World of Warcraft: 1on1 with Neil "SK.Neilyo" Mosunic

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By Michal 'Carmac' Blicharz

Jul 9, 2008 22:33

This week the 1on1 series goes to the World of Warcraft to interview SK Gaming's Neil "Neilyo" Mosunic, arguably the best Rogue in the world.

The American SK Gaming World of Warcraft team with Neil 'Neilyo' Mosunic, Vance 'Serennia' Phuoc and Patrick 'Inflame' Costales won third place at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris. It was definitely an achievement as it was one of the biggest WoW tournaments in history and this team's second LAN event.

Neilyo has found some time to spend sitting on a bench and being the hero of this 1on1. The conversation is about the player himself, his wrestling skills, competitive World of Warcraft and more. Enjoy:

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* Johan Liden (eSports League of Champions CEO)
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* June "SK.Lyn" Park (SK Gaming Warcraft 3 player)
* Sasha Tsapaev (new owner of CPL, April Fools)
* Mike Pasley (director of the "Frag" documentary)
* Christine "SK.Potter" Chi (SK Ladies CS player)
* Robert "RobbaN" Dahlstrom (SK Gaming CS player)
* Yoan "ToD" Merlo (Mousesports, WC3 player)
* Tomas "TeRRoR" Pilipiuk (Wicked, WC3 player)
* Jonas "whimp" Svendsen (mTw.dk, CS player)
* Jakub "kuben" Gurczynski (MYM, CS player)
* Ralf "Griff" Reichert (SK founder, ESL General Manager)
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Carmac 3 years ago

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Apologies for this 1on1 coming a bit late. I blame the French people who lost my luggage with all the tapes in it at the Paris airport! Many, many videos to come.

d1dx 3 years ago

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Great Interview Carmac !

Murre 3 years ago

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Really good interview again carmac though im kinda curious do u actually understand everything Neilyo says about the game because to me u sound like a guy that dosent like wow at all.

Neilyo is probably the best or ye like he said one of the best rogues in the world. And he thinks brilliantly while playing which u can easily see on his movies. Though i agree with him when he says that alot of other games is alot better put up as an esport game and atleast imo wow shouldt be a competetive esport game (where u can make money) at all because its so random.

atdt 3 years ago

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Maybe the best... But I like to think of it as more advertised.

wtb more asians owning white dudes.

Carmac 3 years ago

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I don't like the idea of WoW but I respect the people's right to play whatever they like. The game has proven that it is as good as any other for esports. I know a fair bit about how the game works generally (RNG, comps, countercomps, top players, top teams), but when I watch a game I don't understand anything. o,O

Murre 3 years ago

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Though i have to say the interviews are great. Probably the best esport interviewer ive seen. Everyone is so calm and "relaxed" when talking to u instead of that normal stiffy feeling interviews.

atdt 3 years ago

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the math doesn't add up with the RNG...

You could have like 50% crit and you can sometimes end up having no crits for what seems like a long time.

SK|bds 3 years ago

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Over time it does, that is why you can still be consistent.

goiya 3 years ago

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Enjoyed interview.
SK-USA, good luck in Orlando.

SK|Neilyo 3 years ago

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h8 lol

Hate_Fate 3 years ago

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Lol nice movez =)_

akilias 3 years ago

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Great interview
N00b question : what does this RNG stand for?
Asked 100 poeple and no1 seems to know :D
Thanks

Martz07 3 years ago

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Random Number Generator

Noximus 3 years ago

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Pretty cool interview :P SK rocks

RNG stands for Random number generator, which has to do with all of the effects like crits, misses dodges parries mace stuns etc...

akilias 3 years ago

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Thanks :)

clippy 3 years ago

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Great great interview
Very informative, with good questions and answers, and also showing the man behind the screen lal

#Akilias

RNG = Random Number Generator
Basicly its the mechanism that makes your character crit or not, that makes warriors give mace stuns at any time during the fights, extra sword attacks, as also as any other habilitys decided by a certain level of luck base, since as the expression says, it is something random, that you cant predict , so thers no way you can avoid it.

Ofcourse it is influenced by the Stats that your character has.
If for example, your rogue has high crit chance %, you will obviously have more chances to crit other players rather than a low level character that has low % of crit, decided by the gear influence.

