hopefully i will be able to do more interviews tomorrow, today was kinda messy

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can't wait for his match against strenx! haha

Obligatory lame joke: rumors have it dahang appeared at the interview lacking his shoes and cell phone.

yea it was lame

Obligatory tho.

ah, those polishmen... :)

its not that funny anymore :(

poland is always funny

lmao@poland

ive heard something about rapha couldnt find his phone and shoes anywhere too after the match against avek

^_^

what?

and as for those +'s hmmm i ve collected a few yeah! can i exchange them for a new pair of shoes or a cell phone in case i couldnt find mines after aveks return to pl?

No matter the outcome of the tournament, it looks like we've got already a winner here ;)

Av3k was seen riding a horse bareback from the scene

barefoot!!:)

With shoes on his hands

no problem Jesus will fix it

The American players come off as much more mature and intelligent than most of the top European players

cooller's latest few interviews were great.

Absolutely. I hope he can influence the younger players in that regard.

But they are.

DaHanG is 23-24; Cypher, av3k are around 17-18, strenx 10-12 (i'm sure, after his last interview).

Americans always have acted mature, with one exception, when they are back home playing online with each other where they become incredibly childish, paranoid and petty.

zero4 comes to mind...

Well he used to be fine, only in 2008 did he make some lolcomments to be honest and I kinda got the impression he was just messing around kinda thing...

You should've been in the server the other day when he played dkt. Got pretty heated.
Still loltastic, tho. :D

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agreed even though i hate americans playing style i must admit they show some CLASS online, on the lan and during the interviews

no bullshitin about cell phones and shoes or luck or beeing homo or whatever

for this i respect them

I didn't yet pay particular attention to this, but one might wonder how much the answers would depend on the questions asked. Like good questions good answers, dumb questions dumb answers.

Just a thought.

well, he was baited with the av3k thing, and opted out of commenting on a personal level, and instead just mentioned that it was bad for spectators.

tbh, though, it didn't look to me like av3k had actually given up, I took those as taunts from rph, since he was coming away from most fights with 20-30hp while he had lower ping and full map control.
the standing there with MG spawn at bridge has proven effective for him on LAN many times, and it didn't work out.

OK. But people might still want to take a little context into account. The avek interview for example appears to be a translation made by a kind soul specifically for esr, from polish. So while avek likely thought he was addressing his "homies" only, the thing ended up at a place he might not have expected it to. And might have spoken differently if he had. And I'm almost sure that dahang would talk a little different "at home" than he talks here.

Regarding the gdata thing, I thought rapha was contributing to that. The game didn't work out for avek on t7 and you could sense he was pissed. And I believe it was when taking mega for the first time unchallenged that rapha started his "cmon" stuff. And from there on things just escalated. Frankly, and especially so in view of it being a weekly online cup, I didn't quite understand the fuzz and excitement about this.

depends on which players you're refering too! It's true that players like av3k and strenx come off very immature, and especially strenx in the latest interview. But you have to consider the language barrier aswell.. I'd like to read an interview with players like cooller, strenx and av3k in they own language, and thereafter ofcourse translated into english!

i no need no language barrior to undettstand STFU

translated cooller was so much better than english cooller though

Toxic and stermy both come to mind as very professional in interviews as well.

that's just because they take it more seriously

loved it.

:)

how original

is that u strenx?

I'm glad he didn't play into the kiddies trash talk games. Good interview.

sold interview as always from dahang, very nice

atlast, a decent interview, his reason to "STFU" was totally legit.
so let's add a [+]

lets hope Buzz will school these eastern+french kids

To infinity, and beyond.

Don't talk to me about importance! Because of *you*, the future of this entire universe is in jeopardy! Right now, poised at the edge of the galaxy, Emperor Zurg has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet! I alone have information that reveals this weapon's only weakness. And *you*, my friend, are responsible for delaying my rendezvous with Star Command!



gl to all players, hoping to see some great games tomorrow.
great interview, looking forward to dahangs, raphas, stermy, and coollers games.

hope esl gets this crap together. if not i hope slasher saves the day.

