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11-07-2007, 06:54 PM
Once again, we are glad to have the honor to interview our best local DotA team, the Zenith. Thanks to Sam, Ant, Mike, Ice and Hyhy for the interview, the rest of Zenith guys are unavailable at during the interview session.
As most of you are already aware, recently there are major movement of top DotA players and Zenith is also involved. This will also strengthen the foundation that Zenith have build up for the team. They are all ready to go and are charged up for new battles in the coming year.
Here is the interview session with Zenith, enjoy!!
PaPa: Thank you all for allowing me to give you are a quick interview.
PaPa: As you all know, recently there has been a shakeup in our DotA scene. With disbanding of Micro and Hyhy and mike joining Zenith, how do you see Zenith's path down the road?
Ice: We will own everything, that is if I play.
PaPa: LOL!
PaPa: Ice, will you going to play often for Zenith then. I think is also a part where supporters are curious since you have been missing in the last few tournaments?
Ice: I need to wait for my results before I can play. If my results are bad I wouldn’t want to continue DotA. So I need to wait for my results before I do anything, easier to quit if I stop playing now.
PaPa: Well, although there is a risk of you being gone, I guess your support must be still happy to know you might still be around as some have previously thought you are gone from Zenith for good.
Ice: I might be gone, I am now MIA.
Hyhy : Not for long, he’s going to fail his N level. 10 points.
PaPa: So is this restriction something you imposed on yourself or is your parents wish?
Ant: It's a restriction between him and his closest friend!
Ice: No, self imposed.
Ant: Ok.
PaPa: For you, mike and Hyhy, maybe tell us about how you feel joining Zenith? Also how you would best contribute to help to bring Zenith to a new level?
Hyhy: Will help these jokes to win WCG 2008.
Ant: What, WCG 2008 only, AC 2008 too.
Ice: I have bronze and silver, no gold.
Ant: ACG, let’s go. We got 3rd last year. 2nd this year (I did not play). So next year will be first.
Hyhy: This is all we can say, SG #1, ACG #1.
PaPa: So how you all plan to do that, any secret strategy or plan?
Ant: No secret.
Ice: Yes, as ice is not playing now zenith is down to its lowest point. Ice is the weapon.
Ant: It's called natural selection
Hyhy: Please ignore Ice, Ice is a sub. You need to understand, Ice is Zenith’s sub. A SUB!
Ice: ……..
Ant: It’s easy to win ACG actually, all Zenith has to do is slowly booting its lousier players into NS. We have *nutz* entering NS.
PaPa: Then how about Sam, you have been very quiet. Even I was wondering what happened to you. Can you fill us with what you are doing lately? And how you are still helping out in Zenith?
Ant: He help zenith to register competitions, that’s how he helps. Very important job. Sam has a VERY important job which we didn't use to appreciate; it was known as "controlling tofuboi".
PaPa: Why does tofu need controlling?
Ant: Now let's not go into the specifics.
Mike: Tofu has no sense of shame.
Hyhy: He enjoys doing stuff like flashing his chest in public. That needs a lot of control. Tofu is mentally sick, result of playing too much DotA.
Ant: Phrase nicely, Tofu is in tune with his animal self.
Hyhy: Haha!!
Ant: Plus euphemism is good sometimes other than that Sam does all the work for our linking with HP and AMD. We're trying to pass the job to ZX now since Sam is doing a lot of A level studying (obviousleeeeeyy). He handles a lot of work between us and AMD and is still the person we talk to when we want to settle any stuff. He is pretty dedicated to us.
Sam: Well, studying that’s all I can say my life has been studying and it’s starting tomorrow, omg. Well, honestly I haven’t been doing very much recently, beside some media stuff that was settled a few weeks ago and basically coordinating the sponsoring process and the merger facilitating it, but right now ant and zx are assuming greater leadership roles and stepping in when I am unavailable. So it’s good, especially given that zx is assuming the role of the new team captain, though I still remain as team’s manager.
PaPa: So after the current change, is it going to be more or less perm or things might change again(other than NS)?
