As promised here is the second part of this two part interview, do not worry if you missed out on Insomnia's Life after Pro-Gaming Part 1, you can always check it out after.

User submitted: -DC- asks: "All professional Warcraft 3 players have added something new to the game, be it something as major as Moon's talon strategy, or simply perfecting a new timing, what do you think you added to the warcraft scene?"

SK.Insomnia: Hehe there are so many things that I developed for myself I can not list them all. I'm only going to say my favorite which is the use of invisibility. Invisibility is such a great spell and it was so underused until recently (last 2 years recently I guess). My favorite move was to steal people's items with an invisible footman with backpack.

Malystryx:Do you still play Warcraft 3, watch replays or ladder?

SK.Insomnia: Yes, indeed I still play the game from time to time for fun. I'm not going to say my ladder ID though. I also watch replays when I'm bored and I follow all the major tournaments closely.

Malystryx: Favourite match of all time that you played in? Or top 3 if that is too difficult and why?

SK.Insomnia: Favourite match well, that should be the final of the WCG which I won in 2003. Why? Because it brought me the most joy when it was over and because I played incredibly well those games. I watched my opponent play in the practice area the days before the final and I was really stunned by his skill, his micro was impeccable (well at least for those days' standards) and to be honest I was afraid of him.

I was able to outsmart him, though, plus I was playing on home turf (I was residing in Korea for over a month before the WCG as it happened during my stay there with MadFrog, Heman and Domi). What was my home turf advantage? I was able to go and practice secretly in YECA Station, the PC cafe where Team Intel and the SAINT clan were practicing instead of the practice area in the WCG hotel.

I'd like to use this opportunity to thank my fellow Bulgarian and clanmate in SK at that time - ZeeRaX, who also played human and helped me prepare perfectly for the final doing exactly the same strategies I saw ChinaHuman do when practicing and in his WCG games prior to the final. Thank you ZeeRaX, I would not have been able to do it without you!

Malystryx: What do you think when you see yourself in this video?



SK.Insomnia: Haha. That video brings good memories. Those few months we spent together with my Scandinavian friends in Korea are probably the nicest in my whole gaming campaign. Thanks for bringing the video up to my attention, I have not seen it in a long time. What do I think about myself there, hmm.. I look so young and have bad English, don't really know what else to say :)



Malystryx: Do you think eSports taught you any skills or lessons that proved useful out in the real world, if so what were they?

SK.Insomnia: Definetely! It is hard to explain, though. Sometimes when I have to make a decision about what to do and what would be better I use the same kind of methods or techniques and taking the same kind of things in consideration as I did before when I was evaluating a choice or a strategy in Warcraft/StarCraft. It is hard to explain it just feels that way.

User submitted: MaliSunSet asks "If i'm right, you were bored of Warcraft, but will we see you in SC2?"

SK.Insomnia: I doubt I'll play SC2 competitively. I am kind of old for that stuff and have other things on my mind. I will play the game for fun, though, and probably attend a few tournaments in the first couple of months. I just would not have the time I need to dedicate to the game in order to maintain a top level and losing is never fun.

User submitted: Rotterdam asks “Do you miss my whines after militia feat. slow came in to save your game after losing 9 footman, 12 peasants and your Archmage 3 times, including tp. I know you do! I know it!”

SK.Insomnia: Yes indeed I miss them, Kevin. Good thing I found other ways to entertain myself nowadays.



User submitted: SSTTAARR asks “If you were offered a good salary and a chance to move to South Korea or China, would you consider a return to progaming?”

SK.Insomnia: No. I guess my reasons for that should already be obvious after you read my answers to the previous questions.

User submitted: Lolwtf asks “Do you prefer the strategies/playstyle (unit choices etc) of the early times in WC3 over the more recent ones? In other words, was there an era in wc3 that you enjoyed playing specifically?”

SK.Insomnia: Yes indeed I liked the early days when WC3 was still fresh and no strategies were discovered yet. Back then it was about outsmarting your opponent in order to win, not about outmicroing him. In the recent years all of the strategies and possible counters are already discovered and widely known, not only to the players but to the vast majority of the dedicated public.

That is the reason I believe the game is slowly dying out. It's less fun to watch. It is much more exciting to see someone pull off a weird, never seen before strategy thus achieving a memorable victory after being in a huge disadvantage, winning only by outsmarting his opponent. That is what STRATEGY games are all about.



User submitted:PikassooO asks: “Which is the young player that for you can be a "Legend" 5 years from now ? And don’t you think that WC3 players are "washed-up" now, that they aren`t like old times?”

SK.Insomnia: You are partly answering your first question with your second one. It is too late for a Warcraft 3 player to become a legend now. The game is in its later stages of life. In order to become a legend you must be creative, you have to discover things about the game that noone else did before.

Unfortunately for the younger players everything (well maybe not everything but 99% of it) about Warcraft 3 has already been discovered. That's the reason you do not see many new young players go to the top, it is hard for them to motivate themselves, knowing there is nothing left for them to discover and create within the game. They don't have much to go after besides the prize money and I do not think money was the main motivation for any of the so called legends.

Malystryx: Finally if in 20 years from now someone wrote a WC3 history book, what would you like to be remembered for?

SK.Insomnia: I'd like to be remembered for who I was and for the things I did.