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Today's door features one of Russia's most important Brood War persons. Since we do have a foreword from one of his close colleagues, we keep the introduction short. However, it shall be noted that there were slight problems in regards to the language barriers on both ends while conducting this interview, as well as some minor nagging between interviewer and target. Be that as it may, we hope you do enjoy and appreciate what one of the biggest financial supporter of the foreign Brood War community has to say. Don't forget, he's also the writer of „SCVs are BIG“ and the guy to keep track of Soviet OPTIMUS Prime (who sleeps).
An Introduction to the Brain by Largo
I've met Brain around 2010 at the ASUS Cup. He had already left playing but was still interested in BW and its community. Few years before I've already noticed the guy, who could post 10 news during the day of the 1st January. For Russians it's the same date like 25-26th December for Europeans.
In his early days he was a player, then became a reps.ru admin, then he influenced the Moscow community – the heart of the community. I can't really recall the exact occurence after which we became friends, but now we're doing some things together: from BW LANs to business and common parties.
Reliability is one of the most important qualities of a proper human. Unfortunately not a lof of us can display it. Brain can.
Shortly, nothing changed since the last year we [E/N: me and Largo] talked about Kirill:
He's pretty good man.
I'm happy he's my friend in real life
„You know who to contact whenever you need a atomic reactor insurance policy or at least a tanker"
In his early days he was a player, then became a reps.ru admin, then he influenced the Moscow community – the heart of the community. I can't really recall the exact occurence after which we became friends, but now we're doing some things together: from BW LANs to business and common parties.
Reliability is one of the most important qualities of a proper human. Unfortunately not a lof of us can display it. Brain can.
Shortly, nothing changed since the last year we [E/N: me and Largo] talked about Kirill:
He's pretty good man.
I'm happy he's my friend in real life
„You know who to contact whenever you need a atomic reactor insurance policy or at least a tanker"
The Interview with Kirill „RUS_Brain“ Patyrykin
Can you please introduce yourself? (Age, name, etc) [E/N: the nagging already begins: He links me To Google.Translate and his homepage
I'm Kirill Patyrykin aka Rus_Brain, 27 at the time being.
When did you start to follow Brood War? When did you first become involved in the scene - be it as member of a clan or as organizer?
I'm following BW literally since 1998. It was very popular to play in "PC clubs" in Russia these times. If we are talking about internet - I've joined starcraft.7x.ru back in 2003.
So, how was your career as player - did you finish high in some tournaments, or are you some random casual like me?
The max I've got was A- @ PGTour season 7. We've played a shared account with
Plumbum. I believe you know him.
I also played WCG Russia 2006, but was knocked out by 3D.Escape, who actually qualified for the WCG Grand Finals.
And the highest was ASUS Summer 2006, where almost everyone from Former SU played - I finished as Top 16 this tournament, if I remember correctly.
Baring in mind I was from Vladivostok, a distant Far Eastern city of Russia, approximately 9,000 km away from Moscow that was an achievement. Still, I was not the best in Vladivostok as well.
So literally I can say: "I know the order to push the buttons when playing StarCraft". I was like among the top 25% of the players and surely top 1% of entire population on Earth :D
So, you're a rather capable player then. What else did you do in the community? Right now, your name only appears every now and then as sponsor. Did you organize, write or manage teams, sites or something like that?
I managed 7x, fAke, 3D, RoX, reps -- as teams. And I managed/worked with WGTour, PGTour, GosuGamers, TeamLiquid, iCCup; 7x.ru and reps.ru of course.
I'm most known for my work on reps.ru and maybe still recognisable at TL, and I should be recognisable by those who played PGT, as I used to be like a super-admin, managing Russian parts of the site.
Well, just a managing stuff. Teams? Make clan wars, manage players' schedules etc etc. Still it was difficult for me due to the seven hours of time difference with Moscow, 9 hours with CET, and 15(?) with New York.
Work on Portals? News, articles, some complaints and stuff. I also like to manage tournaments.
