The Stephano Fan Club - Page 356

Bonjour Stephano

How are you feeling considering you traveled alot this past few weeks, are you tired?

I am not jetlaged, I just arrived in Sweden and took a good night of sleep. I'm ready for the tournament.


You had a pretty good run at MLG, starting with 5-0'ing your pool, then you got to pretty close games vs MKP, and then, lost to Sase, how was it?

I didn't think I would get 5-0, even though I tought I could get out of the pools with a good score, I was really satisfied of my first day.
Then in the second day I lost to MKP, but I'm not so disapointed... I know I made some mistakes and I'll remember them all my life, it helped me improve. I think that there are steps than you can't climb if you're not playing and loosing against the best so I can't say I'm that disapointed in my result, it keeps me going.
Then against Sase it was just a big blunder, I'm not perfect, I triped.


So you said you want to play against the best, it being the main reason for you to go to Korea, what is your objective there?

Afaik I don't think the GSL schedule is compatible with my stay so I probably won't participate. It'll just be a 3-4 week training to keep improving and then come back on the foreign scene to try to win some tournaments.

You said you were disapointed the first time to stayed there, why do you think it will be different this time?

First, I'll be staying with a team I know - TSL - and then Bling will probably come along so it'll be at least one english speaker I'll be able to talk to. It'll be alot more ... fun.


There was the HOTS test at MLG, did you have the chance to play it? and what do you think?

I tried the first day for about 10 minutes, I didn't have much time. I didn't try everything, just the zerg ones, I tried the ... flying unit that abduct ...

"the viper?"

Yeah. Well, every unit is a bit overpowered compared to the "normal" units, I think they're doing this only to attract attention, it will soon be fixed ... especially the unit I saw with 22 range.. THIS will be changed for sure... it's just to make a buzz, get the crowd going and the game bought.


So you don't have any point of view regarding HOTS?

I could give you one but I don't think it'll be realistic because the game will change soon.


So now that you're starting a new tournament, what are your expectations for DreamHack?

I'd say that obviously I count on winning first place, there aren't that much Koreans here. The only one that could do something would be Hero... and that's all I guess. I can defeat him, he's one of the best PvZ in the world and, I have the best... One of the best ZvP in the world so it will be nice games, I hope we'll get to this in the Finals.


About WCS, you just came back, played, and qualified, it was pretty straitforward. You will be at the Japan Expo. What do you think about this competition, more organised by Blizzard, overall?

I think it is a very good thing that Blizzard involves itself in Sc2 (competitive scene, nldr), they did it first with the Blizzard Cup in Korea. It's a great tourney with a good cash prize, this time it's alot bigger, the majority of the countries have qualifiers, even if they don't get alot of players seeded, like Eastern Europe or South America so I think it's really a great thing that Blizzard focus on a game and I hope it will be a success, that alot of people will watch it or go see it live.


Moving on, what about your schedule in the upcoming weeks?

I will stay in France for WCS, then there's an MLG Arena with the top 8 invited from last time and then... I don't know I think that's all

Note: I think he forgot NASL

Any shoutouts?

Of course! Like always thanks for following me, it's always a pleasure, I hope I am representing France like you would have wanted me to...I do my best to stay at the top and I will continue to train. Then thanks to my team (Millenium, nldr) to send me for all these tournaments and help me to keep improving. And thanks to you.

Oh, so there wasn't anything oficial but you confirm that you'll continue for another year then?

Yeah! Of course.

On June 17 2012 00:46 oGoZenob wrote:

I think it's the first time I hear him speak french ^^

On June 17 2012 01:43 noFear wrote:
Oh god FML... I just translated for the past half hour to see a traduction posted after I made mine... ^^ well done Khonsou frenchy not seeing anything wrong

On June 17 2012 01:52 Acertos wrote:

It happened to me too xD, but well it just proves that we must rly love him so that it gets translated so fast.
Stephano, our Zerg Hero <3

On June 17 2012 03:41 FaRess wrote:


maybe it's a good idea that when anyone start the process of translating he says it and then edit the post with the translation, to avoid others to do work pointlessly, I remember posting a translation like one minute before another guy, I felt bad.