EG.Maelk weighs in on The Defense

posted by Tezzeret, 288 days ago

We are gearing up for The Defense grand finals! So are the four teams in the final stretch of the tournament, with

Evil Geniuses having a bootcamp in Denmark right now, team captain,

Jacob 'Maelk' Toft-Anderssen weighs in on their chances in the upcoming winner bracket finals.

Maelk at DreamHack Summer 2012

EG just recently defeated DK – one of the best DotA teams in the world – 2:0 in the BTS World Tour. How did it feel to beat such prominent team?

When you put a lot of hours into practicing and perfecting your play, as we currently are, it’s really nice to win games against such noteworthy teams as we have lately. We don’t really put too much thought into it though, as it is merely an online match and most teams are probably focusing on saving strategies for The International.

Burning had a lot of farm on his Facelss Void (Midas + Battlefurry in 14 minutes) but he opted to go for an Aghanim’s scepter/Refresher Orb build. First of all, were you concerned with the Void pick by DK and the potential threat that it could have been? and what do think of his build?

I wouldn’t say we were particularly concerned, especially not considering we had already picked Tiny who’s Craggy Exterior virtually makes it impossible for Faceless Void to fight him late game. At first, we actually thought their combo would cause a threat to us, since Leshrac and Sand King would have an easy time putting in damage in the Chronosphere. But I don’t know if it was well played splitting by us, or lag and poor decision making on BurNings’ end that caused it to not really pose much of a threat.

Playing against Chinese teams always leads to arguments about pings and lag. Based off your experience, could you clarify what the playing conditions like?

I don’t know how packet loss and all that fuss influences the Chinese connections, but according to the pings it seemed about even. We have been practicing a lot against all of the Chinese teams lately, and neither of them seem to be complaining about it.

That being said, I’m sure it’s less than desirable for them to play online internationally and as such I don’t really put too much into neither their losses nor our victories. It’s just good practice for both sides I assume.

Read the rest of the interview here

Trock wrote at 10.08.2012, 11:52 CEST:

nice :)

NickySpanish wrote at 10.08.2012, 12:03 CEST:

He does not answer about the Aghanim + Refresher build ? :(((

iTteG wrote at 10.08.2012, 12:27 CEST:

"EG just recently defeated DK – one of the best DotA teams in the world – 2:0 in the BTS World Tour. How did it feel to beat such prominent team?"
His answer should have been:
It's easy to win when the opponent has 1234213 k of ping and has no time to properly react to anything because of constant lag and delay.

Anyways, good interview.

Crissae wrote at 10.08.2012, 12:38 CEST:

"That being said, I’m sure it’s less than desirable for them to play online internationally and as such I don’t really put too much into neither their losses nor our victories. It’s just good practice for both sides I assume."

This is why people should just STFU about this team or that team being weak etc and just wait for TI2.

XCoyote wrote at 10.08.2012, 13:04 CEST:

Crissae schrieb:
"That being said, I’m sure it’s less than desirable for them to play online internationally and as such I don’t really put too much into neither their losses nor our victories. It’s just good practice for both sides I assume."
This is why people should just STFU about this team or that team being weak etc and just wait for TI2.

braincandy wrote at 10.08.2012, 13:37 CEST:

nice interview. been waiting for a Maelk interview

xMxgxZx wrote at 10.08.2012, 13:59 CEST:

Nc interview

GrizzlyBr wrote at 10.08.2012, 14:14 CEST:

#3 "according to the pings it seems about even."

Nightknight wrote at 10.08.2012, 14:55 CEST:

iTteG schrieb:
"EG just recently defeated DK – one of the best DotA teams in the world – 2:0 in the BTS World Tour. How did it feel to beat such prominent team?"
His answer should have been:
It's easy to win when the opponent has 1234213 k of ping and has no time to properly react to anything because of constant lag and delay.
Anyways, good interview.

dude, they played on USW server, with DK being from china and EG being in denmark, they all had horrible pings!

#10

chikon wrote at 10.08.2012, 22:26 CEST:

Nightknight schrieb:

dude, they played on USW server, with DK being from china and EG being in denmark, they all had horrible pings!

hmm not so sure about the whole team being in denmark