[Int] GSL Super Ro64 D2

Ryung – ‘Clearing your mind can be the driving force to victory.’

- Your thoughts on making the round of 32?
I lost a lot to my teammates during practice so when I came here today, I tried to clear my mind of all of that. I think that was the driving force for my victory today.

- Your opponent was Inca, were you pressured at all?
Whether it be a finalist or a player who is still stuck in the preliminaries, protoss are strong in general so I definitely did not underestimate my opponent.

- How did you prepare?
I tried to let luck be the deciding factor than skill. The builds I used are not builds that work most of the time, but I was looking to trick Inca with them when he scouted me.

- Your next opponent will be a zerg.
I hope that TheWind advances. Since he has responsibilities as a coach, it will be hard for him to focus on the match as well as most players.

- Does MMA think of you as a rival?
I don’t think MMA considers me as a rival. I just think of him that way. Since he was able to be the team league MVP again, he has widened the gap between us. But hopefully, we will not lose until we meet each other in the later stages of this tournament.

- Your score in the up and down matches were disappointing.
My win rate was ok, but I just don’t like facing protoss that much. I think I got caught up in that mode of thought too much then.

- Your goal in the super tournament?
I want to beat MMA. Because in order to meet that goal, that means I will have gotten pretty high up in the tournament. If MMA can’t meet me there, I will try to win the whole thing.

- Any last comments?
I want to thank Kuma, Tiffany, Frozen, and Puzzle for helping me practice. Since I was able to triumph over a protoss today, I hope that BoxeR is able to repeat that performance against his protoss opponent.
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Violet – ‘I am disappointed in my play today.’

- Your thoughts on making the round of 32?
I am happy, but I am a bit disappointed that my play was so poor today. I had too much mana on my queen often, and throughout the first set, I was sighing at my play. The 2nd set was pretty pedestrian as well.

- In the 1st set, you were aggressive while protecting your the expansion with roach protection.
I have a WC3 background so I love to be aggressive. And my play was trying to be aggressive while protecting my base with produced units. I was also trying to buy some time by attacking him.

- Your opponent rushed to fast infestors
It is a strategy you see often on ladder. But it wasn’t something I have a lot of experience facing, it has been a while since I have faced it so I was a bit panicked.

- You blocked the banelings pretty well.
I think was lucky. I didn’t even think banelings would be coming. Since I won the 1st set, I thought that my opponent would be playing a safe style, but to my dismay, I saw the hoard of banelings coming towards me. I was played like a madman and somehow fended it off.

- You will be facing Ryung in the round of 32.
I am not that good against terran so I will need to practice a lot for this match. But I don’t think it’s impossible.

- Your goal for this season?
If I win in the round of 32, and Keen also wins, we will face each other, I will make sure that I get higher than him.

- Your play was a bit disappointing in the GSTL.
In that match, I pressed the q-key 3 times or so but I didn’t produce the queen for some reason. And I realized that too late. I thought I was in a good position but because of that, I lost. After that day, I came back to the teamhouse and laddered all night. I plan to switch my keyboard.

- Any last comments?
I want to thank my teammates who helped me practice and the coach’s mother for preparing our food.
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Keen – ‘I want to beat MVP’

- Your thoughts on making the round of 32?
I am happy that I won but I am not satisfied with just getting past one step.

- How did you prepare for today’s match?
Rain is known for being cheesy in the past so I tried to prepare builds that were extra safe.

- Were they builds that you made yourself?
1st and 2nd set builds were created by me.

- Your predicted score today?
I thought I would win 2:0.

- Who do you want to face next?
I have faced many protosses in the past so I want to face a zerg.

- Violet said that he will make sure to beat you if he faced you.
Violet saying that he will beat me doesn’t make any sense. I will make sure to crush him like I do during practice. But in honesty, I lose some and win some against him. (laugh).

- Your goal for this season?
I want to get far into the tournament and have a chance at beating MVP in the round of 8. If I can beat MVP I feel like I can win the whole thing.

- What was the meaning behind your ceremony?
After the match, I wanted to go out into the audience and clap for myself, but I thought there would be some people who wouldn’t get that so it ended up being what it was.

- Who made you that cheerful?
I am pretty bad at that so I asked someone else to make it for me.

- Any last comments?
I want to thank Odin, Dream, and fOu’s GuMiho, and sC for helping me practice. I also want to thank WanT from the NSHoSeo team.
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JookTo –‘I feel relieved since I was able to win after so long.’

- Your thoughts on making the round of 32?
I have been losing for a while and became frustrated. It has been so long since I have won so I feel so relieved.

- Your reason for your poor performance in the past?
I did not practice very hard. Even for today, I didn’t really get to practice that much. I only focused on thinking about my builds.

- Your reason for not practicing hard?
I wasn’t able to become motivated.

- Is it because you kept on losing?
I guess it is because I didn’t put much thought into the matches. In the past, when a match came up, I thought to myself, ‘I should win.’

- Did you think you would be participating in the super tournament?
I did not know. I only knew after the matchups were posted. I was able to get to code S once because of MC, but this time I want to get far though my own strength. I was practicing today and yesterday like lighting hit me. I will prepare for the next match starting today.

- How do you feel about winning after so long?
I am disappointed that it wasn’t a clean victory.

- When did you know you had won?
After I destroyed the Nexus and Anypro typed in gg in the message box.

- It felt like you could have just bum rushed the assimilators.
I was shaking. I couldn’t really go willy nilly since he had a colossus. I didn’t know I would get it after retreating, but I was able to win because I kept my roaches alive.

- There are some players who play much better after a dramatic game like that.
I rather forget about today’s match as soon as possible.

- Your goal for this season?
I am not looking that far ahead. I want to get to the round of 16. I want to get as far as I can so I can be satisfied.

- What did TheWind tell you during the break?
He reprimanded me because I didn’t go in when I could have won.

- Any last comments?
I want to thank everyone who helped me practice for this match.
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