However I'm quite busy right now which makes it difficult to host tournaments. I prefer to donate and "recruit" some experienced guys to host tours. For example - the last tournament I helped to happen is goodgames's ProChallenge, though it is WarCraft3.
When I donated its prizepool was roughly $1k, but it appears ~$650, thanks to Russian Ruble downfall ^^
Ah, and yes, I've managed goodgame.ru as well. Quite minor though. And proplay.ru as well.
What big tournaments were you involved in (ASUS, Sandlot, TSL even?)? Any highlights from these tours, or a tournament you liked better than any else?
Oh..... You should google indeed. I don't remember. Like twenty, or thirty... I don't know really
Well you dont need a full list, just what comes to mind from "important, big" and "enjoyed working there the most"
I'm confused indeed :D
Well, I remember WCG 2006 most. As I practiced and stuff. But I was no manager of this. Only a player.
The German WCG Organizers were always under a lot of criticism. E.g. people discussed that the qualification systems were one sided, that organizers for the finals were not prepared, late replay uploads, no streams etc. Especially players sometimes complained about the arenas. Was it in Russia comparable, or were they better? You must have interesting insights as player...
It happened sometimes. But you known, most of the time the blamers are bushers themselves. At least I did not felt offended myself :D
To the second part of the question: You want a world congress organisation style? Go make your fund for example, fundraise to USD 1,000,000 at least and spend like USD 250k for the organisation part of the tournament and 750k USD - for a prizefund
You cant? Go fuck off then.
lol [I actually did]
Well, this is how I operate - I just work instead of crying.
As organizer and player you probably had a lot of contact to good players. Lately I have been browsing tons of statistics. There's this stereotype about Russia, saying that the best CIS players were Terran. And indeed it shows that most of the dominant Terrans speak Russian - any thoughts why that is? Just coincidence?
Dunno why, but it seems legit :D
At least if we are talking about ~15 year statistics. Now the best of non-koreans are Protoss I believe.
Well, in the past Androide, Advokate and Strelok come to mind, after the Beta Heme and Pro7ect. That's what I had in mind. Do you have any fun stories about good Russian players nobody outside of Russia knows?
If I do, that may be a secret :D Otherwise everyone else would know them as well.
You're a troll, Mister. Seriously, nothing you could share with us? Or is everything a reps.ru secret and authorized users only?
Nothing. Just learn Russian and go read like 36746128945723468238476 pages of text since 2003.
Well, I can share something not a secret, but a local reps.ru memes.
The collection is here: reps.ru collection
But most of the other entries won't be so funny in English I think. One more, though. This is a Purpose of living. Yeah, I found it.
Please leave as is, this is important! One should leave everything, go to Himalai or whatever, learn Russian all his life, and one day he will understand the meaning.
Alright. You did mention you sponsor other games like W3, I saw you sponsored the SC2BW mod somewhen. What's so special about Brood War in contrast to other games?
Blizzard got lucky to make a perfectly balanced game. More important, I LIKE IT :D
Can you elaborate? Where's the difference? Better community, better game play, better graphics?
Nothing of these, I believe just a proper timing I started playing the game which ultimately influenced my mindset and stuff. So basically it's like a part of life. After SC2 came out, the games were much less interesting for me, so I moved on.
As organizer, what's your impression on projects like Defiler.ru? Do you know of any other things post SCII from the foreign BW scene?
Where there any? really? :D
I'm speaking of yoda's weekly tours here. Not the page istelf [At this point I thought he was dodging and fooling me on purpose]
Defiler.ru is cool. The streaming is mainstream now (sorry for fucking stream). And since sc2tv ceased for SC2 after release, defiler filled the empty niche of BroodWar and it works afterall.
How about the LANs you Russians still have. We Germans never had many of those in our entire time. Were LANs in Russia more important than only play, given that your WCG used them a lot for qualifiers?
I used to manage some last 5 years I think, but ultimately lost the interest
I believe that the players are quite strong (financially, career, or whatever) and they are capable to donate for a prizefund. However the fundraising process is very slow and problematic. $50 seems very tough. Yet, this is for sure a simple steakhouse dinner will cost like $100.
