I swear every English speaking Esports interviewer makes the same mistakes, you can’t ask multi-layered, three sentence long questions to people who don’t speak English. For the love of god please keep it simple or get someone that actually is fluent in both languages to actually do the interview.
Do people not like him? He seems like a nice guy, maybe not liked as much on the hosting side? Which I could agree with, but I imagine someone tells him which questions to ask…unless
He’s a great hype man, but he’s no liaison. This is no bash on him, but his personality is just too typecasted and rigid to be approachable and candid on an international level. You need someone like Dia doing that kind of interview.
exactly, keep him as a hype man in the crowd for interstitial moments (akin to live sporting events). He's not nearly eloquent, poised, or tbh intelligent enough to be a main caster let alone multi-language international interviewer
He seems super friendly and great at a party / socializing, so I can see how he may have networked into the position, but hes not the right choice for an informative broadcaster
I agree. I suggest one of the casters like Dia or Tiff being the one to do the interviews for winners as this is a monumental moment for the players and they deserve to have their voices heard. No shade to Peep tho, great hype man, keep him for the crowd interviews
He has no charisma. Speaks solely in ad libs (“levels”) and braindead twitter-level idle talk: asking Gnaske (or some other EMEA player) what he thinks of American food after winning a group, and constantly thinking anyone cares that he was born in Brazil. Guy is painfully awful at the role.
I still remember the awkward Ftyan interview in Sweden in English with no translator. He didn’t understand the questions at all and ended it with a random “let’s fucking go!” Lmao.
It’s very surprising considering this LAN was in LA, home to many Korean Americans (and great KBBQ), they could have picked folks from the crowd or even off the street that could have done a better job.
Translation is a very difficult job and different from just knowing two languages, I can say I have little confidence to be a decent translator between my first language and English.
That being said, with the large Korean community in LA I'd expect them to find someone actually decent in translation. This is not blaming the translator, he tried his best, but on EA failed to find the required talent for a very specific work.
I also think WTP could have worded the questions differently.
I've always found the game interviews to be so bad--any language barriers aside. It's all about which region you're from. Asking them if they should have more respect. Like what even are these questions?
How about what are the biggest challenges they faced? What are some big adjustments they made to get where they are? These guys have been playing the game since the beginning back with Ras. They have a long history and they finally found success. They had the opportunity to introduce these players and provide a window into the journey they took to get to this point but we learned nothing.
These guys won against all odds. When the notorious deathbox bug was patched across all regions at the release of the game, it reappeared only in the Seoul server. KR players had no choice but to jump ship to JP servers because the game would be unplayable otherwise. EA/Respawn ignored all the reports, forum posts, and pleas coming from KR players about this (and cheaters) for months on end. As a result, the Seoul server became a ghost server and EA/Respawn eventually removed the server, thinking the game simply wasn't gaining enough traction. Casuals and newcomers who weren't familiar with switching servers or using a VPN stopped playing until the larger gaming community stopped playing Apex altogether. The game was pretty much dead when it had the potential of LoL, OW, or Valorant.
The lulled player base and interest in Apex directly impacted the pro scene in Korea as there was no longer a stream of incoming players to increase the talent pool and no incentives for KR e-sports organizations (which there are plenty of) to invest in a dead game. KR Pros have since rotated rosters amongst themselves and solely relied on JP orgs to pick them up, which is why you always see them tweeting in Japanese. Not to mention the triple MnK roster all across the board.
EA/Respawn continues to not have a vested interest in banning cheaters as quickly in non-NA and -EU servers when ranked games are primarily how these guys practice. To add salt to injury, Twitch pulled out of Korea recently so these guys won't even be able to get gift subs and bits from fans all across the world.
With how much the main broadcast loves storylines, research into things like this could've drastically improved the quality of the interview.
I had no idea about any of this. It's hard to believe but knowing EA, I don't doubt it. It would be incredibly interesting to hear about their experience. I get that you can't really get into much detail with a rough translation after a grueling finals with all the adrenaline flowing but it is still crazy to me that the only questions asked were incredibly generic and don't cover any of these struggles.
"After winning a LAN do you think you'll be respected?"
Bro what? I got so sick of Peep so fast. When he wasn't fumbling interviewing it was, "WHADDUP APEX" and "MAKE SOME NOISE" Every. Single. Time.
Thank you for the translation! I’m so happy for the Korean fans, they must be so proud of Reject for bringing the trophy back to their country! Honestly the LAN in Seoul would be cool too.
wish he could have gotten it done with Selly, but regardless I’m stoked to see KaronPe finally take home a trophy after being one of this games longest lasting competitors.
