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Here is an interview MLG had with Idra published today on the mlg website.
MLG: You’ve spent the majority of your gaming career in Korea with the pro Brood War team CJ Entus. Tell us about the move to EG, a team that was well-represented at MLG Raleigh.
Idra: After spending around two and a half years on a Korean team, I was a bit tired of the rigid practice schedule and lack of freedom that came with it, and the KESPA teams were dragging their feet on SC2. Given all that, it seemed to make sense to move to a foreign team, and EG was the obvious choice for me.
MLG: Give us an idea of the lifestyle and practice regimen of a pro gamer in Korea.
Idra: We practiced for 12 to 13 hours a day, had around two hours of free time during the day, and got, on average, two days off a month—couldn't really leave the house other than that.
MLG: That’s intense. Do you still train as extensively now that you’re off CJ?
Idra: No, a big part of the reason I left was that I began to feel it was counter-productive; we were overworking ourselves. So I still make sure I practice a lot, but not too much.
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MLG: Last but not least, where do you see yourself placing in D.C.?
Idra: I expect to win.
Read the rest of the interview here:
http://www.mlgpro.com/content/page/314440/The-Swarm-Descends-upon-D-C-MLG-Interviews-Idra
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MLG: Last but not least, where do you see yourself placing in D.C.?
Idra: I expect to win
Lol. Hope Idra gets to come back home more often to play in American tourneys.
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Rainbow played like trash in the finals? 0.o
Why do I get the feeling that if he played rainbow in the finals...idra would not have won.
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Interesting can't wait to see how his zvt plays. Idra fighting!
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I really wanna see what IdrA comes up with for ZvT.
I love seeing him in interviews, really fun stuff.
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good interview!, looking forward to see those new macro styles.
Thanks for sharing!
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Good luck in MLG! Looking forward to seeing his new ZvT and ZvP.
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On October 12 2010 10:39 PallasAthena wrote:
Rainbow played like trash in the finals? 0.o
Why do I get the feeling that if he played rainbow in the finals...idra would not have won.
You do not need to be better then someone to criticize their play. Almost everybody in teamliquid does this.
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Good luck Idra! Really looking forward to your games.
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"Played like trash" is just the harsh way of saying "didn't play up to his potential".
Comparing his previous games and the finals, that's not an unreasonable statement.
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Nice interview! Can't wait to see idra playing in a dominant fashion for MLG.
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On October 12 2010 10:39 PallasAthena wrote:
Rainbow played like trash in the finals? 0.o
Why do I get the feeling that if he played rainbow in the finals...idra would not have won.
You might be right about the last part of your post, but Rainbow did play pretty poorly in the finals compared to his other performances. When he lost a game against Ensnare in the semis, he was able to completely regain his focus and completely dominate Ensnare in the next three games. After losing his first game in the finals, though, you could tell Rainbow got flustered, and chose to stick to the same build order, even after Fruitdealer showed he was able to counter it perfectly.
Regarding the OP, it's certainly interesting to see Idra's view on the state of things. I wonder if his opinions on balance have changed at all since 1.2's list of possible changes got published?
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He probably meant relative to how he was doing before that, which is fair.
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Idra is on EG now?! Wow nice! I must have missed that one.
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Okay...IdrA just said FruidDealer was really good. Has he ever publicly said that about anyone else? (besides FlaSh/JD)
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On October 12 2010 10:46 Adila wrote:
"Played like trash" is just the harsh way of saying "didn't play up to his potential".
Comparing his previous games and the finals, that's not an unreasonable statement.
Okay that makes more sense, he should have just said that lol
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Good to hear he's been working on changing his game up some.
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He doesn't hope to win, he expects it. Fuck yea. GL at d.c. Mr. Fields. You're a planet afterall, you can take the whole thing!
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very nice interview
gl idra
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I like the finality of the interview "I expect to win".
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On October 12 2010 10:39 PallasAthena wrote:
Rainbow played like trash in the finals? 0.o
Why do I get the feeling that if he played rainbow in the finals...idra would not have won.
everything agrees that he played like shit.
