Short interview after the games in WGL.
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Source:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av37003344/?p=1
Author: War3station
Translator: GLH


In the last series of Group C, the game Infi vs Pcg123, we saw a controversial screen. In the first round, both of the players chose to summon the Beast Master and learned Hawk at level 1. This made the commentators and audiences so shocked, and the chat on the stream was so crazy too. One of a commentator on the stage, Yumiko was so speechless for this, after that, this case was being discussed on a lot of forum. Let's review this game first.


In the beginning of the game
In the game on AM, both side chose to summon the neutral hero, the only difference between them is Infi built the Shop first, and Pcg started with Graveyard and Crypt. After that, both of them sent their Ghoul to the middle of the map, and summoned the Beast Master and Hawk at the same time. By the time, there are some noise from the audiences, some of them were laughing, some of them had no idea for that. Meanwhile, Yumiko looked so bad on his face and he stopped casting for a while, and these cases made the show so embarrassing.

What's wrong with the Hawk?
Why did the audiences react a lot to Hawk?
In fact, this is a story from the tournament that called "4 great kings". In a game that Yumiko vs Lyn, Yumiko summoned Beast Master second and learned Hawk at level 1, and he tried to use the Hawk to scout when he was creeping. However, this strategy wasn't effective, and Yumiko lost to Lyn with 2-4, meanwhile, the players and audiences saw this, and this special action was be in their mind.

Audiences' reaction after the game
After the game that Infi vs Pcg, a lot of audiences were so angry, and they came to CNwar3 (bbs.cnwar3.com) and commented about the game, they blamed on Infi that he did this in a big offline tournament. The audiences said, as a player, you have to play the tournament seriously.

(This is disrespect for the tournament and audiences, this should not be the behavior of the player.)

(Even though this was not laughing on Yumiko, Beast Master first was also effect the quality of tournaments, they didn't played it seriously.)

Shouldn't we have this "Hawk" in the tournament?
In this game, it seems like a special strategy if you have no idea about this. This is an international tournament, and this was streaming on live, and you chose to way to "solve" your personal issue, this is really so disrespectful and impolite.

When we looked at Hunter, even though he was sitting on the wheelchair, and he knew that he can't be qualified this time, he still played the game very seriously. Hunter said his parents and his friends were watching him, and there were a lot of audiences in the hall, he enjoyed of this.

Even though this game didn't matter to the top 8 anymore, this was still disrespect.


The players should break and spoil the environment and the tournament. NetEase has been paying so much attention for 3 years, finally, we have a chance to make War3 be great again, so, the personal issue shouldn't be "solved" in this way. Please think about the official and the others before you do anything in the tournament.

Especially Infi, he is a senior player, he should be a normal for the younger players. Previously, you may be the streamers, you can play it relax when you're streaming. But the situation is changed now, we are turning the game become professional and a lot of players get the contract from the professional E-sports squads too. So, we should use a good attitude to face the games and tournaments,don't disappoint your fans and the audiences, this action is a big deal to the whole E-sports environment.

We wish we won't meet this situation anymore.


Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/x43Mg3VHkOZqDq_5St11ew?fbclid=IwAR3dG6oAO7NtPFOzFLaj2Wi05amHJIKVcSv--XrQedekK57mFPYowq4-MIU







Short interview after the games in WGL.
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Source:
https://www.bilibili.com/video/av37038900/?p=4

Author: War3station
Translator: GLH

The group stage finished yesterday, finally Lyn, Foggy, Infi, Moon, Colorful, Fly, Lawliet and FoCuS are qualified to the playoffs.

Before the games, official let the casters predicted a list of qualified players, let's review their choices.


Casters' prediction result:

First place: TeD and Yumiko (6/8)
TeD chose 120 and TH000
Yumiko chose Lucifer and 120

Third place: Snowkiss, Qiaolin, Xun, Jupanda (5/8)
Snowkiss chose TH000, Lucifer, 120
Qiaolin chose TH000, Lucifer, 120
Xun chose WFZ, Lucifer, 120
Jupanda chose TH000, Lucifer, 120

Seventh place: B2W(Neo and Remo)
They chose TH000, Lucifer, Sonik, and 120


Our Master of DUNAI, TeD is the prediction king, what a "professional" commentator!



Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/5y29QBNXqGG0CR2wzeZbhA?fbclid=IwAR2oNhTsfv-1ZDx4BZrmeg7B1tSpsrrqVJE7B8m2MAUvZ99ynsYRvnLr9n0









Author: War3station,
Interviewer and translator: Historical silence(历史沉默)
Translator: GLH


The mysterious NE player showed himself on the stage finally, in fact, he played War3 as a player since 2005! With the updated patch, he returned  to War3, and he won against the Korean HUM player, Chaemiko, in addition, he got the first win in WGL in for Western players, and we had an interview with him after the game.


Q: Hi Neytpoh, thank you for accepting the interview, may you introduce yourself to the audiences?
N: Hi, everyone, I am a NE player from Russia, I was a professional player (during 2005 to 2009). This is the second visit to China, the first time was 2007 and I came here for Starswar.


Q: You won against Chaemiko with 2-1 just now, can you tell us how you get the win?
N: Chaemiko was playing with impatient, he chose to TR twice, I defensed successfully once with my skills and experiences, I got them when I was a professional player, however I lost a round too. In the third round, both of us played with the regular and common strategy, my timing was better, so I won the game.


Q: You chose to quit the professional games, may you tell us that what was your job?
N: (Laugh) I went to played Texas Hold'em, but I didn't play well. After that I turned myself in a game company, and became a staff behind the scenes, I am working it now.


Q: Recently, seems War3 returns and becomes popular again, a lot of Western players chose to come back and play, what is the reason that you choose to come back?
N: The main reason is the patch, after I saw the official post with patch 1.30, I knew that NE will be so powerful in this patch, so I played it for a few months, I am qualified "accidentally".


Q: Do you play on NetEase Platform? How do you feel about this Platform?
N: There are so many great players on this Platform, this make me to improve myself quickly when I practice here, and the accelerator let the Russia player can play it smoothly. The main advantage is we have a lot of players here, I can start the game in very short time. On BN, I played with same player for 5 round sometimes, and it takes so much time.


Q: Will you continue to play War3 in the future?
N: Of course, the environment of War3 is very good now, this give me the momentum to play.


Q: At last, do you have any words to everyone?
N: thank you for interviewing with me, I hope I can get the chance to the offline tournaments again.



Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/UHxuwWIK4VOzEkPib2whqA?fbclid=IwAR07xC8dsR9-ktDJ7cecZoqZmuXI4-j2W9Dh0IoQCUF26y7pEaUAcAcucSM