Ant: Well, if it was temporary it wouldn't have been done I think as in after WCG we needed a few temporary players and we knew Micro could have some players retiring to study but they didn't want to join over for anything temporary so in the end we had to import Musica for WGT, although we didn't intend to join WGT. I mean this year was really hectic, in terms of player lineup players going NS or taking major exams. I would expect after this change there shouldn't be any more changes.
Mike: Yeah, me and Hyhy will probably be settled in this team unless anything weird happens
PaPa: There was a little storm about disbanding of Micronology. So since two of the former members are here. Maybe can share with us what happened? Like from your side of the story.
Mike: Basically whatever happened were personal issues between Hyhy and queen, and coincidentally bouncy had to leave for his studies.
Hyhy: No no no, Micro disbanded because bouncy was going to quit DotA and he is one of the 3 core players. With him gone we don’t see much future ahead of us as the other 2 players are rather inexperienced and not performing. The internal conflict me and queen was just a catalyst of what was inevitable.
PaPa: If let say we could turn back time, could anything been done to change how things turn out?
Hyhy: I don’t know about this, we can’t do much even if we turned back time because bouncy's leaving was the main reason behind the team disband. Don’t see what we could have done to his studies issue. So bottomline is ZENITH is our new home!! And out plan is to remove all the non-exmicro players and invite bouncy, queen and true in so Micro will be back.
PaPa: LoL, that’s nice. One big happy family.
PaPa: Ok, I am sure zenith will be taking part in GXL, so what will be the line up this time? And any secret strats to reveal a little to tease your fans?
Ant: Ice can't play much so it's NutZ Ant ZX Tofu Mike Hyhy.
PaPa: Lastly. Since you guys have been around in the DotA community for sometime. What do you think local DotA community is lacking? What is needed and could be done?
Hyhy: We need an Asia IHCS .
Ice: I think everyone should quit DotA.
Hyhy: More incentives to play DotA, increase prize money, more competitions.
Ant: Singapore can start on making DotA international. We have huge quantity but we don’t have HUGE prestigious tournaments that can be international.
Hyhy: Yeah, we want to invite more foreign teams over here too, if prize money is good they will come.
PaPa: Anything to add before I end today's interview?
Hyhy: Tofu is damn fat.
Ice: <3 furryfish and Tofu is skinny.
Ant: Tofu would like to say he loves nutz.
PaPa: Ok guys, once again thanks for the interview.
As most of you are already aware, recently there are major movement of top DotA players and Zenith is also involved. This will also strengthen the foundation that Zenith have build up for the team. They are all ready to go and are charged up for new battles in the coming year.
Here is the interview session with Zenith, enjoy!!
PaPa: Thank you all for allowing me to give you are a quick interview.
PaPa: As you all know, recently there has been a shakeup in our DotA scene. With disbanding of Micro and Hyhy and mike joining Zenith, how do you see Zenith's path down the road?
Ice: We will own everything, that is if I play.
PaPa: LOL!
PaPa: Ice, will you going to play often for Zenith then. I think is also a part where supporters are curious since you have been missing in the last few tournaments?
Ice: I need to wait for my results before I can play. If my results are bad I wouldn’t want to continue DotA. So I need to wait for my results before I do anything, easier to quit if I stop playing now.
PaPa: Well, although there is a risk of you being gone, I guess your support must be still happy to know you might still be around as some have previously thought you are gone from Zenith for good.
Ice: I might be gone, I am now MIA.
Hyhy : Not for long, he’s going to fail his N level. 10 points.
PaPa: So is this restriction something you imposed on yourself or is your parents wish?
Ant: It's a restriction between him and his closest friend!
Ice: No, self imposed.
Ant: Ok.
PaPa: For you, mike and Hyhy, maybe tell us about how you feel joining Zenith? Also how you would best contribute to help to bring Zenith to a new level?
Hyhy: Will help these jokes to win WCG 2008.
Ant: What, WCG 2008 only, AC 2008 too.
Ice: I have bronze and silver, no gold.
Ant: ACG, let’s go. We got 3rd last year. 2nd this year (I did not play). So next year will be first.
Hyhy: This is all we can say, SG #1, ACG #1.
PaPa: So how you all plan to do that, any secret strategy or plan?
Ant: No secret.
Ice: Yes, as ice is not playing now zenith is down to its lowest point. Ice is the weapon.
