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1.1) Venruki said, on his recent Reckful.com interview, http://reckful.com/Post-MLG-Interview-CompLexity-Mage-Venruki, that "Beastcleave in my opinion was all about improved gouge as it opens up opportunities for the mage to CC and the priest to penance - a small thing but makes a huge difference." Do you agree with this?

I'm not sure i fully agree with this.

1.2) What do you think could have made you more effective against BB?
Maybe being a little more open minded on targets, it's easy to look back and say we could have done this this and this. We prepared alot for the event and when it becomes showtime, sometimes you forget things you have learned.

2.1) You beat this Shadow Cleave in the round-robin 2 times in Dalaran Arena, but SK-EU's Shadow Cleave seemed to have the upper hand in Dalaran and Blade's Edge in the finals.
To what do you attribute the change from round-robin to the finals?

The games where really close in round-robin, its probably shadowcleaves game to win. So i guess they just played better.

3.1) Do you think the changes to Beast Cleave were sufficient to balance the comps, in light of new RMP strats, and emerging comps such as shadow cleave, wizard cleave, etc.?

I believe so, when you look at top tier comps i think beastcleave is in there but i dont think its in a league of its own.

adaptive: 1) Lots of people are going ape-sh*t about some teams, such as the Korean RMP, Button-Bashers, (BB).  What do you think were the keys to their success?

Vrdy: The switches were the biggest contributor to their success. They weren't always these huge unexpected blow people up in one shot swaps, but they happened frequently. Their opponents were forced to use cooldowns in bad situations and they often wouldn't have anything for the following switches.

Vrdy: Against shadowcleave they caught the druid a lot with no hots, however part of the time this was the druids own fault. They also faked them into using cooldowns such as ice bound fortitude and anti magic shell when there was really little reason for them

Vrdy: Against beast cleave they did a great job kiting their cooldowns and the rogue avoided frost traps very well

adaptive: 2) What was the idea behind your counter to Beast? The announcers thought it was a bad idea, right away. Do you think they were justified, or do you think it would have worked with a little more practice? What would you have changed about it?
adaptive: (I'm talking about when you played hunter for Complexity)

Lots of people are raving about the Korean RMP, Button-Bashers (BB)

1) How would you desribe BB's strat against you?

We talked to them after the the tournament was over and Orangemarmalade basically said it was too hard for him to get polymorphs on Sodah the first game, so they decided to go for a different strategy of kiting and trying to out mana our priest by kiting and getting restealths while putting lots of control onto the mage. It worked out well for them but we started to figure it out, they had a good strat but it wasn't anything we couldn't handle. Just weren't used to fighting RMP's on that realm.

2) Why do you think your strat against shadow cleave, which worked against BHMS before the tourney, didn't work on SK.EU?

Simple, they just tunnel down our priest spamming fear/ua/chains on him and he can't do any offensive pressure or get any good offensive fears.

3) what do you think were BB's keys to success against the shadow and beast cleaves?

Number One 5v5!

This week was pretty exciting for 5v5 as we went 31-3 and ranked up to claim number one 5v5 in the battle group. Reckful streamed most of the games and as always you can hear us being ridiculous on vent and calling out random things. Make sure and try to check out the games if you missed them on the video on demand function under Reckful's livestream.

Moonlight Sonata

I decided to make up a strat called “Moonlight Sonata” (I thought of it in music class) where basically you counterspell the Paladin's first heal CC the other healer and then try and 100-0 the pally while he's locked out. It was more one of those strats that's more fun to try than it actually being functional. I wish Reckful would fix the stream so you guys could hear himself talk. One game he called “MOONLIGHT ON THIS HUNTER” and yeah.. you can't counterspell steady shot man.. I found it most effective when I would start my first frostbolt on the pally as a focus frostbolt just so the other team doesn't realize the swap right away.

Arcane in 5s?