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It’s GoSu had the privilege of interviewing Sasha “Scarlett” Hostyn, the Zerg Queen. She talks about her experiences at IPL4 and WCS, some of the incredible matches she played vs TSL in IPL TAC 3, and her current team--Team Acer.
...After leaving Eclypsia, you joined Team Acer near the end of June. What made you decide to join Team Acer and how is your experience with the European team? Is it hard to practice with your teammates due to the time difference?
After IPL4, I saw one of the Zerg players I looked up to, Nerchio, had posted a few times in the fanclub made about me on teamliquid. I managed to get his skype info, and we talked fairly often, mainly about strategy and the like. As soon as I mentioned to him I was leaving Eclypsia, he mentioned this to his team, which approached me the next day. Team Acer intrigued me because it had so many other Zerg players, and the legendary Sc1 Zerg Mondragon as a coach. However, I still took a long time to decide which team I would join, (over a month), and talked to several others during that time. One thing that disappointed me was not seeing a message from a team who was interested in talking to me that I would have possibly liked to join until afterwards, but I certainly have no regrets with having joined Team Acer. I don't practice much with my teammates (and most likely would not even if we were on same server) as I prefer to only ladder for practice, as it makes me mentally prepared for anything that could be thrown at me rather than subconsciously shifting my build to metagame people I know playstyles of....
To read more...
http://www.itsgosu.com/game/sc2/articles/interview-with-sasha-scarlett-hostyn_637
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I love her. Thanks for the interview!
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Nice interview. I never knew Mondragon was a coach, must have missed that.
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both interviewer & interviewee rocks my pants
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On August 09 2012 10:06 bittman wrote:
Nice interview. I never knew Mondragon was a coach, must have missed that.
Mondragon clearly needs something to do to relax when resting from his studies.
Also, very nice interview. Love how in-depth it was.
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On August 09 2012 10:21 Porcelina wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 10:06 bittman wrote:
Nice interview. I never knew Mondragon was a coach, must have missed that. Mondragon clearly needs something to do to relax when resting from his studies. Also, very nice interview. Love how in-depth it was.
At least his coaching style fits perfectly fits the meta game "When you scout that he's playing protoss start making roaches and do not stop until you've won".
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On August 09 2012 10:25 Fusilero wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 10:21 Porcelina wrote:On August 09 2012 10:06 bittman wrote:
Nice interview. I never knew Mondragon was a coach, must have missed that. Mondragon clearly needs something to do to relax when resting from his studies. Also, very nice interview. Love how in-depth it was. At least his coaching style fits perfectly fits the meta game "When you scout that he's playing protoss start making roaches and do not stop until you've won".
There is an important addendum though. Roaches counter every Protoss unit except one, as Zerg you need to counter Pheonixes with Hatcheries.
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On August 09 2012 10:17 NITRIXdaisuki wrote:
both interviewer & interviewee rocks my pants
cute
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just a heads up, in one of the questions it says IPL5 might want to edit that.
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On August 09 2012 10:57 Lemonayd wrote:
just a heads up, in one of the questions it says IPL5 might want to edit that.
Fixed! Thank you! No matter how many times I proof-read the article, I still made typos T_T;
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Np, good read so far! Scarlett is so good, hope she plays more.
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"as I prefer to only ladder for practice, as it makes me mentally prepared for anything that could be thrown at me rather than subconsciously shifting my build to metagame people I know playstyles of...."
Interesting, most pros tend to think laddering isn't as important as specific practice games. How someone got this good without really doing anything except laddering, wow.
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On August 09 2012 11:30 Metalteeth wrote:Show nested quote +"as I prefer to only ladder for practice, as it makes me mentally prepared for anything that could be thrown at me rather than subconsciously shifting my build to metagame people I know playstyles of...." Interesting, most pros tend to think laddering isn't as important as specific practice games. How someone got this good without really doing anything except laddering, wow.
