One of well-known Russian non-pro players
Agira, who had no team for quaite long period of time, has joined the team of
Russian Immortal Dream. We have intrviewed him, and translatd the interview in English also So if you want to find out something about Russian non-pro scene - you're welcome to read the interview.
5:30a.m: Hello, Agora. I remeber you as a player of
Right Sense, you were playing for that team in far away 2007. But I don't know much about you, and now we'll try to correct that. First of all, be so kind to introduce yourself to the visitors of our site.
Agora: Hi, you are orga, and hello all the readers! You're not mistaken, I played for
RISE long time ago, when I were young. There was a hard battle, but I've survived and come back. And what year I was playing for
RISE - I don't remeber that myself even.
5:30a.m: That's wonderful, but usually when somebody is asked to introduce himself it means he's expected to say hei name and surname. Some, maybe you'll tell what your name is and what you do except playing Warcraft?
Agora: Ha-ha, I won't be so unserious anymore :) My name is Ramazan, or shortened Roma, and my surname is abandon thing to know I think. Besides Warcraft I also go in for sports, study and have leisure activities. And now, after the long rest, I came back to play some for my own pleasure and for the team's benefit.
5:30a.m: Thank you. Tell me, please, for which teams did you play that "long ago"?
Agora: It all started with clan
RUS, which then turned into
RISE, where I spent the best days of my gaming career and met a lot of friends, one of them I ever saw eye-to-eye. After
Right Sense disbanded i joined
New Generation Team, but had already lost the motivation and that affected my results. That time I was invited into
Koxx e-Sports and had been playing for them for some time... And, after the long , the Bear goes out of hibernation and joins
Russian Immortal Dream to squash!
5:30a.m: Did you get any proposals from other teams and, if it's so, can you tell what defined your way??
Agora: Well... I got some proposals, and I don't think it's imprtant to know from whcih teams they were. And I joined
RID because of two reasons. The first one is that you advised me to do that :)) And the second one is the player known as
RID.Scooter, who is my good friend and whom I love to punish in the game :)
5:30a.m: I nearly know which game
RID.Scooter plays a lot, and so I suppose you use Barathrum to punish him :) You've said you had returned from inactive for playing for your pleasure and for bringing some use to the team, but the last is not as easy as it sounds. Are you going to devote much time for game practicing?
Agora: By the way, Barathrum is quite a normal hero. And what's about practice, I don't know how much time I will devote to the game, to be honest. I think that 3-4 ours per day will be enough.
5:30a.m: Do you have any certain aims in front of you right now?
To place the 1st rank in Battle.net, for instance, or to win any online tournament?
Agora: Hm-m... Yeah, I would eagerly squash some tourneys! :) And I have the Battle.Net ladder broken.
5:30a.m: The first question that comes to my mind is about your training process.
Agora: I play on Garena in the company of my clanmates.
Проxодят они все в Garen'e в тесном кругу соклановцев.
5:30a.m: I have nothing to add, this was an exhaustive explanation!
I think now we can leave Warcraft III (for some time at least) and to speak about something else. About your real life, I mean. First of I'm a man who can't constantly combine ny study and cybersports without any harm to any of the two, and I wonder what's more important for you - to have good marks or to make good progress as a player and progress of your team?
Agora: I don't have a student's record book even :) And I've never had any problem with the study, everything is solved there. So, I'll give gold to the game as there are no other choice.
5:30a.m: Why? What about friends-work-leisure activities? All that things need a lot of time! Are you of those lucky ones who have enough time to do everything?
Agora: There is a time for everything. Nowadays I'm bored with all that things, except work. I don't have work, as the record's book. And, yes, in general I have enough free time.
5:30a.m: If I only had a couple of hours more in day! The world financial crysis affected the ship of cybersports - many teams lost their sponsors, and many players lost their teams. Do you think it needs much time for cybersport to get on the wave again? And also, answer please, which way cybersports should choose for its further development in Russia to attract serios sponsors and get the teams and the infrastructure up to the new level?
Agora: This is a difficult question. I'm not good at economics, but it's obvioulsy that Warcraft loses its positions. The crysis, and Starcraft in addition, will negatively affect the popularity of the game. But WC3 is the legendary game and it won't die ever. And what about sponsors, it's advertising what's important for them, and to make good advertising you need to show good results.
5:30a.m: Do you mean that the raise of cybersport in Russia must begin from below? If Russian teams show good results there will be investors attracted and some prime investment will have place, creating the start-point for further development?
Agora: Yes! I couldn't say that in such smart words. You could be a nice journalist!
5:30a.m: It is called eloquentia =) And I doubt about a journalist. As we have begun taling about serious results I would like to ask whether you think
RID and you will achieve any good results, and what's neccessary to do for that?
Agora: Kidding me?! Of course we will! I'll squash anyone! And if I do, it means the clan does, too!
5:30a.m: Self-assured you are. Well, I wish you good luck in that hard sector of squashing of everything. It's time to say good bye now. In the end - traditional opportunity to write something for the people reading this interview. Will you use it?
Agora: I will, thanks. Muzhiki! It's time to squash noobs, and strain them, and pursue them on the maps! Because
Scooter has got encouraged and even wins me sometimes...
5:30a.m: Thak you for the interview, bye!
