With the motivation of the members, the support of the team, and the support of the fans, NORTHEPTION has come so far -what Blackwiz, who decided to lose LCQ, think about what he thinks [Interview]

Valorant Champions 2022 is held in Istanbul, Turkey in September, competing with the world championship once a year. The final qualifying round, Valorant East ASIA Last Chance Qualifier (LCQ) , which has participated in the last participation right is being held. One of the Japanese national team, NorthEption (NTH) , will play against DAY5 / MATCH2 and Korea National Team ON SLA2ERS (ONS). Map score 1-2 was defeated, and losing from LCQ was decided.

1st map of ONS Pick: Binding, the attack start's ons attack and shaking, and the flow was made from the beginning, so it turned back with a large difference from the round score 2-10. After that, NTH also repeated the round without breaking the boldly shooting posture, including the pistol round, but was defeated in the first half or 9-13.

Continuing 2nd map: In the split, the NTH of the attack starts flows. The development is to win the key points firmly and return what was done in the round score 11-1. After that, there was a scene where ONS attacks were hiyari, but I won 13-8 firmly.

Fate 3rd Map: In Ascent, Defense Start ONS showed a solid defense with the accurate abilities for the entry, and there was no round score 3-9 while sandwiching the slips and the like. After the attack turned into the attack, the rounds were steadily repeated, but the matchpoint was obtained by 6-12, but NTH showed up the raging waves. With a 5-round consecutive consecutive, he dropped the round of bringing to overtime in one round, and lost 11-13. ONS wins in the map score 1-2, and we will challenge the Grand Final with Edward Gaming waiting for the upper.

Although it was an NTH that was one step away, while suffering from the area that firmly incorporated the abilities of ONS, it was decided to leave LCQ with this defeat, and the result was that participation in Champions did not come true. 。

This time, we will provide a joint interview to NorthPtion leader Blackwiz, who has just finished the game. We looked back on the last round, the team, our growth, and the future.

-It was a disappointing result. Please give me a frank impression after the battle.

BLACKWIZ: I feel really frustrated, and I feel like I lost something big.

I was struggling with ONS's attack, but how did you actually fight?

BLACKWIZ: Yesterday's Edward Gaming was a team that came to shoot without using skills, but today's on Sla2ers is a play style that uses skills and time well and shakes the enemy to the left and right. did. There is also that gap, and it is an impression that it was an unfamiliar match.

ー In particular, in the binding, even if BLACKWIZ played snake byte or viper pit, the enemy pushed up the front line several times.

BLACKWIZ: I feel frustrated by the binding, but when I use Vipers Pit, I dropped more than half of the round. In a round of a adjustment bye, the enemy attacked the weapon that he saved in the previous round to Meteor and used the shelif and used the Vipers pit, and the enemy attacked, and said, If you have a vandal at that time. If you try to process the enemy who came out in front of multiple people, you would have been pierced sideways, but you would think a lot.

I am confident in using the Vipers Pit, and I use it in the situation of I will definitely take a round, but I was sorry that the enemy was good and I could not get it.

ー ー If the area was taken beyond the abilities that were hit with the intention of stopping, was there any part that was difficult to take measures?

BLACKWIZ: Because it is FPS, I have no choice but to solve it with aim, but there are many situations where I ran and ran to the place where the Viper was, and I could not get a trade skill. hey.

ー ー I was looking at it and felt that stress was very stressful.

BLACKWIZ: That's right...

1st map: In the second half of the binding at the binding, I got the impression that the team's movements have changed drastically, such as the back, but how did you change the way to turn back and change the way you move within the team? mosquito?

BLACKWIZ: I wasn't dead, so I felt like something. Regarding the movement, JOXJO is conducting the whole movement as an IGL, so I think thanks to the judgment.

There is a difference in round, and I think there are some parts that were cornered mental, but how did you play in the second half?

BLACKWIZ: We all talked about the last opportunity for this Champions to cry or laugh. The tournament is over when you give up, so even if there is a score difference from 2-10, it is not the feeling of switching, but the only feeling of taking this map. So nobody loses mental, and I think the mental side was good enough to have a laugh.

3rd Map: In the astht, it was a match of the intention, but what kind of communication was there in the round of overtime if you took one round in 11-12?

