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1. Double losses for Team RW, Infi is out from H&W.
2. The result of North and South Region Final of CSL.
3. The model of Gold Mine in Reforged edition released! But why is it disappeared?
4. Lego version of the Undead Base.
5. The last day of Ro8 of H&W Masters.

Double losses for Team RW, Infi is out from H&W.

In the games yesterday, the two players from Team RW, Infi and Life were defeated by their opponents separately. Yesterday, Infi was playing against eer0, and we might say eer0 was controlling the whole series. From Infi's opening, we could see that Infi was trying to stop eer0 expanding, however, eer0 knew it and changed his plan. After the changing of eer0, Infi was having bad opening in these two games, and eer0 got an easy win against Infi with 2-0.

We had Life vs Moon for the second match yesterday, and this series was telling us that how important the experiences are in Warcraft III. In the first game on Amazonia, Life was having advantage on technology in the mid-game, he was leading on the upgrades of Attack and Armor. However, Life was too eager to attack, and he went to Moon's base to fight many times! And these attacks costed him so much for the Town Portal. After TP again and again, Moon followed up the Tech upgrades, with the advantage of the Inventory, Moon won the first match.

At last, Moon defeated Life with 2-0 and advanced to the Offline. Meanwhile, Life was dropped into Lower Bracket Final, he will face the winner between Lawliet and Sok.

The result of North and South Region Final of CSL.

On the last Saturday, the South Region Final of CSL had been completed. Therefore, the winner from both Region was born and these two players will represent their Region to play in the Grand Final.

The winner from North Region Huang Jia Jian(黄嘉健, Undead), who studying in Tianjin Chengjian University. At 11th May, he won his opponent with 2-0, Zhuang Xing Yu(庄兴雨, Undead) from Lianyungang Technical College.

On the other side, we had the winner, Wang Chang Peng(ice_orc, 王昌鹏, Orc) from Wuhan Technology Vocational College, and his opponent in the Regional Final, Qing Xin (青鑫, Undead) from Southwest Jiaotong University. And the final result is also 2-0 as well.

CSL is a Blizzard Games tournament which organized by NetEase and Blizzard, it is an e-sports event for college students. It aims to cultivate the teamwork spirit of young players and also provides a competitive platform for college students with e-sports dreams.

The model of Gold Mine in Reforged edition released! But why is it disappeared?

This model and picture was on the website and here is the Link: https://www.artstation.com/orb. The page is fulled of the works by a Senior 3D Environment Artist at Blizzard Entertainment, and most of the works are the Heroes of the Storm.

It's so happy to see the model from Reforged edition. However, when we went to see the website again, this picture was disappeared! Seems Blizzard wants to keep it mysterious and release the Reforged edition at once. We hope we can get the Reforged edition in this year, so please Blizzard, don't tell us "soon"...

Lego version of the Undead Base.

Did you see the Lego version of Warcraft III? In China, there is a Lego Player called Qin Zhao Guo (秦曌虢) made a Undead Base with Lego, let's take a look.

He also had some works of Red Alert, you may take a look on his Weibo. (Link: https://www.weibo.com/u/2416304317?refer_flag=1005055013_ )

The last day of Ro8 of H&W Masters.

Tonight, we will have the last day of Ro8 of H&W Masters, the first match is Lawliet vs Sok in the Lower Bracket Semi Final, and the winner of them will play against Life for the last ticket to the Offline event.

The game will start at 7pm (UTC+8), you wouldn't want to miss it!

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Original Author and Translator: War3station, Emoji, Huahua
Translator: GLH

Sok's improving so much recently, and he has become one of the strongest Human player in the world after winning Fly100%, Moon and FoCuS and got the third place in Yule Cup. For Sok, I am afraid that we don't know him very well, so let us talking with him and try to know him.

Q: Hello Sok, thank you very much for accepting our interview. First of all, let's say hello to everyone!

Sok: Hello everyone, I am a Human player, Sok.

Q: Let's talk about your daily life. Because of your excellent dance performance, you have accumulated a lot of Chinese fans, so are you still teaching dance, or playing Warcraft III as full-time job?

Sok: Everyone seems to have misunderstood me. I am not a street dance teacher. I only taught primary school students how to stand upside down a long time ago... Nowadays I spend a lot of time for practicing Warcraft III.

Q: Recently, you won the third place in the Yule Cup, and this is your first time with excellent performance. How do you feel about this?

