Hellokitty joins Fnatic

Zifeng "hellokitty" Wang joins the ranks of Fnatic's SC2 Academy and hopes of becoming a strong member in the Fnatic Protoss lineup. The 21 year old switched from Brood War rather late, yet still managed to place high in several big NA tournaments such as the WCS last year.

Elroy Pinto, Fnatic's General Manager and Manager of the SC2 division sat down with Zifeng for an introductory interview and had this to say:

 

"I am pretty pumped about having Zifeng with us, he's definitely going to be one of the stars of the future and he has displayed all the required skills (aside from playing macro games!) to be a competitive gamer. We're glad he has chosen to continue his career with us and we have no doubt that he's going to be a player to watch out for. I will try and steer away from the generic statements us managers tend to make at such news posts. Let's look at the results in the future months to know if we were right today."

 

Speaking of his background, hellokitty explains his origin and past accomplishment, as well as future goals:

 

I was a pretty unknown Brood War player, finishing highest iccup B+ as a Protoss player and was just beginning to transition into StarCraft 2 a year later after it came out. I am currently a student at University of Texas Austin and I have always wanted to become a professional gamer. I have only decided to become publicized and into pro gaming since last year for MLG Columbus, where I made my first debut as WCS USA was the ongoing event(finished top 5). Hence my tournament record might be meager compared to a lot of other gamers.

 

Zifeng talks of what we can expect of him, his goals of catching up to Korean players and how he managed to beat Suppy using mindgames:

 

I expect nothing less than improvements, and these big tournaments have shown that I still have a very big improvement to catch up with, against the Koreans. I mean, my worst match up used to be PvT, through WCS NA I have drastically improved my understanding of the match up, hence making me a much better well-rounded player than before.

Of course, this is actually one of the first times I've actually had to prepare a pre-made match-up vs a player and I think I did a pretty good job at the mind games. I can pull out of my "one-trick-pony" hat "laughs".

 

You can read up the full interview up at Fnatic.com