cR.KingKong

Name: Yu "Sam" Chung Hee | Country: South Korea | Race: Zerg | Team: Carnage eSports

After recently moving to Australia from South Korea, Carnage eSports' KingKong has been dominating the SEA scene. After he took out the last two wT weeklies and the Masters Cup, I decided to sit down with KingKong and have a chat about his current life in Australia, Australian Internet and his current practice regime in a bid to not only shed some light on this gentle giant, but also help him practice his English.

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Lemminks: Hihi KingKong, How are your English lessons going?

Sam “cR.KingKong” Yu: Korea Teacher is video study. Likely 2013 January go to English school and July cooking uni.

Lemminks: Why don’t we start with you introducing yourself?

cR.KingKong: I am Sam KingKong Yu. My International age is 22, think in Australia, live is the Best.

Lemminks: What about your current occupation (what is your job)?

cR.KingKong: Now Progamer and Student.

Lemminks: Back in Korea you were part of team Startale correct?

cR.KingKong: Hm. Startale Out, my Team Carnage now. But I like Startale people.

Lemminks: What was it like being part of Startale? Did you live in the team house?

cR.KingKong: Yes, StarTale people Team House live.

Lemminks: Who introduced you to sc2sea and the sea scene?

cR.KingKong: I BW Progamer season, my old brothers SC2 Australia accounts get. Only me ladder game, YoonYJ game and say are you Korean? I think he is ID Korean name. He say I'm Korean, he introduction many Korean clan, Team SPR. I go to channel TEAM SPR, SPR people many game many say become friendly.

Lemminks: You caused quite a stir upon competing in sc2sea tournaments at first, were you aware of this and if so, what were your thoughts about it?

cR.KingKong: Actually it was my first time to had online match, so it was quite interesting and funny. And I didn’t know about that haha.

Lemminks: How do you like Australia so far? How is it compared to living in Korea?

cR.KingKong: Well, I think Australia has fresh air, and I think people preserved well the environment. Umm, it was quite hard to adjust Australia culture, but I like this place.

Lemminks: How about Australian Internet?

cR.KingKong: Be honest with you, it is not really good, I can't imagine this Internet speed in Korea. Haha. Sometimes I get some trouble during online match TT.

Lemminks: What is your current practice schedule like? How it is compared to when you were in Korea?

cR.KingKong: Mostly, I study during daytime and after 2 o'clock practice Sc2. When I was in Korea, I practiced for whole day everyday. Haha.

Lemminks: What inspired you to play the Zerg race?

cR.KingKong: Umm, the reason why I play Zerg race is because it's easy to change unit combination like zergling to roach quickly.

Lemminks: Aside from numerous wins in sc2sea events, what is you best tournament result?

cR.KingKong: I guess, in Homestory cup Open Bracket vs. Nestea me 2:1 win.

Lemminks: wow very gosu 0_0

cR.KingKong: Thanks haha.

Lemminks: Almost as good as fray'Ninja. Anyway, you recently made it to Stage 3 of the IEM Singapore qualifiers, are you confident that you’ll take the direct seed into IEM Singapore?

cR.KingKong: actually, I’m not that confident but I’ll do my best. .

Lemminks: Are you planning on travelling to Singapore to compete?

cR.KingKong: Yes, why not.

Lemminks: You recently joined Team Carnage, how are you enjoying being part of that team?

cR.KingKong: Even my English is very bad, they are all good to me. Even on chatting, they use easy word for me. haha.

Lemminks: Lets move away from Starcraft 2 for a bit, are there any other games that you enjoy playing?

cR.KingKong: No only Sc2.

Lemminks: What inspired you to study cooking in Australia?

cR.KingKong: From childhood I liked to cook. I good at Cooking kk.

Lemminks: So why Australia instead of somewhere else, like France?

cR.KingKong: Aus live in My brother house and study English.

Lemminks: Lastly which player in the sea region are you most afraid of?

cR.KingKong: Moonglade.

Lemminks: Any particular reason why?

cR.KingKong: Aus Number One Player...I think Mafia gosu, more gosu Moonglade.

Lemminks: Haha, well thank you for your time Sam.

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Interview by Lemminks
Graphics by Cute and UHF

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[Cyanide]

English was entertaining. And I don't mean it in a negative way at all. :P

[ZizLah]

that was cool hah

[Pox]

Nice interview! Time for everyone to retire now I guess, all the aussie lan money is going to kingkong.

[SLCN.Petrify]

That was a fun read, seems like a nice guy!

[nirvAnA]

Great interview

[iM MaFia]

Originally Posted by TCPLemminks

Lemminks: Lastly which player in the sea region are you most afraid of?

I hate these kinda questions lol

[Reere]

Loved it! Hope to see more~!

[MooZfY]

moonglade #1

[crAzerk]

Aww he's so cute. And so does he fear moonglade or mafia?? Haha!

[dippa]

what a cheerful bloke

i could happily just watch kingkong sit in a room with champi all day

[ToRSpartaz]

That was awesome Yeah I agree with Dippa, such a nice guy ^^

[jayaiwhy]

His English drastically improved in middle of the interview :P

Quick Comments

TCPLemminks:

He got his friend to help him :P

[Champi]

Originally Posted by dippa

what a cheerful bloke

i could happily just watch kingkong sit in a room with champi all day

haha. i love chatting with him in the cR chat, i imagine i'll love hanging out with him at LAN even more, he's such a nice and optimistic bloke!

Thanks for interviewing him, especially in english, he's coming along really well with it so far i think ^_^

looking forward to more episodes of Tea with Titans

[sl0th]

great player, kewl interview.