Sok: I am very happy to get into top three for the first time! I also did a lot of preparation and practice before the game, my effort gets paid!

Q: In fact, you were still struggling in the group stage a few months ago, and this time you reached into top three, how did you make such great progress?

Sok: As I mentioned above, the amount of practice and preparation for the game are more than usual, and I was lucky as well, the items were better than usual.

Q: You had used a few of special and interesting strategies to knocked down many famous players in this tournament. Are these tactics you think about yourself? Or is there a learning object?

Sok: In fact, LawLiet has helped me a lot, and I tried a lot of strategies when I was practicing with other race players, so I played better in this time. In addition, I also referred to the strategies and details of many other Human players, such as Infi, TH000, HawK, Chaemiko.

Q: Do you have any unique understanding of Blood Mage?

Sok: For Blood Mage, I saw Infi was using it, so I also tried to practice this hero, seems the effect is really good.

Q: Let's talk about the games. In this time, you won Moon with 3:1 in the BO5 series, but you lost to Foggy in the group stage with 0:2. There are many fans said that they were surprised about it. How do you think about them in Night vs Human? Are they having any difference? Or were you not perfect yet in the group stage?

Sok: I made some misjudgment when I was playing with Foggy, and the Foggy's offensive timing was particularly good, meanwhile, I think Foggy had the idea of ending the game in the early game, so I thought that the situation would be better after I held the attack, but in the end, I could not stop the attack. I will pay more attention to this when I play with him again in the future.

Q: Current, with the advent of the Reforged Edition, the professional e-sports system of Warcraft III has finally been established. How do you think of this? Are you considering to join a professional team?

Sok: I have been playing Warcraft III for ten years, and the news of releasing the remastered version is undoubtedly a great news, it also gave me the opportunity to play harder. For joining a team, definitely I want to join, but I just don't know if there is a chance for me.

Q: What do you think about the current balance? Do you think Human is weak? Which race do you think is the most IMBA?

Sok: I think Human is not weak, but their movement speed is slow, Human is weak in terms of operations. In addition to playing against the Orcs or Human, there are some restrictions on the strategies of fast tech and not expanding.

Q: With the outstanding performance in this time, many Chinese players and fans praise you as the future King of Human, may you talk to us about your future goals?

Sok: A King like Infi or TH000? I don't dare to be... I hope I can do my best to reach the highest standing I can be in the future.

Q: Finally, do you have anything to say to your fans?

Sok: My shape has a lot of ups and downs. When I am in good shape, I feel that I am playing well. But when my shape is bad, I will lose very easy. But I will work hard., I hope that everyone will not be too disappointed with me. Thank you.

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Original Author: 178电竞(178 esports)_Bloom
Translator: GLH

NeXT'2018 Winter Warcraft entered the Grand Final. Before the games, our reporter interviewed the game's commentator, the Warcraft legend, MagicYang. In the interview, Magic Yang mentioned several key points that Warcraft III will return in this year, let's take a look!

Q: How did you feel about returning to the familiar interpretation stage during the NeXT2018 winter?

M: I recently returned to the commentary, and I participated in the Super WGL Finals and NeXT's game commentary. The reason why I came back is because I still love Warcraft. At the same time, I also hope to come back to meet old and new friends. First, I want to see if everyone still likes my casting style, and I hope that I can do my own little power for this game.

Q: You are now working behind the scenes, have you considered any Warcraft III related business in the future?

M: Two years ago, I just turned into a behind-the-scenes work. At that time, we held a Nostalgic Battlefield in Harbin and invited some very famous players to participate, such as Moon, Grubby, Infi, TH000 and so on.

Now that we are considering the direction of the Reforged Edition, we hope to start with periodic small events and RPG-type maps. At the beginning we had a game called Dragon Wing Chronicles(龙翼编年史), we are considering whether to transfer it to Warcraft III: Reforged.

Q: What do you think about the upcoming Warcraft: Reforged Edition? Do you think it will make Warcraft III popular again?

M: In fact, this still depends on the cooperation of the electric competition. At present, NetEase has announced the WAR3 event plan for 2019, including 5 million yuan of special prizes for the event. I am more optimistic about whether it can be popular again.

For new players, the Reforged Edition is a brand new game, and the game has a high prizes. In addition, Warcraft III does not have as many professional players as other games that are mature now.

