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[Int]iG.XiGua post-WCG Finals Interview

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digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6329 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-11 17:50:17
December 11 2011 14:53 GMT
#1
Source: Esports Magazine

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Q: You finally played against a Korean player in the Finals, how do you feel about the skill gap between you and tip top Koreans here?
A: It was fine actually, not that big, I made too many mistakes there.

Q: What are the mistakes?
A: I made a big slump in Set 1, didn't scout his 2nd rax, took quite a long time, thus I had no reaction time against his Bunker rush.
I did think a lot on the 2nd map, but his 3 tank timing push messed up my plans there. I originally took a lot of attention on his drop plays, like a lot of Mutas. But I expect his tech would be slow after that Tank push, so I decided to tech myself and stopped muta production for a while, so when he actually started to drop, I don't have enough mutas to deal with that. And then he had a Planetary in the middle of the map, this makes me harder and harder to turn the tables.

Q: Will the gap between Chinese and Koreans become larger next year?
A: This all the way goes up to the Chinese tournament hosts. The biggest problem between us and foreign pros are the maps, most Chinese tournaments use either old or non-standard maps, they are quite different from the map pool of major foreign events like GSL and MLG, thus make us difficult to play in those events.

I hope the tournaments can catch a bit up on this, it would help us in the foreign tournaments a lot.

Q: Any plans to stay in Korea next year? And opinions on HotS?
A: The team already has plans on playing in Korea. And HotS won't help a lot, because HotS in fact stands for "Heart of the Swarm Breaks".

Q: Any other people want to thank besides your fans?
A: The whole iG team behind me, this could not become true without them.

EDIT: Clean up the first question to avoid further misunderstanding.

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《电子竞技》杂志:终于在决赛和韩国人交手了,感觉和韩国顶尖选手的差距大吗?
Xigua:其实还好吧。感觉不是很大,主要是自己出了问题。

《电子竞技》杂志:能总结一下所出的问题吗?
Xigua:第一把是我自己有个很大的失误,就是没有第一时间侦查到他第一个兵营,绕了很多路,后来对他的Rush没有反应时间了。第二把的地图其实我想了非常多,但是他的三坦克那一波打乱了我的节奏。因为我本来是在防他空投上做了很多准备,比如我一般都会出24条飞龙放空投。但是当时他三坦克后我判断他科技会慢,我就开始攀科技停了飞龙,当时只有12只。所以当他开始空投时,我没有足够的飞龙吃掉一船兵,节奏慢了,等他中间的行星要塞起来我就太难打了。

《电子竞技》杂志:明年会不会SC2和韩国差距会变大?
Xigua:其实这都要看中国的赛事主办方了。我们选手和国际选手目前差距最大的就是地图的问题,我们国内比赛的地图要么很老,要么自己做,和国际上的地图尤其是GSL、MLG很难接轨,所以我们很难打。我就是希望主办方能够多考虑一些这方面问题,尽量和国际上保持同步,这样我们在未来也会在国际赛事上有所表现。

《电子竞技》杂志:明年有没有计划来韩国留学?另外对虫族之心怎么看?
Xigua:俱乐部已经有计划来韩国打比赛。另外我觉得虫族之心后虫还会继续悲剧,因为虫族之心没有翻译完,应该是“虫族之心碎了”。

《电子竞技》杂志:除了Fans有没有特别想感谢的人?
Xigua:感谢我背后的iG团队吧,没有他们的支持我很难走到这一步。
TranslatorIf you want to ask anything about Chinese esports, send me a PM or follow me @nerddigmouse.
Weedk
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States507 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-11 14:57:22
December 11 2011 14:56 GMT
#2
On December 11 2011 23:53 digmouse wrote:

Q: You finally played against a Korean player in the Finals, how do you feel about the skill gap between you?
A: It was fine actually, not that big, I made too many mistakes there.


This statement alone is going to cause a lot of discussion, I'm betting.

Edit:
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More like shitstorm. I honestly don't think he's that close to MVP's level.
tallyhohugo
Profile Joined August 2010
98 Posts
December 11 2011 14:57 GMT
#3
thanks for the translation!

i do think there was quite an apparent gulf in skill. though it might just be big game nerves on xigua's part
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kruzzz
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada81 Posts
December 11 2011 14:58 GMT
#4
The Chinese always have great potential, too bad it wasn't a bo5 or 7 to fully showcase his talent.
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ch33psh33p
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
7650 Posts
December 11 2011 15:01 GMT
#5
Lol, not so big between him and MVP eh? More deluded than I expected.
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wattabeast
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States957 Posts
December 11 2011 15:01 GMT
#6
Thank you for giving us this translation. I am surprised that the Chinese tournament scene is so far behind map-wise. Also, I think that if iG trained in Korea they could become an elite team.
:O
brachester
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia1786 Posts
December 11 2011 15:04 GMT
#7
he said he made a lot of mistakes that's he shoulldn't have, therefore he meant that if there were no mistakes, it would have been a lot closer. Well, pretty much anyone can say this :/
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lessQQmorePEWPEW
Profile Joined November 2011
Jamaica921 Posts
December 11 2011 15:05 GMT
#8
Mvp rocked him.
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MasterKush
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom568 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-11 15:10:33
December 11 2011 15:10 GMT
#9
On December 12 2011 00:04 brachester wrote:
he said he made a lot of mistakes that's he shoulldn't have, therefore he meant that if there were no mistakes, it would have been a lot closer. Well, pretty much anyone can say this :/


Lol exactly, that's the biggest difference between players like this and the MVP's, Nestea's.

