Get to know em : South East Asia

Never Back Down [NvD]

Thanks for doing this interview, Mike. Would you like to start by introducing yourself?

-"Hi, I’m Mike, Captain of NvD."

How’s the team doing lately? With the recent loss against tSm, is the team suffering from a lack of competition in SEA?

-"The team is doing great but the outdated patch in GG HoN really affects us in international matches, against tSm last week, we didn’t know how strong flint was mid. But overall they were the better team that night."

Being the most internationally experienced SEA team, who do you see as NvD’s biggest threat at the World Cup? Teams from int or SEA itself?

-"It’s quite obvious that the int scene has more top tier teams but there are some teams from SEA that have potential. Our biggest threat would be DWi / Loaded."

With regards to GG HoN being outdated in terms of patches, does NvD practice often on Int.HoN to keep yourself updated as iMp does?

-"We hardly play on int hon, we only go online if we got a match as it is impossible for us to find opponents during our training times since only Euro teams are online and they wouldn’t want to play USW for a scrim."

With many past occurrences of Int. teams complaining about server advantages and admin decisions,what are your thoughts about them? Being a team from the Philippines, you guys must ping a lot during matches.

-"Well admins are starting to use servers which are lowest for both teams and as long as our ping is between 220-260 we won't complain even if our opponents will have 50-100 because there is nothing we can do about our ping issues."

Thanks for your time. Would you like to end it with some final words?

-"Shoutout to all my teammates, my friends, and this is long overdue : Shoutout to MissMischa."

iMpUniTy [iMp]

Thanks for doing this interview, why don’t you start by giving a brief intro about yourself?

-"Sure, I’m beanbeanbean from impunity. Currently we have 6 people in our roster or rather we are a six man team. Players are Ricardo (leader), ken, me, Air, Act, and Capellzor."

As we all know, Garena HoN is outdated in terms of patches, being still in 1.06. Do you think this will be an issue for you guys when you play in the World Cup when it comes to adapting to new strategies?

-"Well, definitely. As you can tell the latest patch has 2 new heroes flint and Dr, a new item called Striders and a boost to Blood Chalice. All of these make the gameplay faster and more spell oriented. But we do keep ourselves updated as we all have accounts in international hon as you do see us training there sometimes."

With many top teams who are capable of throwing curve balls in terms of their strats, you worried about playing against different playstyles when the World Cup starts?

-"Well yea we are worried but we are training hard. =) As you can see hon is evolving with the recent replay of the lvl 1 Kong strat by DM. But yea we do have some tricks up our sleeves."

Thanks for your time. Any last words to wrap this up?

-"Yea. Impunity would like to thank scoga for providing us with training facilities to facilitate our training and for all the support they gave to us. We would also like to thank Lenovo once again for getting us our team shirts, all also to all the fans out there, we will do our best."

Roam and KiLL [RAK]

Thanks for agreeing to do this interview. Let’s start off with a brief introduction about yourself.

-"My name is Richard Ray "VoSraYchard" Agustin. I'm an 18 year old student from the Philippines. I used to captain a DotA team but quit to concentrate my efforts on HoN."

What do you think about the current competitive scene in SEA?

-"Hmmm…I think that SEA competitive games are far from pro games because of the lack of competitions and opportunities for good players and room for novice players. To improve the community currently the game providers would have to improve their support and servers. Lag is mostly a problem for the masses."

Thanks for your time. Gl hf at the HoN World Cup. Any final comments?

-"We will try to be #1 in SEA."