So it is more attractive for new players to choose Warcraft III: Reforged as a new eSports project.
For the old players, I think the screen upgrade of these old RPG maps, melee games will attract them to return. From the situation I understand, the Netease official battle platform has had a significant increase in traffic for the past two months, so I think Warcraft III will definitely be popular again.

Q: In NeXT'2018 winter Warcraft III, there are only four Chinese players, but there are many Korean players. In terms of the overall professional level of Warcraft III, China and Korea, which one do you think is stronger?

M: In fact, from the top players, the level of China and Korea is still very close. As for the offline events, we are more concerned about the players themselves.

Q: Warcraft III has been in development for many years, but there are only few new players have appeared in recent years. What are your views and methods for cultivating a new generation of players?

M: At the current stage of e-sports, new players are not like ours, we are only going to play with a passion. Nowadays, it is more formalized. In fact, it is a good opportunity for recruiting new players in this year. With the launch of Reforged Edition, many large professional clubs in China have established Warcraft department, such as RW, Newbee. For the young players, the recruitment of these regular clubs is not only guaranteed, but also less worrying.

The second is that this year's event has a high bonus, which will attract many new players, and more people will choose to strive for the standing of the top players. In fact, the current professional players grew up slowly under the pressure of the older players.

In this year, Warcraft III will have a lot of new players. Maybe these young players can't beat the top players in a short time, but the young players will cause a lot of troubles for these top players in the game. They must be able to intensify the competition.

Q: Do you think that Warcraft III can open up new development space in the game mode, such as FFA, 5v5, 2v2v2, etc. Can these format bring a fresh feeling to the game?

M: In fact, these formats have been tried in previous games, but from the results, these formats are more suitable for RPG. Because the existing 1v1 and 2v2games, they have formed a system that is very standard and the audience has become accustomed to. If you add more formats, first of all, the game duration will be lengthened, second, the game viewing will be limited. For example, the FFA of 8 players, where should the caster go? The attention of the audience will also be dispersed.

But these formats are quite promising in RPG, as the previous Dota did. For the Warcraft III tournaments, in addition to considering the competitive nature of professional players, we must also consider the feelings of the audiences. For the new format, it is difficult to find a solution that satisfies both parties in a short time.

Q: What do you think of the atmosphere and venue of NeXT winter in this time? If you have a chance to come again next time, would you like to come here again?

M: This competition is very good, the area, stage and lighting of the venue are very good. Additionally, I really enjoy the atmosphere of here, the seats in the venue were full, especially this event was a comprehensive project.

In fact, many fans and audiences are not coming for Warcraft III, but they may be attracted to watch Warcraft III. So I am very willing to come to the next competition.

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Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH

Half an hour from the rehearsal, FoCuS ended his training in Cyber Cafe and rushed to the cafe for an interview. In the just-concluded NeXT Winter Warcraft III, FoCuS successfully escaped from the big killer, Moon with his dazzling performance, we need to know that in this patch, Moon is almost invincible. In the game, we saw FoCuS played with Shadow Hunter first, and Tinker second, then he went to push Moon's expansion with the Serpent Wards, although he failed in that fight, he still played very patiently, and successfully knocked down Moon main base and won the game.

The moment Moon typed out GG, the camera turned to FoCuS, his smile was like sunshine.

"He told me before the game that he had a confidence to played against Night Elf on TS." 120 was grinning next to him.

"You may not believe it. When I started playing Warcraft, I started with the Human." FoCuS was like a big boy. "But after the release of the Frozen Throne, I turned to the Orc, because I especially like to use the speed scroll to run the whole army, the feel is really good."

"My training goal is to win the championship in every game, whether it is winning 120 previously or winning Moon this time, maybe it is incredible in your eyes, but in my opinion, I was pretty fully prepared before the game, so after winning, there is a feeling of getting what you want."

In the minds of Warcraft players, FoCuS is a very hard-working player. He will try to play in the every big tournament and minor cup. He won 46 championships in Z Cup (a famous European weekly tournament, held 322 times), currently, many champions of some minor cups are also included in the FoCuS

"I can make a little money for my family. On the other hand, it is also good to maintain the state with the competition." FoCuS also pointed out that in recent years, the Warcraft III prizes are not enough to support his life. "Fortunately, I still have some savings. In addition, I am very grateful to my wife. She will also go out to work to make money to support our family." FoCuS is very optimistic.