So I ceased to fund the major part myself, and ultimately the number of tournaments decreased. Yet, there are other good orgas. Largo, Plumbum, Yoda, Cardi, Anophele to name few.
That's a little besides the question - the question was: Were LANs a more important thing for the Russian scene compared to others, or is that a wrong impression I have?
Come again?
We germans „never“ had LANs, only like five in ten years. I came to learn that Russians had dozens of them, including WCG and ASUS. So, what was the role of LANs in the Russian scene? Why did you have so many and we so little?
Ah! Sure, lol. Vodka, Balalayka, Mishka etc etc
Now, that sounds like a good story. Please, more of it!
Impossible to get online, offline required.
Mysterious
Do you know of the new Korean scene? Afreeca, SOSPA and so on?
Not that much. I don't watch streams nowadays. Only recently. Outdated stream records.
§“$% there goes a whole ton of questions. You mentioned you worked with, for or on several platforms - WGTour, PGTour, ICCup and so on. What do you think of the old competition we had, e.g. the "GosuGamers vs. Teamliquid" debates? Was there truely a page nobody needed?
GG versus TL? lol, I missed that. If we are talking about BW, TL >>>>> GG, lol
It was mostly a fun "war", even though some users did flame each other. I remember a war GG.net lost and their made up excuses afterwards.
So. Some of my colleagues experienced some kind of isolation, that's what I'm getting at. We bw.de guys were mostly stranded on broodwar.de for German news, nobody else reported. Did you experience something similar? E.g. the big pages ignoring the small pages, or did you actively try to establish cooperation between, let's say, reps.ru and TL?
Similarly reps.ru was isolated from the global scene. Afterall, say you are a fan from Zimbabwe. You have two matches: Jae vs Flash and RUSSIANSUPERZERGFUCKTHEMALL vs UBERDUBERTERRANFROMTHEUKRAINEFUCKTHEPOLITICIANS at the same time. You would chose the first
But in Russia maybe you will choose second option and watch Flash-Jae later on youtube.
Okay. So, there was always drama revolving certain portals, I could experience a ton of that on my own. E.g. Unk's famous "why not" after banning an entire city. What's your opinion on topics like that? Were there any portals you have very negatively in memory because of abuse?
My opinion? Fucking amateurs. Everywhere :D It's not professional. He could do something more sophisticated.
So you're not buying into the eSports hype train everywhere?
eSports is not something you can make cash out of :O
Alright, picking that up, now to the ghastly sides of being an organizer. How did you treat cheaters, hackers and the likes? What's your policy there, a second chance or life time bans?
Some sort of bailout: One cheats - one should buy back :D Do something to earn a second chance. Otherwise – lifetime. Twice hack - lifetime ban.
In Germany we had several cases of multiple hackers - maybe you have heard of "Selector". Were there massive discussions about these topics in Russia as well? Do you think every scene handles these cases differently?
Every scene handles differently. Politics matters here. For example, we had an issue with RoX.localhost at TSL. RoX.Bruce may have succeeded to burke this in Russia. But TL banned localhost forever.
So, about the fun sides then. Any particularly funny story that stuck with you being organizer - e.g. fun conversations with a player, or an especially stupid cheater?
Ummm. Maybe I'll remember some. But not now :D [Optimus Prime, he sleeps]
So who are your favourite players? Name one foreigner and one Korean - also don't forget to add why you like them most!
Droid - for being best countryman
White-Ra for being most polite amongst top tier gosus
Flash - for the reason I posted earlier
Yellow - for I've used to learn on his replays
We already have four. Do you agree that Bisu is the girliest player ever?
Umm.. SC2's Scarlett exceeds by far
Maybe... Bisu is the Justin Bieber of Brood War?
I would say potential probability he was gay was lower if he was zerg or terran.
I saw some of your blogs, including "SCVs are big" and "Optimus Prime Sleeps". You also share tons of your travel reports, I distinctively remember a picture of you suffocating a cat with a towel wearing a Gecko shirt. I also remember that Largo was in some of these pictures. How close are you reps.ru guys really? Is it like the entire page meets up every second week, or is it just a small group of you being close friends?
