ZOWIE DIVINA LR thread - Page 16

PLU.CN: Hello Flo, as the American representative to ZOWEI DIVINA, what's on your mind?
Flo: I am very proud to represent my country. This is an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I feel excellent!

PLU.CN: You're a Chinese-American. How old were you when you emigrated to the States? Have you ever visited China since then?
Flo: My parents originated from Hong Kong, but I am born in America. I never had an opportunity to visit China before this chance.

PLU.CN: How's your record in the NA Server last season? Did you play often?
Flo: Last season I was top-10 Masters. I don't often ladder, because I feel practicing against a coach is a better use of time. They can provide me with solid advice after each match. Only when I was bored, do I practice on the ladder.

PLU.CN: We have heard that you have done well in many other female-only tournaments. Do you find playing in tournaments differ from regular laddering?
Flo: I don't feel much pressure when I ladder or practice custom games. This differs during competition, when every win or lose carry much more weight.

PLU.CN: Do your family have an opinion of your StarCraft 2 career? What about your own view of it?
Flo: When I just started, my family didn't realize how important this is to me. They thought it's just a game. After several months when I reached a skill level processed by very few other girls, they became slowly more supportive. They almost refused to allow me to participate in DIVINA this time, but I was able to convince them in the end. I want to continue on this path, and they finally accepted that being a Pro-gamer is my true passion in life.


Original Author: PLU_勒崩
Source: Plu.cn
T/N: This is a re-translation from CN -> EN. Flo may have answered in English, but her original response was not available in source text.

On November 13 2011 22:01 Antoine wrote:
Colagirl is red at 2 on tal'darim with Aphrodite blue at 5. aphrodite walling in the main with rax/fact off 1 gas. aphrodite goes up to techlab starpor and adds a cc and 2nd gas. colagirl taking her 2nd gas and adding ling speed, and then a spire, aphrodite does some addon swapping and now has a techlab factory and starport, banshee/thor maybe? there's a hellion coming out for now though. colagirl runs a ling in but doesnt see much, with her baneling nest finishing also now has all her gas.

On November 13 2011 22:05 Antoine wrote:

aphrodite moves out with her first abnshee this time but a queen chase it away fairly easily, it takes out a drone but can't do much else and as mutas pop out they chase it home to the safety of turrets and a newly popped thor. blueflame coming down for aphrodite as colagirl adds a 3rd at the 4th, not bothering to take down the rocks. also now getting bane speed and poking around with mutas some until thors put a stop to that. colagirl produces a huge round of lings and runs them in, and there are not enough blue flame hellins to save the nat. the scvs repair the 2nd thor until all the mutas are gone, and aphrodite is able to avoid further damage and restore mining at the nat. colagirl also addinga macro hatch at the nat and taking gases 5 and 6

On November 13 2011 22:08 Antoine wrote:

colagirl flies her few remaining mutas around, slowly losing them while not really doing much, and produces a small batch of roaches that move out with some lings but certainly won't be enough against aphrodite's mech army... lots more lings streaming in but blue flame doin work and the pulled scvs are able to repair enough to save all 4 scvs. bad attack for colagirl. some mutas take out a gas in the main, pretty nice for 2 mutas in the red to do. colagirl pumping upgrades as spines protect her 3rd, and is now taking the top left nat as aphrodite now has started siege tank production still off 2 bases.

On November 13 2011 22:11 Antoine wrote:

colagirl flies some mutas in the main and starts attacking the armory but repairing scvs hold until a thor can get there, and aphrodite prepares to take the 3rd with turrets and her army. colagirl moves out another force of roaches but aphrodite's siege tank coverage is pretty good. 4th now running for colagirl who also has an infestor up and 3/3 on the way. roaches run into teh sieged tanks and turn away after losing about 1/3 of their numbers. colagirl gettting overlord speed and ventral sacs, while aphrodite camps between her nat and 3rd and continues to build up and upgrade her mech army. colagirl also morphing in some banes. has 180//3300 at 160 supply, some trouble macroing as she puts down an ultra cavern.