Ant: It's called natural selection
Hyhy: Please ignore Ice, Ice is a sub. You need to understand, Ice is Zenith’s sub. A SUB!
Ice: ……..
Ant: It’s easy to win ACG actually, all Zenith has to do is slowly booting its lousier players into NS. We have *nutz* entering NS.
PaPa: Then how about Sam, you have been very quiet. Even I was wondering what happened to you. Can you fill us with what you are doing lately? And how you are still helping out in Zenith?
Ant: He help zenith to register competitions, that’s how he helps. Very important job. Sam has a VERY important job which we didn't use to appreciate; it was known as "controlling tofuboi".
PaPa: Why does tofu need controlling?
Ant: Now let's not go into the specifics.
Mike: Tofu has no sense of shame.
Hyhy: He enjoys doing stuff like flashing his chest in public. That needs a lot of control. Tofu is mentally sick, result of playing too much DotA.
Ant: Phrase nicely, Tofu is in tune with his animal self.
Hyhy: Haha!!
Ant: Plus euphemism is good sometimes other than that Sam does all the work for our linking with HP and AMD. We're trying to pass the job to ZX now since Sam is doing a lot of A level studying (obviousleeeeeyy). He handles a lot of work between us and AMD and is still the person we talk to when we want to settle any stuff. He is pretty dedicated to us.
Sam: Well, studying that’s all I can say my life has been studying and it’s starting tomorrow, omg. Well, honestly I haven’t been doing very much recently, beside some media stuff that was settled a few weeks ago and basically coordinating the sponsoring process and the merger facilitating it, but right now ant and zx are assuming greater leadership roles and stepping in when I am unavailable. So it’s good, especially given that zx is assuming the role of the new team captain, though I still remain as team’s manager.
PaPa: So after the current change, is it going to be more or less perm or things might change again(other than NS)?
Ant: Well, if it was temporary it wouldn't have been done I think as in after WCG we needed a few temporary players and we knew Micro could have some players retiring to study but they didn't want to join over for anything temporary so in the end we had to import Musica for WGT, although we didn't intend to join WGT. I mean this year was really hectic, in terms of player lineup players going NS or taking major exams. I would expect after this change there shouldn't be any more changes.
Mike: Yeah, me and Hyhy will probably be settled in this team unless anything weird happens
PaPa: There was a little storm about disbanding of Micronology. So since two of the former members are here. Maybe can share with us what happened? Like from your side of the story.
Mike: Basically whatever happened were personal issues between Hyhy and queen, and coincidentally bouncy had to leave for his studies.
Hyhy: No no no, Micro disbanded because bouncy was going to quit DotA and he is one of the 3 core players. With him gone we don’t see much future ahead of us as the other 2 players are rather inexperienced and not performing. The internal conflict me and queen was just a catalyst of what was inevitable.
PaPa: If let say we could turn back time, could anything been done to change how things turn out?
Hyhy: I don’t know about this, we can’t do much even if we turned back time because bouncy's leaving was the main reason behind the team disband. Don’t see what we could have done to his studies issue. So bottomline is ZENITH is our new home!! And out plan is to remove all the non-exmicro players and invite bouncy, queen and true in so Micro will be back.
PaPa: LoL, that’s nice. One big happy family.
PaPa: Ok, I am sure zenith will be taking part in GXL, so what will be the line up this time? And any secret strats to reveal a little to tease your fans?
Ant: Ice can't play much so it's NutZ Ant ZX Tofu Mike Hyhy.
PaPa: Lastly. Since you guys have been around in the DotA community for sometime. What do you think local DotA community is lacking? What is needed and could be done?
Hyhy: We need an Asia IHCS .
Ice: I think everyone should quit DotA.
Hyhy: More incentives to play DotA, increase prize money, more competitions.
Ant: Singapore can start on making DotA international. We have huge quantity but we don’t have HUGE prestigious tournaments that can be international.
Hyhy: Yeah, we want to invite more foreign teams over here too, if prize money is good they will come.
PaPa: Anything to add before I end today's interview?
Hyhy: Tofu is damn fat.
Ice: <3 furryfish and Tofu is skinny.
Ant: Tofu would like to say he loves nutz.
PaPa: Ok guys, once again thanks for the interview.