Hey, thanks for talking to me when its 4am or so where you live, correct?
Where I live it's 8:48 am and I've worked for the night
My bad. Anyway, details on yourself, name, age, homeland, race etc.
My name is Pekka Rantala, I'm 23 years old, I come from Finland and I "play" protoss
What got you interested into Starcraft, then TL.net, then the TSL, and why are you competing in it?
Well actually I started to play with my friends when Starcraft was released back when I was in Junior High here, then took a long like 8 years break from it. Somehow I stumbled upon progaming though, watched a few games and enjoyed it.
After that I found teamliquid, then I heared of TSL and I decided to join it to get some grasp of playing, find new people and in general to enjoy the game
Ah, it's nice to see many players that are old to the game, yet new to the scene, Draco and Legionnaire have even come back for this tournament, which is nice. Anyway, to be more indepth with the TSL, how does it feel to be at the bottom of the table on a single point? Have you had more attention given to you given the fact you are at the bottom of the TSL ladder?
When TSL started I kicked it off with my famous 14 loss streak which ofcourse caught much attention. At worse at that point I had 30-50 challenges per day, so yeah I guess I get more attention.
Most of the attention is positive though and I especially need to give a nice thank you to people at #teamliquid who constantly train me to actually beat this 1 point of mine
As for the feeling of being worst... I just like to play the game, so I don't care so much about points
TL.net IRC is a great group of people. Moving on from your performance of the TSL, how do you feel the top 48 is going to shape out to be? Do you think there will be any dark horses? Or is your knowledge too limited for an answer?
My knowledge of the scene is quite limited to be honest, but I'm still praying for Chill to reach the top 48 (despite him saying he won't). I'm also cheering for TSL-Napoleon as he is the best ranked Finnish player in TSL at the moment. I'm always looking for people who were on Teamliquid Attack though and seems they're all doing great . So no surprises for me in the top48.
Final question, what is your goal rank to hit this TSL?
Well during TSL I'd like to hit D+ to be honest, it's like the ultimate TSL goal for me. My gaming won't end at TSL though and if all comes together well, maybe by TSL season 2 I'll actually be able to compete against some people
Thanks for the interview, any final comments?
Nah, thanks for taking interest in the bottom of the screen too . Hope to see you all in iccup at one point for a game \o/.