Dai: 'Tiny-Wisp was our only chance to stand against stronger teams'

Six days passed since veteran EHOME pillars Yao '357' Yi and Zeng Rong 'Dai' Lei became transfer targets of DK in what can be defined one of the most spectacular player acquisitions this year.When all noteworthy names in Dota 2 came together last time for the annual International championship both DK and EHOME missed a placement within the top three barely.The announcement of DK's renewal made us wonder how the new players would affect the role distribution, why DK decided to reform at all and what impact The International 2 has on Dota 2's status in China.We gathered both 357 and Dai as well as their new manager Bo 'DK.Farseer' Peng for answers regarding the move and wether TI 2012 triggered it.So far Super will continue to play the mid solo role.rOtk is still the off-laner.There’s a future!!We normally train from 2pm to 2am. When there are teams to scrim, we play. Otherwise we play against pubs.Usually when there are teams to scrim with we play a few Bo3 matches; once in a while Bo5. When no teams are around we practice laning and talk about our thoughts.I play more pubs or watch movies.We do our own things. Normally this time is our personal time.We’re not thinking about that now; priority is training as a team.Horrible. I feel like 5th/6th place was already because of luck.Acceptable I suppose. Result was within prediction, but better than we had expected.That was our secret strategy, and probably the only chance to stand against stronger teams.There’s no improvement without new ideas.PerhapsTo put it bluntly, it’s mainly because of the lack of skills. When against powerhouses, we won’t even stand a chance.Western teams are generally strong during online tournaments. I feel as if they cannot play to their fullest on LAN.I should say it’s either they lack LAN experience, or didn’t perform to their fullest. The few teams that I liked didn’t even make it into quarter finals.Of course, everyone is anticipating the game to be released to the public.Actually there are many Chinese players that want to play this game. There is a high demand of beta-keys.I think people definitely are interested. The spectating system in Dota 2 is great and because of that, more people are attracted to the game.Switching from DotA to Dota 2 is an inevitable trend.I heard many players who tried Dota 2 don’t even want to play DotA anymore. Hopefully there will be more Dota 2 tournaments in China.It’s the trend.For tournaments within Asia, that isn’t too big of an issue.The Singapore server is great.Singapore is good, not too laggy.It’s almost impossible to garner attention from the mainstream media (meaning news etc.); however, there is lots of online media exposure.I’m not sure, but there are more and more people interested in it.It’s totally possible to have a full-house.This year’s location at Seattle is very decent; it’s my best experience at a tournament within these few years. If it is hosted in China, then no doubts the hall will be packed.I guess I’d pick a western country. I can’t imagine TI3 in China.We don’t really want to go back and discuss this, but surely it’s not because of placing 4th at TI2.We’ve achieved our predicted goal (meaning 4th in TI2), but we know we can do better than that.Questions were asked by Ulrich Hanten and Helen Xu t.qq.com - Follow Team DK on QQ t.qq.com - Follow 357 on QQ t.qq.com - Follow Dai on QQ