Hope it helped

NEODYM_BANE 3 years ago

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if i see carmac someday again i just force him to the ground and start a grappling fight xD

MistaX 3 years ago

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wow Neilyo i can see too much computer making your eyesight bad rofl most flashy rogue i have to say =/

Effendix 3 years ago

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His melee combat skills come from wrestling.

aNNa 3 years ago

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Nice interview :)
Neil is a real cool guy

Shawn 3 years ago

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So you didn't try to fool him with your broken English? ;)

He seems to be a nice guy - during the tournament he was rather calm and quiet so it was quite interesting to hear him talk a bit more.

Carmac 3 years ago

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I have tried! :D

Cheerful_EMC 3 years ago

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Awesome interview!

Roar- 3 years ago

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I thought Carmac hated WoW and did that World of Walking column?

NEODYM_BANE 3 years ago

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well, he seems professional enough to seperate between work and and his individual likes or dislikes.

i dont like wow too, but i am interested in esport, so i am also inteterested in the current wow issue.

Malystryx 3 years ago

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something other worldly about this bloke, nice to be able to put a name to a face now =]

TeeKoo 3 years ago

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Damn Neil done interviews before? That was professional

furuken 3 years ago

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very nice interview, neilyo seems cool guy :D

wootwootlol 3 years ago

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Martz07 3 years ago

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Great interview thanks. Interview more WoW players please. ;)

Toshirou 3 years ago

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Nice interview. Neil is a cool guy, if he wasn`t why would he then be answering most of your questions? Uploading movies to share with the rest of us? anyway more interviews like theese, was fantastic, very "natural" atleast so it seemed :) Thanks

gyaku-zuki 3 years ago

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i played wow for several years now, but i still can't understand the hype to play it competitively. to me wow is a comunity game nothing more, nothing less. nothing more boring to watch wow arena matches ...
nice interview. always nice to read your interviews, keep it up!

would be nice if such a thing would take base as a smal interview on tournaments etc. just like in football. always kind of interesting what the players had in mind when they played.

Toshirou 3 years ago

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[quote: Gyaku-zuki] nothing more boring to watch wow arena matches ...[/quote]

I disagree, i find it interresting, and IF you want to become better, more experienced or just maybe luring a few tricks, then i find movies excellent. Im not THE best at arena my self, but im trying to become better by ofc playing alot of pvp, but also by watching pvp movies, also with PoV`s from other classes to lure their tacts so i know how they might react :) How ever i also sort of agree, it can be quite boring ^^

[quote: Gyaku-zuki] would be nice if such a thing would take base as a smal interview on tournaments etc. just like in football. always kind of interesting what the players had in mind when they played.[/quote]

I agree 100% would make it alot more interresting in my eyes :)

CocaCola 3 years ago

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I wonder why he gets hated when he types stuff like "im not one of those no life people who come to irc to "chat" b/c you have no friends, im in vent with the people I want to talk to." HMMMM

GoRushX 3 years ago

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great job carmac, jagshemash!!! neilyo seems to be a real mannered, professional workin guy n most of the time it looks like carmac is like "wtf hes talkin bout?! super mario bros or whot?!" but im maybe wrong didnt read all these comments here, just that someone was postin nearly the same... i dont know where u got that "some r sayin u r arrogant neilyo...", never heard about this but im of course im not havin all these undercover news like u have, whatever i think many people r tellin that hes arrogant cuz say want to be good as he is but they cant, they cant mess with him n than they just go n hate on him.. thats just the way when u r really good at somethin, everybody wants to mess with u... so what, gj, next one MooN n Mrs. Potter please :D

Toshirou 3 years ago

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Well it is true that alot find him arrogant, why... i dont know. My theory is that maybe it's because when you ask him stuff he answers with very short messages which seems abit like "go away allready replies" or when ppl ask him something IG they might get told to F*** off. How ever if that is the reason, then i dont blame him, he must be getting a tons of PM's every day, if he had to sit down answering them all with long replies then he would have no time left for him self, as for the IG part, well i'm not the best but im quite good (server wise), and i've tried to be asked ALOT if i wanted to help in arena and thats many whispers you get because of that on daily basis and i find it pretty annoying to get interrupted all the time getting asked stuff, but its not even near the amount Neilyo must have so that must really piss him off. Anyway thats my theory.

Gearfiend 3 years ago

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good stuff. I'd like to see Neilyo with a Spriest again like he used to in S2 as mutilate. That was a really dark and cool setup.

timmiie 3 years ago

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lol i thought it was a korean team

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