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Interviews with Mystery and iAsonu

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Meru
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States219 Posts
May 24 2015 15:04 GMT
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Hello everyone! Meru here with TeamLiquid! Today we have our two Chinese players in the WCS RO32. As newcomers to the scene, we really don’t know much about them yet, so let’s meet Mystery and iAsonu. The Mystery interview has been translated and transcribed below. It’s interesting to note that iAsonu answered everything in English perfectly, and our conversation has been scribed below. Enjoy!

Mystery


Meru: Hi Mystery, tell us a little about yourself!
Mystery: Hi I’m Mystery. I'm from ShanDong, China and almost 20, I’m a protoss player and I just joined team THpj.

Meru: Mystery, first of all, why did you choose the name Mystery?
Mystery: Well, it’s actually not my ID… NA couldn’t understand Ping-Ying for my real ID, so it ended as Mystery.

Meru: Oh wow, that’s really interesting! So, this is your first time in the RO32 for WCS, playing on such a big stage. Are you nervous? How are you feeling?
Mystery: I’m really jetlagged actually so I did not do the best that I could. My play wasn't as good as it was in China. I’ll try harder next time.

Meru: So you’re saying that if there’s no jetlag, you could of done much better!
Mystery: Yeah I think so, I think I would of played more normal

Meru: Normal?
Mystery: My reaction time was very slow today. For example, the enemy was attacking me, but my reaction to each attack took longer than usual. My control wasn't very precise either. I’m a little sleepy

Meru: How did you start StarCraft II? How and when did you get into this game, why did you pick this?
Mystery: I’ve always loved Blizzard games and when I saw StarCraft II came ads for it, it looked super cool. So I started playing it and thought it was really fun. I was always improving so I kept on playing. If I hadn't kept improving, I'm not sure I would have played as much.

Meru: How long have you been playing?
Mystery: About 2-3 years

Meru: What does your training schedule look like?
Mystery: I’m still in school so I don’t really practice or train at all during school days. I practice on the weekends and on holidays, but that’s about it. I can’t really practice at school because the internet is not good enough.

Meru: Why did you choose Protoss?
Mystery: In the trailer commercial ads Protoss looked the coolest.

Meru: A lot of the Korean pros practice all day long like a job. Do you think you would improve a lot if you had an opportunity like this?
Mystery: I think that’s definitely possible. I just joined team THpj, and starting this Aug/Sept I’ll be practicing full time. I’m looking forward to my improvements!

Meru: A lot Korean pros like Polt and violet actually got athlete visa to live and play in the states. Do you think you’ll ever do that?
Mystery: I don’t think I’m good enough for that yet, I’m not even the best in China yet!

Meru: Who do you think is the best in China then?
Mystery: iAsonu here! (laughs)

Meru: Lastly we have a question… We noticed that you don’t really use control groups and hotkeys… Why is that?
Mystery: Well.. When I first started playing the game, I didn’t know hotkeys and control groups existed. I just kinda got used to it and just stuck with it. I started using some recently, like the 4’s and 5’s, the keys towards the end of the keyboard… I mean you saw my Zealot in the game, it was suppose to hold position but it moved like 3 times.

Meru: What are you plans for the future?
Mystery: I'm going to play for a couple years as a pro and practice hard. I hope to have some great results.

Meru: Haha. Well that's unfortunate. We wish you the best of luck in the future, and thank you very much for your time today!




iAsonu



Meru: Hi iAsonu, so how are you?
iAsonu: I'm fine, thank you.

Meru: Why did you choose your ID?
iAsonu: I just typed in random letters. It doesn't mean anything.

Meru: So you're playing tomorrow. Are you nervous? How are you feeling?
iAsonu: Not at all. I'm not nervous at all, because I don't care about the results, I just want to have exciting and fun games.

Meru: Oooo. Now that you mentioned exciting games, are you saying that you prepared something entertaining for us?
iAsonu: I think so. I prepared something special strategy that I don't think the foreign scene has seen much of yet.

