Greg "Idra" Fields is, with his CJ Entus membership, the absolute favorite to take home the gold in PokerStrategy.com TeamLiquid Starleague, and he is not late to sing along with the choir.The Terran monster believes in nothing but a win against fellow countryman Tyler "NonY" Wasieleski, he says in an interview.
"I actually gained a lot of confidence from our seed match. His only real chance to beat me is cheese, and the Destination game where he cheesed demonstrated just how uncomfortable he is with that style of play," says IdrA.
"If Nony wants to play to my weaknesses, he takes himself out of his element as well"
Not impressed by NonY's 6-0 - IdrA's thoughts on NonY's cheese
IdrA was not impressed by NonY's 3-0 wins over HoRRoR and Tarson, thinking it is more impressive if he would beat NonY 3-2 BBS against double nexus every game.
However, his opponent has shown signs of confidence. In interviews, NonY has been saying he has a good chance in defeating IdrA, but IdrA doesn't think it means anything.
"Only emo predict to lose"
"Only emo or falsely modest Europeans predict that they're going to lose games. Confidence is everything in any kind of competition. If you don't absolutely expect to win, you don't really have much of a chance. So yes of course he says that, but it doesn't mean anything," answers IdrA.
He believes in a 3-0 victory, no matter how many double nexus strategies NonY will pull.
"If he can get a free double nexus diagonal positions on Andromeda and still almost lose, it won't really matter what build he does," says IdrA.
The CJ Entus progamer does not see NonY as his biggest threat. He rates White-Ra and IefNaij as the toughest competitors because of their comfort with abusive and cheesy play - unlike NonY.
"If Nony wants to play to my weaknesses, he takes himself out of his element as well, so while he is the more skilled player, I'm much more comfortable with him style wise," says IdrA.
See the match this Sunday at 20:00 CET.
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