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By popular demand I've released the newest episode of my 'Grilled' interview series as soon as humanly possible, mere hours later. The subject this time is  LucifroN, one half of the 'Spanish Armada' and the third place finisher at WCS Europe last week.
Some of the topics discussed:
-How watching Korean Terrans at IEM VII Cologne made LucifroN realise he knew "so little" about SC2 and was playing Terran "wrong".
-His WC3 past as "LuckyfroN".
-Thoughts on his brother  VortiX's IEM run.
-What his expectations going into WCS Europe were and which results surprised him.
-Whether he will be forced to take months off later this year, as his brother will be.
-If Stephano is the clear-cut best foreigner.
-Experience playing the same top Europeans on the ladder.
The full 12m22s long video interview can be viewed at Team Acer.
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Cool, noticed there isn't really many video-interviews with him.
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That was a really good interview! I really like what he had to say about how the audience often focuses too much on player results ("You win one tournament and you're the best player in the world; you lose one tournament and you belong to bronze league" lol).
Thanks for posting this! He comes off as a really cool and informed guy 
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Really nice interview!
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France12935 Posts
Wow amazing!! =D.
I didn't view the interview yet but almost all the parts seems interesting, especially the first one (and the second one as well since I did not follow WC3 except some months in 2005).
Acer are really providing amazing content regarding SC2 with all their articles and interviews, the "SC2 Acer" makes up for the "computer Acer" (I don't know if it's the same in other countries, but Acer isn't a very well reputed brand in computers technology in France).
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Great interview! Just some criticism, please use a tripod or stable object to rest the camera on. The camera shake got pretty distracting...
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illsick
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thorin interviews are great, love this one
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Luci so good, I hope the brothers start getting the attention that they deserve internationally <3
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On September 23 2012 02:51 Poopi wrote:
Wow amazing!! =D.
I didn't view the interview yet but almost all the parts seems interesting, especially the first one (and the second one as well since I did not follow WC3 except some months in 2005).
Acer are really providing amazing content regarding SC2 with all their articles and interviews, the "SC2 Acer" makes up for the "computer Acer" (I don't know if it's the same in other countries, but Acer isn't a very well reputed brand in computers technology in France).
Acer aren't "supposed" to have a good reputation.
They spent years making bottom end cheap computers that are, well, cheap, and that's the main value of them.
They have more recently started to turn around and try and build a brand based around quality, rather than being cheap.
Sponsoring e-Sports may hopefully (for them) get people to re-consider the brand, after potential bad experiences with their cheapness in the past.
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Amazing interview, also for reference to people that don't quite understand the LuckifroN reference, there were many games that he got lucky with items and beat top, top players. In Orc vs Orc it hinged a lot on what items each Blademaster got while creeping and whenever LucifroN got Claws of Attack and say Grubby got a ring of protection people used to say things like "LuckifroN strikes again" etc. Also people used to refer to him as kind of like a 'Patch-Zerg' saying that he wasn't good and only won because Orc/Blademaster was 'Imba'. Also one game vs Dowaq (Good Swedish UD player) LucifroN was completely dead but had like +56 on his Blademaster and pretty much solo'd everything with it :D. Haters aside he was extremely good at WC3 and i have been saying for over a year now that he is amazing at SC2 and the most talented Terran outside of Korea, finally people start to take notice ^_^
LucifroN #1
(I play Protoss btw, but how can you not love him haha)
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Lucifron is becoming one of my favorite terran players wow, great interview!
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Will always respect the man for his Wc3 plays.
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you're quite the dick, but I admit, good iviews - esp the timeline is nice
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we need more of this! Awesome work.
And nice you kept the timelines 
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Awesome video, lucifron is actually so sick :D
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He's the man, thanx for interview. Now hoping he can beat Violet....
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On September 23 2012 03:07 Lonyo wrote:Show nested quote +On September 23 2012 02:51 Poopi wrote:
Wow amazing!! =D.
I didn't view the interview yet but almost all the parts seems interesting, especially the first one (and the second one as well since I did not follow WC3 except some months in 2005).
Acer are really providing amazing content regarding SC2 with all their articles and interviews, the "SC2 Acer" makes up for the "computer Acer" (I don't know if it's the same in other countries, but Acer isn't a very well reputed brand in computers technology in France). Acer aren't "supposed" to have a good reputation. They spent years making bottom end cheap computers that are, well, cheap, and that's the main value of them. They have more recently started to turn around and try and build a brand based around quality, rather than being cheap. Sponsoring e-Sports may hopefully (for them) get people to re-consider the brand, after potential bad experiences with their cheapness in the past.
