal tournaments.
A I am 6th out of 6. It's depressing. I see myself as an extra on the team. Coach Joo sometimes jokingly says "just play your role as backup well." It gives me motivation to practice harder.
What happened to the other 2 guys on the team? Did they retire?
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United States7639 Posts
On December 07 2011 04:21 Daozzt wrote:Show nested quote +Q How do you place in the internal tournaments.
A I am 6th out of 6. It's depressing. I see myself as an extra on the team. Coach Joo sometimes jokingly says "just play your role as backup well." It gives me motivation to practice harder. What happened to the other 2 guys on the team? Did they retire?
There are 3 rookies on the team. They're more like practice partners for the main 6 right now, at least until team 8 can score a sponsor and then they can recruit more rookies and B-teamers to be their practice partners. Team 8 doesn't really have the luxury of sending out rookies over top players when their priority is to get swift, decisive wins to attract sponsors, so I guess they're just not included in the rankings.
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Netherlands45349 Posts
Tyson looks a bit like Lee Byung Hun imo.
fighting!.
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So sad it had to be against FBH.
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Lol Tyson stuck at #6. They play WJN next so he might not get to play. 10~% of FPL had Tyson on anti :/
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Having either tyson or jaehoon on your anti team is short sighted. Neither of them are particularly good, but they are the only protoss on the extremely small team 8. They are both almost certain to get played often.
Of course, this is coming from someone who put ggaemo on their anti.
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On December 06 2011 23:23 rotinegg wrote:
Q What do you mean?
A Our dorm is in Itaewon so I get to see him and his friends a lot when I go out. A lot of them are also very dark-skinned. I have a soft-spot for dark-skinned people I guess (laughs).
this sounds incredibly weird to me
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100% agree with Tyson about terrans and their greedy builds. If they keep doing 1rax CC they need to be punished for it.
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On December 07 2011 08:05 tangwhat wrote:
why is valve a sponsor?
i didn't realise either. that's quite interesting
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On December 07 2011 08:05 tangwhat wrote:
why is valve a sponsor?
Holy crap I didn't notice that. Good find!
Starcraft: Source?!?!?!
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On December 07 2011 09:57 Dakkas wrote:Holy crap I didn't notice that. Good find! Starcraft: Source?!?!?!
probably upcoming dota2? someone please enlighten us.
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On December 07 2011 08:05 tangwhat wrote:
why is valve a sponsor?
Valve for Team 8 sponsor!
But seriously, great find. My respect for Valve has increased even more.
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I saw this at the stadium and I was pretty much cursing Tyson for doing that cheese. Mother****er.
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On December 07 2011 10:23 SevenSeven wrote:
I saw this at the stadium and I was pretty much cursing Tyson for doing that cheese. Mother****er.
Quit hating, he was justified in doing it.
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I comment on valve earlier and everyone misses it lol.
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Some Korean fans think Tyson looks like the actor Lee Seo Jin.
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Pretty sure the Valve logos have to do with WCG.
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On December 07 2011 10:37 Kralic wrote:
I comment on valve earlier and everyone misses it lol.
It's okay buddy I read your post and noticed everyone ignored it so I decided to ask again. I got your back homie *daps your fist lightly*
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Kespa definitely overdid it by putting the 6 best free agents all on one team, especially when they knew they were changing proleague to Bo5 format. Now at least 1 but as many as 3 quality progamers will be sitting on the bench wasting their talents every week.
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the heckkk wtfff valve on the wall :O
also haha tyson forever the underdog + Show Spoiler +
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On December 07 2011 07:25 Xpeijz wrote:
100% agree with Tyson about terrans and their greedy builds. If they keep doing 1rax CC they need to be punished for it.
He wasn't talking about the 1 rax CC, that has been around for over a year. He was talking about the follow ups and 14 CC openings. For instance, watch Shy's PvT game from this season and you will see what I'm talking about.
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