She talks about some of the other things she does to practice in the full interview ^^. But laddering is definitely a big part of her practice~!
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nice job yankun .. solid interview
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Really good interview - Scarlett seems a little shy sometimes, so nice to see her talk a lot.
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Sasha Hostyn... never knew her name. Very pretty name, and very fitting. Definitely a player to watch. <3 Scarlett.
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Good read
lol @ 2base blink xP
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Thanks for the interview! Good read. Always love to hear more from Scarlett.
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She's good! she beat me couple times on ladder.... remembering makes me sad.... but she's a great player for sure~ Maybe the best girl player on sc2 !
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I don't think she gets a direct seed to the worlds for winning WCS Canada....
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Her style is so much fun to watch. If she was the only Zerg player Blizzard watched, they'd nerf zerglings -- she has a real knack for getting amazing engages with swarms of lings and just trading so efficiently.
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On August 09 2012 12:54 Dexington wrote:
I don't think she gets a direct seed to the worlds for winning WCS Canada....
I'm trying to confirm this with someone, but I believe she does. ViBE as the winner of WCS USA gets a direct spot into the WCS world championship. I was at WCS USA and confirmed it with a staff at MLG. It would not make sense if ViBE received a spot and she did not as the winner of WCS Canada.
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On August 09 2012 13:09 GoSuSocrates wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 12:54 Dexington wrote:
I don't think she gets a direct seed to the worlds for winning WCS Canada.... I'm trying to confirm this with someone, but I believe she does. ViBE as the winner of WCS USA gets a direct spot into the WCS world championship. I was at WCS USA and confirmed it with a staff at MLG. It would not make sense if ViBE received a spot and she did not as the winner of WCS Canada.
Why would it not? Most countries didn't get an automatic seed.
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On August 09 2012 13:09 GoSuSocrates wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 12:54 Dexington wrote:
I don't think she gets a direct seed to the worlds for winning WCS Canada.... I'm trying to confirm this with someone, but I believe she does. ViBE as the winner of WCS USA gets a direct spot into the WCS world championship. I was at WCS USA and confirmed it with a staff at MLG. It would not make sense if ViBE received a spot and she did not as the winner of WCS Canada.
Well remember, WCS Germany gets a seed direct into worlds, while WCS Sweden doesn't.
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On August 09 2012 13:11 Metalteeth wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 13:09 GoSuSocrates wrote:On August 09 2012 12:54 Dexington wrote:
I don't think she gets a direct seed to the worlds for winning WCS Canada.... I'm trying to confirm this with someone, but I believe she does. ViBE as the winner of WCS USA gets a direct spot into the WCS world championship. I was at WCS USA and confirmed it with a staff at MLG. It would not make sense if ViBE received a spot and she did not as the winner of WCS Canada. Well remember, WCS Germany gets a seed direct into worlds, while WCS Sweden doesn't.
Thanks for the note. I will look into this =]
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Good read, awesome interviews by iG. Keep them coming!
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^ yeah I had never heard anything about seeds for USA/Canada winners.
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That is...interesting. I emailed someone from Blizzard to disucuss this, so hopefully I'll hear back soon. When I was at WCS NA, they definitely announced that he got a spot at world championship.
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On August 09 2012 15:33 GoSuSocrates wrote:That is...interesting. I emailed someone from Blizzard to disucuss this, so hopefully I'll hear back soon. When I was at WCS NA, they definitely announced that he got a spot at world championship.
Yeah that was my impression as well but then I saw the liquipedia article a while ago and figured I was mistaken. But then again, last time I looked, there were only 5 countries with direct seeds listed and now it's 6, and some of the seeding is still "TBA" under the continentals, so who knows.
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http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/esports/about
Click on the regions there. In the "Nationals Finals Information" box under each country there's either "Direct Seed to Global Finals: 1" or not. Only France, Germany, China, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan got one. I read somewhere that Blizzard based the direct seeds on the amount of copies of SC2 that sold in each country, but I can't remember the source for that.