Meru: That sounds great! We're looking forward to it! So now, how long have you been playing starcraft and what made you start?
iAsonu: Since... 2012. My college roommate actually told me about this really fun game and told me to play it. He actually quit and I just kept on playing and liked it.

Meru: Why did you choose zerg?
iAsonu: I thought it was very cool that you have a large army to crush your enemy, I like that feeling.

Meru: That's awesome! How do you practice? what does your day look like?
iAsonu: Back to school I just played in my spare time, then I go to iG team house for 8 months, I practiced every day, like more than 10 hours a day, so I made great progress. Now I went back to school, so I'm not playing as much.

Meru: Just from talking to you, your English is great! How did you learn it so well?
iAsonu: I just studied it in school that's all. I'm not that good (laughs). I also like to watch American TV, so I learned from watching shows.

Meru: What's your favorite show?
iAsonu: Game of thrones! (laughs)

Meru: GoT.... Of course! you have great taste man. Now, going back to the scene a little bit. How do you feel about the Chinese SC2 scene? do you think it's growing, how is it doing?
iAsonu: Mmm... Because of the popularity of League of Legends, Starcraft II is not very popular in China. I hope it will be better.

Meru: Just comparing numbers from last season to this, there are actually more Chinese players this time than last?
iAsonu: Yea i think we are growing slowly.

Meru: Great! Now lastly, what are your plans for the future? Any words for the audience?
iAsonu: For the future I think I'll play 1-2 more years because I have to get a job and go to work, I'm graduating in 1 year. So, I'll do my best next year! i hope everyone will enjoy it

Meru: I'm sure everyone will cheer for you. Thank you so much for your time!




Interviewer: Meru
Editor: stuchiu

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oGoZenob
Profile Joined December 2011
France1503 Posts
May 24 2015 15:19 GMT
#2
"could of"
OH COME ON
I like starcraft
TRaFFiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada1448 Posts
May 24 2015 15:30 GMT
#3
Tired? Drink coffee xD But seriously that 7 oracle build from Mystery was pretty cool. The Chinese meta seems to evolve on its own. Excited to see more.
2v2, 1v1, Zerg, Terran http://www.twitch.tv/trafficsc2
digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6329 Posts
May 24 2015 15:42 GMT
#4
On May 25 2015 00:30 TRaFFiC wrote:
Tired? Drink coffee xD But seriously that 7 oracle build from Mystery was pretty cool. The Chinese meta seems to evolve on its own. Excited to see more.

Coffee doesn't really keep one's reaction time up, it's just so that you don't fall asleep.
TranslatorIf you want to ask anything about Chinese esports, send me a PM or follow me @nerddigmouse.
BreAKerTV
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Taiwan1658 Posts
May 24 2015 15:51 GMT
#5
If I was still passionate about this game, I would have rushed to do interviews with these guys myself like I did with XiGua.
Retired caster / streamer "BingeHD". Digital Nomad.
Zealously
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
East Gorteau22261 Posts
May 24 2015 15:57 GMT
#6
On May 25 2015 00:42 digmouse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 25 2015 00:30 TRaFFiC wrote:
Tired? Drink coffee xD But seriously that 7 oracle build from Mystery was pretty cool. The Chinese meta seems to evolve on its own. Excited to see more.

Coffee doesn't really keep one's reaction time up, it's just so that you don't fall asleep.


It actually does, to some extent. Maybe not to the extent where it would have saved Mystery from elimination, but definitely enough that coffee/caffeine might have been a good idea.
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aRyuujin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5049 Posts
May 24 2015 15:58 GMT
#7
The closing comment by meru to mystery makes it sound like it's unfortunate that he's practicing and I died of laughter before I figured it out
can i get my estro logo back pls
grogburg
Profile Blog Joined December 2014
United States329 Posts
May 24 2015 16:06 GMT
#8
Great interviews! iAsonu seems pretty badass.
<3 BaseTradeTV <3
TRaFFiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada1448 Posts
May 24 2015 16:11 GMT
#9
On May 25 2015 00:42 digmouse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 25 2015 00:30 TRaFFiC wrote:
Tired? Drink coffee xD But seriously that 7 oracle build from Mystery was pretty cool. The Chinese meta seems to evolve on its own. Excited to see more.

