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iCCup.Tesla
Let's hear a bit more about your role as part of the iCCup team.
Why did you join the iCCup team? To help the community!
What does your position demand? My position is to help train new Ladder Admins so that they know how to do their job. Direct them on their mistakes and help them do better so complaints are solved as fast as possible with few to no mistakes at all. As a Super Admin I have to also be a leader for the rest of the Ladder section. I also help respond, answer and solve issues in «Complain About an Admin». Besides that, I am here to make sure things get done and are just done well...as well as pick up and help anywhere as needed to help the ladder section excel. ^_^
What current projects are you undertaking inside of iCCup? Projects? lol..I have a whole list of stuff I do as for on here, hmm...I help people with making sure the English is correct. Sometimes help reword things so that the over all flow is good. Besides that my current projects are pretty much related to being a super admin. Unless aiming to get a C- this season, counts. :)
What are your goals for this iCCup season? C- and to face Tossgirl in a 1v1.
What were any previous admin positions here or elsewhere? Goodness, to many. I will simply list my positions for current stuff. ICCup.com — Super Ladder Admin; Bladeradio.com — Upper Management — Head Trainer — Coder — Marketing Department. Guildwars.com — I deal with the developers, designers and community managers almost every week, for the station and such. This is not including being a Full vent admin for at least 3 different vents, being a full Teamspeak admin for 1 place and helping with various other sites and such.
What is your gaming history? Gaming history? Geez, thats hard! I've been beta testing games since I was 6. I hope you guys don't want me to give you a full list on that.
What will StarCraft 2 mean for progaming/iccup/esports? What are your opinions of the game so far? To be honest I am not to sure what to expect out of SC2, except the 3D Graphics and such. I am sure there will be a progaming side simply because it will be new and it will be SC2, however I think ICCup and the original SC will still be out and about like normal. I think E-Sports will also move into covering SC2 but will still cover the original SC till it complete has lost progamers and such.
Do you find being an iCCup admin rewarding? If so/not why? I find it rewarding to help the community. This is why I have been a Dj for 2+ years now. As for if I find it being rewarding to be an admin on iccup, to be honest, yes. I love it! I love being able to know that I can sit there and fix some one's points cause some jerk decided to force a disconnection. I love knowing I can help catch the hackers and stop them from being able to hack again. I think that answers this question. ^_^
Who are your role model/s? Goodness, this is so hard. I'd have to say my parents for sure. They have both been an inspiration to me for my whole life. Thanks to them I was raised around multiple languages and raised with an Asian background/culture knowledge. Thus I have been using chop sticks almost as long as I have used a fork. XD. Besides my parents, I'd have to say my friends. Without them I wouldn't be where I am today, I wouldn't know as much as I know. Life just isn't fun without friends. Hmmm...Other inspirations, I would have to say hard workers. Those people who I see are hard working and very dedicated to what they do. People like Mai-k, Cheloman, Unk, YelloAnt, 2easy, ToH1o, Storm...they are all very hard workers. They were here before I got here, 5-6 months ago...and while others come and go, they are still here pushing on and making sure things are done. Their level of dedication is unbelievable in my opinion. Now I didn't list everyone who I think is very dedicated, I simply listed the most dedicated in my personal opinion. You won't meet many people who put in the level of dedication they have. This job isn't paying, so I keep wondering...even with bm the admins get....How the heck have they done it this long and I cant help but be amazed. I think you guys should hit them up one day, just say hi...Tell them thanks. You may not see the work they do, but they do more than anyone. Trust me on that.
Now let's learn more about who you are!
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Favourite:
Food — Japanese and Italian Food
Drink — Mountain Dew
Band — Hard to say. Evanescence & SNSD
Song — Also a hard one to say...For right now its: Kaskade - Its You Its Me or Black Eye Peas — I Gotta a Feeling
Movie — The Never Ending Story & Independence Day
Actor — Goodness...To hard.
TV Show — Law & Order
Book — Dark Over Series and Harry Potter
Game — Starcraft & Guild wars
Unit — Hydras, Lurkers or Mutas!!! <333333 Mutas cause they look like dragons. Hydras cause they do so much damage in masses and lurkers cause they just own stuff. XD
SC Player — JaeDong
StarCraft Pro Game you’ve ever watched — Goodness, not sure...Sorry, if I recall I will make sure its put here.
Website/s other than iCCup — www.bladeradio.com ^_^
Person on iccup — Not sure
Annoying person on iccup — I don't find a lot of people very annoying. If they are annoying, in my opinion, its probably cause they are doing one of the following: whinnying, not listening to what they were told, acting stupid, being a pest or being straight out bad mannered.