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Very nice Interview! love Scarlett and I love Gosu :D great job!! :D Excellent the reading material
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Yankun, represent that CHI TOWWWN
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On August 09 2012 16:10 GaiusBaltar wrote:http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/esports/aboutClick on the regions there. In the "Nationals Finals Information" box under each country there's either "Direct Seed to Global Finals: 1" or not. Only France, Germany, China, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan got one. I read somewhere that Blizzard based the direct seeds on the amount of copies of SC2 that sold in each country, but I can't remember the source for that.
I think it would be a shame if a lot of countries got weeded out in the continentals and had no representative at the global finals. That goes against the whole world championship/olympic spirit of the thing.
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Once again, I had a large advantage from the start, safely managing to hatch first against a forge first opening, giving me confidence going into the midgame.
This lady's incredible. Personally, I thought, with micro, you end up even with FFE, but she takes this as an advantage no problem.
I played a very passive and tech focused build, going for very fast melee/armor upgrade, while fast teching to infestor broodlord off 4 base (after scouting Cyrano's fast 3rd). He tried to poke in once off 3 base with collosus/blinkstalker but retreated once seeing my creep spread with spines and infestor support. I knew at this point the game was already over
I'd say this is the pinnacle of ZvP quoted confidence had Stephano not made his dissertation on it through games and quotes. Fast upgrades, fast tech off 4base vs 3rd (So far, reading this, I'm thinking normal game). But a failed poke and she has this period??? Damn. Wish I knew ZvP like this!
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afair Mondragon fully retired some time ago and is no more involved in Acer
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On August 09 2012 16:47 fuzzylogic44 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 16:10 GaiusBaltar wrote:http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/esports/aboutClick on the regions there. In the "Nationals Finals Information" box under each country there's either "Direct Seed to Global Finals: 1" or not. Only France, Germany, China, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan got one. I read somewhere that Blizzard based the direct seeds on the amount of copies of SC2 that sold in each country, but I can't remember the source for that. I think it would be a shame if a lot of countries got weeded out in the continentals and had no representative at the global finals. That goes against the whole world championship/olympic spirit of the thing.
I agree, Blizzard should have given a direct seed to every national champion. They could have easily done it by bumping the global finals from a 32 player to a 64 player tournament. 29 national champions + 26 from continental finals are 55 players, they'd just have to distribute 9 more seeds among the continentals.
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On August 09 2012 16:47 fuzzylogic44 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 16:10 GaiusBaltar wrote:http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/esports/aboutClick on the regions there. In the "Nationals Finals Information" box under each country there's either "Direct Seed to Global Finals: 1" or not. Only France, Germany, China, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan got one. I read somewhere that Blizzard based the direct seeds on the amount of copies of SC2 that sold in each country, but I can't remember the source for that. I think it would be a shame if a lot of countries got weeded out in the continentals and had no representative at the global finals. That goes against the whole world championship/olympic spirit of the thing.
US and Canada make up a large portion of the sales and players. They should get one. The US for sure right? It is Blizz's home country and they had one of the largest National Prizepools.
EDIT: Actually thinking about it a bit more, it makes a lot of sense for no direct seeds from any of the NA countries because there's only 3 countries competing anyways unlike the EUROPE continentals which would be filled with at least half a dozen countries and many of which have only couple standout players. So to make sure those countries remain represented later on in the World Finals, they gave them direct seeds in case they get knocked out early in the hyper fierce EU championship due to an unlucky bracket pitting two great players early.
ASIA on the other hand does not have as many countries but ASIA has to prevent a way from the Koreans from taking every spot, so they give direct seeds for China and Taiwan.
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Very good interview. Well done Kunkun!
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Great read, i really enjoyed this interview. Good questions and thorough answers. Thanks scarlett, Socrates, and the rest of It's GoSu.