You wanna hear we use to host swing parties?
Brain prepares some dinner on a trip
Dearly noted. Anything goes!
We do not. I'm afraid you are playing a dangerous game, due to false allegations may result in two years sentence in prison which will ultimately result in some serious Siberian guys may [this part is better censored out, due to people here being in Kollin's age range] :O
Ok nevermind then. Any last words or shout outs?
I win, kkk?
Thanks for the interview
Sorry that the interview got silly at one point.
I'm Kirill Patyrykin aka Rus_Brain, 27 at the time being.
When did you start to follow Brood War? When did you first become involved in the scene - be it as member of a clan or as organizer?
I'm following BW literally since 1998. It was very popular to play in "PC clubs" in Russia these times. If we are talking about internet - I've joined starcraft.7x.ru back in 2003.
So, how was your career as player - did you finish high in some tournaments, or are you some random casual like me?
The max I've got was A- @ PGTour season 7. We've played a shared account with
Plumbum. I believe you know him.I also played WCG Russia 2006, but was knocked out by 3D.Escape, who actually qualified for the WCG Grand Finals.
And the highest was ASUS Summer 2006, where almost everyone from Former SU played - I finished as Top 16 this tournament, if I remember correctly.
Baring in mind I was from Vladivostok, a distant Far Eastern city of Russia, approximately 9,000 km away from Moscow that was an achievement. Still, I was not the best in Vladivostok as well.
So literally I can say: "I know the order to push the buttons when playing StarCraft". I was like among the top 25% of the players and surely top 1% of entire population on Earth :D
So, you're a rather capable player then. What else did you do in the community? Right now, your name only appears every now and then as sponsor. Did you organize, write or manage teams, sites or something like that?
I managed 7x, fAke, 3D, RoX, reps -- as teams. And I managed/worked with WGTour, PGTour, GosuGamers, TeamLiquid, iCCup; 7x.ru and reps.ru of course.
I'm most known for my work on reps.ru and maybe still recognisable at TL, and I should be recognisable by those who played PGT, as I used to be like a super-admin, managing Russian parts of the site.
Well, just a managing stuff. Teams? Make clan wars, manage players' schedules etc etc. Still it was difficult for me due to the seven hours of time difference with Moscow, 9 hours with CET, and 15(?) with New York.
Work on Portals? News, articles, some complaints and stuff. I also like to manage tournaments.
However I'm quite busy right now which makes it difficult to host tournaments. I prefer to donate and "recruit" some experienced guys to host tours. For example - the last tournament I helped to happen is goodgames's ProChallenge, though it is WarCraft3.
When I donated its prizepool was roughly $1k, but it appears ~$650, thanks to Russian Ruble downfall ^^
Ah, and yes, I've managed goodgame.ru as well. Quite minor though. And proplay.ru as well.
What big tournaments were you involved in (ASUS, Sandlot, TSL even?)? Any highlights from these tours, or a tournament you liked better than any else?
Oh..... You should google indeed. I don't remember. Like twenty, or thirty... I don't know really
Well you dont need a full list, just what comes to mind from "important, big" and "enjoyed working there the most"
I'm confused indeed :D
Well, I remember WCG 2006 most. As I practiced and stuff. But I was no manager of this. Only a player.
The German WCG Organizers were always under a lot of criticism. E.g. people discussed that the qualification systems were one sided, that organizers for the finals were not prepared, late replay uploads, no streams etc. Especially players sometimes complained about the arenas. Was it in Russia comparable, or were they better? You must have interesting insights as player...
It happened sometimes. But you known, most of the time the blamers are bushers themselves. At least I did not felt offended myself :D
To the second part of the question: You want a world congress organisation style? Go make your fund for example, fundraise to USD 1,000,000 at least and spend like USD 250k for the organisation part of the tournament and 750k USD - for a prizefund
You cant? Go fuck off then.lol [I actually did]
Well, this is how I operate - I just work instead of crying.
