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WGL: Happy and Cash won the WGL European Qualifier.
H&W: Moon broke through the surround of Team Newbee and win H&W Masters.
WCG: The chat of TeD and BO in the second round.
WGL: The last monthly qualifier will start today!

WGL: Happy and Cash won the WGL European Qualifier.

On May 26, WGL summer 2019 European Qualifiers continued the fight! Since he said yes to WGL, Happy won the European qualifying quota without losing a single map, easy and simple!

On the other hand, Foggy's performance made everyone so stunned. After he lost to the Russian random player JohnnyCage in the winner bracket Quarter Final, he was still fighting and reached the Lower Bracket Final. However, he lost to Cash's Human at last. Foggy fell in Europe!

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Foggy may not be qualified this time.

In the European qualifier, he was defeated by mTw.Cash, meanwhile, his points were not high enough to ensure he can qualify. Although he still has the chance to make a final stroke in the qualifier in this month, but it's very hard for him. Let's see if he can make a great performance and go to Shanghai!

H&W: Moon broke through the surround of Team Newbee and win H&W Masters.

(Original Author: War3station, Translator: GLH, Click here to Source)

26th May is the last day of the H&W China vs Korea Masters. In the end, Moon easily defeated Lawliet in the Grand Final. After winning the WGL Winter in 2018, he won an offline event again after half of a year. Along this event, Chinese players played poorly in this tournament, and the top three were taken over by three South Korean players.

Match for Third: eer0 struggled in the game and lost to Lyn.

In the last six battle of eer0 vs Lyn, eer0 won only once. The gap between the two players in this patch has been showed slightly.

In the first set on EI, eer0 lost 3 Crypt Fiends and a TP for cancelling Lyn' expansion. After that, Lyn went to creep jack and killed 2 Statues. eer0's troops had died more than half before the last fight.

In the second round of TR, eer0's hiding from the Blade Master and grew up his Death Knight to level 3 in the early game. In the mid game, he snatched the three creep camps in the middle of the map when he was having the strong timing. Although it's hard to guess who will win the direct fight, but eer0 expanded secretly and this gave him a strategic advantage. Lyn made a desperate all in to the expansion, but the Undead could easily defend their opponent at their base. eer0 regained a map.

When we went to the the deciding game on CH, Lyn made the Ogre Lord following him to base. At the strong timing, Lyn expanded at the Gold Mine that nearer to eer0 base, the two Reinforced Defense Towers were hard and rock-solid, eer0 had no choice but to type out GG.

Lawliet's strategies has a great effect, but Moon was just too strong.

Before the start of the finals, everyone said that Moon would definitely win the championship. Even Lyn, who's always being calm also said, Moon has the 80% of probability to win. Of course, Lawliet won't surrender easily. On the first map on TS, Lawliet started with Panda first, he's forcing Moon to upgrade to Tier 3 to use Bears, and avoiding the battle of mass Archers. Moon is so good in mass Archers mirror, so Lawliet chose a different strategy.

If there is the pure and mass Bear mirror, KOG's three-level Aura is so good, but how about the situation if there are some Chimaeras? That's why Lawliet is the best Night player when straining on different situation. He could do anything before you realized it!

In the second set of LR, Lawliet started with DH first and he wanted to make a surprise. Moon certainly won't give the opponent another chance. In the mid game, Moon summoned Naga as second hero, killed the Alchemist and took the initiative. After that, Moon choice to play with Dryads, and let Lawliet could only stay at base. Under the desperation, Lawliet planted Ancients of Protector at home, and pushed to Moon's expansion step by step. When he reached there, he realized that Moon had already been waiting for him with his Bears. How should Lawliet fight? GG.

Moon is the king in patch 1.30.

The next two sets had completely been controlling by Moon, and we had mass Archers mirror again in these two games. From these two games, we knew that Lawliet really has no chance when he plays regularly against Moon. Whether it's heroes position in the fight, focus fire, or overall view in the game, Lawliet is not as good as Moon, his failure is also reasonable.

After all, Moon still took the chance of the ending of patch 1.30. In this patch, he is the king. Can the Night Elf continue their glory in next patch?