They don't make those mistakes, that's why they are better.
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JoeAWESOME
Profile Joined February 2011
Sweden1080 Posts
December 11 2011 15:13 GMT
#10
Yeah the finals were pretty one-sided and then saying that there's not a big skill difference is just BS...
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Goibon
Profile Joined May 2010
New Zealand8185 Posts
December 11 2011 15:14 GMT
#11
My first thought when reading the gap comment was that how do you know if even if you played your own game flawless that you'd still come close to MVP's own limit? If you don't force MVP to go past second or third gear, how do you know what 4th or 5th looks like?

But i like his optimism, so good luck to him!

Real shame about the maps. That's just... that's really unfortunate. Maps are a really big deal
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Tula
Profile Joined December 2010
Austria1544 Posts
December 11 2011 15:16 GMT
#12
What i found interesting is his reaction to the bunker rush. Most Diamond level zergs on EU immediatly throw up 2 more spince crawlers behind the expo instead of throwing away all their units.

That defintily showed a skill gap, meaning i don't think he has practiced against that specific rush a lot, even if it is one of the most common ones.

On Metal tbh he made one big mistake in the midgame (not doing anything with his mutas) which snowballed into an impossible situation. Even if he had stopped all nukes the Terran position was simply too strong.
Flonomenalz
Profile Joined May 2011
Nigeria3519 Posts
December 11 2011 15:17 GMT
#13
Yeah guys, it's easy to bash him from TL behind a computer screen.

What do you want to him say, "Yeah the skill gap is massive, I'm absolutely awful compared to him?"

Come on... he's boosting his own self esteem and admitting he made a ton of mistakes. That's why MVP is the best player in the world, sometimes he can wow you with genius micro, or he can just outplay you in macro, but most of the time the reason he wins is he simply doesn't make mistakes. Or he makes drastically less than you, and at the pro level that's what it comes down to. They can all macro well, some more than others, and they all have good micro, some more than others. What separates MVP, Nestea (not much as of late, but still) and such from the rest is that lack of mistakes.
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zerious
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada3803 Posts
December 11 2011 15:17 GMT
#14
No credit to MVP? MVP absolutely slammed him
HappyChris
Profile Joined October 2011
1534 Posts
December 11 2011 15:20 GMT
#15
Well played by Xigua. Im happy for him he finaly posted some good result after the IEM china disaster.

Gonna pay abit more attention to him in the future
aintz
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada5624 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-11 15:33:22
December 11 2011 15:33 GMT
#16
skill level is not very close. im not even going to comment on the 2nd game because everyone knows he made so many bad mistakes. but the first game, why would u not block bunker placement with drones......,.
k!llua
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia895 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-11 15:41:26
December 11 2011 15:41 GMT
#17
On December 12 2011 00:16 Tula wrote:
What i found interesting is his reaction to the bunker rush. Most Diamond level zergs on EU immediatly throw up 2 more spince crawlers behind the expo instead of throwing away all their units.

That defintily showed a skill gap, meaning i don't think he has practiced against that specific rush a lot, even if it is one of the most common ones.


edit: nvm -_-
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Confuse
Profile Joined October 2009
2238 Posts
December 11 2011 15:47 GMT
#18
Hoping XiGua can prove himself more in the future. It's almost trash talk to say the skill gap is not that big at this point :x

Also, I don't understand the HotS comment. Is he basically saying the expansion is going to break the game? I admit I am not thrilled with some of the units either... we'll see I guess.
If we fear what we do not understand, then why is ignorance bliss?
redviper
Profile Joined May 2010
Pakistan2333 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-11 15:53:52
December 11 2011 15:48 GMT
#19
On December 12 2011 00:47 Confuse wrote:
Hoping XiGua can prove himself more in the future. It's almost trash talk to say the skill gap is not that big at this point :x

Also, I don't understand the HotS comment. Is he basically saying the expansion is going to break the game? I admit I am not thrilled with some of the units either... we'll see I guess.


He is saying that it will break the heart of the SWARM. As in Zergs and Zerg fans.

edit:
People thinking that the skill gap argument (edit: doesn't) makes sense forget that there is an equally large skillgap between MVP and everyone else in the world, korean, chinese, dutch, whatever. MVP made Nestea look bad, and there is a huge skillgap between Nestea and everyone else in the world not named MVP.
chocopaw
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
2072 Posts
December 11 2011 15:48 GMT
#20
On December 11 2011 23:53 digmouse wrote:
Q: Will the gap between Chinese and Koreans become larger next year?
A: This all the way goes up to the Chinese tournament hosts. The biggest problem between us and foreign pros are the maps, most Chinese tournaments use either old or non-standard maps, they are quite different from the map pool of major foreign events like GSL and MLG, thus make us difficult to play in those events.

I hope the tournaments can catch a bit up on this, it would help us in the foreign tournaments a lot.


Does anybody know which maps are used there? "Old maps" = blizzard ladder maps I presume, but do they use community made as well?
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