As organizer and player you probably had a lot of contact to good players. Lately I have been browsing tons of statistics. There's this stereotype about Russia, saying that the best CIS players were Terran. And indeed it shows that most of the dominant Terrans speak Russian - any thoughts why that is? Just coincidence?
Dunno why, but it seems legit :D
At least if we are talking about ~15 year statistics. Now the best of non-koreans are Protoss I believe.
Well, in the past Androide, Advokate and Strelok come to mind, after the Beta Heme and Pro7ect. That's what I had in mind. Do you have any fun stories about good Russian players nobody outside of Russia knows?
If I do, that may be a secret :D Otherwise everyone else would know them as well.
You're a troll, Mister. Seriously, nothing you could share with us? Or is everything a reps.ru secret and authorized users only?
Nothing. Just learn Russian and go read like 36746128945723468238476 pages of text since 2003.
Well, I can share something not a secret, but a local reps.ru memes.
- Mamon says Korea is a very beautiful city
- Cosmopolitan.ru says if you are a teen girl and a boy used you, you should not cry but go and SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS or build more MUTAs, I don't remember exactly
The collection is here: reps.ru collection
But most of the other entries won't be so funny in English I think. One more, though. This is a Purpose of living. Yeah, I found it.
да флэш просто суший макро терран я не понемаю зачем он вызвался за ничю приемушество было у него на стороне он мог бы просто полететь половиной зданий и поехать войсками в атаку под зданиями зделать сиеге и просто тупо убить тосса у которого был 1 чтормер и пачка кареров с пачкой гунов протев террановского лимита это смешно просто смешно в любом случае у него стояло столько турелей что даже если бы он не смог убить всех кареров то он мог бы просто порубить их интрецепторов
а если бы даже не добил то всё равно кареры бы их слили на его туретках которых там было чтук 20
а если бы даже не добил то всё равно кареры бы их слили на его туретках которых там было чтук 20
Please leave as is, this is important! One should leave everything, go to Himalai or whatever, learn Russian all his life, and one day he will understand the meaning.
Alright. You did mention you sponsor other games like W3, I saw you sponsored the SC2BW mod somewhen. What's so special about Brood War in contrast to other games?
Blizzard got lucky to make a perfectly balanced game. More important, I LIKE IT :D
Can you elaborate? Where's the difference? Better community, better game play, better graphics?
Nothing of these, I believe just a proper timing I started playing the game which ultimately influenced my mindset and stuff. So basically it's like a part of life. After SC2 came out, the games were much less interesting for me, so I moved on.
As organizer, what's your impression on projects like Defiler.ru? Do you know of any other things post SCII from the foreign BW scene?
Where there any? really? :D
I'm speaking of yoda's weekly tours here. Not the page istelf [At this point I thought he was dodging and fooling me on purpose]
Defiler.ru is cool. The streaming is mainstream now (sorry for fucking stream). And since sc2tv ceased for SC2 after release, defiler filled the empty niche of BroodWar and it works afterall.
How about the LANs you Russians still have. We Germans never had many of those in our entire time. Were LANs in Russia more important than only play, given that your WCG used them a lot for qualifiers?
I used to manage some last 5 years I think, but ultimately lost the interest
I believe that the players are quite strong (financially, career, or whatever) and they are capable to donate for a prizefund. However the fundraising process is very slow and problematic. $50 seems very tough. Yet, this is for sure a simple steakhouse dinner will cost like $100.
So I ceased to fund the major part myself, and ultimately the number of tournaments decreased. Yet, there are other good orgas. Largo, Plumbum, Yoda, Cardi, Anophele to name few.
That's a little besides the question - the question was: Were LANs a more important thing for the Russian scene compared to others, or is that a wrong impression I have?
Come again?
We germans „never“ had LANs, only like five in ten years. I came to learn that Russians had dozens of them, including WCG and ASUS. So, what was the role of LANs in the Russian scene? Why did you have so many and we so little?