WCG: The chat of TeD and BO in the second round.

On the second map on TR, before BO typed out GG, this the chat between them.

BO: Hey TeD, when you are standing on the stage, and holding the champion trophy

BO: Please remember me and my contribution.

TeD: ............

BO: GG

TeD: gg

So...TeD is the champion of WCG 2019?

WGL: The last monthly qualifier will start today!

Compared with the pro division, we believe the open division games will be more interesting. Colorful,HuG, Linguagua and WFZ, all of them hope that they can win the championship in this month, so they can get more points and advance to the WGL offline. And there left only very few quotas, who will get it? Let's watch the games today!

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Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH

There is not much suspense, even though Linguagua was boasting himself before the game, he said he will win Night Elf and get the championship. However, when he actually played, he still found out that Foggy were an insurmountable mountain for him. The Championship of Xiaoy cup in this week still does not belong to him.

"I am here to announce that I will win the championship tonight."

Since 2015, Foggy has been improving as fast as rocket. This Ukrainian boy put all his energy on Warcraft and practices 10 hours a day, he has become a first-class player step by step.

Today is Foggy's 26th birthday, it is reasonable to say that this is the late stage for an e-sports professional player, but considering the particularity of the Warcraft III, and Foggy debut himself on this circle so late, Foggy's future is full of uncertainty. After WGL Winter in last year, Foggy said that he would become the best Night Elf in the future. Can he do it?

The data won't lie, Foggy's result make him like a super player!

In fact, as early as 2015, Foggy had the chance to play in the major tournament, however, he didn't make it, he didn't go to Cologne, Germany to participate in the WCA European regional finals, because of the problem of visa.

Luckily, this incident did not affect Foggy's mentality, he saved his energy until the first time of being in offline tournament, in this time, he made it and he shocked the world. In the group stage, he defeated Lyn and advanced to the Ro8, this made everyone recognized his unusual potential. Even though Lyn had just returned to Warcraft III, and he also hadn't recovered his shape to the best, but the ability to knock down a Super player was enough to let Foggy to highlight his strength.

As expected, after that, Foggy didn't stop his progress. In the GCS Fall 2016, he defeated TH000 to win the third place, and another Super player fell under his punch. By the time of the WGL Winter 2017, Foggy had already stood on the stage of the Grand Finals. After seven games against TH000, Foggy lost the series and the championship.

A year later, Foggy made a comeback. After winning the game versus Lawliet and Infi, he advanced to the Grand Finals again. In this time, his opponent was the Legend, Moon. Of course, Foggy seems relatively young compared to Moon's experiences, and he once again missed the chance to climb to the top.

WGL (and GCS) is currently the highest level Warcraft III tournament. Foggy played 6 season, and he won 2 runner-ups, 2 third places and reached to Ro8 for twice. The stability of the results are as good as other Super players. Compared to other Night Elf players, Foggy is slightly worse than Moon only.

Similarly, in some online major tournaments, Foggy's results are also very eye-catching, he got the runner-up in OTOMADS cup, Shen Kui Cup, and the fourth place in Thunder Fire Cup. This is very hard for him to get with the ping problem.

Unlike the Chinese players who making income with streaming, most of Foggy's incomes depend on the prizes of tournament, so he keeps practicing with tournaments, so his shape has been maintained very well. In the case of getting hungry when you can't get the results, Foggy is able to withstand the pressure and get good grades. It is really admirable.

Lost at the starting line, dropped into a nightmare by Infi's four races

Despite Foggy many impressive results, if he wants to be a true Super player, he still has a lot of resistance.

First of all, he is a Ukrainian, (There is no discrimination against nationality. We are talking about his network situation.) the delay and ping issue will make you like playing a different game, the delay is undoubtedly a big problem for the effect of practicing. Although he can come to China for training in advance for the offline tournaments every year, he still lacks of good environment to practice in such a short period of time. Additionally, there are many events only invite Chinese and Korean players, Foggy has lost a lot of opportunities to improve himself.

