Congratulations on your victory. Tell us how you feel.
Lately our team's momentum hasn't been the best but I think my victory was able to replenish it a bit so I am happy. I feel like my GSTL Season 1 passion was revitalized so I am even happier.
You took down GSL Season 4 finalist Life. Where did you match him?
Recently I practiced for everything through ladder. I normally meet Life often on ladder anyways so I think that's why I was able to match him really well. I know that Life likes to play poorly in the beginning. That's why I figured it'd be hard for him to block my immortal all ins.
Would you say that your strategies were meant to match Life's?
That's true. It it was a different player, I would've suffered a lot of early damage from his lings and then I would've had to play the rest of the game from a disadvantageous position.
Your immortal all ins were great but you also showed phenomenal warp prism play.
Lately I've started thinking "what should I do to be able to win?" even during my games. I would think of scenarios where after my first attack gets blocked and the game goes 9:1 in his favor, I could still put together one final attack that could turn the game around. And after thinking like that, I was able to concoct a really good strategy from that. I knew Life was an aggressive player and that he would move out with his entire army.
It was a little disappointing that we weren't able to see any harassment from your warp prisms. Was it because you wanted to strengthen your main army?
It's something I personally know but excluding any special situations, if you decide to harass with your army instead of filling it up to 200, I think Protoss actually get the worse end of the deal. The other things I know about this match up I will show later on during a different match.
Besides the finals, which match do you remember the most?
The Cloud Kingdom game against YongHwa is the game I remember the most. I was lacking in consistency and my base was continuously occupied till the very end so I had no idea if I would win or not.
After finding out that your opponent would be WCG's Korean representative YongHwa, how did you prepare for him?
There is a build order I use that always works against someone I've never met before. I figured I would use that strategy, shake him up mentally, and then just comfortably lead the rest of the match through my pace. Aside from the loss in game three on Whirlwind even though I had the build order advantage, I think everything went really well like I wanted it to.
You had to take down fellow teammate Ryung in the third round.
I lost to Ryung in the Fnatic Raid Call tournament about three days ago in the first round. That's why I'm not sorry about today's victory (laughs). I practice with him a lot so I struggled a lot since he knew where to hit me where it hurts.
A lot of Protosses are saying that it is really hard to defeat a Zerg in the late game. How do you feel about the infestor/brood lord composition?
I really want to show what you should do soon for the GSTL. I had been feeling that late game Zerg wall for about two months now but I think I've overcome it. And I think my skills have gotten better ever since I've figured this out as well.
Like you just mentioned, SlayerS has a round three match against MVP in the losers' round. Your teams momentum has weakened as of late, and you guys are facing elimination.
Genius and I are booming with confidence. I think the two Min Soo's will be able to take this.
Who would you like to face against in MVP?
I don't really have anyone. But I do think KeeN will be a challenge. He shows solid macro games on ladder but he also throws in unique things for actual matches so he's going to be a pain.
What match up is the hardest for you?
Right now I don't really have one. I think I've overcome all race match ups. But, I really do need to overcome that one weakness I have where my head feels dazed during tournaments (laughs).
You have Iron Squid II group stages ahead of you. Anyone you want to be placed in with?
I haven't been able to prove anything yet. That's why I would like to be in a group with foreign players (laughs). But, I don't want to be in a group with Scarlett. I saw her performance during an online team league several days ago against SlayerS and she is seriously not kidding around.
Anything else you would like to say?
There was a lot I wanted to say since this was my first interview in a long time. Since I was also playing another game till about two months ago, my performance back in those days were sub-par. But since I've been able to improve in to a new player, I am hoping people will forget about my past performances. I hope people anticipate a great performance from me for the future since I have been focusing on nothing but SC2 these days. I want to thank our sponsors SCELIDO, Alt1, Dong-A Otsuka, and HosanENG. Our team has been facing a lot of problems but I want to thank Jessica noona for always being there for us, and coach Cella for always making sure we stay on track. Lastly, I want to thank Genius for helping me fix how I mind control myself.
Thanks for the interview. I like Brown's confidence. Would be really cool if he does well and we see a new rise of Slayers with guys like Brown leading the charge.
And Life suddenly looks very beatable. I guess he doesn't take this loss too hard since he still got a slot for Iron Squid but even this relatively unimportant loss and even just a little hit to his confidence could matter when he has to fight MVP in the GSL finals.