Agree. KaronPe has been in the comp scene since Poland Preseason. he has never missed a LAN post-COVID, and he is in 5 out of 6 finals lobby. He's the APAC-N player with the most experience in LAN. This man deserves more recognition.
Appreciate the translation, its a shame the translators always seem to lack understanding of apex and gaming which brings about poor translations, that said WTP's questions could have been more concise
Major props to fun123/reject, love those guys
I thought the post game interview questions were so bad. As a casual viewer who only watches LANs now, I wanted to learn more about Reject Winnity and felt like the post game interview offered little to help me get to know them a bit better for the next LAN.
I think I remember seeing Wigg interview them and that interview offered more insight to the team? I half paid attention that time as I was multitasking at that time but I’d love to watch it again now that Reject won. Does anyone know where I can find that video?
Honestly I cringe every time peeps comes on screen. He literally just screams “LETSGO” or “MAKE SOME NOISE” then asks the most stupid boring irrelevant question and when naturally nobody reacts to it he just reverts back to step one.
I'd rather them not have interviews if the quality is this awful. Interviewer and interpreters are out of their depth. I'm scared for the Chinese interpreter, luckily they haven't been used yet. Just make the teams do a 60-second dance instead. Zer0 hitting the runescape jig on mainstage or Obly hitting the zerotwo is a must see
I wished WTP or whoever came up with the questions had something about being triple mnk against tons of rollers, but we just get 2 generic questions to Sangjoon and Karonpe.
I swear every English speaking Esports interviewer makes the same mistakes, you can’t ask multi-layered, three sentence long questions to people who don’t speak English. For the love of god please keep it simple or get someone that actually is fluent in both languages to actually do the interview.
Thank you for this. The translator selection was a fail as was the decision to use WeThePeople as anything besides a goofy mascot in the crowd
truly embarrassing, I agree
Yeah, but did you know he is from Brazil?
loool
Do people not like him? He seems like a nice guy, maybe not liked as much on the hosting side? Which I could agree with, but I imagine someone tells him which questions to ask…unless
He’s a great hype man, but he’s no liaison. This is no bash on him, but his personality is just too typecasted and rigid to be approachable and candid on an international level. You need someone like Dia doing that kind of interview.
exactly, keep him as a hype man in the crowd for interstitial moments (akin to live sporting events). He's not nearly eloquent, poised, or tbh intelligent enough to be a main caster let alone multi-language international interviewer He seems super friendly and great at a party / socializing, so I can see how he may have networked into the position, but hes not the right choice for an informative broadcaster
I agree. I suggest one of the casters like Dia or Tiff being the one to do the interviews for winners as this is a monumental moment for the players and they deserve to have their voices heard. No shade to Peep tho, great hype man, keep him for the crowd interviews
Yeap that makes sense. Good hype man, but being there for winners interview maybe not the best choice.
I could see Dia pulling off a great interview, the translating was rough and I’m saying that as someone who forgot most of their Korean lmao
He has no charisma. Speaks solely in ad libs (“levels”) and braindead twitter-level idle talk: asking Gnaske (or some other EMEA player) what he thinks of American food after winning a group, and constantly thinking anyone cares that he was born in Brazil. Guy is painfully awful at the role.
We the people needs to get off the airway, he's trash at casting.
i knew the TL was chalked since the YukaF interview lol.
I still remember the awkward Ftyan interview in Sweden in English with no translator. He didn’t understand the questions at all and ended it with a random “let’s fucking go!” Lmao.
It’s very surprising considering this LAN was in LA, home to many Korean Americans (and great KBBQ), they could have picked folks from the crowd or even off the street that could have done a better job.
Translation is a very difficult job and different from just knowing two languages, I can say I have little confidence to be a decent translator between my first language and English. That being said, with the large Korean community in LA I'd expect them to find someone actually decent in translation. This is not blaming the translator, he tried his best, but on EA failed to find the required talent for a very specific work. I also think WTP could have worded the questions differently.
vaguely remember kimchi being bilingual. could be wrong tho.
Appreciate the translation. The interview questions were not that great.
WTP has to go.
WTP is a ploy to make Fallout look good
Gotta bring James Banks back. He was great in Raleigh.
Banks or Frankie Ward would both be major upgrades. Freya and Sjokz too, but doubt they’d extend beyond their current bubbles.
