Really good interview with IdrA. Love the fact that you ask "disturbing" questions. We can see him being a bit disturbed in some of his answers. He makes some valid points though, but IdrA is IdrA. I don't think we can expect 100% objectivity from him or any other progamer. He speaks his very own believes though, and I appreciate that.

Xevious

United States2086 Posts

July 18 2011 23:47 GMT

#84

lovin this tarson interview lol

DoomsVille

Canada4885 Posts

July 18 2011 23:50 GMT

#85

I love how you avoided the obvious and generic questions. Really got down and dirty with IdrA and asked him a ton of tough questions.

And IdrA, like a boss, stood his ground and defended all his points. Say what you will about IdrA, but he is extremely intelligent and it shows in his interviews.

Daudr

Sweden275 Posts

July 19 2011 00:15 GMT

#86

Great interviews, really insightful.

Carmac <3

Xanderk

United States51 Posts

July 19 2011 00:16 GMT

#87

Extremely well thought out questions directed to IdrA by Carmac. Best interview I've seen in a long time.

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

July 19 2011 00:42 GMT

#88

This interview with idra is extremely well done, great questions - great answers. Thanks carmac.

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

July 19 2011 00:44 GMT

#89

This is why we've all missed your interviews Carmac, you really hit some unique and brilliant questions, with answers we don't often get to hear. You're not afraid to get all the questions out there and it is a great day today, now that you've said you'd like to try to do more interviews.

DeepBlu2

United States975 Posts

July 19 2011 00:45 GMT

#90

Very nice interview Carmac. It's amazing that no matter what character you want to be, you still provide amazing interviews, whether funny or insightful. Thank you very much.

bkrow

Australia8532 Posts

July 19 2011 01:30 GMT

#91

Just watched the interview and i really enjoyed it; some really great questions/answers. It was funny when you referred to 'online' Greg releasing the Gracken :p

For all that you may be busy with at IEM i appreciate this content

Gladiator6

Sweden7024 Posts

July 19 2011 01:36 GMT

#92

Tarson teach us the way of the Drunken Terran! :D

Senx

Sweden5901 Posts

July 19 2011 01:41 GMT

#93

There's no better interviewer than carmac in esports. I can say that with confidence after following his work for years.

CluEleSs_UK

United Kingdom583 Posts

July 19 2011 01:53 GMT

#94

Really intelligent questions from Carmac, really intelligent answers from Greg.

RodYan

United States126 Posts

July 19 2011 01:56 GMT

#95

Probably one of the best player interviews I've seen. Very well thought-out questions which made for a great interview.

Sina92

Sweden1303 Posts

July 19 2011 01:59 GMT

#96

Carmac is very good at interviewing, though I couldn't enjoy it too much unfortunately due to Idras constant balance QQ. Someone please introduce him to the infestor.

King.Crimson

Romania478 Posts

July 19 2011 02:19 GMT

#97

Has anyone noticed the phallic symbol at min 4.45? Perhaps Carmac chose the location on purpose, a metaphor on Idra's personality, if you will.. :D

HydraLF

Hong Kong626 Posts

July 19 2011 02:39 GMT

#98

I kinda feel like the questions and answer for the Idra interview is very similar to the MLG one not long ago, a lot of the questions have been covered by previous interviews, I was kinda expecting something different. =(

Tarson interview was cool tho, usually don't get to hear from these players much.

stafu

Australia1196 Posts

July 19 2011 02:53 GMT

#99

"I was a really quiet kid in high school."

Colour me surprised!

Whole

United States6046 Posts

July 19 2011 03:17 GMT

#100

On July 19 2011 07:28 dani` wrote:

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Not really imo. If statistics over like 500+ games say PvZ ~ 50%, then he can not simply "assume" that's because it's always the worse Protoss player playing against a better Zerg. That's kinda ridiculous and sad at the same time.

Taking a tournament result and use that one result to talk about balance ("NesTea won GSL, Zerg isn't underpowered") is indeed questionable, I agree with him on that, obviously.

He is right when he talks about randomness here and there, but the whole point of statistics is to take a big enough sample size to get rid of that stuff. He is essentially saying he understands the game perfectly and if he says it's imbalanced it is true; even though statistics do not back it up. That's not how it works.

We don't have a big enough sample size though. The metagame has been changing too much to get 500 high level ZvPs in one "metagame" phase.