So far, you have two bronze medal placements, in the fnatic PLAY #1 and ESL ICS September tournaments respectively, and most recently you grabbed a second place finish in the fnatic PLAY #2 tournament. You are yet to win a tournament. Is that something that you're motivated by or is it more a negative pressure feeling when you're going into a tournament?
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We are most definitely motivated by it. Losing makes you wanna try harder next time and every time you lose you get a little closer to winning. Winning tournaments is not something we have as our top priority right now, we are in this for the long run and that makes improving our teamplay, finding roles within the team and estabalishing our performance more important. We are happy placing 2nd and 3rd right now if it helps us get to the very top some day.” DreamHack Winter is just a week away. What do you expect out of it? How far do you think your team can go? Do you think anyone has the strength needed to dethrone fnatic, who are dubbed firm favorites to grab the title and cement the #1 spot in the European scene?
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This Dreamhack is going to be awesome, I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone in person as well as the tournament itself, it just sucks that Honcast is not coming since I was really looking forward to meeting them.Our goal for this DreamHack is to play the finals at the DreamArena and we will do everything we can to get there, it's really hard for me to predict if it is realistic or not though since this will be our first LAN tournament as a team and playing on LAN is not the same thing as playing online.
Fnatic are clearly the favourites to win but I do think that there are some teams who might be able to upset them if the HoN Gods allow it.”
Heroes of Newerth will once again be part of the main event with the finals played at the DreamArena Extreme. How important is this for the continuing growth of the game as an eSport? Are you satisfied with the amount of coverage and tournaments the game is getting at the moment or do you think there's still room for improvement?
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Big events like this are really important. The last DreamHack final was awesome and really helped draw notice towards HoN. One can only hope that it will be even bigger and better this time around because if we want WCG and the other major eSport events to pick up HoN we have to be able to produce some big viewer numbers. The online scene has grown alot lately and websites like GosuGamers.net and SK Gaming have really stepped up their game when it comes to HoN coverage. More and more tournaments are emerging with some nice prizepools and it is getting really hard to participate in them all, which is good because then more teams will be able to prove themselves.
I like where it's headed at the moment, what we need now is more big LAN tournaments and events - so go vote for HoN at WCG!”
The full interview can be found here at the SK Gaming site.
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