GosuGamers continues to check up on the teams in the WC3L. This time we have triMble, the manager for 4Kings with us.
1No championship title this season, and with the next season coming up Creolophus will stop playing. How are you intending to do better this season?
- This question sounds like placing second in the worlds best WarCraft III league is something bad. We were only one map away from the title last season, and it is not always the skill of the players deciding the outcome of a match. Nevertheless, it is true that Creo will stop playing the next season and it is a huge loss for us, as he was a really important player for us.
What we can do better this very season is to make sure that everyone is able to play his best WarCraft during the entire season, what possibly could avoid us playing the playoffs and again directly qualifying for the Offline Finals, which is the declared goal. Still, the solo tournaments are interfering a lot with the league playdays, making it hard to have every player available on all the playdays, so I can already tell you now that we will not be able to play with the "best" lineup all the time, what might be crucial, as our lineup only has 5 players the time Creo will stop playing.
I guess we might see DeMusliM playing in our WC3L lineup from time to time, as he is improving dayly. Furthermore, I will not exclude the possibility of us adding another player, since a 5-man-lineup is a really small one and the players having a huge tournament schedule could make it necessary for us to add another player to make sure we will have a full lineup every clanwar.
2When looking at your lineup, I would say you need to back up the team with either an Undead or another Night Elf. If you were to choose one player that would be suited for 4Kings, who would that be?
- I would choose a player with a lot of potential, not a superstar player. I can't tell you any names, but I guess a player who is not really on the top yet, but in which the current team sees a lot of potential based on recent results and what they have seen from him on offline events and how he behaved there, could be a possible addition to the team.
3Recently there have been rumours about Grubby and ToD leaving 4Kings due to money and contract issues. Your comment on that?
- Well, I had a lot of people contacting me about this issue, and strangely enough, they all told me a different version so it seems like all of them had different sources and reasons for it, starting with a huge sponsorship deal Intel Germany offered Grubby for joining SK-Gaming, or ToD joining mousesports cause he is a good friend of their Chinese players.
All I can say about this issue is that the players are contracted like in every professional team, and the 4Kings team as such will exist for another long period of time.
4First up in the new season of WC3L, 4Kings will play mTw.PokerRoom. What is your take on that team? How well do you know that team, and do you think you will come out on top?
- MTW is not easy to predict. They got a quite large number of good and capable players, and their performance depends a lot on their form and which players are available. I think the match will be harder than a lot of people expect, but in the end, we want to directly qualify for the next seasons finals, and therefore we need to win this match and hopefully will do so.
5With Creolophus gone, how will you deal with the 2on2? Previously we have seen Grubby and ToD playing together, but recently we have seen Creo and Grubby play. Which two will be the next 2on2 team for 4Kings?
- Grubby played with a lot of 2on2 partners so far, he played with FuRy, Zeus, ToD and Creo and all these teams worked up pretty well. Grubby playing Random in his 2on2 games is a plus for our team in my eyes, so therefore I think it will be Grubby playing with whoever fits of the players we have at the moment.
6Okay, thanks a lot. Any last words?
- Well as always a huge shoutout to Intel, the entire Four Kings team and all the 4K Fans out there!
