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Here we have Insanity from team xqR.AG, a player from one of the current local top team in Singapore. The most recent competition that AG has played is kode5 Russia. Having being their first International competition, they were inexperienced and were knocked out during group stage. Convinced that they have more than just a moment of glory, and not just one-shot wonders beating powerhouse Lunatic-Hai during the Asia qualifiers, they have up their playing style and decided that just one International competition isn’t enough for them. I caught up with him before his training to have a quick chat and interview to see how things are going on. With *WCG.sg2008 due in 3 weeks time, the team seems already well ahead of everyone else.
*WCG2008 is on the 7th – 10th of August, Thursday – Sunday.

First, tell us more about yourself and the team!

Hello! I'm Daryl 'Insanity' Chua, the sniper and 2nd commander in my team. We were established in the year 2007, with the main lineup of myself, Alvin 'matrix' Tan, Rochino 'spyko' Ramli, Ken 'ken' Tan ' and Isaac 'iz' Chua. Our first breakthrough was in 2007 KODE5 SEA qualifiers where we beat the hot favourite Korea powerhouse 'lunatic-hai' in the finals.

So your team went to kode5 this May2008 to play the finals, and being it your team's first international competition, how was the overall experience for all of you?

It was very enriching as we were pit against teams like mTw.amd and MYM, the top teams in the international scene. We learnt a lot of things and have adapted our playing style to a better one.

How did you/your team feel about ESWC qualifiers not being held in your region?

It's utterly disappointing as we were training hard and looking forward to the event, so I don't really want to talk about it.

It seems that the line up have undergone a lot of changes and reshuffling of players, how are the preparations for WCG.sg National Qualifiers that is coming up in 3weeks time coming along?

We have shuffled our roster recently as our core players; erikL has gone back to Sweden for further studies, while Spyko is unable to play for us for a period of time.
We are just trying to piece everything together so as to put up a good play during WCG and clinch the title. We are training very hard and boot camping with other Asia teams.

Right now you are unbeatable in Singapore and your team is on a winning streak for almost a year already, do you think it will be an easy title for you?

It will not be an easy title as many of the top teams in Singapore have also been training very hard for it. Most teams are playing in a common LAN center we frequent weekly, while the ex-top teams have just reformed and are sort of having 'secret trainings' in more secluded LAN shops against China teams, hence we do not know what we are expecting in this major tournament.

Do you think you lose out a lot on training not being able to practice against European teams because of the bad ping?

It will be very good to be able to practice against European teams more so we know what to expect when we meet them overseas. We can't rely on demos to see how they play because they change their strats’ and playing style frequently. However we have our own playing style and we will just concentrate on improving it rather than just trying to counter European playing styles like what many other Asia teams are doing.

On a lighter note, could you tell me why fnatic and Singapore have a long-withstanding friendship? Carn and dsn even came down for a holiday early this year.

Haha, it’s just because one of xqR's core player - erikL is Swedish and he is on really good terms with them. Hence he introduced them to us and we became really good friends.

Thanks for taking time off for this interview. Any shout-outs to the MYM readers and your supporters?

We would like to thank our sponsors, mainly Razer and Fragnetics, also thanks to MYM for featuring this interview, and to all our fans: SHOUT LOUDER for us @ WCG2008! :p

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(11 months ago) #1 zoLo89

Nice interview and it's a shame that Lunatic-hai did a silent bomb plant, which caused them to lose, but either way xqR.AG is a good team.

(11 months ago) #2 m\|mvivahate

kellymikies, you look like the type who loves getting banged. if you know what i mean

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