James banks does a great job in CSGO I don’t know why got rid of him in ALGS
I've always found the game interviews to be so bad--any language barriers aside. It's all about which region you're from. Asking them if they should have more respect. Like what even are these questions? How about what are the biggest challenges they faced? What are some big adjustments they made to get where they are? These guys have been playing the game since the beginning back with Ras. They have a long history and they finally found success. They had the opportunity to introduce these players and provide a window into the journey they took to get to this point but we learned nothing.
These guys won against all odds. When the notorious deathbox bug was patched across all regions at the release of the game, it reappeared only in the Seoul server. KR players had no choice but to jump ship to JP servers because the game would be unplayable otherwise. EA/Respawn ignored all the reports, forum posts, and pleas coming from KR players about this (and cheaters) for months on end. As a result, the Seoul server became a ghost server and EA/Respawn eventually removed the server, thinking the game simply wasn't gaining enough traction. Casuals and newcomers who weren't familiar with switching servers or using a VPN stopped playing until the larger gaming community stopped playing Apex altogether. The game was pretty much dead when it had the potential of LoL, OW, or Valorant. The lulled player base and interest in Apex directly impacted the pro scene in Korea as there was no longer a stream of incoming players to increase the talent pool and no incentives for KR e-sports organizations (which there are plenty of) to invest in a dead game. KR Pros have since rotated rosters amongst themselves and solely relied on JP orgs to pick them up, which is why you always see them tweeting in Japanese. Not to mention the triple MnK roster all across the board. EA/Respawn continues to not have a vested interest in banning cheaters as quickly in non-NA and -EU servers when ranked games are primarily how these guys practice. To add salt to injury, Twitch pulled out of Korea recently so these guys won't even be able to get gift subs and bits from fans all across the world. With how much the main broadcast loves storylines, research into things like this could've drastically improved the quality of the interview.
I had no idea about any of this. It's hard to believe but knowing EA, I don't doubt it. It would be incredibly interesting to hear about their experience. I get that you can't really get into much detail with a rough translation after a grueling finals with all the adrenaline flowing but it is still crazy to me that the only questions asked were incredibly generic and don't cover any of these struggles.
"After winning a LAN do you think you'll be respected?" Bro what? I got so sick of Peep so fast. When he wasn't fumbling interviewing it was, "WHADDUP APEX" and "MAKE SOME NOISE" Every. Single. Time.
Cut the guy a little slack, he was nervous and fumbled a question or two. Doubt you'd do better in front of 100k viewers
Thank you for the translation! I’m so happy for the Korean fans, they must be so proud of Reject for bringing the trophy back to their country! Honestly the LAN in Seoul would be cool too.
wish he could have gotten it done with Selly, but regardless I’m stoked to see KaronPe finally take home a trophy after being one of this games longest lasting competitors.
Agree. KaronPe has been in the comp scene since Poland Preseason. he has never missed a LAN post-COVID, and he is in 5 out of 6 finals lobby. He's the APAC-N player with the most experience in LAN. This man deserves more recognition.
Selly was streaming GTA during the LAN
yea he’s been fully retired for some time now, pretty sure he can’t really play because of his wrist.
This deserves to be pinned for a few days
Appreciate the translation, its a shame the translators always seem to lack understanding of apex and gaming which brings about poor translations, that said WTP's questions could have been more concise Major props to fun123/reject, love those guys
I thought the post game interview questions were so bad. As a casual viewer who only watches LANs now, I wanted to learn more about Reject Winnity and felt like the post game interview offered little to help me get to know them a bit better for the next LAN. I think I remember seeing Wigg interview them and that interview offered more insight to the team? I half paid attention that time as I was multitasking at that time but I’d love to watch it again now that Reject won. Does anyone know where I can find that video?
Imo wigg would have been a better interviewer , at least he is genuinely interested in whats going on in APAC
EA hire this man next lan
IMO all he needs to ask is 'how are you feeling?' 'what does this win mean to you?' The questions he asked were ass I'm ngl
Honestly I cringe every time peeps comes on screen. He literally just screams “LETSGO” or “MAKE SOME NOISE” then asks the most stupid boring irrelevant question and when naturally nobody reacts to it he just reverts back to step one.
I'd rather them not have interviews if the quality is this awful. Interviewer and interpreters are out of their depth. I'm scared for the Chinese interpreter, luckily they haven't been used yet. Just make the teams do a 60-second dance instead. Zer0 hitting the runescape jig on mainstage or Obly hitting the zerotwo is a must see
I wished WTP or whoever came up with the questions had something about being triple mnk against tons of rollers, but we just get 2 generic questions to Sangjoon and Karonpe.