[Interview]8th team's Jaedong talks about HOTS - Page 8

On September 21 2012 05:26 Labbetuss wrote:
This interview is really good. Thanks for translating! Even though I'm a Flash fan, it's hard not to love JD also.

On October 09 2012 10:53 AzureSekaii wrote:
I understand of him wanting to be a zerg player instead of Terran when your going in a higher league.

On October 09 2012 11:18 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote:
*sigh* Jaedong finds SC2 zerg harder than BW zerg because of the lower skill ceiling. Although both games have a skill ceiling well beyond human capabilities, the way BW's skill ceiling worked meant pros had more "wiggle room" in terms of what they can do better than everyone else.
For instance, no one in BW had perfect macro, much less if they were trying to micro at the same time. Yet, in SC2, this is the norm. In SC2, there is less of that "wiggle room" with what you can do to make yourself better than the other player.
What this means is that he can't just micro his way to walkover wins anymore. He actually has to put forward much more effort to get the same results.
I thought this was obvious, but whatever. Anyways, this is a rather interesting point. Although having a high skill cap is really good, when winning can be done easily, is the high skill cap really all that good? You can achieve the same win rate in SC2 as in BW, but in order to do that, you'll need to be a LOT better than the rest than you would need to be in BW.
It is certainly an interesting point to think about.

On October 09 2012 12:46 rotinegg wrote:
thanks for the translation, now im really curious what parting said.

edit: found it; it's an issue that got started by a reporter leaving some stuff out of his interview, but then got escalated by both sides. Here's a link that explains the situation in Korean, and here's a brief cap in English:

Parting was asked to rate the Kespa players in an OSL Dual Tournament interview. Before the interview he announced that he was going to play the villain role in the whole ESF vs Kespa situation for laughs, and in the interview he said "Since I am confident in my skill level compared to Kespa players, I'll be treating them as bonuses and picking Kespa players during group nominations." However, the website conducting the interview conveniently leaves out what he said before the interview and reports that, which of course causes a shit storm. Then one of the Kespa team coaches [don't know which one] tweets that Parting needs to learn some manners. In response to this, Parting's side starts spreading a picture of n.Die_soO talking shit about his own parents [not sure how you can capture that in a picture, but that's what it says], saying Kespa players don't really have much to talk about when it comes to basic manners, and this goes viral. The coach apologizes over twitter, but then Parting responds by saying if what he said in the original interview makes kespa players mad, they should prove it wrong by beating him fair and square.

On September 22 2012 14:30 sM.Zik wrote:


Flash fans should love Jaedong, just like Jaedong fans should love Flash. They just played so many epic games in finals!



They shared top 1 and 2 spot for so long..

And btw thanks for the translation :D

On October 09 2012 14:48 J1.au wrote:

Even when he was beating Flash and his fans were at their most annoying I still respected Jaedong. I don't think Flash would've reached the heights he did without Jaedong, and vice versa. They were both better players because of each other.

I personally think that SC2's Zerg is harder to play than BW's Zerg, because in SC2, player should spawn larvae with Queens to produce units 'Zergishly'. This should be done during whole play time, so it requires more physical ability than before.

And also SC2 has less variables in micro-control such as Zergling micro or Mutalisk micro. I can overwhelm my opponent only with micro-conrol in BW games but I can't do that in SC2. But I think there are many unrevealed elements in SC2 and I expect we can show you more in the future.

On September 21 2012 07:27 wangstra wrote:


Facepalm. He was talking about BW.