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

Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH

The King of Maps (TKOM) is a new tournament series sponsored by Mr.Sun, and hosted by War3station. The tournament's goal is to find out who the best players on a certain map is. This tournament was first introduced on 16 October. The top players on NetEase as well as other profession players fight for the prizes and the title "The King of Maps".

Because of WGL, TKOM for Echo Isles November Challenge is postponed to December. In October, Lucifer was the winner, so he will wait for the challenger on the arena.

Information about This Month's Challenge:

Registration time: 2018, Dec 10th to Dec 12th
Registration link: http://www.dianjingquan.cn/join.html?id=5461
Schedule: 2018 Dec 13th, 19:00 (GMT +8)
Format: 1v1, BO1 (always same map per edition) and single elimination, the first four players will advance to Elimination part, and the first two players will get prizes.


**Details for Participant:

Participant have to join the group chat on QQ (807423172) after your registration, and keep online on QQ.


Map (for this particular tournament):
Echo Isles

Prizes:
First place: 800 Yuan
Second place: 500 Yuan


Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YwJoOJ7Mr3C_v-WGAKu6Ew?fbclid=IwAR3QBhXE_i0YEUpRz2N419B0Ppn7xeQQvnd-IgTYB4hE3ENATSw-FN22x94

Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH


Excerpts from the inreviews:
Infi: I won with an unfair advantage!
Moon: Thank you Blizzard!

Infi's Part

Moon's Part

Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/D6u8n5U32x8f6pwmXjZ1Dw?fbclid=IwAR1MSync10AIlKN7zvunYCKQ9a8Pejl08Fcr0B1tznpOGbMATe_SN9b0p0k

Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH

After a break of more than two months, NeXT is back! In the summer, Moon won the tie breaker game and helped Team South Korea get the title in the NetEase Esports X Tournament (against Team China). This winter, NeXT will organize another tournament with a different format. There will be four teams that will play in this upcoming edition of NeXT.

The 10 players that participated in the NeXT summer edition, TH000, Infi, Fly, 120, Colorful, Lyn, Moon, FoCuS, Lawliet, Soin, will be enlisted as potential candidates for the 4 Team Leader positions, and the fans will be to vote for their favorite player!

The 4 players with most votes will become the Team Leaders. Once this is done, NeXT will invite 10 additional players who will play in a qualifier tournament against the remaining 6 players (the ones that were not chosen as team leaders). This qualifier tournament will be in a round robin format, and 8 of the players will qualify for the offline finals. At the finals, the Team Leaders will be able to choose 2 of these qualified players to play for their teams.


Schedule
Online Qualifier: 15-16 December 2018
Offline Finals: 20-21 January 2019

Voting System and Format

You can vote for your favourite player from the page below.

Link: http://next.163.com/match/nextwar3_winter

Time of vote: 7-12 December 2018

Online Qualifier:

The remaining 6 players that don't get voted in as Team Leaders will play a qualifier together with 10 players that will be invited by NeXT. These 16 players will be separated into 4 groups of 4 players randomly, and they will play in a round robin system, each match being in best-of-3 format. The best two players of each group will qualify for the offline tournament.

Offline Finals:

There will be 4 teams with 3 players in each team. The tournament will be played in double elimination format, and conquest mode.

Prizes (per team):

Total prizes: 100,000 RMB (US$14,500)

Champion: 50,000 RMB (US$7,250)

Runner-up: 25,000 RMB (US$3,625)

Third place: 15,000 RMB (US$2,200)

Fourth place: 10,000 RMB (US$1,450)

Source:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/nV7V_C8my1mOzUl1qyg34A?fbclid=IwAR336QSy7Fw0bpJTyGS8BjFBEsmRMBO7L_S9nRNZ67DGOKEB9UsWq9JIfX8

Author: War3station
Translator: GLH



Moon was born in 1986, he is 32 years old; Lyn was born in1987, he is 31 years old.

In the Quarter Final, Moon and Lyn won their opponent, Fly and Focus, and advanced to the Semi Final. Although both of them are over 30 years old, they are still staying in a good state, and having powerful skills. They got so much great results in their career, we believe they will add one more in this time.

After these 10 years, they are not only opponents but also brothers.

They will meet each other in Semi Final

In fact, Lyn and Moon didn't win the game easily, Focus and Fly made a lot of troubles to them. In the first round of Lyn vs Focus, Focus was the disadvantaged site in the early game, but he stole the Crystal Ball, and use it for the Boots of Quel'Thalas, at last, Lyn's army fought with the worse formation and order, and lost the first round.

Moon also lost the first round, Fly was bullied by the NE before this series, however Fly was having a good state when he was playing with Moon, he did a great harassment in the early game, good decision and strategy in mid game, Fly let Moon had so much troubles.

When Moon and Lyn fell behind with 0-1, both of them looked nervous and serious, but they adjusted themselves very soon, and won the following three games in a row.

Is there any secret to keep in good state?

When you review the players in Warcraft III, Lyn and Moon are the oldest players besides Lucifer and Check.

No one can be young forever, somehow some people will make you thought they could do it. In these few years, they were having the second peak of their career. In WCA, Lyn got 9-0 in the KOF series; in NeXT, Moon won against 120 and helped Korean Team won the tournament. Both of them always have the chance for the title in the tournaments, and they are the biggest opponent to Chinese Team.

When we asked them how to keep in a good state, Moon and Lyn said: Keep thinking, learning and practicing. Even though they are famous, and they had a lot of honor in their career, but they are still working like a new player, they watch and learn the other players' games, and keep thinking the new strategies and tactics. Although their training time became shorter, but they still stick to the game always.

After these ten years, they are still the best friends.

(After these ten years, they are still the best friends)

In the tournaments, they are the opponent to each other. In MCG 2007, Lyn defeated Moon with 4-0 and said, "If Blizzard doesn't want to buff Orc, I will buff it myself", then he stepped into the list of top players.

Besides the tournaments, they are the best friend over ten years, they were teammates, and lived together, and they drank, practiced, and became the great players together.

For Lyn, Moon is just like his elder brother, when he just became a professional player, Moon was already a famous player in the world, that's why he wanted to become a player like Moon, he wanted to became as powerful as Moon. For Moon, Lyn is like his family too.

Never give up

(You are never defeated in my mind)

When they talked about the future, they were shocked because of the young player, as a senior player, they are having much more experiences, and the young player scare nothing, this is the biggest enemy for the senior players.

Someone asked Moon and Lyn, when will they stop playing? Both of them gave the same answer, "When I have no chance for champion anymore", which means, if they are still having the chance to get the champion, they will never give up, and keep fighting in the game.

In these past few years, we said so many"Good bye" to the players, it's lucky for us that Lyn and Moon are still playing in tournaments, so, let's enjoy and watch how they will write for their last few chapters of their career.

At Dec 7th 1800, Moon and Lyn will play on the stage, and the winner will advance to the Grand Final, we hope they will have their best performance.


Remark:
The song that Lyn sang is called "淘汰", which means "Elimination".
You may listen it on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Ld8tJY5cQ
And I found a English lyrics on the internet
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%E6%B7%98%E6%B1%B0-elimination.html

Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2H9eiMoNz_WMbZGjxXmeeA?fbclid=IwAR2FOQaDTzlUNwSeXsLASlW1oW6YMf5sOD0jY10Day6gaW80t4J1saCLrzA