On October 16 2012 03:53 Yello wrote: Thanks for the interview. I like Brown's confidence. Would be really cool if he does well and we see a new rise of Slayers with guys like Brown leading the charge.
And Life suddenly looks very beatable. I guess he doesn't take this loss too hard since he still got a slot for Iron Squid but even this relatively unimportant loss and even just a little hit to his confidence could matter when he has to fight MVP in the GSL finals.
He was always meh at ZvP, reminds me of Jaedong during his rise to fame. I would have to look at the games but I know he was slightly dicking around in the Hyun series.
I want to thank our sponsors SCELIDO, Alt1, Dong-A Otsuka, and HosanENG.
What are all these sponsors I never heard about (except SCELIDO) and where did they come from?
Okay, Alt1 is the developer of this Troy game, Dong-A Otsuka is some pharmaceutical company and HosanENG is doing Engineering Design, Technological Consulting & Construction in semi-conductor & LCD. Okay.
You have Iron Squid II group stages ahead of you. Anyone you want to be placed in with?
I haven't been able to prove anything yet. That's why I would like to be in a group with foreign players (laughs). But, I don't want to be in a group with Scarlett. I saw her performance during an online team league several days ago against SlayerS and she is seriously not kidding around.
was this not broadcoasted yet? cant find any slayers vs acer matches
I want to thank our sponsors SCELIDO, Alt1, Dong-A Otsuka, and HosanENG.
What are all these sponsors I never heard about (except SCELIDO) and where did they come from?
Okay, Alt1 is the developer of this Troy game, Dong-A Otsuka is some pharmaceutical company and HosanENG is doing Engineering Design, Technological Consulting & Construction in semi-conductor & LCD. Okay.
On October 16 2012 04:19 pycho wrote: You have Iron Squid II group stages ahead of you. Anyone you want to be placed in with?
I haven't been able to prove anything yet. That's why I would like to be in a group with foreign players (laughs). But, I don't want to be in a group with Scarlett. I saw her performance during an online team league several days ago against SlayerS and she is seriously not kidding around.
was this not broadcoasted yet? cant find any slayers vs acer matches
There's an Acer vs Slayers EG MCSL broadcast scheduled for tomorrow, so I'm pretty sure that's what he was referring to.
On October 16 2012 04:19 pycho wrote: You have Iron Squid II group stages ahead of you. Anyone you want to be placed in with?
I haven't been able to prove anything yet. That's why I would like to be in a group with foreign players (laughs). But, I don't want to be in a group with Scarlett. I saw her performance during an online team league several days ago against SlayerS and she is seriously not kidding around.
was this not broadcoasted yet? cant find any slayers vs acer matches
SlayerS vs Acer will be broadcasted October 16th 2012.
I want to thank our sponsors SCELIDO, Alt1, Dong-A Otsuka, and HosanENG.
What are all these sponsors I never heard about (except SCELIDO) and where did they come from?
Okay, Alt1 is the developer of this Troy game, Dong-A Otsuka is some pharmaceutical company and HosanENG is doing Engineering Design, Technological Consulting & Construction in semi-conductor & LCD. Okay.
Would like to know how far each sponsorship goes.
Otsuka makes Pocari Sweat :D
Okay, I just googled the name and saw that they make pharmaceutics etc. wouldn't have guessed they make Pocari Sweat too
I hope this helps breathe some new life into Slayers, god knows that they need it. That sponsor list isn't half bad either, maybe things are looking better for them
Brown didn't really impress me a whole lot during the qualifiers, but by damn he beat some sick players.
On October 16 2012 06:49 FreudianTrip wrote: This is game covering online qualifiers for a European tournament? They must really have enjoyed IronSquid!
Iron Squid did real good to the Korean players during the last tournament, so apparently it's considered a high quality tournament in SK. At least that's what I've heard.
Brown has always had sick PvZ, his other two matchups were lacking. At some point he was at like 65% PvZ versus good zergs, but it's hard to get noticed in korea if you're not getting into GSL at all ;;
On October 16 2012 07:29 Andr3 wrote: Brown has always had sick PvZ, his other two matchups were lacking. At some point he was at like 65% PvZ versus good zergs, but it's hard to get noticed in korea if you're not getting into GSL at all ;;
Hopefully the Iron Squid qualifiers were an indication of what is to come of Brown's PvT and PvP
EPT
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