In South Korea, the number of audiences who care about Warcraft III is not huge but is very demanding for players. After WGL summer in 2018, the poor performance of FoCuS made him attacked by many audiences on the Korean forum. He could not help but write a letter of apology with the incomprehensible feelings of others. "At that time, I would only stay at home, I don't know how to deal with this. I will feel bad when I look at the forum."

Soon after, I figured out that this was originally part of what professional players should bear. I will try to do some fitness and outdoor sports to divert attention. Recently, I am also learning piano, music makes people happy. These activities make me not care too much about those attacks, and pay more attention to my own training.

When I mentioned Soin, who was not performing well today, FoCuS had great confidence to this younger player: "he was too nervous, I believe he is a skillful player. This is his third time to be in offline, right? And he just graduated this year, before that, his studies were very hardy and he often faced exams. I think after this year, Soin should have more time to prepare and adjust his mindset, he will beyond me in the future."

When I asked him what he thought about the Reforged Edition, FoCuS thought about it and raised his hand to help the glasses. "For me, I still think and practice constantly. It is a good thing for the environment to be better."

"But for me, preparing for tomorrow's game is more meaningful." As always, he is humility and low-key.

"I will try my best."

He turned his head and looked out the window, the sky darkened, and the lights lit up. The light of this flower city made this city look like it was during the day.

We may look at the star players who are particularly good like Moon and Lyn, however, we can't ignore the senior players like FoCuS, they strive to bring the brightest game to the audience, and they are reluctant to disappoint fans and audience.

"It doesn't matter if I am not famous. Just remember, I used to play Warcraft III, and I really love this game."

The last sentence of FoCuS makes my eyes moist.

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Original Author: War3station_Keke
Translator: GLH

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[Author's note] NeXT was held at the Poly World Trade Expo Center in Guangzhou in these two days. The "living fossil" of games, Warcraft III, it is still full of audiences, and the cheers come constantly in the hall, like it was showing us that he was ready for his second peak. For the first time, we were using the conquest system, the whole process was very exciting, and the audiences were so interested on this tournament too. Let's take a look at the behind-the-scenes scenes that touched us.

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The weather in Guangzhou is surprisingly good, like a gentle sing of the wind, soft and clear. This is the first time that Yan Xiaoyu (a pseudonym) came to Guangzhou. For this reason, she took 2 days off and spent half a month's salary on this trip. Just now, she was in the Poly World Expo Exhibition Hall,and watching NeXT Winter Warcraft III, when most people were holding "Moon" and "Fly", she held "Lucifer" high and her eyes were firm and persistent. And the player she supports, Lucifer, has gone through a full 18-year career.

Surprisingly, this time Lucifer's performance is definitely worthy of the long-distance running of this fan: First, when he was in the face of the pressure given by Fly100%, he chose to play with mass Ghouls and went to Fly's base in a really good timing, after that, he got the double hero-kill with a beautiful Nova & Death Coil Combo, forced Fly typed out GG in the game. In the Winner Bracket Final, Lucifer stood out and fought for his team as the first player, he found the chance that when Colorful's army hadn't been forming, Lucifer got the hero-kill with his double level 5 hero, got the first point for his team, and did good job for the result afterwards, 3-0.

18 years is enough to make a person change a lot. The prestige boy in the past has also become an fatty uncle. But from the moment his left hand flew on the keyboard, and his eyes fixed on the screen, he were like a teenager with the young concentration and enthusiasm.

From that moment on, I know that War3 is my lifelong goal.

Today's Warcraft III, Lucifer is definitely not at the top level, and Moon, who debuted with him, and Lyn, who is later than him, both of them still maintain a super competitive level. Especially as UD, the light of 120 in recent years has almost concealed other fellow players. He sometimes can enter into top 8 in online tournaments, and he occasionally can get into offline, this is the current impression to the audiences.

2006 was the pinnacle of Lucifer, he won the ESWC championship that year.

When Lucifer was sitting across from me, he squinted and said: "That was the happiest moment of my life. I remember that I won Zeus with 2:0. But before that, I didn't have any big championship. I always felt in the game. I warned myself to calm down until the moment that the spotlights and flowers surrounded me, and I felt that everything was worthwhile. At that time, I began to be determined and I would use Warcraft III as my lifelong goal."

At that time, he was closely connected with the names of Susiria, Grubby and Moon, which were engraved in the history of Warcraft III, and he was the superstar of the legendary team MYM.