Second, the environment of European Warcraft III is not as active as China and South Korea. The language problem prevents him from communicating with other similar level players. Numerous facts show that those who lock themselves and don't communicate with others will not be able to improve and complete the progress, you have to improve with constant communication. At this level, Foggy suffered another disadvantage.

In addition, the shorter time to contact Warcraft III is also a major disadvantage. Moon, Infi, TH000, Fly and other players are all veterans of the field for more than 10 years, and Foggy has played too few offline tournaments and that makes his offline experience is seriously insufficient.

Just one year before, Foggy was defeated by Infi, a player can play with four races. In the face of Infi's unique style, Foggy looked stunned, once he entered the unknown domain, he was often at a loss, copying Moon's strategies can solve a lot of problems, but certainly not all the problems.

Of course, we all know that Foggy has ambitious goal and unremitting efforts. But at the same time, only such inspiration couldn't solve all problems.

The world champion dream might be difficult for Foggy

Look at Foggy's results in major tournament, he always got into Top 8, in addition to very few games, Foggy can qualify from the group stage almost every time, but he is always a little worse than the final champion. The gap between dreams and reality is sometimes so cruel, in the world of Warcraft III, the gap is like the distance between Foggy and Moon, we describe the Moon as "great player", but we describe Foggy as "good player", there are several reasons for this difference, among these reasons, talent might be the key role.

E-sports are so cruel sometimes: your effort determines your lowest limit, but your talent determines the highest limit. What kind of level a player can achieve, the thing that comes with it is his talent. And this is exactly what Foggy is facing. When we are talking about diligence and hard work, there may not be many people who can surpass Foggy, and this also let him has stepped from a normal player to his standing nowadays. Advancing to the top 8 and top 4 in big tournament, or winning the minor cups and tournaments are not a problem for Foggy. However, he has reached this position and level, and if he wants to go one step further, there will be only one step named "S-level". You can see the names Infi, 120, Moon, TH000 and Lyn, what Foggy needs is only a "world champion."

Can he do it? It is still too early to draw conclusions, but everyone has seen something recently. After the release of patch 1.30.4, Foggy has been losing to Human many times, and he was helpless in the face of TH000 and Infi. In the face of Lyn, he has only very few wins even in patch 1.30.1. Moreover, he was defeated by Check in the mTw Legend Cup. Without the advantage from the patch, Foggy seems once again lost the strength for the world champion.

Foggy grew from normal people to a star. This story is inspirational and inspiring. But it also has a lot of people who don't mention the other side. In this side, in Warcraft III, no one seems to treat him as an S-class player or a future S-class player.

In the interview, Moon praised 120 and Life. He even said that he wanted to help Life grows step by step because he saw his youth in Life. But many experts, including Moon and Infi, they have never said that Foggy has talent. In many times, Foggy's style is relatively fixed, he is lacking flexibility.

Let use XiaoY Cup finals as an example, Foggy started with double Ancient of War and went for expansion, after the expansion was finished, he would go to attack for sure, and he did it every round. Such a routine, ignoring the timing of situation was like a high school student who directly used an example to write in his writing exam, when he faces a great player, the games will be very hard for Foggy.

When Foggy played WGL for the first time, Foggy said that his goal is to be a world champion. From the current situation, it looks really hard for him.

Foggy's comment to this article (on Wechat)

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Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH

Due to visa problems, our Ukrainian Night Elf player Foggy was absent from the OBOR tournament. That made Foggy realize there was a problem. Yesterday Foggy created a Weibo Account, and he posted that he would go to Shanghai next week and would start streaming on Douyu within 2 weeks.

(Translation)

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HazyFoggy
Hi everyone, I will go to Shanghai and I will start streaming on Douyu within 2 weeks. Once the time comes, I will show you Night Elf games from player's point of view. Of course the most important thing is that I will be able to play in W league with good ping The last two games are crucial!
@War3staion @Qiaolin @Infi @Lyn @Qiaolin
@Ugrilainen @Warcraft Commentator XiaoY @TeD @TH000 @120
@Fly @Moon @Sky @Grubby

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Previously, Foggy said in an interview that "Night Elf doesn't have too big advantage in patch 1.30, Infi lost to me because he spent too little time practicing Human, and this caused him to make many mistakes in our games."

