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[TSL 7] - The Hot Seat Community Questions

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SeaGnome
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States32 Posts
June 17 2021 21:02 GMT
#1
TheHotSeatt




The Hot Seat powered by Secretlab

Hey everyone! We’ve enjoyed a lot of interviews from The Hot Seat over these past few TSLs, but for Shopify TSL 7, we’d love to give an opportunity to the community to ask your questions too. If anyone has questions for the players we’re interviewing for TSL 7, please post them in this thread or tweet them to @TLNet and we’ll pick our favorites! If your question is chosen, we’ll enter you into a raffle to win your very own Secretlab chair once TSL 7 ends!

Remember, we’re looking for fun and unique questions that can be asked during the interviews!

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Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13974 Posts
June 18 2021 02:05 GMT
#2
A tsunami is barreling towards you. Do you A) run away in terror B) accept your fate and allow it to consume you or C) Dive right in and try and get on top of it?
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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-06-18 02:15:17
June 18 2021 02:12 GMT
#3
For Zest:

Why is he so good at playing on Beckett Industries? Every other Protoss vetoes that map all the time, but he doesn't and has a good winrate on it.

For TIME:

We often don't get to hear a lot about Chinese Starcraft, so which players in the Chinese scene does he think are underrated/up-and-coming?

For Dark or Clem or Cure or SpeCial or TIME or Armani:

How does your team prepare for the World Team League? Do you decide your lineups as a group? Is there a lot of metagaming around who goes on which maps and matches to counter the opposing team's lineup?

Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-06-18 02:44:29
June 18 2021 02:44 GMT
#4
For Zest: Are you exempt of military and if not when will you have to go? (I've heard rumor about some kind of heart condition and I am curious)

For everyone else: If your Starcraft 2 carreer ever come to an end, what do you see yourself do later in life?

I'm also giving my support to ZigguratOfUr World Team League question.
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conormcgregor156
Profile Joined June 2020
22 Posts
June 18 2021 03:22 GMT
#5
Trap: You went from losing many finals in a row to winning all the ones you play, what do you think changed in you?

Cure: We saw you playing great against Reynor and Solar at the Next Masters but in the GSL you lost 3-0 to Ragnarok. Why do you think it is so difficult for you currently to play offline, if we already saw you being a finalist in a GSL?
buzz_bender
Profile Joined August 2019
445 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-06-18 03:40:34
June 18 2021 03:26 GMT
#6
1) What has been the greatest challenge for you personally when Starcraft transitioned from offline to online play?
2) What difference do you think it has made for tournaments?
3) Who has been most influential to you as a Starcraft player?

More fun ones:
1) What are your favourite snacks while playing Starcraft?
2) Show us your desktop wallpaper (if that's appropriate...)
3) What keyboard/mouse do you use for your setup?
4) What do you do for fun outside of Starcraft?
5) What is your favourite movie/band/TV show for all time?
hjpalpha
Profile Joined August 2017
Germany339 Posts
June 18 2021 05:50 GMT
#7
Why is the GM ladder so full of Protoss (~50% on EU, >42% World and at the top levels most likely even higher percentages)?
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Parser
Profile Joined March 2011
Italy87 Posts
June 18 2021 06:13 GMT
#8
For Reynor: do you think that, despite being the current world champion, you are still undervalued with respect to people like serral or maru?
Andi_Goldberger
Profile Joined July 2018
Germany1608 Posts
June 18 2021 10:21 GMT
#9
If you were a sentient hot dog, would you eat yourself?
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Drahkn
Profile Joined June 2021
190 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-06-18 10:52:52
June 18 2021 10:51 GMT
#10
For any Protoss player left in tournament:

Would you agree it is harder to have consistent results as a protoss player compared to the other races, considering how the Protoss race is designed?
Lambertus
Profile Joined February 2010
South Africa975 Posts
June 18 2021 11:00 GMT
#11
1. Who is the best player in this tournament and why is it you?

2. What do you wish people would ask you more about?

3. Least favourite interview question ever?

4. If you could choose one classic sports event for a showmatch of SC2, what event would that be and who would you play it against?
The only known Reverend on TL playing SC2 and BW (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=409226)
dbRic1203
Profile Joined July 2019
Germany2655 Posts
June 18 2021 11:08 GMT
#12
On June 18 2021 11:12 ZigguratOfUr wrote:

For Dark or Clem or Cure or SpeCial or TIME or Armani:

How does your team prepare for the World Team League? Do you decide your lineups as a group? Is there a lot of metagaming around who goes on which maps and matches to counter the opposing team's lineup?


