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| Interview with Susiria and Storm
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Storm and Susiria, recent WC3L winners are currently at a promotion tour in Europe with MeetYourMakers. GosuGamers went to Gamers Paradise to catch up with the two. We give you Susiria and Storm in an interview about DreamHack, WSVG, WC3L and their promotion tour.
It's a sunny and incredibly hot afternoon in central Malmö. We have just arrived to Gamers Paradise where meet Your makers are having a promotion tour. E-Sport is finally becoming big outside of Korea too so that even Malmö can have it's own events, we think as we enter the café one hour after the announced time since mYm were delayed. Nothing spectacular meets us though; a café not exactly crowded by fans, mYm-Army the ever so enthusiastic manager is unpacking the mYm banners we are familiar with since DreamHack and three of the world's best WarCraft gamers who already began gaming.
Storm was the only one to break the pattern; a game of FIFA 2006 was already started and we hear curses when the English team he plays isn't managing to win even though he clicks intensively.
The café owner blames the late rescheduling of the event the reason for the few spectators while my partner, Mazor, who together with hAxel also were there from GosuGamers, rather chose to believe it was the weather. Neither of this seem to disturb the Korean stars, however, as we begin to speak with them. And as expected, communication wasn't on top.
Susiria in WC3L Season 9
| | Playday 1: | 1-2 | vs. |   WE.ReMinD
| | Playday 2: | 2-0 | vs. |   Play.Abver
| | Playday 3: | 2-0 | vs. |  Verge.Virus
| | Playday 4: | 0-2 | vs. | SK.Deadman
| | Playday 5: | N/A
| Playday 6: | 2-0 | vs. |   u5.NilknarfLP
| | Playday 7: | 2-1 | vs. |  fnatic.Vankor
| | Playday 8: | 2-0 | vs. |  mouz.HasuObs
| | Playday 9: | 1-2 | vs. | 4K^FoV
| | Playday 10: | 2-0 | vs. | mTw.hanf
| | Playday 11: | 2-0 | vs. |  LanFan.NightWOlf | |
| Storm in WC3L Season 9
| | Playday 1: | 0-2 | vs. | WE.Sweet
| | Playday 2: | 1-2 | vs. | Play.XyLigan
| | Playday 3: | N/A
| Playday 4: | N/A
| Playday 5: | 2-0 | vs. | NiP-Rainbow
| | Playday 6: | N/A
| Playday 7: | N/A
| Playday 8: | 1-2 | vs. |  mouz.PhilBot
| | Playday 9: | 2-0 | vs. |  4K^FuRy
| | Playday 10: | 2-0 | vs. |  mTw.Tak3r
| | Playday 11: | 2-1 | vs. |  LanFan.Yellow | | | | |
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Storm explained how he felt that the language was the main problem during the European gaming tour that he has been doing. Fortunately it is not our first time to speak with the likes of Storm and we quickly degraded the level of the questions from "How would you comment your results in the recent WC3L finals?" to "warcraft 3 league, you play good?".
Both the language and the european food which Storm and Susiria said they weren't fond of was easily outshined by the WC3L victory: "It was my first major victory. I won't forget it.", Storm explained.
They were both two essential pieces in the final battle of WC3L in Oberhausen. Susiria - Jung-Ki Oh and Storm - Kim JaeWoong. Susiria, being the captain of the team and Nordahl’s right hand makes him sort of the link between the Danish part and the Korean part of the team. Nordahl, manager of MeetYourMakers even mentions in a previous interview with GosuGamers that Susiria was » the best captain any manager could ask for. Susiria's performance in the regular season of the WC3L shows that he is not only successful as a captain, but also as one of the best players in their lineup. He is especially good in the Undead mirror matchup, which he told us himself but also the manager Army. In WC3L, he has played five Undead players and only lost in one of them - against FoV from 4Kings.