Ah! Sure, lol. Vodka, Balalayka, Mishka etc etc
Now, that sounds like a good story. Please, more of it!
Impossible to get online, offline required.
Mysterious
Do you know of the new Korean scene? Afreeca, SOSPA and so on?
Not that much. I don't watch streams nowadays. Only recently. Outdated stream records.
§“$% there goes a whole ton of questions. You mentioned you worked with, for or on several platforms - WGTour, PGTour, ICCup and so on. What do you think of the old competition we had, e.g. the "GosuGamers vs. Teamliquid" debates? Was there truely a page nobody needed?
GG versus TL? lol, I missed that. If we are talking about BW, TL >>>>> GG, lol
It was mostly a fun "war", even though some users did flame each other. I remember a war GG.net lost and their made up excuses afterwards.
So. Some of my colleagues experienced some kind of isolation, that's what I'm getting at. We bw.de guys were mostly stranded on broodwar.de for German news, nobody else reported. Did you experience something similar? E.g. the big pages ignoring the small pages, or did you actively try to establish cooperation between, let's say, reps.ru and TL?
Similarly reps.ru was isolated from the global scene. Afterall, say you are a fan from Zimbabwe. You have two matches: Jae vs Flash and RUSSIANSUPERZERGFUCKTHEMALL vs UBERDUBERTERRANFROMTHEUKRAINEFUCKTHEPOLITICIANS at the same time. You would chose the first
But in Russia maybe you will choose second option and watch Flash-Jae later on youtube.
Okay. So, there was always drama revolving certain portals, I could experience a ton of that on my own. E.g. Unk's famous "why not" after banning an entire city. What's your opinion on topics like that? Were there any portals you have very negatively in memory because of abuse?
My opinion? Fucking amateurs. Everywhere :D It's not professional. He could do something more sophisticated.
So you're not buying into the eSports hype train everywhere?
eSports is not something you can make cash out of :O
Alright, picking that up, now to the ghastly sides of being an organizer. How did you treat cheaters, hackers and the likes? What's your policy there, a second chance or life time bans?
Some sort of bailout: One cheats - one should buy back :D Do something to earn a second chance. Otherwise – lifetime. Twice hack - lifetime ban.
In Germany we had several cases of multiple hackers - maybe you have heard of "Selector". Were there massive discussions about these topics in Russia as well? Do you think every scene handles these cases differently?
Every scene handles differently. Politics matters here. For example, we had an issue with RoX.localhost at TSL. RoX.Bruce may have succeeded to burke this in Russia. But TL banned localhost forever.
So, about the fun sides then. Any particularly funny story that stuck with you being organizer - e.g. fun conversations with a player, or an especially stupid cheater?
Ummm. Maybe I'll remember some. But not now :D [Optimus Prime, he sleeps]
So who are your favourite players? Name one foreigner and one Korean - also don't forget to add why you like them most!
Droid - for being best countryman
White-Ra for being most polite amongst top tier gosus
Flash - for the reason I posted earlier
Yellow - for I've used to learn on his replays
We already have four. Do you agree that Bisu is the girliest player ever?
Umm.. SC2's Scarlett exceeds by far
Maybe... Bisu is the Justin Bieber of Brood War?
I would say potential probability he was gay was lower if he was zerg or terran.
I saw some of your blogs, including "SCVs are big" and "Optimus Prime Sleeps". You also share tons of your travel reports, I distinctively remember a picture of you suffocating a cat with a towel wearing a Gecko shirt. I also remember that Largo was in some of these pictures. How close are you reps.ru guys really? Is it like the entire page meets up every second week, or is it just a small group of you being close friends?
You wanna hear we use to host swing parties?
Brain prepares some dinner on a trip
Dearly noted. Anything goes!
We do not. I'm afraid you are playing a dangerous game, due to false allegations may result in two years sentence in prison which will ultimately result in some serious Siberian guys may [this part is better censored out, due to people here being in Kollin's age range] :O
Ok nevermind then. Any last words or shout outs?
I win, kkk?
Thanks for the interview
Sorry that the interview got silly at one point.
