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Counter-Strike: Interview with Lunatic Hai

By: Brian Johnson - Published December 18, 2005 at 12:28 AM EST - Writer Archive
After defeating JmC in the lower bracket Finals I took 10 minutes of Lunatic Hai's time and interviewed the team on their reactions to the match and how they feel about the finals tomorrow against SK.swe.


So the first easy question is: What are your reactions to winning the match; before and after?

We didn’t expect to be in the finals; but we can’t believe ourselves that we really made it, it feels really good.

What was the practice regiment like coming in to this was it was there a long series of bootcamps, did you play any tournaments after ESWC to really focus and get in to this?

We gathered up in our café and we tried to practice with the teams that came to WEG Korea; that helped us a lot; but we couldn’t get really for the CPL maps. Today was the first today we played cpl_mill so we couldn’t really prepare a lot.

Spectating that match it looked like your tactics were too much for JmC; What goes in to the tactic development for your team? Is it overhead screenshots, etc? What is your process?

Most of the time we are watching demos of several top teams in Europe; if we find any good tactics we try to improve them and give them a Korean charm.

A twist?

Ya a twist, we try to make it our tactics...we improve them.

How confident are you of your tactics on inferno, the finals match tomorrow? Would you say its one of your better maps?

Inferno is one of our strongest maps and we really want to get revenge against SK because we didn’t know how to play mill; we think this is a good opportunity to play.

In the tournament you’re going to have to beat SK twice, do you think that’s a strong possibility?

Yes

Have you played SK in the BYOC scrims at all?

No, not really

What teams have you been playing over there?

g3x for example, Fnatic

Have you had a lot of scrims on inferno in the BYOC or prior to this event?

Only several scrims in the BYOC; other than that we just overview all of the tactics we make just to make sure we don’t forget them.

Give me a prediction of the matches tomorrow, to win you will need 2 in a row.

I think its not going to be easy, but if we win we think its going to be 16-10, 16-11.

Which side are they more confident on offense or defense?

CT

Is Lunatic Hai generally a defensive team, what do you prefer on all of the maps?

We’re confident on both sides, so it doesn’t really matter.

This is an easy fun one, how do we exactly pronounce your team name?

Loon-uh-tick-hi.

And what does it mean?

It’s like a group of crazy people who play a game and are all crazy about it...like crazy Counter Strikers.

You guys want to thank your sponsors or add anything?

We want to thank our sponsors who make this trip possible for us especially all of our fans and supporters in Korea who help us all..

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great iview!!

<3 lunatic-hai
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gl l-hai
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Loon-uh-tick-hi.

harhar!!
nice iview
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good interview, i didn't know that was first time they played mill
they didn't do too bad for first time
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should be a good match aganist SK
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LoL great interview

I don't think you needed to ask how to pronounce it (that's obvious), but the question about what it means that was good.

They seem like really cool guys, and if you've seen the videos and understand korean you can get a feel for their personalities. It sucks they had to play mill... but looks like they were disheartened by it and are ready for Inferno.

SK is going down, and i'll respect their own predictions and say Lunatic-hai over SK (16-10)(16-11)

gl Lunatic

edit: Also, who exactly from Lunatic hai was answering these questions?

This comment was edited at 12/18/2005 1:15 AM
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good match
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are both matches gonna be on inferno?
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You guys want to thank your sponsors or add anything?

We want to thank our sponsors who make this trip possible for us especially all of our fans and supporters in Korea who help us all..

LOLOLOL! Nice naming the sponsors! hahahahahaha so funny to me,
btw I think best of 3 single elimination group play, is the best for CPL :) And so does moto!
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haha interesting interview. love watching these guys. they look quite confident but of course they have to be.
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ah, can't not love a team who's name means a group of crazed cs players.

oh... also red XIII's limit breaker =D
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I don't get it #12...
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YES I LOVE U
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ROFL oh yeah Red 13's limit break... i always knew in the back of my head... i'd heard it somewhere before.

Thanks #13, FF7 ftw

This comment was edited at 12/18/2005 12:46 AM
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#14 NoA beat SK twice last year to win it all

This comment was edited at 12/18/2005 12:46 AM
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Haha, nice iview.

#10, same thinking here, lol.
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#14 They did beat SK at wcg 2004 (they were maven)
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haha i like how he got asked how to pronounce lunatic

please excuse me mister italian, how do you pronounce "pasta"
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lunatic on nuke as T was pwnage ^-^)b
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lunatic hai <3
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Nice interview. I hope Lunatic-hai wins.
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I think Lunatic can take this away from SK. It's defenetly going to be a great match, or matches.
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they never played mill
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Nice iview .. Lunatic (korea) HOT HOT HOT @ cpl
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wow, that was their first match in mill??

I hope they beat sk!!

CON TODO CHINITOS!!!!
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good interview
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nice interview gj love gotfrag
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contradictions
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nice atleast these guys aren't coccky like rival and col
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lmao, their first mill match, they adjust to the map pretty quick

Loook for lunatic to beat sk.swe twice
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<3 lunatic go korea!
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Great interview, good luck lunatic and SK tomorrow.
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GO LUNATIC HAI!
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i am hoping over hope that lunatic wins it. gl.
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great interview, looking forward to the finals.
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I can't believe that was their first match on mill.. damn, now I know why they did not play as good as I expected.
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the asians are taking over =P
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great interview
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Any Korean team can come and dominate any team from any where in the world and do it consistantly.. if they want it enough. That's just the way Koreans are.
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It’s like a group of crazy people who play a game and are all crazy about it...like crazy Counter Strikers.
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asians... gotta luv'um
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Quite impressive, they came out of nowhere o_O
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cool interview. good luck against sk tomorrow!!
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GL both. Nice interview, I sense these kids are real players and arent crazy for the money. You know? They mean what they do!
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Woops double post. Excuse this one

This comment was edited at 12/18/2005 3:05 AM
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I know everyone is saying this, but I really DID call sk.swe and Lunatic`Hai in the finals.

How about coL and 3D's kids? Nowhere, cuz they really believed that a US team was going to be able to take enemy. No, it's impossible. They could NOT. bam.

enemy for the pub-win on inferno (cmon kids, you know its him).
oilnam: But seriously, you must eat a lot of bagels/muffins to get confused with an opium addict.
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i called it too you can look up my predictions... and my sig is days old :p
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