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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
September 17 2016 19:35 GMT
#1

Interview with MarineLord


TL.net: First off, congratulations! Did you expect to go through the qualifier on the first place?

MarineLorD: Hey, thanks, honestly I thought I had very low chances. I had good confidence in my TvP and my TvT, but I was afraid of the few best zergs in Europe, especially (Z)Snute and (Z)Nerchio. So, no I wasn't expecting to do that well at all.

So Nerchio probably was the toughest opponent you had to face, right? What makes him so hard to beat?

I had a lot of tough opponents honestly. I had a tough series against (Z)SortOf. (T)Bunny was a little bit scary, the guy didn't practice the past year or whatever and he won against (P)ShoWTimE, so I had to play very well. Against (P)PtitDrogo I felt confident, but I had a really tough Bo5 against him—adept power—but yeah, it's obviously true that Nerchio is very good.

At the same time his gameplay is making the game really unfun to me. For example, on Frozen Temple / Galactic Process the chance of a 3rax reaper is decently high (very strong on those two maps). So a zerg shouldn't always open hatch first, especially on those two maps… Nerchio opened hatch first both times this time, he got lucky on Galactic and unlucky on Frozen. I think the early game is very random this year—more than ever—which makes it very frustrating as a pro. In a macro game I felt like it would be close vs Nerchio and most likely if the map was zerg favoured I would lose, if the map was terran favoured I would win.

Do you think the random nature of the game will help you out against the Koreans, or is it more to your disadvantage?

It depends on what the match-up is, as it can always help to be lucky of course. But I feel like those top Koreans aren't going to let me play with the luck and lock this "luck part" of the game away by accepting to be behind with a very safe opener, especially in TvZ and TvP. My best chance would be to have a zerg group and show something that was never really used in competitive matches. They play 20 times more than me, so I can't really play them in a fair macro game, as I'm most likely worse than them.

In my opinion ZvT is way easier to play from the zerg side than the terran side, so if you add both those thoughts together my chance in an extremely normal game vs a top world zerg opponent are not high. I also want to dodge terran, every time I come to Korea from Europe with my 80 to 90% winrate, I start with a great 20 to 30% winrate in TvT in practice there.

Speaking of going to Korea: Is qualifying for an event in Korea anything special for you, or do you treat it as any other tournament?

The level is way higher for the same prize, it's going to be really tough. I'm just going enjoy to see my favourite players play with / next to me, and I’ll make sure that those few days of practice make me good enough to do very well in WESG Kiev. I only had one competitive goal toward the end of this year, which is to qualify for the main event in China, and considering it will probably be on the new huge patch, I think my chances will be way higher than usually, like it was at Nation Wars.

Of the three Korean terrans in KeSPA Cup—(T)ByuN, (T)Maru, (T)TY—with which one would like to practice the most?

On this current patch, it's very, very hard to say. Maru didn't do well at all outside of Proleague, but he is a god and it’s hard to rate him. I would love to know more about his TvZ. ByuN is the best player of the three, but he is streaming and he plays in every online cup, which gives me a lot of knowledge from him already. TY is very weird to me: Sometimes I love his style and it will fit me, sometimes he will play stuff that doesn't fit me at all, so I guess with a lot of thinking I would choose Maru.

What’s your opinion on the number of Global Events this year—would you like more opportunities to play against Koreans?

As usual Blizzard said they would give us a few Global Events, in the end we only have one in Korea—it doesn't surprise me anymore. But yes, obviously I would love at least two or three really big Global Events per year with foreigners against Koreans.

Nerchio just beat ByuN in SHOUTcraft, do you think he can win KeSPA Cup? Who's your favourite?

I honestly feel Nerchio can do very well vs terran, especially when you don't know him his ZvT is extremely tough. He is going to be very ahead vs most normal builds, but because of his lack of scouting if you do something weird to him he might die, if you play normal he will be ahead and kill you—your name being MarineLorD or ByuN won't change this fact. It's hard to say. I feel like since two months protoss isn't broken anymore, like it was the past three years, so I think every top tier player does have a chance. I'd say (P)herO, (P)Stats, (Z)Solar and ByuN are favoured.

What would mean more to you: The glory of being the first foreigner to win a Korean tournament in SC2, or banking 200.000$ from WESG?

