Altitude's ISL Semifinals

Interview with dOTY

You're in the Semifinals of the ISL3, you must be feeling pretty good.

Yes i feel pretty good, i was suprised about the outcome of my series vs sneazel, i definitly expected it to be harder, dont wanna sound disrespectful here though. But yeah i'm glad i already came that far

Did you expect to be able to get this far?

Before the brackets for the ro32 came out i was sure i'll make it far. But then the brackets came out and i kinda like had a zerg only bracket and since pvz is my worst i kinda felt like "damn" because ace-karate-kolll ( i expected kolll to win against sneazel tbh) isnt an easy task at all, especially if pvz is your worst obviously. But after beating ace i felt alot more comfortable with my pvz since i practised alot for it ( shouts here to my german buddy Red for helping me practise).

So you say Sneazel was a bit easier than you expected. He's the ISL2's 4th place finisher and you just destroyed him 4-0! Wanna tell me about that series? How did it go for you?

Well um i dont mean he was an easy opponent in general. I was checking some replays of him and realized he loves playing 12 nex or fast darks (+horror gates sometimes, with which he killed me one on gambit) so i played safe against it which made the game themself easy. As people pointed out it werent too exciting games, except the 4th game maybe, but well thats how it goes if someone goes darks in pvp, it often ends fast, like in the 1st and 2nd game. 3rd match i decided to proxy gate since i felt like he wont expecting it, as i seen on the cast he did but he was unlucky and exactly scouted around my proxys so yeah.... and as mentioned the 4th was the most close match, he used his speed shuttle very good + i'm so slow on my new comp so he was able to catch some probes :D. But luckylie it still was enough and i could take it.

Yeah the 4th game was probably the longest one. Do you remember when you knew you had won?

Haha kinda, before i so often was like " god you so lost this match" then when he lost his shuttle + reaver i felt counter would kill him, then sadly i wasted my shuttle as well and again i was like ok that was it, but 100% sure i was when i realized i actually do have a observer, so i could kill his darks defnding his 3rd, so that was the point i knew i got it.

So next weekend you're up against Semih. After what you said about your matchups, I guess you prefer playing him over Michael?

Yes that is very correct, even though by now, as mentioned before, i feel more comfortable with my pvz than before isl. But i feel like pvp is an easy matchup and Semih i know i can beat ( I played him on the first qualification tour and gone 2-0). I expect to win, but close, like 4-2.

So you're confident you can make the Grand Finals?

If my builds work out and i get a bit lucky ( pvp can be so random ) definitely.
Even though Semih is very strong and i respect his skills, it will be a close series for sure

So if you defeat Semih, who would you rather see in the Finals? Sziky or Bibiane?

I'd rather face Bibiane, since PvT is my best matchup and yeah - pvz my worst. But i'd be fine with both, only making the grandfinals would be awesome already. And i feel like i could defeat both, but well first i have to concentrate on beating Semih, haha.

Any predictions on the other Semifinals?

Hard to tell, Sziky obviously is the favourite most of the time, but i was told Sziky's ZvT isnt unbeatable + Bibiane seems to be in good shape, beating protect 4-0. I predict a close win for sziky, 4-2 or 4-3.

Ok cool. Well, thank you for the interview, and best of luck in the upcoming match! I'll leave you the last word for anything you'd like to say. Be it shoutouts or warcries at your opponent or whatever =)

No problem, thank you as well. I'd like to give a shoutout to Altidude / twitch tv for making this tournament possible and keeping Starcraft Broodwar alive, thanks to tl.net with its great coverage of these tournaments, thanks to LRM)Game to give everything he can to host great tournaments. Thanks to all the casters, to all viewers, and all people who are rooting for me of course. I try to get as far as i can. Last shout again to Red who is my biggest "fan" and supporter on my ISL3 run, always motivating and practising with me, so yeah your the best

. And well : Semih i'm coming for you ! ;D. thanks!

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