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| GoSuMali France. July 18 2012 00:04. Posts 173 | Profile # |
In today’s interview, It’s Gosu has the pleasure to sit down with one of the most popular, respected and influent players the Dota history has ever known. Despite retiring in the summer of 2010, Ben ‘Merlini’ Wu left his mark in Dota as his play with Zeus and Silencer earned him the title of “God” from the community.
However, in April 2012, Merlini played official matches in Valve’s masterpiece. What has he been up to the last few months? Will he make a comeback to the competitive scene? What are his thoughts about Dota 2? All these questions will be answered in this interview.
We can convincingly affirm that your Dota career truly started in MeetYourMakers. How did you end up joining this team and who were the members representing it at that time?
I played mostly in American in-house leagues, but after several months I made the leap to play in the well-known European IHCS league. Back then, Americans did not play in European leagues – it was unheard of at the time, because there was no solution to ping/server issues (this was before hosting bots, and of course before client-side hosting).
My first game was an impressive 0-11 Shadow Fiend, but after that I quickly acclimated to the delay and the difference in playstyle. I started playing a lot with the original MYM crew: Maelk, Mania, Levent and Hanni. Loda was their intended fifth at the time, but he preferred playing with the Swedes. They officially asked me to join Meet Your Makers in December of 2006, and I played there for three years, until 2009.
With this roster, you won the most important Dota event, DreamHack. What souvenirs do you have from this event and would you say that this victory is the most significant in your Dota career?
Throughout my Dota career, my teams have always had good performance. But, I’m most proud of our victory in Dreamhack of 2007 because of the way in which we won. I think the current Dota community is very familiar now with odd-jungling heroes in competitive play (such as Puppey’s Storm or Pudge), but back then, experimentation was not very prominent.
When bottle was invented as an item, my imagination took off and I tried jungling every hero possible: Abaddon, Kroebelus… You name it, I’ve tried it. I used to play as a competitive Warcraft Ladder player, so I’ve always been interested in the Warcraft mechanics (like armor and damage types, etc). The hero that I saw with the most potential was Beastmaster – and we incorporated my strategy of jungling him when we won Dreamhack.
It was something that was really unknown and unexpected, to have a Beastmaster completely off the map—coming out of the jungle a couple minutes later with Roar and full level axes! I received a gold trophy for our victory, but I had to pass it along to my teammates, since it was far too large to fit into my suitcases.
Unfortunately, despite showing solid results, you decided to leave the Danish organization. What were the reasons behind your departure?
The company behind MYM went bankrupt in early 2009. The Danish players wanted to find a Danish sponsor quickly so that they could attend the summer Dreamhack tournament, but after talking with the sponsors it was clear that they would not send an American player. We decided to part ways on good terms and I’m friends with some of the old MYM players to this day.
Read more: http://www.itsgosu.com/game/dota2/articles/merlini-sayuri-has-really-reignited-my-interest-in-competitive-dota_602 |
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| EmilA Denmark. July 18 2012 00:18. Posts 2737 | Profile # |
Seems like such a nice, drama-free down to earth guy. Sounds really intelligent too.
Emily (aka sayuri) is our team captain. She is devoted, knowledgeable, and skilled and without her our team couldn’t function. Her role is supporter/ganker (as most captains are) because she possesses great map and game awareness and makes decisions essential to our victories.
Girl captain? What the dick? ^^) |
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| GoSuMali France. July 18 2012 00:21. Posts 173 | Profile # |
| Why not? ^_- Girls are not dumber than boys! |
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| DoNotDisturb Singapore. July 18 2012 00:36. Posts 5267 | Profile Blog # |
Nice interview, and I've always liked the history of competitive DotA.
When bottle was invented as an item, my imagination took off and I tried jungling every hero possible: Abaddon, Kroebelus… You name it, I’ve tried it. I used to play as a competitive Warcraft Ladder player, so I’ve always been interested in the Warcraft mechanics (like armor and damage types, etc). The hero that I saw with the most potential was Beastmaster – and we incorporated my strategy of jungling him when we won Dreamhack.