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IdrA has grown so much, in both skill and maturity. Really awesome to see, gl man!
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awesome interview IDRA FIGHTING!
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On October 12 2010 10:50 mierin wrote:
Okay...IdrA just said FruidDealer was really good. Has he ever publicly said that about anyone else? (besides FlaSh/JD)
G5, Snow, Nony he likes because they aren't gimmicky like most protosses. (sc1)
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On October 12 2010 10:56 hero33 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 12 2010 10:39 PallasAthena wrote:
Rainbow played like trash in the finals? 0.o
Why do I get the feeling that if he played rainbow in the finals...idra would not have won. everything agrees that he played like shit.
Yes.
It's just people disagree on how to say it.
Some people say "play like shit", other say "played like trash", and other say "did not play to his full potential"
But many people, including other good players (watch state of the game 2 weeks ago) will agree that, while they are glad a zerg won, they wish rainbow would of played better and not lost SO CONVINCINGLY..
I hope IdrA wins MLG :D
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MLG: Last but not least, where do you see yourself placing in D.C.?
Idra: I expect to win
Love the confidence. Idra fighting!
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On October 12 2010 10:44 whitelynx wrote:Show nested quote +On October 12 2010 10:39 PallasAthena wrote:
Rainbow played like trash in the finals? 0.o
Why do I get the feeling that if he played rainbow in the finals...idra would not have won. You do not need to be better then someone to criticize their play. Almost everybody in teamliquid does this.
I was thinking the same thing.
Thanks for the interview, a solid read.
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nice interview...i like the last answer^^
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Can't wait for MLG, Idra is gonna steamroll that shit.
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I've always thought that copy and pasting an entire article from another website is a bit cheeky, they went to the effort of getting and writing up the interview, of course they will appreciate the link, but it's always more polite I feel to offer a concise summary with a few direct quotes, and then provide the link so those interested can read further and the website can get more page hits. Just my opinion and I suppose it's not a big deal. Now you're going to tell me you wrote it, and I'll look silly :p
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Idra's interviews are always so fundamentally different from any other interviews. So much fun to read 
Good luck at MLG, Idra!
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On October 12 2010 11:03 Koh wrote:
I've always thought that copy and pasting an entire article from another website is a bit cheeky, they went to the effort of getting and writing up the interview, of course they will appreciate the link, but it's always more polite I feel to offer a concise summary with a few direct quotes, and then provide the link so those interested can read further and the website can get more page hits. Just my opinion and I suppose it's not a big deal. Now you're going to tell me you wrote it, and I'll look silly :p
It is from MLG
http://www.mlgpro.com/content/page/314440/The-Swarm-Descends-upon-D-C-MLG-Interviews-Idra
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Idra: The new style I've been playing ZvT is pretty creative; though it's been done before, it's never seen much use. My ZvP is quite a bit different now too, though not in a very creative way. Unfortunately no foreigners have seen the way I play recently so I'm not going to give it away here right before MLG.
This has me so pumped up for MLG this weekend.
HYPE.
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MLG: Last but not least, where do you see yourself placing in D.C.?
Idra: I expect to win.
Is it bad that I want him to lose? I kinda just want his ego put in place; I want him to see how good the top American players are. Or I want him proxy raxxed by some no name to see the Idrage.
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^ What would you have rather have him say? "I expect to make it far. Not win, because there are a lot of good players. I might lose in round 3 and maybe in LB round 4. But I expect to make it far though like just up there and maybe just maybe if I get lucky, win."
Would that have made you feel better? Confidence = key.
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Very intelligent answers by IdrA, agreed to everything he answered.
Thanks for the interview.
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On October 12 2010 11:07 MythicalMage wrote:Show nested quote +MLG: Last but not least, where do you see yourself placing in D.C.?
Idra: I expect to win.
