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We're at the WCG 2010, just after the finals, which finished three minutes ago...
... and Team SK made second place. It wasn't quite enough for the gold.
The first game was great. What happened after that? Was it simply that they banned your TF?
Well, we haven't had much time to talk about this, but generally speaking...
they adapted to us more quickly than we adapted to them.
We did not expect the Ashe first pick. We were planning on playing Ashe, which we couldn't.
But like I said, we didn't have time for a debrief. Maybe someone else wants to comment?
Well, they did play very well, you have to admit it. They're definitely not bad at all.
They made no mistakes, we made mistakes. That is simply what cost us the victory.
Alright. Your team composition in game two. What was the strategy behind that?
You had a Tristana, if I remember correctly. Zylor, you played her?
What was the strategy? Was it simply to have a strong carry and a Kassadin and then to babysit those? Or was there more?
Well, the idea was to pull the fights apart a little, to play into a longer distance.
They did bring a lot of CC, and we were running two Cleanses.
We were trying to delay their initiate and then go forward and deal the damage
with our two carries. Kassadin was also supposed to supply the slow and the silence to stop Amumu from initiating.
Didn't work like we hoped it would.
Ashe also ruined our day with her Crystal Arrows and the Volleys--those make engaging very hard.
We have to admit, with Ashe we relied on getting her too much
because Ashe isn't played that much usually in the US. So we thought, okay, let's gamble
let's not ban Ashe, but then they picked her, and we had quite some problems with that.
You also already told me that the US tier lists look quite different from what CLG ended up picking.
Would you say that mindgames were involved here, that they outpicked you by picking champions
you don't normally see in the US?
Well, for these finals games it was similar to what we saw in the qualification tournament in Europe: it was down to how you adapt to the enemy.
It's not just about picking high tier champions or champions you normally pick, but about picking champions
which can mess with your opponent. That is what decides games, as we saw in the second and third games.
That's right. We relied a little too much on the US tier lists, because there are some champions
that are considered very desirable in the US, where we think, oh that champion, no problem. They strongly deviated from that a bit. Strongly a bit. Err.
Like we said, they adapted better than we did, and they did end up picking heroes that see a lot of play in Europe,
they played very strong CC lineups, something else that is done a lot in Europe.
They completely ignored Kog'Maw as well. That was well done by them.
In your third game you were stomped near dragon twice. Two times you entered the river near dragon
and both times you took a Sona and then an Amumu ult to the face. Was that a moment where you thought
we can no longer afford to give them dragon, or did you really think
you could win a teamfight at dragon, especially the second time around, against all the enemy AoE skills?
Well, thing is, if you leave them all the map objectives, you can't...
They just played very very safely. We have to admit that. They didn't do anything hasty at all
they just calmly played their game... and at some point, we had to try something, and if you have the feeling you're in a good position
then you give the go in voice chat, and going back from that is very hard. We just had to go for it.
They had a lot of map control. They took our buffs all the time, took dragon all the time,
and if you let that happen for too long you may as well surrender. At some point you have to fight.
Of course they were in a perfect position with all their AoE, and we just walked right into that.
How do you feel now? Of course, that's a stupid question, you were hoping to get the gold here,
but still, remember that your score yesterday was 4-1, that you defeated the Americans very convincingly yesterday,
and that you defeated every team in this tournament at least once. Basically the score between you and the US is 2-2.
How do you feel here on this stage with this big audience?
The experience was amazing. It was really great. We also heard the audience a lot, even over our voicechat, especially when they were cheering,
mostly for America, but still, it was great. Right this second we all probably feel very disappointed,
but we will train, train, train, and hope that next year League of Legends is back here, so that we can be back as well.
That's right. We wanted to win, to bring home the gold for Europe,
we tried hard but it was not to be. Pity.
I think you still showed great games, games that people loved watching.
Let's look to the future. You'll continue playing and training as a team, you'll enter the next tournaments
and you know that we'll have a $100,000 Tournament at the end of Season 1... will we see you in that?
We'll do our very best. We'll train hard and that tournament is one of our goals,
just to compete in it. Otherwise there's a lots of leagues starting up in Europe,
the ESL Major Series, the sunday cups, we'll try to train and play as much as possible.
Well, thank you again for the interview, and thank you for being here. You played some epic games.
And now I'd suggest we head to the Riot after-party and see if there is any way to cheer you up. Thank you!