On November 13 2011 22:14 Antoine wrote:

aphrodite has decided it's time to move out as she nears max. colagirl catches te tanks unsieged and taks out all the hellions with a huge swarm of banelings, and then trades her remaining roaches for about half the tanks. all the thors survive and aphrodite moves past the right watchotwer, now sieging below the nat... colagirl picks off advancing tanks and tries to take on thors but tehre are a good numebr of repairing scvs. 3 ultras pop out and suicide into thors as 3 more coming from behind are too late. aphrodite now with a supply lead and more reinforcing thors coming up, and the natural hatch goes down while the thors continue their inexorable advance. colagirl tries to muster one last attack but is down 130 supply to near max, and as her last remaining ultras and roaches fall to the mech army she loses her entire original base. she has 3 bases in the top left... but is down 97 food to 200.

On November 13 2011 22:18 Antoine wrote:

colagirl's top left bases are down but the 4 ultras she sent to the terran bases are actually doing some pretty good work. unfortunately she has nothing to stop the small mech force ather own 4th and 5th. production is really slow and aphrodite's army is marching across the map. the terran base is in shambles and colagirl is actually ahead in supply now? but has 8 or so thors and 3 tanks to around 7 ulras. colagirl engaging in really bad chokes for her and sboth players are down to around 7 supply. colagirl's only remaining base ar e the top left main and top center 4th, and the main is going down. aphrodite has no mining bases. colagirl managed to evac drones to the bottom lef and aphrodite is supply capped but i don't see how the zerg can get an army that can take on those 10 thors and 3 tanks. aphrodite decides to take out the top base as colagirl cleans up the terran 3rd.aphrodite loating to the bottom 4th with 2 escorting vikings. colagirl on only 1 hatch left while others build, but aphrodite has 3 floating ocs with high energy. looks like this game might have a little while left as aphrodite isnt't being very decisive with her army. colagirl can simply avoid ingaging her.

On November 13 2011 22:34 Antoine wrote:
Colagirl in red at 11, Aphrodite in blue at 5 on antiga. interesting to see how colagirl will respond to her first loss of the tournament. aphrodite going straight to starport again, moving out with 3 marines but the spine pops just in time with the queen doing a little delaying work. marines are forced awa, with teh chasing zerglings actually taking out 3 - no, 2 marines before the hellion roasts them all. aphrodite pops downa cc and starts putting down a cc while colagirl's lair is just finishing, and she puts down a spire.

On November 13 2011 22:37 Antoine wrote:

apdrohite sends her f irst banshee but the queens repel it very easily, as colagirl now has a roach warren and zergling speed while aphrodite builds an armory, turrets, and researches blue flame, moving some buildings out to the nat as she takes that. colagirl working on upgrades off 1 evo chamber. the mutas arrive and take down a refinery and some scvs, but turret coverage is pretty good on the rest of the base and a thor is on its way. 8 blue flame hellions are coming into colagirl's base and she has almost nothing to stop them, this is going to be a drone massacre! colagirl tries to desparately producing roaches and manages to run away most of her drones into an ok position, also harassing with mutas at the nat to force aphrodite to multitask away from the hellions.

On November 13 2011 22:42 Antoine wrote:

aphrodite now camping her nat pretty well with thors while colagirl redrones and starts mining at her third, colagirl now starting her own 3rd cc back in the nat. colagirl losing some muas trying to scout around but she has a hive nearly finished at this point as she's at 140 food to aphrodite's 100. aphrodite moves out a few hellions but there are roaches filling the entire area inside the smoke at the center xel'naga, colagirl just completing her 1/1 ground carapace/projectiles and putting down the ultra cavern. aphrodite atting factories and siege tanks, as well as +2 mech weapons. colagirl hais just about maxed on roaches and is taking the top 3rd, starting ultra carapace and a few spine crawlers hat frankly won't do much against any hellion runbys. aphrodite also adding some banshees into the mix, a good move since colagirl has nothing that shoots air produced (but does have spire/infestor tech)