Is it bad that I want him to lose? I kinda just want his ego put in place; I want him to see how good the top American players are. Or I want him proxy raxxed by some no name to see the Idrage.
its not like he's saying top players suck its just he plays more then most of the top players and expects to win nothing wrong with it most top players should be having that attitude when playing in huge lans like these.
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Oh Idra, I like his interviews. Always so good.
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If Boxer said Zerg don't need a buff, then Zerg don't need a buff!
BTW, how on earth does Idra survive with next to no money during those 2.5 years? And how does he fund all these trips??
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On October 12 2010 10:50 mierin wrote:
Okay...IdrA just said FruidDealer was really good. Has he ever publicly said that about anyone else? (besides FlaSh/JD)
Check out the IdrA fanclub thread, there is an old interview right around the launch of SC2 where he believed Cool (aka Fruit Dealer) was the best Zerg in the world right at that point in time.
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On October 12 2010 10:29 BinderPaper wrote:
MLG: Give us an idea of the lifestyle and practice regimen of a pro gamer in Korea.
Idra: We practiced for 12 to 13 hours a day, had around two hours of free time during the day, and got, on average, two days off a month—couldn't really leave the house other than that.
I knew kespa had a bad rep but WOW that sounds absolutely horrible. There aren't any labor laws preventing stuff like this?
Anyways... give them hell IdrA, good luck!
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On October 12 2010 11:20 mmdmmd wrote:
If Boxer said Zerg don't need a buff, then Zerg don't need a buff!
BTW, how on earth does Idra survive with next to no money during those 2.5 years? And how does he fund all these trips??
He said he doesn't understand why they need a buff given that a single fruit dealer won the GSL. In other words, his entire argument is founded off of 1 tournaments results and takes nothing else into consideratioin. Never mind that the total number of Zerg victories at tournaments is dismal, a Zerg won GSL1 and that automagically makes them OP... very sound logic that.
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Oh please, doesn't every athlete expect to win? Why would he dedicate his life to it if he didn't aspire to success? no reason to criticize expecting to win lol.
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Yeah, we all know Idra is good and all but to say that fruitdealer just went on a huge win streak is pretty crap. His play was absolutely amazing, even with making mistakes there's no way all his opponents botched their games consistently back to back. Still looking forward to the vods/live games.
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On October 12 2010 11:07 MythicalMage wrote:Show nested quote +MLG: Last but not least, where do you see yourself placing in D.C.?
Idra: I expect to win.
Is it bad that I want him to lose? I kinda just want his ego put in place; I want him to see how good the top American players are. Or I want him proxy raxxed by some no name to see the Idrage.
Call me bad but I kinda share your feelings. Idra is something of a personality, there're people who want to see him succeed and then there're people like you and me who want to seem him whipped. :D
Personally I thought it was pretty bm to say ITR played "like trash" - I see where he's coming from, but "trash"? If I thought Idra would have put up a better fight in ITR's shoes, I wouldn't have had an issue with it. But until I see some mad skill to back up that talk, I just want to see him whomped (or lose to cheese :D).
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i agree with all his points on game balance. very accurate and unbias analytical breakdown
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Some Protosses are gonna try to cheese Idra like mad
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Idra doesn't sugar coat, that's pretty much who he is. Sometimes you can hear him conservatively say something, but most of the time it's straight to the point and no BS.
Also most people agree that rainbow played well, but not up to this potential, or even as well as he did in previous rounds.
Anyways, I wish I was in DC just to see idra play. GL.
ps. I want to see your vids so I can steal your strats.
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On October 12 2010 10:29 BinderPaper wrote:
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MLG: Last but not least, where do you see yourself placing in D.C.?
Idra: I expect to win.
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Decisive. Hope he gives the audience a good show.
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Stoked to see IdrA play live. Fighting!
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But we [also] have the least versatile openings and almost no scouting options until Lair.
Am I missing something here? Overloads + lings scout pretty well early on IMO plus you can always sac an overlord before Lair, which isn't that high on the tech tree. Protoss has even less scouting options and doesn't get any until Robo, Stargate, or hallucination.