This interview ignited a lot of discussions, and a lot of people said Foggy was "insincere". Meanwhile, Foggy realized that this answer was inappropriate, so he apologized to Infi on Weibo, and said he wanted to be friends with all the players, and that he wanted to contribute to Warcraft III together with them.

There is a Chinese saying "Being a friend is better than being an enemy." The best solution is to change the "battle talk". However, the Ukrainian may see things in a very different manner. After he apologized to Infi, he challenged Infi to a game. In order to prove Night Elf isn't really "imba", Foggy wants to switch races with Infi and play a BO5 (best-of-5) series. In other words he wants to play Human challenging Inf's Night Elf. The bet he proposed was 200 yuan for the winner.

Foggy hopes both of them could let go of the bad feelings with such game.

Post on Weibo
(GLH's translation)

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Today, I want to say the something to my fans. Yes, I know my words made Infi feel uncomfortable and made the fans feel disappointed. I apologize to the people I hurt.

In the interview, I didn't express my opinion in a sincere way, and this made Infi and the fans of the Human race misunderstand me, I am very sorry.

The truth is I want to be in good relationships with all the players, not an enemy. By the way, my coach is a Human lover too, and I know how bad things for Human players are in patch 1.30. I hope every races will be strong enough, and I hope Blizzard will manage to make so that all races play under fair conditions.

Thus, I would like to invite Infi to play a BO5 game with me, and we can switch races. I will play Human, you may switch to Night Elf if you want. The winner will get RMB 200 from the loser.

Of course, I hope this game will not bring us bad feelings. I hope this game will help us let go of any bad feelings, and I hope that in future we could be friends. Infi, will you accept the challenge and be friends with me in the future?

Additionally, I hope I could be friends with all the Chinese players and Chinese fans. In the past few years Chinese players helped me improve a lot, like Sini, Infi, 120, Colorful, Zhouxixi, I would love to say thank you! I also want to say thank you to the Chinese fans, thanks for your support all the time!

Additionally, if Infi accepts the challenge, I would like to invite all the players to cast these games. I hope all the players will be able to see how I solve this issue my own way.

If I move to live in China for Warcraft III, I would love to say "Nice to meet you"! I will practice my Chinese (language) very hard!

I wish Warcraft III have a great future!

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At the time of writing this article, Infi was not awaken yet. Will he accept this challenge?[1]

[1]Note by translator: The original article was posted at about 12:30am (Chinese time).

Short Recap about Infi vs Foggy

Before GCS 2016 Spring, as the ranking on NetEase ladder were going to affect the seedings for the offline tournament directly, all of the players were playing hard on ladder, including Infi. The last day both Infi and Foggy were playing the whole night, and after a winning streak that night, Infi advanced to the playoffs in the last second. After that, Infi called Foggy "my Ukrainian brother".

During the period between 2016 and 2018 September, Infi won all matches he played against Foggy in tournaments, until the game in W league when Foggy beat Infi and broke the curse.

After that, in WGL 2018 monthly race, Infi beat Foggy with Undead and with Orc, showing his overall strength.

In the semi-finals of WGL 2018 Winter, Infi lost to Foggy 1-3. In the interview after the games, Foggy said Infi lost to him because Infi spent too little time practicing Human, and this caused him to make many mistakes in our games. He didn't mention any race advantage which made Infi angry.

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Original Author: War3station, 表情
Translator: GLH, 表情(interview)

Q: Hi, Foggy, thank you for having you. Would you like to greet your fans?

F: Thanks for your support, <3

Q: You got so much help from other players (in preparing for this tournament). Would you like to say anything to them?

F: After Master's Coliseum, I defeated Lawliet with Zhou_Xixi's help once again. The Bears and Glaive Throwers combo designed by Neytpoh is really cool, and Cash's Night Elf is really good too, so they helped me a lot in Night Elf mirror. Additionally, HawK helped me to prepare against TH000 and Infi. Even HunteR practiced with me although he was hurt. I want to say thank you, this is our victory!

Q: Can you summarize the Finals between you and Moon? What is your opinion about Moon's play? How are you different from Moon? Do you think you are the second best Night Elf now?

