Interview with Juan (Afrodita_zZ) |
Profile |
Name: Juan
Popularly known as: Juan / Afrodita_zZ
WiC Team: Dreamers (zZ team)
Status: AoC Expert / Boom master
Life and AoC Past |
Ashby: firstly, a big thanks for agreeing to this interview
Juan: np, it's a pleasure
Ashby: Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
Juan: sure, my name is Juan i live in buenos aires(Argentina), and i'm 23 years old.
Ashby: now, a big question raises in my head seeing how exceptionally active you are, what is it exactly that you do? how do you get so much time for AoC?
Juan: well, im not studying at the moment, not working either so i have a lot of free time to play. But i think it will end a bit the next year because i'm starting uni, so.. gg a little bit aoc .
Ashby: you have so much aoc im sure a little bit wont hurt . That brings me on topic, how is it that you came across AoC?
Juan: i started to play since i had 7/8 years offline in cyber cafes with friends but it was for fun of course, i always liked aoc but i was so bad player, then when i was 17 started to play in IRC which is a latin chat where you can find aoc games to play. i Learned a lot of strategies there but the level wasn't so good.
One or two years after IRC i met voobly and went to 1450(yes, i was so noob) and played pure LN, well the rest is known story :P.
Ashby: 11, im sure many of the new viewers do not know the known story, and so comes the most important question to which even i am looking the answer, how did you go from forgetting to make vills in TCs to a 2400 player?
Juan: wow, big thanks for that compliment. The first thing that i learnt was, dont forget to make vills:D, i stucked my level at 1650 for like 1/2 years playing Arena TG, then fedex and monoz teached me how to micro and instantly i got 1850 in like 1 month, then 1950 in another month and 2k not long time from that., btw the max rating that i got in voobly was like 2250 more or less
Ashby: ok, a big question for you, what is your favourite Setting to play age of empires in?
Juan: I dont have prefered settings mostly, maybe just maybe would consider Arabia in 1v1 or TGs as my favorite map. It's weird because i hated Arabia so much, but just realized how fun it's, civs too.. i play anyone, maybe mayans as prefered but not so much.
The zZ Team |
Juan: most of us met in IRC there were old players like Fer(Sigfried_zZ), matt(who founded the clan), Charlie. They are not known players because they stoped to play but they founded zZ, i joined them in IRC, then fedex and monoz in voobly and after 1 or 2 years we met Nicov when he was like 1800/1900 and joined us too. The hard one was gary who didnt want to join zZs but finally we convinced him.
Originally zZ clan was like CZ guys, Arena whores.. but after a lot of incorporation it changes, players with different styles make you play different.
Ashby: ok so the current zZ Team, if you can please list the current players in order of skill
Juan: Nicov is incredibly skilled, the rest of us are average players, couldn't make a list because each one do a different job in the team and it works pretty good
Ashby: ok, sounds nice , then tell us a bit about your job in the team
Juan: wow ok, i assume my rol like a joker to be honest 11, im the guy who uses those stranges civs like spa in ara or sar in islands, i feel good with the different. But what i love so much is think about new strats and then try to convince zZs to use it, i always try to open our mind to new stuff because i think that's the only way to improve our team strategy.
Ashby: 11111, innovation is a rare word in aoc, so why Afrodita?
Juan: dreamers was originally inspired about that anime Saint Seiya, we choose gods and i opted to get some woman god =$.
Ashby: 11111.. nice choice
Juan: haha, thanks =$
Ashby: lets move on if you would like to reveal it, what is ur biggest strength and biggest weakness in aoc?
Juan: i think my biggest strength is my eco magnament for sure and my boom, my weakness not at all but can be multitasking.. i think so much to do each movement, even if it's a small one.
Some Craziness |
Ashby: ok, so now a topic i would like to adress, how is your relationship with Mr. Yo? 11
Juan: to be honest, i hate that guy more than anyone.. i mean he's so silly and a bad player... Ok just a joke 11, i consider him a friend like the zZs, he has the same humour than me which is rare and we have so much fun insulting the each one. But none of us get angry, we know that's just fun.; for example look at this, he wrote this to me few mins ago "
[12] [_SY_]Yo__ says:
i vote nicov favourite arg player
[12] [_SY_]Yo__ says:
u suck
"
Ashby: 11, ok, some specific questions, What the **** were you thinking when u decided to do a 200 pop boom and sling everyone
Juan: 1111, good question! well sling is a very good teamgame strategy and if you can do a fast boom like 5/6 tcs and get 200 pop quickly it will give to your team a huge advantage.