This, especially. |
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| ahswtini Northern Ireland. July 18 2012 01:36. Posts 2612 | Profile Blog # |
| Nice interview, hope to see him and his team in tournaments soon |
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| Yoshi- Germany. July 18 2012 01:39. Posts 4067 | Profile # |
On July 18 2012 00:21 GoSuMali wrote:
Why not? ^_- Girls are not dumber than boys!
Sayuri is.
Team will disband as fast as sayuri last team, within days.
This is like the third time Sayuri and Merlini try to create a team, everytime it goes the same way first a lot of attention, than disband before first offiical game.Last edit: 2012-07-18 01:41:35 |
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| 13_Doomblaze_37 United States. July 18 2012 02:01. Posts 705 | Profile # |
On July 18 2012 01:39 Yoshi- wrote:
Show nested quote +On July 18 2012 00:21 GoSuMali wrote:
Why not? ^_- Girls are not dumber than boys!
Sayuri is. Team will disband as fast as sayuri last team, within days. This is like the third time Sayuri and Merlini try to create a team, everytime it goes the same way first a lot of attention, than disband before first offiical game.
As much as I want to believe otherwise, I am also fairly sure this will happen. They have tried this kind of team before and it hasn't worked yet. I don't see why it would work now. |
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| ahswtini Northern Ireland. July 18 2012 02:05. Posts 2612 | Profile Blog # |
| Who is Sayuri? Any background in other teams before? |
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| rabidch Singapore. July 18 2012 02:24. Posts 8069 | Profile # |
On July 18 2012 02:05 ahswtini wrote:
Who is Sayuri? Any background in other teams before?
merlini's gf :D |
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| Yoshi- Germany. July 18 2012 02:28. Posts 4067 | Profile # | |
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| xsevR United States. July 18 2012 06:15. Posts 218 | Profile # |
Sayuri's post TL;DR Merlini got blow-jays -- deal with it. |
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| Koshi Belgium. July 23 2012 19:36. Posts 6757 | Profile Blog # |
Maelk/Merlini were the only Esport I watched except some rare Warcraft III back in the day.
Without knowing too much about DotA, it was beautiful.Last edit: 2012-07-23 20:07:01 |
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| Dacendoran United States. July 24 2012 15:59. Posts 764 | Profile Blog # |
"I’m a pretty accomplished flamer myself (you can ask anyone who feeds in a pub game with me, poor unfortunate souls…" From Sayuri herself, this much is true she can be a real bitch t.t having played with her and merlini before in viewer for fun pub game she ripped on me the entire game, man would I hate to put up with that on a daily basis.
Merlini always a treat to watch hope everything works out.Last edit: 2012-07-24 16:05:12 |
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| Minzy Australia. July 24 2012 17:31. Posts 345 | Profile # |
meh ive played with her and shes not that good. as a captain... lol. not saying i wouldnt want her on my team, as shes better then the regular trash that you meet in pubs, but on the big stage, they dont have a chance.
goodluck to merlini tho. |
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| Dracolich70 Denmark. July 26 2012 12:06. Posts 687 | Profile # |
| Great interview and thank you GosuMali. I will cross my fingers for BFB(or what they will be after the sponsor) - too bad they didn't make it all the way in the Defense 2 qualifier, but they will make it eventually. MiGGel is an awesome player. |
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| paintfive July 26 2012 12:23. Posts 766 | Profile # |
| This dosen't have anything to do with dota but: If MYM's backing went bankrupt what's up with MYMMVP lol |
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 ne0lith July 26 2012 13:36. Posts 314 | Profile # |
On July 26 2012 12:23 paintfive wrote:
This dosen't have anything to do with dota but: If MYM's backing went bankrupt what's up with MYMMVP lol
The company behind MYM now is not the same it was back then. Back in the day, MYM was one of the richest teams and it was famous for the huge salaries they payed to their legendary WC3 team (Moon and Grubby, mostly). The company behind them went backrupt a few years later but after a while, some other company invested money and revived the MYM name. The team never had the same finances and success and, as you can see, they barely have any impact in Esports now. Their only teams are in Fifa and LoL from what I know, plus they have that MVP partnership.Last edit: 2012-07-26 13:38:44 |
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