Showing posts with label yule cup. Show all posts
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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: War3station_Emoji
Translator: GLH



In the Yule Cup final, 120 defeated Infi 4-3 to win the championship. In the last round, 120's acolyte scouting made a great achievements, but because of this, some people questioned about this scouting after the game. So what was in 120's mind at the time of the game?

Let's take a look at what 120 is saying.


Q: Hello, 120, first of all, thank you for accepting the interview of War3station, would you like to say hello to your fans first?

120: Hello.



Q: After a half-year low tide, you won the championship of Yule cup and returned to the throne like a formal king. What is your mood at this time?

120: Of course I am very happy for this, because I practiced a lot before the games, but still I had no confidence to win. After the game, I feel relieved.



Q: For this tournament, you said you had been practicing for 500 sets before the game. How did you do such a large amount of training for 1 week? Do you feel boring during the practice?

120: Originally, I had nothing to do at home recently, and I agreed to participate in an event which invited by NetEase, but I didn't go at last because of this tournament, and I wanted to study seriously the details in the game again, to see if I have the strength to win.

So recently I played against Night Elf on the ladder every day, if the ladder became very few players, I researched the details with Life. I didn't feel boring in the process, because if there is a detail that can be developed, I will try it in the next set. If it succeeds, I will be very happy.



Q: In the previous interview, you said there is only one advantaged map for Undead in the current maps pool. What is your understanding of map balance for current maps pool? What is the balance map in your opinion?

120: After a lot of tournaments, I found that the two new maps, NI and CH are simply Undead nightmares. It is really impossible to win against Night Elves and Orcs, especially their Air Force.

In patch 1.29, the most advantaged maps for Undead are AI and TR when play against Night Elf, but those two maps has been taken away, so the current maps pool is really bad for Undead.

95% of Night Elves will start with KotG first, so, Undead can hold in the game to the late game on TM, compared with other maps, TM is easier to play for Undead.



Q: In the Grand Final, you had a hard series, but you won the RW.Infi with Night Elf with 4:3 at last. What do you think of Infi's Night Elf? How is he different from several professional Night Elves in NE vs UD? In your opinion, Infi and other professional Night Elves, who is more difficult for you?

120: In current patch, this race is really suitable for Infi, including Moon, TH000. In this patch, Night Elf have to focus on their operation of economy and resources, so I think Infi = Moon> TH000 = Lawliet.



Q: In fact, in the last match, your acolyte scouting is very quintessential. Can you talk about the scouting? Why did you scout with that route?

120: After the patches change, UD vs NE has completely changed. Undead used to suppress against the Night Elves. But now, we are forced to expand and play the late game, so sometimes, it is more free when you are scouting.

If I say it is a process, I don’t know if I will be misunderstood, because there are 80% chances that the Acolyte will go back and expand.

When I started the game, I was thinking the game that when I was playing LawLiet, he chose to expand very early, and he had gained an advantage, so I think that Infi is also likely to play this way, and nowadays, the Night Elves basically are not creeping the 5-3-3 or Mercenary camp first. When I didn't scout him at the first two location I scouted, I was still a little panicked, so I had to make a choice, if I still didn't scout him, I would go expanding at the direction 4 o'clock.


Q: What do you think about Sok? You said that Sok has 50% chances to win you in the game, is that true?

120: I am looking forward about Sok, because I always practiced with him a year ago. He is a very powerful player when he was practicing, although his result is not very good in tournaments, but usually this kind of players will stand out sooner or later.



Q: Let's talk about some topics beside this tournament. What is your opinion on the Gargoyles? How do you think about the strategy of mTw.Lucifer, Dread Lord first, fast expand and mass Gargoyles?

120: Recently, I didn't see that Lucifer was playing against Night Elves with mass Gargoyles, at least I didn't see it. There are too many defects in this strategy. It is not a question of how he chose in the late game, but this strategy make Undead doesn't have too much space of micro[1].

Remark[1] by GLH: Space of Micro: It's a word I heard from Chinese players, when you have a good enough micro, the units with bigger space of micro will beat the units with smaller space of micro, for example: Mass Dryads could beat Mass Footmen, because Dryads have Slow and range attack, Mass Raiders could beat Mass Grunts, because Raiders has Ensnare.



Q: In the coming April, Happy will participate in an European offline tournament. There are Lucifer, Check, Chaemiko and Foggy as well, so are you optimistic about Happy?

120: Yes. I think Happy is a very stable player. Basically, he will not lose to the players who are weaker than him.



Q: Let us talk something relax: What is your favorite food? What is your favorite beverage? What is your favorite animal? What is your favorite plant? Which player do you want to meet and beat him in the game?

120:
Food: Potatoes
Beverage: Cola
Animal: cat
Plant: Prickly Pear
Player: I heard that TH000 is very eager to meet me. Hey Tolkien, you know how to do right?



Q: Ok, thanks again to Newbee.eer0 for an interview with War3station. What else do you want to say to your fans?