When he tried to come back to Warcraft III, the road is full of resistances and long.

It’s not easy to stick to a game that is not popular nowadays, and Lucifer is harder than other players.

In 2015, Lucifer wrote a long blog to talk about his feelings. In the middle, he said "Life is always full of disappointment, and the trajectory of life will not develop as we expected. We always stand in the same place, waiting for opportunities, waiting for fate, but they will always be again and again, give us frustration and pain.

Lucifer suffered from a serious psychological mania when he was in military service. Sometimes his heart was so violent and this made him had to leave the TYLOO team and went back to his hometown to heal. And for his treatment of drugs, he also made his body more and more fat, and the King of UD, which is famous with his out-looking, has completely changed. In time and again self-doubt and self-salvation, Lucifer's sentiment has a new sublimation: "In those years, I realized a truth. The outcome of the game may not be as important to me as before; the most important thing is to do your best and stick to it without giving up. "

If you want me to add a deadline, then I choose to fight until the last day.

The four Korean Kings of Undead once shined the entire Warcraft III: Susiria, gostop, Lucifer, sweet. However, the other three have now turned and left. In this regard, Lucifer said with a smile: "Yes, I also miss the days of fighting with them. Sweet went to other game as a coach, and the other two have not played games. Now Korea has only one skillful Undead. As a matter of fact, I don't have anyone to discuss tactics. I only rely on myself and watch replays. But before the big tournaments, Korean players of other races will accompany me to carry out targeted exercises. I am very grateful to them here."

In the just-concluded 2018 WGL Winter, Lucifer made his debut in the offline game after two years. However, he didn't play well, and the audiences was concerned that he would sweat when he finished a Bo3 games.
"I cried at the time, he is too difficult." Yan Xiaoyu remembered that moment.

"In WGL, because I haven't been in offline for a long time, I want to express my desires very much, so I have to put more pressure on myself. In NeXT, I will perform better." Lucifer smiled heartily.

"Like Moon and me, it’s great to be able to maintain such a competitive state at an old age. I think I have been very successful." He commented on himself.

When he heard me said that some other people's speculations and rumors, Lucifer laughed again: "I am not a rich second generation, I am not making a lot of money in stocks, those are all things that are nothing, I was growing in an ordinary family. But for me, prizes and stream are enough to support my life. I don't have any material needs, I have enough to eat enough, and I don't need to support my family like other married players."

"You asked me about my plans for the future? I think... I will keep going." Lucifer's eyes began to shine again. "Yes, I see the teammates around me leave, I was lonely and doubtful about life, but I never thought about leaving Warcraft III. Now that the Reforged Edition is out, the big environment may be greatly improved. But who knows? Anyway, as long as Warcraft 3 is still there, I will play this game and stream it to my audience."

"That is, you will fight to the last moment of Warcraft III, right?" I asked softly.

"Yes!" Lucifer nodded.

At that moment, he was like an angel.

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Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH

Once, Infi was the pride of China's Warcraft 3. In WCG2009, he won the championship and this let him stood on the peak of China's Warcraft 3 and even the China's e-sports. However, after a series of incidents in 2018, Infi became the target of many people.

You might have 10,000 reason to hate Infi, but you only need a single reason to like him. Me may have 2 talented Random Players, a few great Human Players, even more than a dozen World Champions, but we have only one Infi in this world.

How does Infi think about the incidents in 2018 and the upcoming year, a big year of Warcraft? Let me take you down with you.

Q: You have won the final of Super WGL and the most popular players of the year in a row. How do you feel about these?

Infi: Before the game, I thought I would be so happy, however, I didn't be happy for long, maybe like 10 minutes only, I had no feeling anymore after I got on the taxi.
I didn't expect that I could get the most popular player of the year, but I think there will be a reason, everyone deserves the prizes they owned. And I feel a little happy when I am thinking about the face of those haters, perfect!

"Honestly, as a senior player, I think I didn't play well in this year, I feel ashamed to get this award. The coming year is a really important year for War3, I hope I could become a good example for others, and play with other Chinese players, let's fight together. We will try our best to get the Championships for China."

Q: In the game you played against TH000 (Super WGL's Grand Finals), which part do you think you did better, and that made you won the game? At the fight in second round, how did you do that? You lost almost nothing.