No Cypher's interview for a long time!

YOU SAID IT, ZURG MUST BE BEHIND ALL THIS NONSENSE GOING AROUND IN CEBIT, WE MUST INFORM BUZZ ABOUT THIS

What's cool about Dahang is that you instantly know even if he ends up winning 180 tourneys in a row, he won't get a major cockyness upgrade.

For some it takes just a wee bit of confidence and they become idiots.
Worst part is, it usually lasts for fucking ever.

Being humble is a Christian value, needs-to-be-saved Freelance.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

This is so wrong.
Being humble is a human value.

Typically christian to believe they are behind all the good values however :)

Need-to-be-awaken Bryan.

God bless free thought and self discovery of spiritual autonomy.

Haha I was joking around, was hoping you might of caught onto the satire, but you didn't. No hard feelings :)

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

It did sound like that movie with the angry newscaster but I can't skip a chance to trash around when there's a Gillz reply.

It's tradition and common esrsense.

Dahang is a complete douchebag. He didn't even give strenx the pw after strenx let dahang watch him.

that could just be strenx's version of the truth

unless you were there, of course =)

stfu.

I specced you on stream and you didn't stop me. hahahaha

shoes and cellphone pls

whoa chill out mr.pro with an ego. Typical American pro who gets a big head and thinks he is humanly better than all just because he spends more time in a game.

You've obviously never played with this idiot online before.

NO YOU DIDN'T!

i think i have a nerdcrush on dahang :|

Nice guy with good values

hope you place high dude,just don't let rapha win :)

Showing both skill and down-to-earth sportsmanship.

PLZ TO BE SEEING GRAPH OF PLAYERS BY AWESOMENESS:

|wery| Cooller DaHanG Cypher fox jibo dkt <---|---> rapha stermy strenxm8 av3k griffin |cunt|

Notes:
Wery player:
COOLLER for showing trademark personality*
DaHanG for showing political interview + play style
Cypher cos same age as strenxm8 but without showing blatant arrogance
Fox cos fox
Jibo cos jibo
DKT cos sunglasses

Cunt player:
Rapha cos Jesus loves all the little children and he is over that age
Stermy cos take 120euro/hr QL coaching, shove in ass
Strenxm8 cos cuntwhine
Av3k cos ragequit
Griffin goes to bottom of the pit cos canadian


/my 2 cents

say what you say bout ESR fanaticism, but this player has some sort of personal charm and compared with all the other "potential winners" is much more, capable of showing a sense of humour and ability to entertain

some well-thought, reasonable arguments in here..

Pretty much agree to everything here, except :

Cypher is a very emotional boy

canadian > ragewhine

W2B explanation why Canadians are bad lol.

Why hate on CANADA O CAAANADAAA OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAAAAAND!!

cyph emo things
"this wont happen on lan, believe me" to jibo
"stupid aim bot without brain" to jibo
"the stupidest of lamz" to question
"proud?" to spartie
"gg wil be when i rape u in germany" to strenx
and what he said to killsen @eswc2k8, i cant remember, sth like moron

when he loses to someone he feels he shouldnt lose to, such things come

for sportsmanship, fox is no1, definitely

whatever you are smoking, it must be something trippy.

esr : alltime down

if you want to site pimp fragster, then atleast put this shit below the main post for iem coverage.

yeah, thats it... not
the coverage post is supposed to be sticky anyway and i am doing this esr post (and the one i am currently writing) although i should be writing something for fragster atm instead.

exactly

so why are you giving me shit for it? oh wait, idc
already stickied it anyway

exactly

insightful post +

he actually looks a lot like buzz lightyear indeed.

http://media.fragster.de/site-media/upload/im..._large.jpg

^^ Looks pretty white trash.