120: I am very happy that my audiences always support me when I am in the game. No matter how difficult Undead is, I will stick to this race. I will let you like Undead because of me, but not because Undead likes me.



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Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH



Douyu Yule Cup, a tournament hosted by Douyu, and organized by OBGAME, War3station, which will be held from March 11th to March 23rd. The 16 players from China, Europe and South Korea will once again gather together to compete for the championship of the first major tournament after 2019 Chinese New Year.

Currently, the application of Yule Cup qualifier is opening. On March 11th, the qualifier will be started and the top 4 will be able to advance to the main tournament.
In the Thunder Fire Cup, BO had a great performance and surprised all the audiences after the qualifier, let's see who will be the next to create a miracle this time.

Link to registration: http://www.dianjingquan.cn/matchDetail.html?id=5842#/

Remark: If you don't have a Chinese phone number, please contact GLH on discord, then provide your race(I mean on Warcraft), ID(QQ and NetEase platform) to the Admin, Aragorn Wong, we will help you to contact the staff in China who calls 托尔金(Tolkien), he will help you to register the game.
Discord of GLH: https://discordapp.com/invite/PdaBwSJ

Invitation list:
China: RW.Infi, RW.Fly100%, RW.TH000,, Newbee.eer0, WFZ, Colorful
Europe: Foggy
Korea: Moon, Newbee.Lyn, Newbee.LawLiet, FoCuS, mTw.Lucifer


Schedule and Format of Qualifier
11th Mar, 1900 (GMT+8): Ro64 to Ro8
12th Mar, 1900 (GMT+8): Ro8 to Ro4

-Bo3(Best of 3), single elimination, the first 4 players advance to the Group stage.

-There will have 16 players in the tournament, 12 of them will be directly invited, and the other 4 will be decided by the qualifier.


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Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH


(Fri) 1st Mar   WGL Minor League-Open & Pro. Division-Round of 8
(Sat) 2nd Mar   WGL Minor League-Open Division Semi Finals and Grand Final
(Sun) 3rd Mar   WGL Minor League-Pro. Division Semi Finals and Grand Final

(Mon) 4th Mar
(Tue) 5th Mar
(Wed) 6th Mar
(Thu) 7th Mar
(Fri) 8th Mar
(Sat) 9th Mar   XiaoY Cup
(Sun) 10th Mar   XiaoY Cup

(Mon) 11th Mar
(Tue) 12th Mar   Douyu Yule Cup-Audition/Qualifier
(Wed) 13th Mar
(Thu)14th Mar
(Fri) 15th Mar   
(Sat) 16th Mar   Douyu Yule Cup-Group Stage
(Sun) 17th Mar   Douyu Yule Cup-Group Stage

(Mon) 18th Mar   Douyu Yule Cup-Group Stage
(Tue) 19th Mar   Douyu Yule Cup-Group Stage
(Wed) 20th Mar   Douyu Yule Cup-Ro8(Round of 8)
(Thu) 21st Mar   Douyu Yule Cup-Ro8(Round of 8)
(Fri) 22nd Mar   Douyu Yule Cup-Semi Final
(Sat) 23rd Mar   Douyu Yule Cup-Grand Final
(Sun) 24th Mar

(Mon) 25th Mar   WGL Minor League
(Tue) 26th Mar   WGL Minor League
(Wed) 27th Mar   WGL Minor League
(Thu) 28th Mar   WGL Minor League
(Fri) 29th Mar   WGL Minor League
(Sat) 30th Mar   WGL Minor League
(Sun) 31st Mar   WGL Minor League



Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH



Douyu Yule Cup, a tournament hosted by Douyu, and organized by OBGAME, War3station, which will be held from March 11th to March 23rd. The 16 players from China, Europe and South Korea will once again gather together to compete for the championship of the first major tournament after 2019 Chinese New Year.

In the last Lunar Year, Douyu hosted the DSL, Yule Cup Races War and Thunder&Fire Cup. Among these tournament, the Thunder&Fire Cup's final, the performance by TH000 is the most memorable, in the absence of optimism, TH000 miraculously defeated the unbeatable Moon with 4 -2 and won the championship, he let people saw the efforts of the Human players.


In the new patch, can the Orcs reverse the situation in the game against Night Elves? Can the Undeads become the King again? Can the Human beat Night Elf again? Let's watch the games in the coming March.


Players:
There will have 16 players in the tournament, 12 of them will be directly invited, and the other 4 will be decided by the audition(qualifier).

Invitation list:
China: RW.Infi, RW.Fly100%, RW.TH000,, Newbee.eer0, WFZ, Colorful
Europe: Foggy
Korea: Moon, Newbee.Lyn, Newbee.LawLiet, FoCuS, mTw.Lucifer


Format

Audition/Qualifier
Bo3(Best of 3), single elimination, the first 4 players advance to the Group stage.

Group stage: 
Bo3, double elimination, the top two players advance to the quarterfinals.

Playoffs(Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Grand Finals): 
Bo5, single elimination, Grand Final will be Bo7.