Infi: Previously, when I played against TH000 in Human Mirror, I always had advantage in the early game, but he always found the chance to expand, and won the game at last. In this time, I gave up for expanding, and went for an all in, from the result, the effect was not bad. In fact, there are too much details in Human mirror, it's hard to say clearly, so in short, my state was better than him on that day.

Q: 2018 has passed, how to sum up your own 2018?

Infi: Totally, my passion for the game has been basically exhausted in 2018, I have no idea if they same with me. In 2018, I was bad luck in tournaments, I could be in Ro4 but I couldn't get the champion, this made me feels bad, luckily I got one at the last tournament, so it's not too bad.

Q: Do you have anything want to say to the fans about some of the "controversial incidents" that happened to you in 2018?

Infi: I said about these many times, for conclusion, I will try to avoid these in the future.

Q: We will have 1.30.3 soon, do you think this patch could change the situation recently?

Infi: We have no idea before we play with it. The most important point is Orc vs Night Elf, if the situation become better, I want to use Orc to play again!

Q: If the situation in 2019 was still the same as 1.30.1, may you consider to change the race and play? How do you think about changing race? Yes or no? How many races could you use? Should you tell your opponent before the game?

Infi: All the rules against changing race are so bad, these rules are only countering 1 to 2 players.

For example, there were a group of people were playing basketball, most of them are 1.80 meter, but there are two players are 1.90 meter, after they had been playing basketball for a few years, they made a rule, they said we shouldn't slam dunk on the field, this is not the way we play, this is unfair!

However, after many years, people found out that the players with height 1.80 could make a slam dunk too, if you are hard on practicing! This story told us that, in fact, you may not make a slam dunk although you are 1.90 meter, the reason they could make that is they did enough practice and they were confident to make it!

Q: 2019 is a really important year for Warcraft 3, we will have team competitions and leagues with more than 5 Millions prize pool, we believe you are paying attention on it too, do you have any target for yourself?

Infi: I believe we will have a lot of single and team competitions, I think what I need to do is just maintaining my skills. Whether you can get the championship depends on the time, place, luck. Success depends not only on individual efforts, but also on the history of the process. If the situation is not right, your efforts will be useless .

Q: Currently, RW and Newbee have identified the basic framework of their team, from the aspect of the lineup, it can be said that they are so close. Some people said these two teams will get almost the champion in team competitions, how do you think about this?

Infi: Theoretically, there is such a trend, and the remaining players can barely form a combat team. In fact, this is not a good thing. I think that there must be more emphasis on the balance between the teams.

Q: The Reforged edition is coming, and Warcraft 3 has hope to revive. What do you think is the most important problem that Warcraft 3 needs to solve?

Infi: As a game, naturally, the more users, the better. But as an e-sports project, the more viewers, the better.

I think the most important thing is to do a good job of RPG, train a large number of new users to play RPG, and at the same time attract them to watch the game, make them become the viewers of melee game.

At the same time, the high prizes will attract many young players with potential to participate in the competition, and they may defeat the old players. At this time, the entire circle of Warcraft 3 could form a virtuous circle.

By the way, if this really happen, please call me Director Wang!

Q: From the results of 2018, the performances of Chinese Warcraft players is slightly inferior than Korean players; and several Chinese and Korean matches (The Clan Wars) were also won by South Korea. As an old player, what do you want to say to Chinese players?

Infi: It is undeniable that in terms of attitude towards the game, Korean players are stronger than Chinese players, especially in team competitions. But this is also due to the environment, like many Chinese players can't prepare for the game, we are tired of streaming, this is the fact. And in 2019, I think this phenomenon is likely to change. I hope everyone will come together to play and pay more attention to the tournaments.

Q: I heard that Magic Yang gave you some lessons under the stage. What did he say to you? Which is your personal favorite Warcraft 3 commentator?

Infi: I haven't seen Magic Yang for a long time. We talked a lot, but mainly about the new patch and the Warcraft's situation in 2019. The most important thing is that Mgic Yang may come back completely and cast more games for us. I am very looking forward to it.

The favorite commentators are of course the BM (Magic Yang and BBC) and Zhou Ning+Xixi, it's hard to choose one, I love both of them.

Q: The last question, please answer honestly, who is the most handsome guy in Warcraft?

Infi: Don't you just want me to say that it is me? I tell you, no.

