After your SK Gaming interview at Dreamhack people believed in your comeback to SK and additionally you had a lot of offers from clans like mouz, Speed-Link etc. What made you join fnatic in the end?
Loda: Well, the interview was made by merusame and we just love each other, so not doing an interview would have been weird. To be honest it wouldn't feel right to join SK again after the way I left them and I don't think they are looking for a team at the moment. I had been talking to fnatic before all the offers came in because of our DH victory and all, so they were the obvious choice. I've actually talked to their organisation ages ago and I like their other teams, CS etc., so there really was no better choice.
What are your plans with the new fnatic.DotA?
Loda: Isn't that obvious? To win it all! (laughs) No, but we're a nice clan to be honest. We get along fine and we're not really afraid to start playing with new stuff etc. Some months ago people wouldn't pick Morphling for anything, suddenly he can even be a firstpick?
After Misery's great performance against eSuba the question came up: Who is the better Morph player? Loda or Misery?
Loda: Misery is one of the absolute best players in the world at the moment and people have started to love him, so that's not really a question you should ask me. (smiles) In my world, I am the greatest and that's it.
Recently there were some roster changes going on. Twistd out, FreddyQ and Aidar in, yesterday twistd played again, so what is your current lineup status?
Loda: Well, I don't know where you got your info? But FreddyQ is not in, we added Aidar because we've been using him as a stand-in now and then and we really didn't have a five men roster. Twistd is probably going to join us soon. The reason why he wasn't added yet is because he was on vacation when we signed our contracts, so it wasn't possible to add him to the team. I believe the future roster to be:
Loda, Misery, Twistd, Rene, Kwom and Aidar. Added to that we use JesseQ as a stand-in when needed and allowed.
How would you comment on the different players of your team?
Loda:
Misery-: flame, whine, flame, whine - but pro.
Rene: German?
Kwom: "
fuck my
penis", that's Kwom really. Bob sagat.
Aidar: Nothing to say really, no one understands Aidar, he just says random words in the wrong sentence.
Did you add JesseQ because Misery had some 99 Penalty Points in his DL profile?
Loda: We don't really care about that to be honest. We need stand-ins sometimes and we choose the ones that fit us best. A league that tries to be professional but still gives PPs for ridiculous stuff like DL and ESL, is just living in the wrong world in my opinion.
Talking about ESL: Last week Sweden and Russia got disqualified from ENC due to some missing player information. How did that happen?
Loda: Well, their site is buggy and hard to understand. Admins are dictators who do not even take the time to contact players, instead they give that info to our inactive manager so how should this work out? Do you believe England would be disqualified from world cup because Beckham didn't give his info to the site? If they really want to keep a professional image then to fix this info shouldn't be the players' responsibility. They will lose viewers and cash because they did this and to hell with them in my opinion. I've had disagreements with ESL for ages so this was not something that surprised me. That they would do this in a tournament where there are no prizes is just...
Yesterday, DotA on The eXperience got finally canceled due to too few teams participating. What do you think about this decision?
Loda: Orgas believe that people will take tournaments with low prize money seriously. They want to make the game a big eSports event but if they do not pick up the wallet it won't happen. We didn't have time to practise and go there so we decided not to go. Sure prize money would have been decent if you didn't have to pay entryfees etc. I don't believe entryfees to be good for any tournament. DH takes a fee because it is a big "eXperience" going there. Tex is not really the same thing in my opinion.
I guess you followed the F4F Playoffs. Suprised by the outcome?
Loda: Not really. The teams who are there are the ones who are the best or the teams that aren't afraid to try new stuff or the stuff that works for them as a team! I was surprised that KS.int did not take it home. Gratz to EG.
How satisfied are you with the changes in 6.61b to become a proper version for leagues and tournaments?
Loda: It is alright! Some stuff still imbalanced like Enchantress, TC etc., but overall it's fine.
What is Loda doing in his spare time apart from DotA?
Loda: What do people do in their spare time? I work a bit during summer, studied this spring, party, drugs, sex and rock and roll. The usual.
Any shoutouts?
Loda: Shoutout to my female fans in china! Don't fear, some day I will marry one of you!!! So keep sending me those pictures I like.
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