I'm going to KeSPA Cup to slay as many Korean as I can, not to win it all honestly. If the WESG final is confirmed to be on the new patch, I'll practice as hard as for Nation Wars and I'll do my best to take the trophy home.

That is a great statement, we look forward to it! Thank you for taking the time to talk to us. Any shoutouts, special mentions or banter before we end this?

Thanks to you for the interview, shoutout to Millenium and my sponsors Logitech, Orange and Alienware. I'll do my best to change those professional Korean gamers, so they'll become some great memers before the end of the event.




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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33385 Posts
September 17 2016 19:46 GMT
#2
Too bad there aren't any SlayerS left to slay :o
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Aeromi
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
France14460 Posts
September 17 2016 19:48 GMT
#3
MarineLorD fighting!
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Makro
Profile Joined March 2011
France16890 Posts
September 17 2016 19:48 GMT
#4
yea that's what i want to read, good luck beaver
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Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12873 Posts
September 17 2016 19:50 GMT
#5
Why is the other interview from Olli and not the TL Esports account?
Nice interview, even though losing that much kinda humbled him against his will.
It'll be an interesting event for sure.
WriterMaru
TheOneAboveU
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany3367 Posts
September 17 2016 19:55 GMT
#6
On September 18 2016 04:50 Poopi wrote:
Why is the other interview from Olli and not the TL Esports account?
Nice interview, even though losing that much kinda humbled him against his will.
It'll be an interesting event for sure.


Olli had only time for one interview, so I gladly jumped in.
Both players gave us some pretty badass statements, KeSPA Cup is pretty fucking hype!
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Nepou
Profile Joined June 2013
France27 Posts
September 17 2016 19:56 GMT
#7
Great interview ! I hope you'll do well in Korea MLorD
Boucot
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
France15997 Posts
September 17 2016 19:57 GMT
#8
GL MarcelLord !
Former SC2 writer for Millenium - twitter.com/Boucot
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12873 Posts
September 17 2016 20:00 GMT
#9
Yeah having hype interviews before it is amazing thank you both for the coverage .
Nerchio streak came at the perfect timing to add fuel to the hype fire, with MLorD statements as well the games will have even greater stakes :D.
WriterMaru
imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
September 17 2016 20:08 GMT
#10
Thanks for the interview, nice way to build up the hype for Shoutcraft and KeSPA Cup.
Zest fanboy.
stardog
Profile Joined August 2011
556 Posts
September 17 2016 20:13 GMT
#11
After reading that title I was expecting an arrogant, teasing interview but in fact it was rather calm and balanced. Quite a clickbait headline
ArtyK
Profile Joined June 2011
France3143 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-09-17 20:15:05
September 17 2016 20:15 GMT
#12
On September 18 2016 05:13 stardog wrote:
After reading that title I was expecting an arrogant, teasing interview but in fact it was rather calm and balanced. Quite a clickbait headline


At this point after Nerchio and uThermy's interviews i think it's just intentional to enrage non-believers :D
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Heyjoray
Profile Joined September 2015
240 Posts
September 17 2016 20:25 GMT
#13
You might as well change the players name with Foreigner at this point. Wont make any difference in the end
lastride
Profile Joined April 2014
2390 Posts
September 17 2016 20:32 GMT
#14
Please have mercy
Ja.Y.
Profile Joined February 2015
United States253 Posts
September 17 2016 20:56 GMT
#15
Love the confidence from MLord and Godchio! Can't wait for KeSPA Cup!!!

Now, we just need to see an interview from Neeb. I want to know how confident he is and whether he thinks he'll rek Korean nerds or if he's more passive aggressive :D
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SCHWARZENEGGER
Profile Joined July 2016
206 Posts
September 17 2016 21:39 GMT
#16
these naive palefaces hah
Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13974 Posts
September 17 2016 21:48 GMT
#17
*Reads Title*

Me: "aww that's adorable"
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Hexe
Profile Joined August 2014
United States332 Posts
September 17 2016 22:41 GMT
#18
when do they play?
Lightrush
Profile Joined July 2015
Bulgaria164 Posts
September 18 2016 00:52 GMT
#19
SLAYEEEERGH! Seriously, though, it's a cute statement.
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ParksonVN
Profile Joined October 2015
Australia370 Posts
September 18 2016 01:15 GMT
#20
seems like every foreigner now fighting to beat Koreans, cant wait too see their performances in big offline tours, in front of big crowd and big prize money.
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