F: Moon has a lot more experiences than me. I started playing Warcraft III much later than him, but I feel I am improving fast, and I believe I will be able to beat Moon in the future. I want to provide more interesting games to the fans, and I want to get the title.

I am still learning Moon's style, I think he has the strongest strategies nowadays, he is a great player. In my mind, Moon is a legend, a lot of people said I am the second Moon, but I know I won't become the second Moon, because as a legend, Moon is unique and the only one, but I promise to the people who are looking forward to seeing more of my play, I will become the strongest and unique Foggy, and the strongest Night Elf in the future. Of course, I want to be as successful as Moon. In my mind, being as successful as him is always my target.

Q: You won against Infi in offline tournament, how do you feel about this? Do you think that all the Human players are not able to beat you now?

F: I feel very happy for this, but I also believe Infi spent too little time practicing Human. If he didn't practice with other races and kept his focus on Human, he would have been a lot harder for me to beat. Same goes for TH000. I don't agree that I am unbeatable in Night Elf vs Human match-ups. I think both of them didn't understand me well enough. Unlike HawK, he understands me so well, so he defeated me many times. If Infi had added some Knights to his army, I might have been GG.

TH000 and Infi just spent too much time playing Random. Thus, I think I am not unbeatable, and Humans had a chance to win against Night Elf. If they understood me well like HawK, and prepared their strategies carefully, they would have been much stronger. I don't know why Infi decided to not change his race when he played against me in the Semi Final. He used Random to play against me befpre, and he is really good at it. If he really thought Human was so hard to play against me, why didn't he use Undead to play...?

Q: Let's come back to Night Elf mirror. Lawliet wanted to get revenge before the game. However, you previously beat him 2:1 in Master's Coliseum, and you beat him again - 3:1 this time. What is your opinion about his play in Night Elf mirror?

F: Lawliet is really good in Night Elf mirror. I have always had a lot of difficulties playing against him. I will have to practice harder my Night Elf mirror, because he said he wanted to get his revenge. I will have to knock him down again!

Q: Actually, Lawliet beat Moon almost every time they met this year, and you always beat Lawliet, but you have no solution against Moon. What do you about this curious fact?

F: Lawliet's play-style is very different from Moon's. His style is actually countering Moon's really well. Thus, I will try to learn Lawliet's style for next time I play against Moon. However, normally I would stick to my own style. The main method to become stronger, is to try to learn all of the strategies, and to prepare the counter-strategies before the game.

Q: Let's talk about this patch. What is your comment on this patch?

F: Patch 1.30...hmm...what can I say? This patch has surprised me. First, this patch is good for Night Elf, and it completely changed the meta. This patch is completely different from patch 1.28 and it give me so much joys. I feel like I just started playing this game. It also gave me a lot of momentum to create some new strategies.

I want to thank Blizzard - thank you for coming back after many years. I hope there will be more updates, it's so cool!

Q: The two biggest recent news were the Reforged upcoming release, and the huge prize pools for next year's professional leagues and tournaments. Your fans are wondering if you have a contract with someone. Can you tell us about this?

F: I haven't decided yet which club to sign a contract with, but I got many invitations. I will have to think about this when I get home. By the way, some European squads want to sign with me, too. If I sign with a Chinese Club as is my wish, I will come to China and train very hard, and my goal will be to become a champion. And sure enough, I will stream for the Chinese fans too.

Q: Last question, what is your target for 2019?

F: To be the champion, this is my usual target. I got the runner-up position this time, and this certainly gave me a lot of motivation, and it made me want to become champion even harder. I hope I could achieve more good result in my career.

Q: Thank you Foggy for accepting our invitation and coming to our interview. Do you have any last words for your fans?

F: Thank you <3 I hope 2019 will be a big year for Warcraft III! And I want to say, there is no Warcraft III without you guys, thank you for supporting me!

Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Q2_a1GcR7MxHSQ1Lvsdhjg?fbclid=IwAR1ilcUJCV6SN8QZmzPltYm1vS9aKR0ln-spB5tMibATGu7rxUwkBxBeJ4I

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