World of Warcraft in Singapore
I got a chance to interview a 16 year old champion of the World Cyber Games 2007 being held in Singapore. The interview took place in his Singapore spa hotel room, which was quite nice. I asked questions that takes a closer look at how he manages to balance gaming, school and if he has a social life, but the my favorite question was what he thought of the match he played against a female, his fellow team mate.
He told me he considered that to be his toughest match. The first map was of Echo Isle, he was taken by surprise by his innovative adoption of the human tier 1 tower rush. Exposing the rigidity of his strategy, which cost him his first game. The second game, he tried to use one of his own invented strategy which didn’t help him much at all. He lost. Mostly, he made mistakes for the second game and to his opponent 2-0.
He said the first map, which was Echo Isle, everything went according to his plans, Creep jacks were present and catching him was present, so it was no surprise that he won the first map quickly. The second map was Turtle Rock; earlier on, game mistakes allowed him to overpower with his early harass stategy, tilting the game in his favor, but, eventually, he lost that map to his opponent.
The last map was Twisted Meadows. He said it was honestly a display of the sheer versatility of the Humans, or better put, the sheer rigidity of the Orc. In the early game to mid game, he killed everything he could, ensuring a higher level hero advantage. When everything seemed to be going his way, after having countered with his mass summons strategy, to his surprise he retrained his skills to Blizzard. This forced him to focus on his Archmage, which will not die, as he used Farseer as his first hero and Panda as his second hero. With no units of heroes to stun, it was impossible to kill the Archmage which was holding onto a town teleportation scroll, a healing potion and an invulerability potion. Hence he managed to secure the decisive 2-1 victory in this match, which gave him the 2007 Championship.
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