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On August 09 2012 19:43 RaiKageRyu wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 16:47 fuzzylogic44 wrote:On August 09 2012 16:10 GaiusBaltar wrote:http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/esports/aboutClick on the regions there. In the "Nationals Finals Information" box under each country there's either "Direct Seed to Global Finals: 1" or not. Only France, Germany, China, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan got one. I read somewhere that Blizzard based the direct seeds on the amount of copies of SC2 that sold in each country, but I can't remember the source for that. I think it would be a shame if a lot of countries got weeded out in the continentals and had no representative at the global finals. That goes against the whole world championship/olympic spirit of the thing. US and Canada make up a large portion of the sales and players. They should get one. The US for sure right? It is Blizz's home country and they had one of the largest National Prizepools. EDIT: Actually thinking about it a bit more, it makes a lot of sense for no direct seeds from any of the NA countries because there's only 3 countries competing anyways unlike the EUROPE continentals which would be filled with at least half a dozen countries and many of which have only couple standout players. So to make sure those countries remain represented later on in the World Finals, they gave them direct seeds in case they get knocked out early in the hyper fierce EU championship due to an unlucky bracket pitting two great players early. ASIA on the other hand does not have as many countries but ASIA has to prevent a way from the Koreans from taking every spot, so they give direct seeds for China and Taiwan.
Yeah I think it will end up working out. I dunno how many seeds NA gets to globals but I'm sure Scarlett and HuK (if he doesn't choke again) will get in, along with the top Americans and Major. And there's no way there isn't at least one Swede out of Europe.
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Say hello to awesome. This girls skill level and overall vibe pretty much defines kickass.
I am already a huge fan (how can ya not be)
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Great interview and excellent answers for once.
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Good stuff,enjoyed reading it.
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Who else would you guys like to see interview'd?
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Awesome interview thanks for taking the time to set this up! :D Keep them coming please, I always enjoy hearing what player's thoughts on things 
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On August 11 2012 05:43 TheRealNanMan wrote:Awesome interview thanks for taking the time to set this up! :D Keep them coming please, I always enjoy hearing what player's thoughts on things
Thanks : ) I should have another interview done in the next two days ^^
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Would you guys also be interested in reading more from Korean players?
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On August 09 2012 11:30 Metalteeth wrote:Show nested quote +"as I prefer to only ladder for practice, as it makes me mentally prepared for anything that could be thrown at me rather than subconsciously shifting my build to metagame people I know playstyles of...." Interesting, most pros tend to think laddering isn't as important as specific practice games. How someone got this good without really doing anything except laddering, wow.
Stephano was pretty successful with laddering practice 
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Liquipedia updated it to show Scarlett and Vibe getting seeds at the expense of the asia continentals seeds going from 8 to 6.
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Is there a problem with the itsgosu site? I have tried a few times over the past few hours to read the interview, both by clicking the link provided to the interview itself and by trying to go to the main site and both just time out everytime.
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On August 09 2012 10:29 Porcelina wrote:Show nested quote +On August 09 2012 10:25 Fusilero wrote:On August 09 2012 10:21 Porcelina wrote:On August 09 2012 10:06 bittman wrote:
Nice interview. I never knew Mondragon was a coach, must have missed that. Mondragon clearly needs something to do to relax when resting from his studies. Also, very nice interview. Love how in-depth it was. At least his coaching style fits perfectly fits the meta game "When you scout that he's playing protoss start making roaches and do not stop until you've won". There is an important addendum though. Roaches counter every Protoss unit except one, as Zerg you need to counter Pheonixes with Hatcheries.
Oh my opponent when double stargate? Que -> 30 drones + triple expand.
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The site is offline for me, can some1 confirm?
@Edit: Looks like site is back online.
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On August 21 2012 18:54 Chaves wrote:
The site is offline for me, can some1 confirm?
same for me
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On August 21 2012 18:56 thOr6136 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 21 2012 18:54 Chaves wrote:
The site is offline for me, can some1 confirm? same for me
same here
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