BLACKWIZ: METEOR said that if you picked up one and defeat the MID Rark, then you can get it by lock-down. However, because the enemy had put pressure on the front, it was slow that Derialy locks down.

Ultimate is a personal judgment, so I can't say anything, but at the time when allies come in, we use it on the defense spawn side so that only the enemy can move the enemy, so if we disturbed with the Astra star, we could win. ? I also heard the story after the match. I hope that Ultimate can be activated a little faster.

Of course, it doesn't mean that someone is bad, but because we have rock-down, the enemy has put pressure on the front and loses in the shooting there and brought up to 2V2. I can only say that I was good. I guess this would have changed if I could defeat the upper there.

ー Did you have any impatience?

BLACKWIZ: Not only that round, but some members felt that this was dangerous from around 6-12, so I think I was impatient. I was a little impatient from the binding. From there, I picked it up with a split, but it did not go well with the attack of Ascent.

Even in the first road, if you rush to A rush, you will be stacked, and many enemies are placed in the place you want to attack, so I did not stab the movement that I thought would work as a team, so this call is good as an IGL JOXJO player. I feel that I was confused and impatient.

Even in the final round, everyone was gaining momentum, saying, I can go! However, I wonder if I was too impatient, I was not calm, there was a part where my feet were not aligned, and I thought that the members who were calm and were impatient. I did it.

ー ー NTH has a breakthrough so far in a short period of six months, but is there any more time and if this member gathered earlier?

BLACKWIZ: I think it was probably the same as the members gathered online and practiced. There were boot camping, subsequent offline tournaments, and world competitions, and there was a part that was very skilled. I think that the skill will increase as much as possible online, but I felt that it would be more trustworthy by meeting realistically, and I felt that it would improve with the synergistic effect, so I gathered easily over the border without corona. I wonder if it was different if I could practice and compete in the tournament.

ー ー On Sla2ers was also gathering and playing in the same place.

BLACKWIZ: Except for the Japanese team, all gaming houses were gathering and playing. If it's offline, players who are depressed by facing sideways say, OK!, But online is still only a voice, so it is difficult to judge whether it is empty. After all, I thought that such a part was the strength of gathering and playing offline.

ー ー However, it is amazing that in six months, I became such a strong team, participating in international competitions, and winning LCQ so far. How about looking back on the last six months?

BLACKWIZ: The members of the NorthPtion, including me, are obsessed with winning in a good way, and everyone has the feeling of going over, and I think that STAGE2 has become stronger. 。

And the support of the owners, managers, and teams created a place where we could play at ease, and the fans supported me. At the time of the boot camp, I had the impression that the team was raising the level with the cheering of the fans.

With the motivation of the members, the support of the team, and the support of the fans, I think that NorthEption has come this far.

ー ー What kind of growth do you feel?

BLACKWIZ: Regarding the way of thinking and fighting teams, the Korean coaches, Meteor players and JOXjo players, XNFRI players, Derialy, and Xandrite, including play with everyone, have been common sense and theory of the logic so far. I think that I was able to level up even more in a year when I was aware that I was ignorant, because there were many things that were overturned, and it was natural that I could not be in myself. But it's a shame that my performance as a player didn't go up from Stage2.

---What kind of players do you want to be in the future?

BLACKWIZ: If you are going to continue as a player in the future, I would like to rest once, refresh the mental, etc., then immerse yourself in practice and solidify the foundation. Until now, I was playing games for my hobbies, and I was invited to an extension of my hobby and became a professional, so I haven't studied the basics like other professionals. I think that the difference between the details and the different performance depending on the day is the part where such a foundation is not made. Do you want to strengthen your obvious things as a player and want it again?

-Please give a message to the fans who supported me so far.

BLACKWIZ: Thank you very much for the fans who supported me for the past year. I'm really sorry that LCQ is 3rd place and I can't get the results you expected, but I think I was able to play happily for the past year thanks to everyone's support. increase. I'm really thankful to you.

Immediately after the disappointing match, he expressed his gratitude to the members, teams, and fans, reminiscent of one aspect of the main pillar that has pulled the team called NorthPption.

Defeating ZETA Division, participating in the international tournament VCT 2022 STAGE 2 Masters Copenhagen, and as a team that won the LCQ so far, the team members' thoughts, motivation, team support, and fans. The voice was created.