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XXII Winners Interview

By DanielD - 16th November 2011 - 22:22 PM

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Interview: Biosparks
Editing: DanielD
Artwork: Ztormi


Sunday Night Fights Co-host Biosparks caught our Tournament XXII champions deciding what to spend their prize money on, and they answered a few questions about themselves and the recent games.

GameReplays.org: So first off, for people who may not know you: tell us a little bit about yourself, age, nationality, future aspirations etc.

Lollypop: I'm 23, from South Korea, just want to have fun.

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Dreamy, eh?


Symbiosis: Well, my real name is Tim, I am 19 years old and currently studying Media & Culture at the university of Amsterdam.

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Tim: a man of many talents


Lollypop: Wow.

Symbiosis: And I want to get into the film making business ^^

GameReplays.org: Great, so tell me a little bit about your clan Allstars.

Symbiosis: Gun is relatively new to allstars ^^ He joined like 2 weeks ago or something. But Allstars was founed a few years back by Atthegates.

GameReplays.org: And how did you end up recruiting someone from half way across the world?

Symbiosis: He had already played a lot of AT games with some of our guys, and me and atthegates played him a few times in automatch and asked him to join.

GameReplays.org: So Gun, you are very new to GR, this tournament has rocketed you into the spotlight, how does it feel to win your first GR Tourney?

Lollypop: I never thought that I would win this tourney and still cant believe it. It just was lucky I think, and actually Tim was not my tourney mate, my real mate couldn't play because of real life stuff. We never played vanilla so I never thought we could win -0-

Symbiosis:Yeh that was fun *big grin* When he joined we started playing double PE together and then we played the tourney!

GameReplays.org: Yes, I remember Symbiosis posting asking if he can have a last minute replacement, how did it feel having to just team up and go with just a few minutes before the start?

Symbiosis: Weird ^^

Lollypop: Same.

Symbiosis: And of course, deciding your tactics 5 mins before the game is funny too.

Lollypop: Yep.

GameReplays.org: Now AmiPolizeiFunk and I were watching Gun's stream between you guys against Aimstrong and Jeep, we noticed that Gun likes to use the tactical map alot, and you have a really high APM (actions per minute), around 250. Did you learn to get that from other games, or did you just practise alot with it normally?

Symbiosis: Those games are awesome by the way, all 3 ^^

Lollypop: I used to play StarCraft 1 and I think it's not a big deal for Koreans. Most Koreans have high APM. That's all --a

GameReplays.org: I knew it! So SC1 was the only other RTS you played?

Lollypop: Yep

GameReplays.org: Have you ever tried your hand at SC2 or is it just CoH for you these days?

Lollypop: Never played SC2 and it's 'cause of CoH, I think; after a long game my hand is tired, well, my left hand anyway.

GameReplays.org: So lets talk about your games, as mentioned earlier you guys teamed up last minute, and had to face off against Aimstrong and Jeep, watching the stream that series looked really intense how did you feel going up against a player such as Aimstrong?

Symbiosis: Well, we played them that afternoon in automatch.

Lollypop: We got them, lol.

Symbiosis: We were playing axis and we won that game, but that was on Pointe, and when we played them at wolf.. his sniper micro is really awesome I was like "Shoot at his f____ sniper ffs" but I couldn't really get the counter snipe. As allies we played really well with a strong late game due to armor, which won us that round ^^

Lollypop: I really want to thank them actually. I hate Wolf when I play Axis and we lost the first game, 'cause I sucked.

GameReplays.org: Haha, yeah Aimstrong can definitely drive you mad! I noticed in your games you like doing Calliope/Howitzer combo alot, tell me a bit about that strategy.

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The dreaded Calliope in action on Wolfheze


Symbiosis: well It's all about getting your Callie ASAP, it's the game changer. And you need arty vs their mg's and nebels to keep map control untill you can fully use armor doc. Once you have some tanks with AWM and Callies it's pretty hard to beat ^^

Lollypop: And they choose axis in G3, so we got to play allies.

Symbiosis: Ye, they had the VP lead and choose to play axis even tho they lost as axis in G2.

GameReplays.org: It definitely looked devastating with the amount of firepower you were able to pump out, forcing the Axis to spread out and keep mobile. Now onto the finals, you were up against returning champions Contador and Seb. Did you have any plan in mind against these guys?

Symbiosis: Hmm, kind of I guess.

Lollypop: I had nothing.

Symbiosis: We kinda had a plan as Allies: inf/armor and rax/wsc but as axis, I mean, I played t3 vs aimstrong/jeep and we switched the game after ^^

Lollypop: It was all Tim's plan, I just followed his lead.

Symbiosis: Then he started using some omg wtf blitz krieg boom tactic which actually worked D: Though G2 wasn't easy.