The most handsome and perfect guy in my mind is the old Wang artist who grows to 140 pounds, and he is too handsome and there is no word can describe him![1]

Remark[1] by GLH: Actually the "old Wand artist" is him, "Wang" is his family name, and he think he is too thin right now, so he wants to be 140 pounds. It doesn't matter if you don't understand this, this is Chinese style joke.

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Author: 暴雪大神
Translator: GLH

(In the original article, author wrote an introduction about the designer Pete Stilwell, and the lead designer, Matt Morris, I skipped the designer introduction in this translation)

Do you remember the epic war on Azeroth? Do you remember the scene that Archimonde climbed the World Tree, and Malfurion blew the Horn of Cenarius, and the Wisps flew though the forest? Do you remember how did you feel when Sky get the WCG Champion? Warcraft III has already given us so much touching memories, in the Blizzcon recently, Blizzard published the remastered edition, Warcraft III Reforged.

How much we have already known about the Reforged?

Human, Orc and Night Elves have to stand together and fight against the Burning Legion and the Undead. Warcraft III showed us the epic story and, and the most attractive character, Arthas.

The designer make a big chance in Reforged edition, including 62 missions, Kalimdor, Lordaeron, Northrend and the further worlds; About 40 hours games, the animation more that 4 hours, at least 20 heroes and heroines.

At the same time, designer remake the models, maps completely, and make it 4k resolution, with Newly designed UI interface. Approximately, this edition will be available in 2019, and the players in Blizzcon were able to play it too!

And here is the interview in the following parts.

In this interview, we are very honored to have invited Warcraft III designer, Pete Stilwell, and the lead designer, Matt Morris.

Q: Will this edition be able to be played on BN?

A: This edition will be able to be played on BN and official platform.

Q: When will the Reforged edition be available in China?

A: We keep working with NetEase, we are trying to make it same time with the world.

Q: Why that MK has been changed a lot of times in patch 1.29 and 1.30?

A: We are hardworking on keeping game balance, before that, we did research for China situation, a lot of professional players in China said this hero was too weak, but the others said this hero is acceptable, so we did a lot of changes for this hero.

Q: In the patch right now, seems like NE are too powerful, will NE be changed again in this following patches?

A: In fact, we did this in previous patches.

Q: Before the Reforged edition is available, can the RPG maps be used in this version directly? Or they can be used with some special methods?
A: We can't make sure yet, but we will try to let the RPG players can play the RPG in the Reforged version.

Q: The picture quality of Reforged edition is very good, do you use any technology from Starcraft II?
A: Actually, this is an "evolution", although we make the picture quality better, but we try to revert the engine and map editor, and we will provide some new models to the game creator, and they can use the new models in their works.

Q: In Warcraft III, the story stopped at the combine between Arthas and the Lich King, however, the story has been continued so long in WOW, we would love to ask that, is that possible that the story continue in War3?
A: We haven't this plan yet, but we will make some story richer, like Jaina, Sylvanas, and the others.

Q: Will we get the new heroes? Human and Undead are lack of Agility heroes, and Night Elves are lack of Strength hero, or will you add the new hero in the Tavern?
A: Not for now, we had been discussing this. However, we will focus on the upgrade of engine and the maps editor first, to make players have a better experience in game. Meanwhile, we will focus on the game balance, after that, we may add something else.

Q: Custom Game is a very attractive part in War3, do you have any plan about this part, like official maps or give support to the game creator?
A: We had a communication with the game creator and we have a long list now, currently we updated a lot of old maps, and we are adding maps in the maps pool.

Q: Do you have any words for Chinese players and gamers?
A: We are very welcome to join the new players, and the enthusiasm from the Chinese players give us the momentum to update the maps editor, patches, and game balance. Our team came to China so many times, and we had communication with the China players and gamers, we will keep updating this game with the feedback from China.

Q: Did you consider to update the game watching and replay system?
A: On Nov 5th, we will have a Global summit in Bllizard HQ, and we will discuss with the players, see if they need any tools in the game.

Q: Comparing with Starcraft remastered edition, does War3 reforged have any advantage?
A: Previously, we had been talking with the Korean players and gamers, because Starcraft are very popular there, they don't want us change the game too much, but we can improve the picture quality. For War3, Chinese players have bigger right to speak, they hope we can improve the content in the game, including maps editor, game balance, even the new models, these are the advantage for War3, and these are the product after we got the feedback from China.

Source:
1. http://w.163.com/18/1104/02/DVO23JOO0031986H.html