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Clawson@WCG

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One of the best players in Scandinavia currently, a quiet guy from Finland who has a most decent Protoss and a solid playing style. He felt he underperformed at WCG. He also claims that at WCG he "had no spirit" due to the lack of music.
Quoting him "without music, life is meaningless."
Here is another of our short @WCG interviews.



He is from Finland, age 17, Protoss player. His name is Matti "Clawson" Punkari, otherwise known as Finland Clawson. When I met him at WCG he impressed me as an individual with a keen intelligence that has much more to offer than his humble quiet manner may lead you to believe.

He does not speak much, in part due to the language and in part due to some shyness, but when he does there is no hesitation or foolish words. He is also one of those shy guys who truly do not give a damn if you have to suffer an awkward silence, or for that matter what you may or not think of him; and yet, if you offer him your friendship he will accept it, and you will probably have a life time friend.

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The Finnish Panda


Your best moment?
Becoming friends with Shaman. You can never have too many friends :)

Your worst moment?
Night before games vs. Androide, horrible night, thanks to my roommate :(

Who were your roommates?
My room mates were Finland #1 wcg WC3 player and 1 of the 5 CS players... the CS player slept in same bed with me, and he snored & jumped all over the bed, on me... and everything. I slept ~2h or less that night. Was not good at all :( In games vs. Androide, I was just totally stunned, played most horrible games of my entire life... Can't say anything good about that :( I was very disappointed about it.

Jejeje. What you expect CS and W3 players!.. sigh..Your worst mistake?
Not talking to Nazgul, should have spoken to him.. Very nice guy

Favorite quote?
Copy from Entropy: "it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak aloud and remove all doubt" That is exactly what I am like... I am no good in so called "trash talk", I can't usually make talk topics of my own, but when someone else does it, I am in for a talk (unless I'm drunk, or in a very good feeling... maybe by the music or just the good mood). If I do make a topic of my own, everyone usually just gets "WTF" look on their faces, says something and leaves... Well, this is just the way I am, I don’t see anything bad in it..., too bad if some of the guys in there did. ~ My apologies.

Many attribute it to Thomas Jefferson, but it has a biblical origin right down to King Solomon's words, with a twist of course.

Funniest moment?
Hmm.. Can’t take one thing really..., but maybe seeing Eritummy live, while he was showing it to Zia :D

Your future plans?
Will continue Starcraft at least until I know if there will be more competitions for Finland, as TILTGAMES (Finnish Championship) or WCG. If there will be, I will continue and if there won't be... I'm not sure, time will tell.

Requests for WCG 2005?
Hmm.. In Korea they had like a cabinet or something where they played? At least I often see them in VODs.. It would really help me concentrate better in the matches if they had those. Umm.. Also when they are not observing games and there are people wanting to observe something in the audience... You could show them replays or something... At least I got pretty bored there and had to leave & come back, well that's not a big problem, but it's something at least ^^ I'm not good finding problems,... I just take what I get and don’t really ask for more :/ I hope there will be a WCG for Finland in 2005, if there is, I will be mass training towards it. So YOU should prepare to be my training partners! :)

You are so right. Damn, on a subconscious level the lack of show games bothered me too, but I guess I cheated because I just waltzed in and watched any of the games up close. It always pays to make friends with the security staff so I did not have to abuse my press pass.

Any shouts?
I'M A PANDA!

Well there you have it, words from the Finnish Panda himself. Great talking to you Matti, see you in Singapore!

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