GameReplays.org: So in game 1, you used your Calliope/Howitzer combo again, and you had to deal with mass Pumas/Panthers and V1 Rockets. How on earth did you guys hold all that off?

Symbiosis: Well, Armor [doc]. They kinda went all in mode and we managed to hold it off.

GameReplays.org: You had used almost every US unit available with combined arms, and even had a Pershing as the game ended, did you feel once the all in had failed the game was a walk over?

Symbiosis: Yeh kind of. We killed 3 Pumas, 2 Panthers and a lot more. Their VPs were getting low so they kinda had to though ^^ It indeed was a close moment, 'cause we lost quite a lot of stuff too.

Gamereplays.org: Now in game 2, the start looked very bad for you guys. I noticed Gun did 3 Pio Bike Spam into T4, was that a mistake because as I was casting I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Lollypop: I didn't think they would both come to my side. So I failed with my strat, but Duclair is my favorite map, all we needed was time.

Symbiosis: Yeh, they had so many rifles, and they really pushed us back. But then Manpowerblitz became availeble. Damn, how often did you use that Gun?

Lollypop: Most of the time.

GameReplays.org: I'll pull up the replay analyzer now... Gun used Manpower Blitz a total of 6 times!

Symbiosis: wow!

GameReplays.org: Now that definitely is something, especially going straight to it, and pumping out T3 units.

Lollypop: MP blitz is a really usefull skill. I don't know why people don't use it a lot.

GameReplays.org: Do you feel that going for Storms/StuH and Tiger was not needed?

Lollypop: 3 Stugs are better than 1 Tiger. Just 1 Tiger can't handle a wild area.

GameReplays.org: Well it seemed that those Stugs and StuHs were the highlight of that game!

Symbiosis: Especially the blitz rush at the howie.

GameReplays.org: So into the mid game of Game 2, you guys were pushed back to your base but you still had fuel connected, were you just trying to survive into the late game and let all the Vet 3 units dominate?

Symbiosis: Well, what else can you do in that situation? Just slowly build up your force and try to get the map back.

Lollypop: That's exactly what I wanted to say.

GameReplays.org: Did you ever feel as though you were going to be completely over run? From the looks of things it was a very scrappy game, where both teams were going all out.

Symbiosis: Yeh, at one point they even cut us off from the North. We almost lost at that point.

Lollypop: I didn't think we were losing, just tried to save units. Time was our side.

GameReplays.org: Now lets talk about this sick timing push that Gun did. There were like 5 or 6 Stugs/StuHs charging down the fields of Duclair with Blitzkreig on absolutely wrecking everything in their path, how on earth did that come out of nowhere?

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Lollypop's Blitzkrieg


Lollypop: Lol.

Symbiosis: We cleared the middle with stukas and nebels.

Lollypop: I don't know what to say.

GameReplays.org: All I can say is that it was truly epic!

Lollypop: Thanks.

Symbiosis: I didn't even realize Stugs could crush hedges with blitzkrieg. I was really surprised by that move.

GameReplays.org: Haha, well it seemed like the Allied forces were crushed after that push. It never looked like they were able to get back into the game after that. Did you guys start to feel excitement as victory was near, or where you just focused on the game not to make a mistake.

Symbiosis: Ha, we indeed realised what was happening at that point.

Lollypop: Not to be mistaken.

Symbiosis: And I think we even got a bit over confident at that point. But we focused 'till the end.

Lollypop: My tiger stayed around the VP 'till the end.

GameReplays.org: Now there was a bit of drama this tournament (isn't there always), we had Contador gloating over Chuu killing his sniper that was way pointed by mistake, and then we had your little banter, asking him who was the best.

Symbiosis: Well, he was talking shit at the start of G1, but my comment was purely ironic.

GameReplays.org: True that, did his smack talk about calling GG at the start of the game get to you?

Symbiosis: No. I was actually quite entertained.

Lollypop: I heard about him from some Korean CoH players. They said he needed to grow up so I didn't care what he did.

Symbiosis: It's not the first time he's messed around, trying to provoke people?

GameReplays.org: Looks you guys came out on top regardless, so he who laughs last laughs longest it seems!

Symbiosis: Aye!

GameReplays.org: So, are there any shoutouts and messages to fans you guys want to do?

Lollypop: Just gimme my prize ASAP.

Symbiosis: Haha well I'd like to thank GR and the refs for organizing this ^^

Lollypop: Same.

Symbiosis: The live show was cool too, and we had fun playing in the tourney.

GameReplays.org: Well you were the guys who provided the show to watch, so thats all down to you guys. So, again congratulations on your win and we definatly hope to see you guys teaming up in the future and breaking some skulls on ladder and more tournaments!

Lollypop: Thanks

Symbiosis: Thanks, we'll see about that!


Hope you enjoyed the interview, and watch out for both these strong players on the ladder!