However it is not only FoV that is a ghost for Susiria and MeetYourMakers. When GosuGamers asked how it felt winning against 4Kings in the WC3L finals, not once, but twice, Susiria thought for a long while but then answered that it was an amazing match and that he felt very happy about it.
- Previously, 4Kings were stronger than MYM, says Susiria and right away I come to think of » last year's WC3L finals. Sure, MeetYourMakers were the ones ending 4Kings' long clan war winning spree, but in the grand final 4Kings stood as the victor, defeating Susiria and the rest of the gang. This year mYm achieved vengeance, by first winning 5-0, and in the grand final 3-2.
Storm and Susiria really brought out their best during the WC3L finals, something not only Army said when we started talking about DreamHack, WC3L and ESWC; their results in the WC3L finals speak for themselves. In the first match where MYM played World Elite, Susiria played and won against Check while Storm took on the World Cyber Games 2005 winner Sky. Storm is an eminent Human versus Human player and tells me in our interview that he played lots of games against Sky on Battle.Net.
- I knew what he was going to do, says Storm, meaning the strategy. He then says that the matches were pretty easy to win, because all he had to do was using a counter strategy. Next up were 4Kings, where Storm faced ToD in another Human versus Human match. He says that the reason for losing the first game was because he did not know the map that well.
- So I mostly fooled around and did funny strategies, Storm says. But the following games against him it went a bit better, defeating the French player ToD, both in the Winner Bracket Finals and in the Grand Final. Susiria was up against first FuRy and then FoV against 4Kings, defeating them both.
 | | Moon and Susiria writing interview answers for GosuGamers at Gamers Paradise in Malmö. |
Facing top notch players are what Susiria and Storm have been doing the whole summer, as they have partaked in the DreamHack tournament, World Series of Video Games and of course the WC3L. At DreamHack Summer 2006, they both took part in both the official tournament and the World Series of Video Games stop in Sweden. Storm actually finished third, after SaSe and Deadman. He was very happy about it he tells us, because of the tough competition: "So many good players there, many hard games," he says.
Winning the » official DreamHack tournament was the Swedish Orc player ElakeDuck, a player Susiria thought was the toughest player there.
- I have lots of trouble against Orc, says Susiria. It's really hard to win, when the loser picks the map, he will choose Lost Temple and I almost always get a loss, he says. When he went up against Deadman in the WC3L regular season versus SK-Gaming, Deadman switched from his regular Night Elf race to Orc when they played on Lost Temple. That forced Susiria to switch race as well, seeing as how Orc versus Undead is too hard at Lost Temple. At least according to Susiria. He does however mention that he was satisfied with coming in third place at a tournament where that many good players took part in.
 | | Storm playing one of many showgames at Gamers Paradise in Malmö. |
Storm on the other hand was successful in the World Series of Video Games, coming in third. In the official tournament, he was eliminated in the Loser Bracket against Susiria. He had previously eliminated his clan mate Ciara, and was right after that up against his Korean Undead friend. It proved to be a tough nut to crack, even when Susiria played Human, just as Storm did.
- Susiria is the best Human mirror player, says Storm, and gives a sad face. He keeps his spirit up though by saying that he enjoys the third place in WSVG.
Kim JaeWoong (Storm) is only 18 years old while Jung-Ki Oh (Susiria) is 21 years old, making them the youngest and the oldest in the MeetYourMakers squad. We asked Susiria how long he was meant to continue with WarCraft 3. He told us that he will do his military service, and then he will retire.
- When I come back after finishing my military service, I want to work with WarCraft 3 in Korea, Susiria adds. We asked "TV?", and he said yes, or maybe being a manager.
Whatever it is the future holds for the two Koreans, I am sure that they will succeed. Seeing Susisia on Korean television as a commentator or perhaps a host, and seeing Storm achieve more major titles. And remember, WC3L Season 10 is coming up, and we'll for sure see these two when MeetYourMakers aspire to defend their title as the WC3L champions.
For replays with the two players, follow » this link for replays with Storm, and » this one for replays with Susiria.
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