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Unfortunately, the venue internet has been quite poor and uploads are going very slowly. We'll try to get our Dustin Browder interview posthaste, and all the rest of the videos when we return to the states.

Groundbreaking, paradigm-challenging interview with Dustin Browder
So amazing it deserves its own thread.

ST.Parting Winner's Press Interview
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Grubby
A special guest interviewer gets Grubby's perspective on his games and history in China.
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ST.Parting pre-final Interview
Parting talks about won won won and his thoughts regarding the final.
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ROOT.MajOr
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Acer.Nerchio
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Dignitas.KiLLeR
Some thoughts from Felipe.

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EG.IdrA.RC
An unimpressed IdrA talks about his games vs. RorO, and the two sides of Stephano

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RoX.KiS.TitaN
The Russian champ talks about why he has trouble at international performances, and goes into detail about his close series with ST_Curious

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FXOBabyKnight
BabyKnight breaks down his games against Rain, and how Korean Zergs might already have figured out the immortal-sentry all-in.

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EG.Suppy
The top placing American at the tournament!

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Alan Dabiri
Senior Developer at Blizzard

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Quantic.Illusion
His winning* record at the Startale house, and the potential of Ravens as an answer against Zerg.

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Video Tour of the Venue
Because we guess you're wondering what the place actually looked like after you spent a few hours watching singleplayer campaign cut-scenes during the downtime.

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iS.Insur
No, of course we're not biased towards the USA. How could you insinuate such a thing?

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Videos: Antoine and monk.
Graphics: Blizzard and HawaiianPig.
Editor: Waxangel.

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

November 18 2012 16:06 GMT

I hope you guys got Major interviewed!
Also, awesome to see Monk and Antoine out on the field!

aike

United States1629 Posts

November 18 2012 16:21 GMT

The little tour that Antoine did was pretty awesome :D

Teoita

Italy12246 Posts

November 18 2012 17:55 GMT

monk so awesome! Thanks a lot looking forward to the remaining videos

Novalisk

Israel1818 Posts

November 18 2012 18:28 GMT

Shame Suppy didn't get his china fame

SarcasmMonster

3136 Posts

November 18 2012 18:29 GMT

I'm only excited for the Browder interview

Please hurry.

DanLee

Canada316 Posts

November 18 2012 18:53 GMT

On November 19 2012 03:28 Novalisk wrote:
Shame Suppy didn't get his china fame

... he got to quarter finals... and lost 2-3 to the eventual winner... parting... I think he got his fame.

Novalisk

Israel1818 Posts

November 18 2012 19:07 GMT

On November 19 2012 03:53 DanLee wrote:

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... he got to quarter finals... and lost 2-3 to the eventual winner... parting... I think he got his fame.

I'm referring to the crowd, he said in the interview he missed his opportunity to say something in Chinese to the crowd.

He would have been seen as the only chinese player left in the tournament and got a huge morale boost from the Chinese crowd.

SarcasmMonster

3136 Posts

November 18 2012 21:03 GMT

I'm dieing here... any ETA on the Browder interview?

Godwrath

Spain10131 Posts

November 18 2012 21:07 GMT

#10

"Groundbreaking, paradigm-challenging interview with Dustin Browder"

I hate you for hyping me.

StarStruck

25339 Posts

November 18 2012 21:12 GMT

#11

ColdLava you so tiny! :3

Isillian

United Kingdom145 Posts

November 18 2012 21:55 GMT

#12

Really looking forward to seeing that 'groundbreaking' changes they are thinking about implementing, so hope the interview will be up soon.

lim1017

Canada1278 Posts

November 18 2012 22:00 GMT

#13

if their waiting to get back to the states thats like a 20 hr flight no?

stichtom

Italy695 Posts

November 19 2012 00:27 GMT

#14

I can'w wait for Dustin's Interview. I hope you asked him something about the new UI and what's coming in the next beta patches

Marou

Germany1371 Posts

November 19 2012 00:41 GMT

#15

I hope the interview with the Rock will be up soon !

c0sm0naut

United States1229 Posts

November 19 2012 00:54 GMT

#16

Q: What changes are you thinking about making to the game?
A: We wanted to start off this next patch with some groundbreaking changes and real paradigm shifts in gameplay. Players on battlenet were complaining about destructible rocks just kind of "getting in the way" and so we decided to add competitive components around them. Now on all maps, every third base has destructible rocks and the rock is a unit controlled by your opponent. It has a twenty-second duration of an ability called "hardened-rocks" that is castable and will double it's armor. Players can now strategically use this ability which is on a 45 second cooldown to delay their opponent's third base from the safety of their own.

Zenbrez

Canada5973 Posts

November 19 2012 01:06 GMT

#17

On November 19 2012 09:54 c0sm0naut wrote:
Q: What changes are you thinking about making to the game?
A: We wanted to start off this next patch with some groundbreaking changes and real paradigm shifts in gameplay. Players on battlenet were complaining about destructible rocks just kind of "getting in the way" and so we decided to add competitive components around them. Now on all maps, every third base has destructible rocks and the rock is a unit controlled by your opponent. It has a twenty-second duration of an ability called "hardened-rocks" that is castable and will double it's armor. Players can now strategically use this ability which is on a 45 second cooldown to delay their opponent's third base from the safety of their own.

It also has an ability the starts on a 5 minute cooldown. If it's not destroys within that time, the rocks enlarge, and permanently gain 50% more hp and armor. Every 5 minutes, of course.

c0sm0naut

United States1229 Posts

November 19 2012 01:10 GMT

#18

On November 19 2012 10:06 Zenbrez wrote:

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It also has an ability the starts on a 5 minute cooldown. If it's not destroys within that time, the rocks enlarge, and permanently gain 50% more hp and armor. Every 5 minutes, of course.

lol the new meta becomes take a hidden third base every game overnight. would be epic for about a day or two

coL.hendralisk

Zimbabwe1756 Posts

November 19 2012 02:44 GMT

#19

Nice interviews , wish there was less umm's in the questions

Antoine

United States7481 Posts

November 19 2012 02:56 GMT

#20

On November 19 2012 01:06 Torte de Lini wrote:
I hope you guys got Major interviewed!
Also, awesome to see Monk and Antoine out on the field!

yes, we did

we've tried to upload the browder interview 4 times so far. the first two times, the upload died for no apparent reason. the third try, we ran out of time as the venue was shutting down. the fourth time, it seemed to go through but was corrupted. hotel checkout is in an hour or so but we'll try to find a pc room we can upload from before our flights leave. worst case, we have to wait for monk. to get back to HQ with the memory cards.