GosuGamers talks to Silviu "NightEnD" Lazar of Team Fnatic after the bronze finish at DreamHack Sapphire AMD tournament at DreamHack Winter 2011.

"I don't like to cheese or all-in and in early game there is still much room for random wins because I can't scout and I dont know exactly what to expect."

"I was not nervous at all, almost, even though I had a high heart rate. My heart beats pretty fast all of the time!"

NightEnD after the 1-3 loss to PuMa.

"I'm trying to find a way to be more aggressive in early and mid game without being needed to finish the game, but just to do damage."

"Most are tempted to say that I made those mistakes because I was nervous , but I am very calm overall, I don't get nervous. So again, it was the lack of sleep."

- Haha thanks, well, yes, even with this place at DreamHack I still don't think I had a good year at all, but now I can say that I had a decent one. I'm not really happy, I'm more glad that I could finish at least top 4. I will try my best for next year to get much better results.- The first I didn't play too well because I was a bit tired. As for NaRa, I think he played pretty well.- I would say that I won 6 of those 7 games because both me and my opponent played safe but I had the better micro macro strategy. As for the seventh game, second game versus MaNa on Tal'Darim Altar, I would say that it was maybe a bit of luck because I took a risk to go 3-gate forge expo. Maybe not that big of a risk, but it paid off and I won. The other three games, well, I lost to an all-in 4-gate warp strategy in one and the last two that I lost were versus Titan where in the second game he just played better, that's why. In the third game he took a big risk by going one-gate expo into 4-gate and he won. I wouldn't lose to this strategy if I would play again. But due to some of games like the ones versus MaNa on Tal'Darim and versus Titan on Antiga, I still think Protoss mirror is still random. If both players play safe and play a micro macro game then PvP is good.- I do agree, yes, and that is because what I love the most is to play a micro macro game. I don't like to cheese or all-in and in early game there is still much room for random wins because I can't scout and I dont know exactly what to expect. And somtimes I lose but as time goes by I will perfect my early mid game and if you were to beat me you will only do so if you are better - not with cheeses, all-ins or so. It's the fact that I don't want to focus on the early game. I would like to fight with my opponent in all 3 stages - early, mid, late - but in the early and mid either I'm all-in and win or either I'm all-in and lose. I don't like those two options. I'm trying to find a way to be more aggressive in early and mid game without being needed to finish the game, but just to do damage. At the moment I have found a way of being aggressive in all three stages but only against Zerg. But sadly I only played against one zerg at DreamHack, Osho. I also think the strategy is pretty good considering I have won most of my games with it on the ladder which includes three or four won games versus Stephano and 1-1 versus IdrA.- When I woke up and saw the bracket I thought that if I advance to the semi fianls I am most likely to play PuMa and I felt confident. But as time flew by I only got more tired and tired. If I would not have slept at ToD's hotel room one hour before playing Naama I would probably have lost. The next time when I go up against PuMa I will feel just as confident as always because I do think I can beat him. At DreamHack I lost because I was tired. At the semi finals I was almost exhausted. I had a headache for like three hours even if I took three pills.- Well, yes, mostly because my last game in the group stage didn't finish until around 01:00. I was at the hotel at around 02:00 and then went to bed 30 minutes later. Then I woke up at 08:00 because I had to play SaSe at 10:00. I don't understand why they put me to play first in the morning when I played last the day before. I did tell them that, and they said that they will take it into consideration for the next event.- From my experiences I would say this was the only bad part, except for the heart beat montitor. I did not like it because I was forced to wear it. I found it kind of annoying. I simply did not like the feel, that's all. Wearing something you don't like makes you feel a bit uncomfortable. Aside from those two things everything was good.- I can only say that it was a nice experience and I want to thank to all who cheered for me. I was not nervous at all, almost, even though I had a high heart rate. My heart beats pretty fast all of the time!- No, I don't think I can relate with any other experience I had that was better. This is by far the best one, yes.- Haha, well, I did way, way too many mistakes because as I said before, I was too tired so I simply could not focus.- I don't understand why I did not split my sentries, I really don't. As I said, and I don't want anyone to take it as an excuse for my loss, but I was tired, way to tired. I couldn't focus, I had to sleep.- Well in that game, even if I won it, I made many mistakes. Like, I didn't split my army correctly, I lost both forges because I had no units there. I was losing Colossi all over the map because my rally point was on the middle of the map. Most are tempted to say that I made those mistakes because I was nervous , but I am very calm overall, I don't get nervous. So again, it was the lack of sleep.- I did micro the high templars back and forth, it felt good, yeah.- I think I should have played it differently. I think I needed to do more damage to his economy in the early game and get more units up than him. It's bad to go Colossus against that.- My advice would be to go Stargate 3-gate and then robo for observer. This is a blind counter for 1-1-1, and it works really good. But you can only do it if you expect your opponent to do this noob 1-1-1 build.- Yes, I think this hapened only because the Protoss players were better, not because the race is better. Some will say that Protoss is the best race, now that HerO won versus PuMa in the final. But I still think Terran has a slight advantage over Protoss. If this advantage would not have existed, I think the score in the final would have been 4-1 for HerO.- For December I will just train and stream as much as I can. My next event will be the HomeStory Cup 4, in January.Thanks for the interview and I wanna thank to all my fans who are cheering for me. Thank you very much :) Also I wanna send thank to mTw for picking me up when I was a no name player, to Jaco "Lloth" van Dijk and paisy for all theiry help and trust during my times with them at Praetorianii. Now I wanna thank to my team Fnatic to everyone who works for fnatic and to my sponsors MSI, Steelseries, Eizo, Raidcall and Gunnar. I wish you all a nice holiday and a happy new year.