World Cup: Canada Wins! - Page 2

MYM.vhallee: Yes, the match vs. Canada was pretty strange from what I've heard. Tell me what happened there.

xLo.Zeratul: It was a strange game match indeed where our opponents abused of my good manner which somehow resulted in us loosing the meeting.

xLo.Zeratul: Basically at the hour of the nw, Canada's leader, Choblar, came to me asking to postpone the nw for 30min since they were playing some other friendly nw at that time. I agreed to it. After 5min Iefnaij was free to play so he went against Shaman, obviously Shaman won and it was 1-0 for us. After they were done and came to channel we started playing. Andrei went against TT1 which he won in about 5 minutes resulting in TT1 accusing Andrei of hack, spamming the channel with injuries to our nation and then forfeiting the second game which made it 2-0. Things were going better than ever when Ryko was leading 1-0 against Oldy. Xiaozi couldn't make it and Choblar asked me to postpone his game until tomorrow, which I refused and he replaced him with Target[Light].

Things started to get ugly when we were waiting for Testie to come, he was late more than an hour, ReK wanted to take a fw like all of the team but I was too confident that Ryko and Jack won't lose to inferior opponents and the match is almost won. So I told ReK to go play Testie where as expected he lost. Jack somehow lost 1-2 to Target[Light] and Ryko was 1-1 vs Oldy.

That's the point when the outcome of the nationwar was uncertain. Suddenly Ryko's internet connection starts to lag and he can't play with Oldy. Canada wants immediate replace or free win. I ask Choblar for some common sense after all we waited for them and he says he won't agree to postpone it since I refused to postpone the game betwen Jack and Xiaozi (who didn't come). Xeris the gosu admin, came to tell me I have to replace him or he'll grant Oldy a free-win. Seeing there's no chance Ryko can play that from home and the gosu Oldy won't want to postpone this, Ryko says he'll never give w/o to Oldy since his chances were better and in the middle of the night (it was 00:30 over here) he went to an internet cafe where he couldn't even install his stuff (keyboard, mouse etc).

Given the conditions Ryko had to play, decreased Ryko's chances to winning dramatically and in the end he lost. This is one of the reasons I quit leading the team after. I consider it's mostly my fault since i've been too mannered and all the team paid for it. What can I say, fair play is not a wanted thing in the starcraft community.

MYM.vhallee: Soon after this match you decide to leave the team, and it is considered to be a consequence of this loss. Are there any events that put some pressure onto you to call it quits?

xLo.Zeratul: Well, beside this loss in which I had such a big fault, my passion for doing this was starting to "melt". Our team also became old and their passion for the game was just not the same anymore and I believe it was the right time to do it, I hope the next leader/s who will take care of Romania A will bring some new spirit to it and achieve better results than us. There were no external pressures for this matter.