Coffee doesn't really keep one's reaction time up, it's just so that you don't fall asleep.


Some ppl don't like coffee. Makes them jittery. But works for me and the other 99% of humans. Playing sc2 without coffee requires real dedication.

Bottom line: making excuses for your loses is never going to make you popular. However, these are starcraft players, not politicians. These answers were given honestly "on the fly. "

2v2, 1v1, Zerg, Terran http://www.twitch.tv/trafficsc2
OsaX Nymloth
Profile Joined March 2013
Poland3244 Posts
May 24 2015 16:14 GMT
#10
Cool interviews, short but sweet. Thanks!
Twitter: @osaxnymloth
shid0x
Profile Joined July 2012
Korea (South)5014 Posts
May 24 2015 16:46 GMT
#11
Meru: Lastly we have a question… We noticed that you don’t really use control groups and hotkeys… Why is that?
Mystery: Well.. When I first started playing the game, I didn’t know hotkeys and control groups existed. I just kinda got used to it and just stuck with it. I started using some recently, like the 4’s and 5’s, the keys towards the end of the keyboard… I mean you saw my Zealot in the game, it was suppose to hold position but it moved like 3 times.


that actually explains his play a lot.
Still its quite the achievement that he made it this far.
RIP MKP
neteX
Profile Joined April 2015
Sweden285 Posts
May 24 2015 17:33 GMT
#12
Nice interviews, ty.
http://www.twitter.com/neteXLoL flw pls
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
May 24 2015 17:55 GMT
#13
Really surprised that he could get this far without control groups. And is his ID then... a mystery?
padiseal2
Profile Joined August 2012
Austria721 Posts
May 24 2015 18:09 GMT
#14
Meru: What are you plans for the future?
Mystery: I'm going to play for a couple years as a pro and practice hard. I hope to have some great results.

Meru: Haha. Well that's unfortunate.


lmao, why is that unfortunate?

good interviews though, thanks for doing them
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tomastaz
Profile Joined January 2013
United States976 Posts
May 24 2015 18:57 GMT
#15
meru meru meru
No church in the wild --- @tzhang0126
Tenks
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3104 Posts
May 25 2015 02:53 GMT
#16
Mystery looked like he had a ton of things to improve upon. Not hating he's still a great player but there seemed to be quite a few fundamental mistakes he was making from sheer mechanics to decision making.

iAsonu looked to be in fantastic shape
Wat
Ragnarork
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
France9034 Posts
May 25 2015 07:54 GMT
#17
Thanks for the interviews! Nice to have some chinese players interview. I feel we still don't know this scene that much.

Props to Mystery for playing without hotkeys/control group and making it this far
LiquipediaWanderer
CxWiLL
Profile Joined May 2013
China830 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-26 23:12:57
May 26 2015 19:10 GMT
#18
The funny thing is that Mystery's Chinese ID is jieshi (解释), which means explanation.
spritzz
Profile Joined November 2009
Canada331 Posts
May 27 2015 00:54 GMT
#19
iA's English is actually decent from the WCS live interview. Very impressed.

Thanks for the interview!
zugzug
thickertom
Profile Joined December 2014
China612 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-05-27 01:49:54
May 27 2015 01:45 GMT
#20
On May 27 2015 04:10 CxWiLL wrote:
The funny thing is that Mystery's Chinese ID is jieshi (解释), which means explanation.


Mystery is his first ID - RyH.Mystery
Timeline:
RyH.Mystery, NT.那毕瞎(那毕竟是瞎本——that is just a blind bonjwa),NT.YuiHatano, NT.jieshi, Thpj.jieshi, Bheart.jieshi

RyH, NT (Nexus Team) and Thpj are clans.
Bheart (Brave Heart) is a team of Heroes.
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/heroes/Brave_Heart
Mcy (XluoS), Exia (10x or xxxxxxxxxx) and Gundam are all former SC2 players.
I love SC2
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