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looking forward to where he will place in D.C
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On October 12 2010 12:30 prochobo wrote:Show nested quote +But we [also] have the least versatile openings and almost no scouting options until Lair. Am I missing something here? Overloads + lings scout pretty well early on IMO plus you can always sac an overlord before Lair, which isn't that high on the tech tree. Protoss has even less scouting options and doesn't get any until Robo, Stargate, or hallucination.
you dont watch many pro games do you
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Nice interview. Would be nice to see IdrA or another Zerg break out in North America.
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Nice nice nice, can't wait !!!
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On October 12 2010 12:30 prochobo wrote:Show nested quote +But we [also] have the least versatile openings and almost no scouting options until Lair. Am I missing something here? Overloads + lings scout pretty well early on IMO plus you can always sac an overlord before Lair, which isn't that high on the tech tree. Protoss has even less scouting options and doesn't get any until Robo, Stargate, or hallucination.
I agree with you.
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On October 12 2010 12:30 prochobo wrote:Show nested quote +But we [also] have the least versatile openings and almost no scouting options until Lair. Am I missing something here? Overloads + lings scout pretty well early on IMO plus you can always sac an overlord before Lair, which isn't that high on the tech tree. Protoss has even less scouting options and doesn't get any until Robo, Stargate, or hallucination.
Without Lair you can't upgrade Ovie speed, without ovie speed you're not going to see much. 1-2 Stalkers will easily kill a Ovie before it scouted anything, even easier for terrans. If lings ever get into your base to scout, I so totally wouldn't use them to scout, as I just could, you know, kill your workers. Seriously though, Lings never should get past your ramp and in most games they don't.
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On October 12 2010 12:30 prochobo wrote:Show nested quote +But we [also] have the least versatile openings and almost no scouting options until Lair. Am I missing something here? Overloads + lings scout pretty well early on IMO plus you can always sac an overlord before Lair, which isn't that high on the tech tree. Protoss has even less scouting options and doesn't get any until Robo, Stargate, or hallucination.
Easy for Z to scout the map, hard for Z to scout the enemy base.
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Short interview. To the point.
Best of luck mate.
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Idra once again telling it how it is. I hope he wins this weekend!
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With his new found freedom I hope that he still is able to practice sufficiently to where he remains the best foreigner mechanically, by a lot. It's been mentioned before by some of the korean players/managers interviewed that idra was never the most talented but he works hard, and I hope that he is able to still do so and keep his advantage of being in korea, and putting that to use.
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I didn't always like Idra, but I respect him loads and he's been growing on me lately.
I hope he does well.
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best of luck in MLG DC
IdrA vs Slush finals gogo
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Rainbow played like trash in the Finals -
Thats a funny part. What would Idra's playstyle be described like then?
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On October 12 2010 10:39 PallasAthena wrote:
Rainbow played like trash in the finals? 0.o
Why do I get the feeling that if he played rainbow in the finals...idra would not have won.
its trash cause rainbow tried to play a macro game vs a zerg and didnt start harrasing until fruit had superior map control and could shut down most of it.
It's trash vs zerg cause if he just abused the early game where fruit went hatch first he would have made it alot harder for fruit.
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Sounds like he's anal about Fruitdealer proving his balance insight wrong. He chose a convenient race that allows him to blame his loss on imbalance and his win on overabundance of skill while denouncing other zerg player's wins due to their opponents' incompetence.
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Is the mlg starting on the 15th because I cant seem to find it on the calendar
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Idra: We practiced for 12 to 13 hours a day, had around two hours of free time during the day, and got, on average, two days off a month—couldn't really leave the house other than that.
WTF!!!!!!!
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Nice interview - Can't wait to see something new from his play!
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Very good interview. My only experience of Idra before this was a few games, most of which he displayed some outstanding BM or ragequit (there was a reason these were the few games I watched, haha). But reading the interview and hearing some of his thoughts, I'm developing some respect for him.