Yes please. To as many of those as possible:D
MaxPax
PabloSanchez
Profile Joined August 2016
United States37 Posts
June 18 2021 11:22 GMT
#13
For Zoun

With Stats gone plus Zest, PartinG and Trap seeing military service on the horizon, are you proud to be labelled the "next Korean Protoss hope?" What kind of pressure does that bring?

For Serral:

You and Maru have gone through stretches of invincibility within your respective regions (and for you globally in 2018) to the point that quarterfinal and even semifinal results are deemed "an off day" for both of you. Is that frustrating or flattering? Maybe both?

When you're golfing, what's the best part of your game? The driver? Fairway irons? Chipping? Putting?

For anyone:

Would you consider anonymously sending in a replay to Harstem for "Is it IMBA or do I suck?"

Which caster would you want on your team in a 2v2/Archon mode?

Reynor practiced for IEM by going 1v5 Archon mode. How many casters would it take on one team to beat someone on the level of Maru/Serral/Clem/Rogue etc?

Rotti just got his carrier statue. What's his next purchase and why should it be a custom built Phoenix?

You win a tournament, and instead of a cash prize/trophy you win an unlimited supply (soup-lie) of one gaming accessory (mouse, headphones, speakers...). What are you hoping it is?

Classic and herO are coming back soon, and DRG, ByuN, Armani and others have proven it's possible to get back to being relevant in SC2 while some have struggled and others have full blown retired after returning. Thoughts on how well they'll do?
"And PabloSanchez has blown away all the competition" -Wardi
starvingbox
Profile Joined August 2020
United States44 Posts
June 18 2021 12:34 GMT
#14
If you could add one unit from brood war into the game, which would you prefer?
NatalieSciFoxWitch
Profile Joined May 2021
1 Post
June 19 2021 13:28 GMT
#15
Personally here are some questions that I am very curious to hear pros discuss
0. "What games did you grow up on?"
1. "What affirms you? What helps you feel empowered?"
2. "What does your process for improvement look like?"
3. "When you look at a game state, what stands out to you? What variables feel relevant?"
4. "How do you navigate relying on muscle memory while also actively considering what you're doing?"
5. "How do you deal with tilt?"
6. "What goes through your head when you lose an entire mineral line?"
7. "Who are the players who have inspired your play?"
8. "Would you consider yourself to be a mindful person?"
9. "How comfortable are you with chaos? How do you navigate uncertain situations? How do you ground yourself and gain your bearings when you're unsettled?"
10. "How do you navigate the balance between Starcraft and life?"
11. "Do you feel like you're good at Starcraft?" "When did you start feeling like you were good at Starcraft?"
12. "How has getting really good at this really hard game affected your approach to life?"
13. "Starcraft is a very humbling game, how do you deal with feelings of being bad or inadequate at such a complex game?"
14. "What advice would you give to someone who wants to improve things for everyone?"
15. "How do people get more involved in the community?"
16. "What goes through your head when you feel like you're about to quit?"
17. "What advice would you give to a friend to help them surpass you?"
18. "Have you seen Alphabet/Google/Deepmind's AlphaStar project? What do you think about it? Are AI's coming for Starcraft or will terran hold strong?"
19. "Would you like to ally with the robots and use advanced AIs as practice partners to improve at the game?"
20. "What's a book you've enjoyed? Why did it draw your attention? What about it spoke to you?"
21. "How do you think we can welcome more people to this game we all love?"
Sauquim
Profile Joined February 2010
Mexico17 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-06-25 21:18:36
June 25 2021 21:18 GMT
#16
If you had to date a Starcraft 2 pro, who would you date and why?
Hunta15
Profile Joined April 2014
United States81 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-06-26 00:48:17
June 26 2021 00:48 GMT
#17
For Serral: Why do you always lose in the winners bracket early and then make it to the finals anyway?


For anyone: If you could start over and pick a different race which one would you choose?


For someone in the winners bracket: Who do you think is going to win it all?
Tagged_Once
Profile Joined December 2020
10 Posts
Last Edited: 2021-06-26 12:55:37
June 26 2021 12:54 GMT
#18
To anyone:
1. Since the rebirth of TSL, would you think foreigners are going to take this one or would the koreans take another tsl win?
2. After quarantine, where would you want TSL to be hosted and want would you want to try in that country?
3. What will you do with the money once you win TSL.
4. If given a chance, would you want to cast TSL and who would you want to cast with?
HeroldAndrastes
Profile Joined February 2021
2 Posts
June 26 2021 12:56 GMT
#19
What is the most fun aspect for you in Starcraft 2 ?
Tagged_Once
Profile Joined December 2020
10 Posts
June 28 2021 00:30 GMT
#20
Hiii,
When/where could we see the winner for the raffle
Thanks.
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