I can't speak to years in the past, but at the beginning of 2012, almost half a year before I joined Team Acer or ever had thoughts of joining them, I bought an Acer laptop for work use. It is one of the best hardware decisions I've made, it runs really smoothly and quickly on all apps, in fact I use it to render my videos in Vegas over my desktop.
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great questions and answers, thanks thorin!
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Thanks for the interview Thoorin, keep em' coming.
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Thanks! Really good interview
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Is the site down? can't get on :/
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First time i try to visit that site and its down for maintenance :D
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Thorin is amazing, i love those interviews!
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Yeah, not sure why but the site seems to be down atm. Not ideal, since I want to put a Feast iview on it now -_-
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Thorin, is that you? If so, you were at the WCS EU finals, right? Many thanks for lightening the mood in the Press room :D
Great interview, mate! Lucifron is very interesting to listen to
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Luci is so insanely solid. I cant wait to see him kick more ass in DH.
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Okay, at first I thought maybe "grilling" was some Spanish form of Capital punishment. O.o
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i liked him back in wc3, but unfortunately he plays terran
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Wow, an interview with questions that are actually relevant and interesting. Thats quite rare nowadays.
Good job!
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Iview/site should be working fine now.
On September 23 2012 06:41 Zvenn3n wrote:
Thorin, is that you? If so, you were at the WCS EU finals, right? Many thanks for lightening the mood in the Press room :D
Yeah, that was me. Nice to meet you
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who is that guy he said is pretty good in the end?
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Really great interview! What a baller!
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Nice interview. GJ
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Your questions were indeed well thought out, you're doing a good job with these!
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Thanks for the interview! :D
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On September 23 2012 07:11 billywayne wrote:
who is that guy he said is pretty good in the end?
That'd be roof
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Gotta like Lucifron, just honest and well mannered :D
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The fact he thinks hes playing terran "wrong" and is gonna try to rework himself excites me, Ive always thought of this guy as a darkhorse in teh European scene, more so than his brother. Im really pumped to see what hes gonna do next
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Interesting interview, thanks for it.
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Finally an interesting interview with good questions. Ill watch more of this in the future!
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I really hope Lucifron goes full time SC2. It truly is refreshing to see a foreign Terran perform so well. He seems to have his own style of playing and he has a glimmer of IM.MVP in him. I would love to see this guy go far or better, get a Code A seed!
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Awesome interview, thanks for sharing. I havent seen much on him. Great to get some content
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Such a handsome terran. Thanks for the interview! Honestly I was kinda surprised that he said that he was playing terran wrong. Not bad..
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On September 23 2012 02:52 aquanda wrote:
Great interview! Just some criticism, please use a tripod or stable object to rest the camera on. The camera shake got pretty distracting...
distracting from what...?
are you really staring at the dude's face for 12 minutes?
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Nice interview. Gave a good impression.
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thanks for the interview!
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Nice interview, his intelligence is just so obvious.
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His recent games against stephano had some of the best foreign terran play I've ever seen, thanks for the interview!
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High Quality interview, Thanks
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Who is Roof ( spelling?? ) ?, the German zerg Lucifron said plays very solid. Anyone know of any replays of him ?
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awesome interview! massive thanks dude
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[....Also one game vs Dowaq (Good Swedish UD player) LucifroN was completely dead but had like +56 on his Blademaster and pretty much solo'd everything with it :D. Haters aside he was extremely good at WC3 and i have been saying for over a year now that he is amazing at SC2 and the most talented Terran outside of Korea, finally people start to take notice ^_^
LucifroN #1
(I play Protoss btw, but how can you not love him haha)
I remember that replay... that was claws +12 from both red cas, a claws +9, elven boots (+6), bought the orb +6, and actually sold back his claws +6 to make space for the invuln pot. Watching the fastest unit in the game go invulnerable and immune to collision, run up to the DK, attack three times a second for a hundred damage each, finish him with a 450 crit, and run away *still invulnerable*, 6-7 times in a row, was absolutely wagons then hide and heal for 30 seconds. And yet, over the next 7 minutes, Dowaq resupplying his army burned through it's food cost 3 times over, ran out of money, and lost the game.
Yes. I still mad.
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great interview! i am enjoying watching luci get good at sc2!
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Nice loved Lucifron since war 3 days!
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lucifron quite quickly became my favorite foreign terran player, not exactly sure why but I think he has some genius in him that reminds me of MVP, the way he plays and thinks are very interesting to me, very well done interview, loved it!
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Its funny how during the early days of SC2 a lot of people war saying:"Oh boy, wait until Lucifron breaks out." and to see him finally with such success.
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