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On October 12 2010 10:39 PallasAthena wrote:
Rainbow played like trash in the finals? 0.o
Why do I get the feeling that if he played rainbow in the finals...idra would not have won.
whether rainbow played like trash and whether idra would lose to rainbow's trash are not related. it doesn't take an Apollo to figure that out.
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I Hope he will win the MLG...gl Idra
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On October 12 2010 10:50 mierin wrote:
Okay...IdrA just said FruidDealer was really good. Has he ever publicly said that about anyone else? (besides FlaSh/JD)
i think he said effort was really good when asked who CJ's best player was 
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Although Idra is the favourite to win, it might be better if he didn't take this one down.
If Idra crushes this tournament and then turns around and doesn't perform in GSL2, it doesn't give much hope to guys like HuK who are planning to compete in future GSLs =/
Also, Idra has said publicly before that he respects Cool and Tester. I remember in one interview after the King of the Beta he said that they were the best players he knew of at the time.
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Great interview.
On October 12 2010 11:20 mmdmmd wrote:
If Boxer said Zerg don't need a buff, then Zerg don't need a buff!
BTW, how on earth does Idra survive with next to no money during those 2.5 years? And how does he fund all these trips??
IdrA got salary/food/place to live in from CJ entus, he probably has plenty of money saved.
He most definitely gets money from EG as well, it's not like EG is just a random bnet clan.
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Idra: Probably FruitDealer, but honestly I haven't drawn much from anyone because I don't get to see how the Koreans play ZvT and ZvP very much, since I'm just ZvZing against them and everyone does their best to hide their play.
so he actually has to train on his own on ladder only with everyone just ignoring him?
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It surprises me that so many appear to be taking IdrA's comments on ITR's performance personally, or using them to judge his character. I think a few even made the notion to compare ITR to IdrA, saying IdrA would've done worse in his shoes. I think that sort of thinking is absurd. Whether or not IdrA's opinions are correct, the previous statements do nothing but exemplify ignorance.
As some others have said in this post, ITR kept doing the same build. A build his opponent(FruitDealer) already demonstrated his ability to deny. Not only that, his style was to macro against a very strong macro Zerg. I thought at the very least, that wasn't very thoughtful play. And, I'm positive some would say harsher words about ITR's play. It's not like by commenting on his play during that series, is in any way is attacking him as a player. He obviously made it to the finals, before which he 2-0'd most of his opponents. ITR stream rolled his opponents with his relentlessness. Except in that last game, where his play seemed uncharacteristic of him. Anyway! IdrA fighting!
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Oh that made me so curious about his new style of play. Wish him the best of luck in MLG!
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On October 12 2010 11:29 dRaW wrote:
Yeah, we all know Idra is good and all but to say that fruitdealer just went on a huge win streak is pretty crap.
If you read the interview closely, you'd notice that Fruit Dealer HIMSELF said that he just had a good winning streak and he's not amazing or anything. But I think we all disagree. Fruit Dealer played very well.
I believe Idra respects Fruit Dealer because they both play macro heavy games. It's interesting to see Idra talk about all of Zerg's weaknesses and remain so confident. It's almost like he's saying that even with all the other races advantages, those players aren't good enough to beat him. Idra is really good... but his early game scares me the most. Zerg is ALWAYS on the defensive early on. Makes me so nervous.
Good Luck Idra. I will be rooting for you.
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On October 12 2010 16:59 Kryptonite333 wrote:
Idra: We practiced for 12 to 13 hours a day, had around two hours of free time during the day, and got, on average, two days off a month—couldn't really leave the house other than that.
WTF!!!!!!!
Jeez, well it's no wonder he would rage every now and then 
Who wouldn't, playing starcraft 12 hours a day every day ?
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On October 12 2010 10:49 PhoenixM1 wrote:
Idra is on EG now?! Wow nice! I must have missed that one.
This was out a few weeks ago :D
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Idra hasn't really won much recently, has he O-o. He's kinda disappeared under all of the other big names emerging (TLO, Cool, Check, Maka, etc). Hoping to see him come back and win some tourneys.