Ashby: from the watches point of view it felt like u went nuts 11
Juan: haha, not at all, i love to do that.. maybe my prefered strat. That means a lot about my style
Ashby: 111. BOOM!
Ashby: ok, a close friend of you asked a question, im quoting, "why his nose is that big?"
Juan: omg, i feel like my nose is my source of power, couldn't hate it!
Ashby: 1111. additional question from my side, who do you think asked the question?
Juan: That ***** called gary 1111
Ashby: 1111111111111111111111 ok, heres a situational one, if you were to be locked in a room with some player from aoc, who would it be?
Juan: i hope it wont happen, but... maybe Millo(javi) we would start to talk about aoc strategies and so on, i have always good conversations with him.
Ashby: 111.. ok, Millo and Juan locked in a room
Ashby: next one, What is an "Abis"?
Juan: 1111111111111, i laughed so hard man 1111. It's not a big story but i will explain what's an abis.. as you know nicov started like an ara whore, so i just started to call him just "arabis". Then it was being modified and suffered a lot of transformations, and it just ended with abis because is a short word and a kind of insult, it's just perfect 11.
Ashby: 1111111.. that explains a lot
War is Coming |
Ashby: ok lets move on to war is coming, What was your first reaction when you got to know of the event?
Juan: I was so happy and motivated to play aoc at that time, i mean they anounced they biggest aoc event in the history, plus we were coming from Medieval wars and that was a big lost for us.. we weren't at our maximum level but i think that we deserved more in that one.
Ashby: cool , please express your thoughts on: WiC_Map_Pack, WiC mod
Juan: ok, i think some maps are good and some others are not, ofc you wont like every map. I think some maps can be improved, but it's a good map pack.
About wic mode, im not agree modifying sling rules but it gives a a different way to play aoc.
Ashby: hmm, okay, an intriguing question, what has been your best WiC moment so far??
Juan: mmm, i think that i enjoyed so much some streams, people in twitch having fun and commenting about the tournament, i love those situations. Also streamers do a great job. Respecting about me playing in wic, im just waiting to face strong teams, that motivates me to play and practice.
Ashby: Whats the one thing about WiC you would have liked to be different?
Juan: mmm, i would like to play with HMs.. HMs have big strategies behind it. Not everybody plays ara/fr, there are arena or bf players that could show good teamplay and strategies, even not in arena or bf.
Ashby: ok point noted
Ashby: What is your opinion on the TyRanT Teams
Juan: well, both teams have good players, definitely tyrant L has the most stronger players in the tournament and tyrant WL has really good players too, about their teamgame couldn't say because didn't see any game of them.
Ashby: What is your prediciton of the Top 8 finishing teams in WiC?
haha, i wouldn't vote for any team to be top8, there are a lot of teams with amazing players but poor teamplay. I just expect tyrant or SY A at the top positions, just that.
Ashby: hmm, still Juan no modesty allowed, if you HAVE to pick a top 8 what would it be :P
Juan: ok, but not in order 11, tyrant L, tyrant WL, SY, L_Clan, dreamers, poz, nabs, kgb. if it seems like an order, it's pure coincidence
Ashby: 11111 gg
Rapidfire |
Ashby: ok, i wont create too much more madness, just a quick rapidfire
Juan: sure
Ashby: 1. AoC
Juan: incredibly funny.
Ashby: 2. Booming
Juan: abusing.
Ashby: 3. zZ Team in real life
Juan: a cool group of friends.
Ashby: 4. Mr. Yo
Juan: chinese..
Ashby: 5. 1111111 Walls
Juan: so safe, 11.
Ashby: 6. [13ad]_taff
Juan: a big fighter of aoc
Ashby: 7. Voobly
Juan: the best placer ever
Ashby: 8. Miley Cyrus
Juan: c s**, sorry.. just blonde
Juan: 111
Ashby: 11111111111111111111 9. Emma Watson
Juan: pretty
Ashby: 10. War is Coming
Juan: the best thing that aoc could have.
Ashby: thanks a lot for that Juan 11, any last words for your fans?
Ending Notes |
Ashby: thanks a lot for that Juan 11, any last words for your fans?
Juan: yes, but for everybody, enjoy this time playing aoc but grow other aspects in your life, and i hope that you had fun with me reading this interview. Finally big thanks to you to make this interview, it was funny and enjoyable.. i had a great time doing this and it's my first one!
Ashby: 111 Last Q, we will be doing an interview with Mr. Yo soon, what question would you like me to ask him?
Juan: i would like to ask him, how did he get 2k5 with such a disavantage like his eyes are.
Ashby: Thanks a lot for being with us for this interview Juan 11
Juan: the pleassure was for me.