Schedule

**The Audition may be finished in one day, this is still being discussed by organizers and players.

Prizes Pool



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Source: War3station
Translator: GLH

Douyu Yule Cup
Warcraft III Elite League

Schedule:



Prizes:




Format:
Group Stage:
Bo3(Best of 3), Double Elimination

Playoffs:
Bo5, Single Elimination

Grand Final:
Bo7



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Sep 16th, Yule Cup race war was completed, the Horde won the champion in this war with the higher win rate and scores. The race war is a game for players to fight for the glory of their own race, and fight for himself at the same time. We believe the fight will be more exciting and interesting in the future.


8-1, Orc got a big win against Night Elves

Yule Cup become more interesting since second day, Soin and Xiaokk win with 2-0 each when they were playing against Moon and Colorful in the first part, let the Orc were full of confidence in this series. In the KOF part, Orc was unbeatable, the NE players lost their momentum in that night, only Colorful got the only point in this part. 8-1, Orc got the big win.

It was a massacre, every one didn't know that before the game. At the same time, we can see the tactics of Talons are completely solve by the Orc, Night Elves have to create the new way to play against Orc.


Three strong, the champion decided at the end.

The biggest question of this tournament was which race will be the champion. Human become the first eliminated race, because some great players of Human absent for this tournament, although TH000 was playing well, he knocked down Lyn, Moon in the games, but the teammate were not strong enough to carry in the series, and stay at the last place with 3 series loss.

Meanwhile, Night Elves was coming back with the bad starting, the big loss had excited their momentum, won over Undead and Human in a row, let them got the hope for the first place, at the same time, Orc and Undead have the chance to fight for the champion too, before the last series,  we didn't know which race would be the champion. At the last series, Fly and Lyn had a well play in the first part, and leaded the Orc to the first place with higher win rate and score, became the strongest race in this tournament.

Yule Cup race war Score Board
Race       |       Win/Loss (Series)       |       Win/Lose (Games)       |       Net Score     |       Score 


Big night! 120 & Lawliet completed AK(All Kill)

KOF is the system that make miracle always, at the last two days. The first player who made the miracle is Lawliet, when he was playing against Lucifer, the player who played so well recently, Lawliet was playing rush against rush, and defeated Lucifer, after that, Lawliet was unbeatable, even 120 also lost to him, and Lawliet completed the AK

The second player who did the AK was 120, in the history of race war, there was no one UD player could did the AK when play against Orc, 120 is the first player to did it. After this AK, Undead had the higher score than Night Elves in the last night, got the second place in this race war.

Yule Cup race war, the win rate of players
Players       |       Race       |      Games played       |       Win       |       Loss       |       Win rate


The only race war of 1.29.

This is the only race war in patch 1.29, patch 1.30 will be updated very soon. 1.29 is the patch for Orc, Human and Undead, Far Seer have been buffed very much, let their weakness, OvH become more easier too them, it is worth mentioning that, Orc players didn't lose a game in this tournament when they summoned Far Seer as their first hero. For Undead, the buffed of Dread Lord let the Raider Runs was not that terrible. For Night Elf, although Lawliet did a AK in this tournament, but we can see Night Elves are weakening.



However, all we talk about became history, patch 1.30 will be coming very soon.

Thanks for the players, they were giving a a lot of exciting and interesting game for us, let fight again in patch 1.30.



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https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NcJ_ML4qLIi3FdsTnN6Yzg

Yule Cup Diamond League Race War is a tournament of Warcraft III that hosted by Douyu TV, organized by OBGAME and War3station, the host and organizer hope they are able to give all the gamers a great platform of E-sport with playing this classical game in this tournament.

Douyu TV is working on community of Warcraft III always, and the castes of Warcraft III under Douyu TV have became a great place for gamers, because of them, Warcraft III become popular again.

Yule Cup Race War will be playing at Sep 11th to Sep 16th, sixteen players will represent their each race, fight for the honor and the strongest race.


Players:

Team Human: TH000, Chaemiko, Sok, Blade
Team Orc: Soin, Xiaokk, Fly, Lyn
Team Night Elf: Lawliet, Moon, Zhouxixi, Colorful
Team Undead: 120, Lucifer, WFZ, Tbc_bm

* Infi and FoCuS will not attend this tournament with personal reason, but Infi will be the official commentary.



Schedule:


(Translation)



Rules:

Round-robin tournament, every team have to play a series with other races for once, the team win the most series win the champion.

For a series, we will separate to 2 parts

First part: 
Two 1v1 BO3, the players much be different players
1 point for each round
for example: if A win B with 2-1, A get 2 points, B get 1 point, but if A win B with 2-0, A get 2 points, B get 0 point.

Second part:
Play with KOF, BO1 for each game, and the loser team have to change the players, a team get one point for a win of BO1, and this part will end when all the players from a same team have lost a game.

**If the points are same for both team, we will have one more BO1


Maps:
AI, LR, AZ, TM, TS, EI, TR



Prizes: (For Team)
First place: RMB 20000
Second place: RMB 10000
Third place: RMB 6000
Fouth place: RMB 4000





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