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Come on idra, blow the toss/terran out of the water at MLG.
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On October 13 2010 00:40 SubtleArt wrote:
Idra hasn't really won much recently, has he O-o. He's kinda disappeared under all of the other big names emerging (TLO, Cool, Check, Maka, etc). Hoping to see him come back and win some tourneys.
None of those people have really won anything besides Cool since the Beta, and IdrA won the best pre-release tournament out there.
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I feel like he's definitely got a pretty solid shot at winning. We'll see how it goes. I hope to meet him or at least see him when I go this weekend. Good luck IdrA!
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What kind of question was that? Of course IdrA expects to win.
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Really good interview, hope IdrA does well at MLG and since has a good shot at winning (probably top 5 favorite to win).
Also really surprised to see him say Kiwi is gonna be hard to beat, from the gosuguide Kiwi vs. Dimaga thread I thought he didn't think highly of Kiwi as a player, maybe he changed his mind or maybe he thinks Kiwi is good at exploiting PvZ imbaness or something.
Anyways good luck at MLG IdrA.
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IdrA i think is gana take it but we may end up seeing sum upsets O_O well jus hve to see
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Thanks so much for the interview! Gogo IdrA!
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i'm looking forward to him accidentilly cancelling a hatch and rage quitting.
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ZvZ is his favorite MU? wow something changed i remember how he raged about every zvz it gave me hope, maybe IdrA gonna be more versatile than usual.
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20 bucks says Idras new ZvT is Infestor/Hydra.
Artosis said that's what they've been working on recently.
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Idra is going to win MLG and I would just hope (probably wont) win GSL 2
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Great interview. GL Greg!
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I do agree with him saying into the eternal discussion that protoss is easier to play but get on a wall faster XD
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On October 12 2010 21:35 Puosu wrote:Great interview. Show nested quote +On October 12 2010 11:20 mmdmmd wrote:
If Boxer said Zerg don't need a buff, then Zerg don't need a buff!
BTW, how on earth does Idra survive with next to no money during those 2.5 years? And how does he fund all these trips?? IdrA got salary/food/place to live in from CJ entus, he probably has plenty of money saved. He most definitely gets money from EG as well, it's not like EG is just a random bnet clan.
I don't think he had a salary while on CJ Entus, and he didn't exactly win much through tournaments (from my memory he won a grand total of $7,500) so despite not having to pay for food and shelter I doubt he really has anything saved up. Also while EG does pay him I doubt it's much, most foreign pro's (for all games) have to rely on tournament winnings, that's not to mention idra's only been on EG for little over a month. IdrA's been able to travel around and stuff because his team's have been paying for it.
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I have a feeling that IdrA is going to lose early. There are alot of good players this weekend and I think we're going to see some epic games.
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On October 12 2010 23:24 neoenigma wrote:Show nested quote +On October 12 2010 11:29 dRaW wrote:
Yeah, we all know Idra is good and all but to say that fruitdealer just went on a huge win streak is pretty crap. If you read the interview closely, you'd notice that Fruit Dealer HIMSELF said that he just had a good winning streak and he's not amazing or anything. But I think we all disagree. Fruit Dealer played very well. I believe Idra respects Fruit Dealer because they both play macro heavy games. It's interesting to see Idra talk about all of Zerg's weaknesses and remain so confident. It's almost like he's saying that even with all the other races advantages, those players aren't good enough to beat him. Idra is really good... but his early game scares me the most. Zerg is ALWAYS on the defensive early on. Makes me so nervous. Good Luck Idra. I will be rooting for you.
It's called being humble. If you watch any of the series in the last gsl and compare the 2 fruit dealer was playing better in each one.
The fact that he states the biggest advantage zerg have in comparison to other races is that its harder and requires you to play much better than your opponent and that it has no real strengths is pretty retarded imo. He is a great player but he is taking this self loathing and martyrdom to far.
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