The best of Korean media recap, feat. Gorilla, CoreJJ, Crown, Kuro, and more. Also, Twitlonger has a terrible UI.



During the break between Summer Split and the World Championships, the Korean media put out a ton of long-form interviews and profile pieces. Here are the most interesting points to take away from articles published during the first few weeks of September.



Gorilla (Inven, Sept 14) – http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=163888&iskin=esports&sclass=17



Gorilla reveals how he was the architect behind the Tigers. Starting off as the lone, founding member, he recruited the original core of Pray, Hojin, Kuro, and Smeb to the squad. An interesting wrinkle is that Gorilla had a choice between bringing Smeb or Huni to the team.



Gorilla also says he’s friendly with foreign pros, so he gets good info from them. He used Trundle in the LCK finals on Mithy’s suggestion.



Crown (Fomos, Sept 16) – http://www.fomos.kr/esports/news_view?lurl=%2Fesports%2Fnews_list%3Fnews_cate_id%3D5&entry_id=33126



A lot of focus on the crazy amount of practice Crown puts into the game. “I feel like Faker can play a new champion well if he plays just five games. I have to play ten times to reach the same level.” He’s also disappointed he was only able play 1,500 games this year, compared to 4,000 last year.



As an old Brood War professional, Crown doesn’t believe any pros have surpassed the legendary Taek-baeng-leessang (Bisu, Stork, Jaedong, Flash) as of yet. They’re still his role models.



Tempt & Crazy (Inven, Sept 15) – http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=163904&iskin=esports&game=1368



Crazy actually asked to be subbed out against KT in round 2, because he was tilted and couldn’t concentrate. The team kept him in because they had practiced around him being the starter.



ESC ran intensive 2v2 bot lane drills because they felt they didn’t understand the lane counter relationships well enough.



Tempt picked out Flash Wolves as a foreign team he thinks is good. He thinks the synergy between Karsa and Maple, and the way Karsa babysits for Maple makes the game frustrating for the other team. In terms of individual players, he was impressed by Bjergsen in the leaked scrims.



Crazy gave props to Doubelift for having great mechanics for a first generation pro, and pointed out TSM and EDG as teams that might perform well at worlds. However, he’s rooting for I May, since Athena might buy them some BBQ if I May does well.





CoreJJ (Inven, Sept 13) – http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=163833&iskin=esports&game=1368



It was hard for CoreJJ to be motivated on Dignitas when he was playing LoL, and the guy next to him was playing a different game.



Kuro (Inven, Sept 14) – http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=163867&iskin=esports&sclass=17



Kuro wanted to grow a chinstrap beard like many of the foreign pros, but was dissuaded by the people around him.





InvenGlobal has been doing full English translations of Inven copntent lately, so stay on the lookout for those.



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