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Interview with Chen “Zhou” Yao from iG.

By Antonio 'tower' A
Sep 19, 2012 20:08


ImageAnother interview with the hard carry of the team Chen “Zhou” Yao after iG added the win of TI2 to their name

Since CN Invictus Gaming won The International, a lot of people wanted to see what are their future plans for Dota 2 and how they prepared for TI2. It's Gosu made that possible by interviewing CN Yao 'zhou' Chen and covering all of their steps trough TI2.

Hello Zhou. On behalf of It’s Gosu and the Dota 2 community, congratulations for winning the second edition of The International, and thus succeeds to Natus Vincere in the list of winners. You have had some time to realize what happened; how does it feel to be crowned champions of The International 2, and thus be considered the best team in the world?

"I’m feeling very good to win such an important tournament, very happy indeed, for all of us. "


You only had a few months to practice for this USD$1,600,000 tournament. Considering that there were not a lot of tournaments for Asia compared to America and Europe, how did Invictus Gaming prepare for this competition?

"We participated in several online Dota2 tournaments as a warm up, also we arranged lots of training games with other good teams and also watched replays and live games."


Before heading to Seattle, your team was very busy competing in major DotA tournaments in China. Even though you won The International 2, did playing in ACE and G-League kind of affected your prepation?

"Yes, the affect can’t be avoided, it indeed distracted our preparation for Dota2, but we are professional, it’s our duty to win the honor, in every game, in every competition."


You were placed in the group B, the hardest among the two groups. You completely dominated it as you took the first place with a 13-1 score. After the groupstage, how confident were you going into the playoffs? Were there teams in particular that you wanted to avoid?

"We are satisfied for the groupstage record and we were full of confidence for the playoffs. In the playoffs, we did not want to meet LGD, because we and LGD know each other very well, during the last two weeks before we went to Seattle, we continuously trained with them."


Read the whole interview Here

Source: It's Gosu


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