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On July 08 2013 07:30 NeoIllusions wrote: In our first exclusive TeamLiquid interview, Chexx, our resident Korean writer, found the opportunity to interview MVP Ozone's coach, Im Hyun-seok, after their victory in OGN The Champions Spring 2013.
We hope to contact other Korean LoL players and coaches in the future and provide further insight for the English-speaking community. Please leave any comment and feedback! We will use it to improve our next edition in the near future.
Cheers. Great interview! Would really love to see more interviews in regards to Korean teams. We get so much NA/EU content in English; it's nice to see how the most successful region trains their team.
Keep up the great works guys.
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Thanks so much for this interview. Coach Im is pretty damn awesome, both in know-how and dem moves.
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On July 08 2013 09:19 ketchup wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2013 07:39 Sufficiency wrote: Yep. Korean LoL is definitely becoming more like Korean BW. Why do you say this? To me, it seems their scheduling and overall living environment seem a lot better than how methodical the BW scene was. This is an improvement over BW. The fact that they have free time, and that the players do seem to enjoy playing LoL seems nice to see. Do you mean the amount of new people getting picked up or how seriously they are taking it? In that case, I think the other regions(EU/NA) are just as serious about LCS/tournaments, but they do not have the organization(internally) to handle it. That is to say, at least the majority of teams in the other regions are/were definitely not ready on how to handle running a team in a way that is successful globally. They have their own brand, and have other methods of marketing available to them instead. Also, thanks to Chexx and staff for this interview. It's great to see this stuff coming up here.
Keep in mind that MVP is still an ESF team and those strict practice regimens in BW were mostly attributed to KeSPA's involvement so MVP's practice regimen -might- be different to a financially supported CJ team due to their background in SC:BW (no idea about MVP's financial situation).
Thanks for the interview :D
Maybe Reapered's team when they reveal which KeSPA team picks them up!
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Wow MVP's practice schedule is very similar in duration and "content" (scrim + soloq) to NA teams. But their time spent must be so much more efficient because MVP very noticeably improved whereas a lot of NA teams just stagnate.
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Live2Win
United States6657 Posts
dang one of the better interviews. Great job Chexx!!
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Great interview, thanks for taking the time to do this.
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Who knew MVP Ozone and WE were good friends o.O Great interview, thanks!
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Nice interview, this was very awesome and insightful!
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On July 08 2013 14:28 LeapofFaith wrote: Who knew MVP Ozone and WE were good friends o.O Great interview, thanks!
Too bad at this rate, I don't think WE has a shot of even making it to Worlds, let alone the finals. =(
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Great work as always, Chexx!
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Really liked the interview, I hope you will provide more coverage (interviews, translations etc.) of the korean scene in the future !
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Impressive interview, I guess now I have to start watching korean lol even more than currently can. Thanks for this!
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Thoughts on the various topics touched by the interview.
1) Kim Dong Jun, the analyst for OGN, puts quite a lot of emphasis on a player's condition based on their performances on solo-que. I'm not sure whether it is a coincidence, but like the coach said, players from the MVP franchise seems to value solo-que more than some of the other teams. I'm not sure whether it truly correlates to the increase in individual skills, or whether it encourages innovative champion selection, but perhaps there is a method to making the solo-que experience into productive practice time. For example, I've heard that imp almost never duo-ques with MaTa in solo-que, which in the words of imp, was due to the fact that it was "too easy", but may prevent their partnership from stagnating by constantly being paired with various players with different approaches to the game. I'm pretty sure imp's crisp Tristana usage would not have been possible had he not bothered with solo-que.
2) MVP seems to be one of the first teams to utilize "practice partners" to their fullest degree. By opening up doors to up and coming players, without necessarily being tied down to fixed rosters, the MVP franchise seem to possess one of the largest pool of talented amateur players that are on stand-by to promote the growth of the first-team members. I have the feeling that Dosoo (who has joined another team as of now) may have been used as sparring partners for the solo-laners of the MVP teams.
3) I wonder how much of a role the amount of cross-regional play between Korea and China will play in future international competitions. Despite technical difficulties, surely there is much benefit to be gained from practicing with players from another region. Bouncing ideas off each other comes so much easier when there is actual contact between one another, whereas players from other regions has to rely more on VODs and word-of-mouth about the status of foreign regions. However, it is also interesting that Team WE (the team I've heard has the most contacts with the Korean server, and professional teams in general) is currently struggling against other Chinese teams they would have crushed with ease only a couple of months ago.
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Really good interview, keep it up! - OT, i'm personally really impressed in the way Ozone has become so good, might not be the only one )
Is it possible for you to get an interview with one of the players? Id love to read an interview from Helios or the Lulu god himself Lustboy
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I have not seen a foreign player with the same level of dedication and drive as Korean players.
Boom
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Korea (South)11232 Posts
I think the big difference in doing Soloqueue is the mindset you have when you queue. You need to have a goal which you want to reach while playing soloqueue to gain something out of it
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I really enjoyed both the tone and content of this interview.
Also I kind of wish I knew Coach Im IRL now. Guy seems pretty down to earth.
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On July 08 2013 16:34 Chexx wrote:I am happy that you liked the interview. It is something which I really wanted to do for a long time. I will try to get more Interviews with Korean teams and players but it is not as easy as somebody may think. But I will try my best Is it because of the lack of connections, or the teams not devoting much time to "side interviews" like this?
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