Hi Konna, I appreciate you doing this surprise interview with me so late at night :] Okay now give us a little introduction about yourself, even though we already know you.
Hi, i'm Joona Parikka, 18 years old and just graduated from school and not having any special plans for future yet. Playing WarCraft3 under the nickname Konna for Team MeetYourMakers SCA for almost a one year now.

No plans for university?
Well I had a test for local. 3rd stage education school not a university, but didn’t pass it. Although I didn’t use any of my time to read the pre-given stuff. I will be looking to get a school place after next year and try harder in the tests.

Okay so you say you play for MYMsca, what teams did you play for before and with whom?
Played for a-Losers.MSI and Qpool (evoplay nowadays) before joining MYMsca. Both of the teams consisted from same players. Thomas, Oliver... and remember LiilDC and SunShine being part of Qpool for a moment.

How is the MYMsca team?
In MYMsca all are really nice guys but I would personally want to strengthen our lineup with few players, seeing MyWa leaving WarCraft3. Although there isn’t much of an option of choices in the Scandinavian free agents market

I see, yeah it seems the MYMsca team has a close bond but I agree with you I feel the team needs to be strengthened a bit then you will be able to compete at WC3L level etc. For now it seems you and Ciara are only ones training etc. What do you think about adding some Swedish players?
Mmm what should I say? A player who has the motivation and time to practice whether he is from Sweden, Denmark or Finland is welcome in my opinion

 

Any specific players that you want to see in MYMsca?
Yeah Satiini, haha best player in Scandinavia after Ciara ^^. Nah nope, don’t have any specific player on my sight right now.

Okay, so how do you feel with MYMsca’s results at WC3L?
Yeah for sure it was nice run for us, and 2 maps away from qualifying to NGL1 also we did a great job in WC3L-Quali and NGL2 season. But still i'm a bit disappointed that I lost my game vs. XyLigan 1-2 which was clearly a game which was already won, and also doing a big big mistake in 2on2, but oh well cant help it, just more practice, more practice.

I've heard some things about you not playing as hard, since you were playing against fellow countrymen. Is this true?
Definitely not true, winning against fellow countrymen would have been even nicer then against some other team

Are you good friends with your teammate Ciara?
Well. At least we chat on MSN almost daily basis so I guess we are

I see, so now let's go onto some random topics then we will talk about blizzcon and future events.

What do you think about the new Harry Potter? Did you buy it or read it?
Don’t like fiction stuff in the first place, either I do like books. So nope didn’t buy it =D

What about Satiini? :)
Good player, wrong race

No lol, I mean did he buy Harry Potter? Haha
Lol, haha.
No idea, probably not i'm not that good friend with him that we share opinions about which books we read. Close friend not good ^^

Any movies you’ve seen lately?
Last one, which I saw, was The Prestige

Are you serious? That is horrible... that came out about six or more months ago.
XD

You didn't see Knocked up or Transformers?
Well as I said I don’t enjoy fiction that much, so i'm not on track with the movies, usually spend the same time watching WC3 replays or playing it ^^ instead of watching a movie.