larse Profile Blog Joined March 2012 1595 Posts Last Edited: 2014-03-18 17:01:43 #1 This is a quick second-hand and shortened translation. As always, it is important to note about the things that lost during the two translation processes.





This is the interview after Flash winning his game against Rain and his 7 anniversary match.



Q: A lot of fans have come to the studio today.



Flash: It really gives me huge strength. Since this new SPL, I have found much of the feeling like before. I used to have a happy communication with my fans, but suddenly fans have become fewer, which makes me feel regretful. But recently the number of fans has increased, which gives me huge strength.



Q: I heard that you never lose in TvP during practice.



Flash: This time I practiced for about 70 games, with 2 losses. So I have confidence. My winrate is high so I think I have performed well in today's game. Rain's reaction is outstanding so it was difficult. I dropped in his natural and lost many units but thankfully I have killed lots of workers as well. And then I was gradually gaining advantage.



Q: Last words?



Flash: Lots of fans came today for my 7 anniversary. Thank you everyone. I hope everyone can come to cheer for me in the future. After eating the mountain ginseng, I will certainly cheer up.









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Some data on the SC2's recent popularity in Korea.



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For some unknown reasons, SC2's popularity in Korea has indeed been good after the new SPL,at least compared to the last SPL during OGN's production, which is strange considering the higher status of OGN. The online game played time ranking on inven shows that SC2 has been around #15 for many months and it was not that high during Wings and not that high before this new SPL as well. But of course shortly after the HOTS release the ranking was higher----I remember that it was around #11, for a few months.



The ranking data since last Oct:



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Also, the new SPL's VOD viewership in Korea is relatively better than before as well. The VOD of some of the best players achieved a viewership of 20k to 40k. And Fantasy vs Roro in Round 2 has a ridiculous viewer number of 159k, which is even higher than most of the LoL VODs on Naver's VOD system.



http://sports.news.naver.com/videoCenter/index.nhn?uCategory=esports&category=starcraft2 This is the interview after Flash winning his game against Rain and his 7 anniversary match.: It really gives me huge strength. Since this new SPL, I have found much of the feeling like before. I used to have a happy communication with my fans, but suddenly fans have become fewer, which makes me feel regretful. But recently the number of fans has increased, which gives me huge strength.: This time I practiced for about 70 games, with 2 losses. So I have confidence. My winrate is high so I think I have performed well in today's game. Rain's reaction is outstanding so it was difficult. I dropped in his natural and lost many units but thankfully I have killed lots of workers as well. And then I was gradually gaining advantage.: Lots of fans came today for my 7 anniversary. Thank you everyone. I hope everyone can come to cheer for me in the future. After eating the mountain ginseng, I will certainly cheer up.Source: http://s.163.com/14/0317/20/9NIL40EH00314Q8T.html#p=9NIFQ12B55LI0031 -------------------For some unknown reasons, SC2's popularity in Korea has indeed been good after the new SPL,at least compared to the last SPL during OGN's production, which is strange considering the higher status of OGN. The online game played time ranking on inven shows that SC2 has been around #15 for many months and it was not that high during Wings and not that high before this new SPL as well. But of course shortly after the HOTS release the ranking was higher----I remember that it was around #11, for a few months.The ranking data since last Oct:Oct: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=64666&site=webzine Nov: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=65850&site=webzine Dec: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=67239&site=webzine Jan: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=102771&sclass=26 Feb: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=103953 March: http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=106259 Also, the new SPL's VOD viewership in Korea is relatively better than before as well. The VOD of some of the best players achieved a viewership of 20k to 40k. And Fantasy vs Roro in Round 2 has a ridiculous viewer number of 159k, which is even higher than most of the LoL VODs on Naver's VOD system.