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Most...
Hard Working Admin — Mai-k, Cheloman, Unk, YelloAnt, 2easy, ToH1o, Storm
Lazy Admin — The invisible one xD — He never does any work! I tell you, if I ever see him, he'll be in trouble ^_~
Friendly Admin — Plue, Pariah or Pixels..I think...wait, maybe stratos- or noise. UMSC is pretty friendly to. Then again so is AureS and ii and Itsumo. Oh! I can't forget Eclipse either, he's also very nice! Dang...to hard to choose! Sorry guys!
BM Admin — The invisible one! He never shows up anymore XD.
Funny Admin — Murphy
Of course we have to ask you a lot about StarCraft.
— These are mostly posted by other admins -
iCCup.Plue asks:
Why did you start to play starcraft? Cause of a guy I liked.
What race do you play? I played toss for maybe 1 1/2 weeks, then moved to Zerg.
What's the highest rank you achieved? At the moment, D+ for 2v2 ladder. A friend told me if I actually practiced that I could get C- for 1v1, but I don't ladder to much.
For how long have you played starcraft? I get a lot of people giving me hate for this answer but since Feb 26th this year.
What's the most annoying unit? and why? The most annoying unit? Is when my favorite units are used against me XD
What's your favorite map? Destination I think
Which map do you dislike the most? Hmm....I don't like heart break ridge too much, for some reason.
iCCup.Puremiss asks:
Favorite Cheese Build? If its not being used against me, Colosseum and sunken rush XD.
What would be your Starcraft Dream Team? Either WeMade FOX, STX SouL or maybe eSTRO.
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iCCup.Abe asks:
During your time as part of the ICCup team, has there been a moment that shines above all others? Yes! The time where the ladder section had no complaints because they did that well! I can't tell you how nice it is to know we did that well. ^_^
Have you ever tried, and succeeded, in counting to 100 while playing Starcraft? LOL....To be honest, no. However I have played starcraft while talking on vent and on the phone >.<. I even won a few matches like that.
iCCup.GhOst asks:
Tesla....are u coming to Peru?I might, some day. ^_^
iCCup.tofucake asks:
Was is Colonel Mustard with the lead pipe in The Conservatory? OMG! How did you know?! It was sooo him!
iCCup.WinTer asks:
Does your position ever get in the way of your life? It means that I have to dedicate more of my time online. I'll admit that sometimes its hard for me to find a way to get everything done that I need to but I do my best.
How did you come up with the name Telsa? Any significance? If so, what? The name Tesla is actually chosen from the name I dj with. When I started out as a Dj 2+ years ago, I had trouble figuring out what name I wanted to use. Thus a friend suggested the name Tesla. After doing some research behind the name and finding out that it had been used by a Scientist and a band, I decided to go on air that very first night and try it. Much to my surprise, I liked the way it sounded, thus I have kept name and have continued to add to the history it already holds.
Do you enjoy fried or fast food? I guess it depends on the type of food. However if I answer with which one I eat more of, then the answer is fast food.
Do you have any current ideas on how to improve iCCup? Multiple ideas to be honest. As I come up with the ideas, I post them to our tech crew for them to review and decide if possible or not. ^_^
iCCup.Reyis asks:
When we first meet, you told me you have always wanted to play with «ToSsGirl» and beat her in a series of matches. Also according to your words, you have been training lots just for this possible rivalry and its outcome. So; the hunger from you to beat «ToSsGirl» adds an enormous amount of pressure to grab a victory over from such a stalwart Terran player of her class. How does the pressure of such a big and important match influence you and how do you rate your chances if we had this match to see anytime soon? First off, I must say what a great question this is. Its very well thought out and worded. Now moving on to answering your question… As for what I have stated, Yes...I do want to face and try to beat ToSsGirl. Yes, I have been training on and off just for the possibility to face her. I understand that ToSsGirl is the undefeated female starcraft player, however, I feel that it is time for someone else to prove...that no one is undefeatable. While I know this is a challenge and will take quite sometime, I still plan on facing her one of these days. Whether I win or lose, does not matter to me anymore. Why you ask? I have learned so much more from this game losing, then from winning. However I have been practicing and I am not sure what my chances are of beating her at this moment. If given the chance, I'd love to practice against her or any other pro to try to see where I need to improve. I honestly, still have alot of way to go before I feel I am ready to face her. However I hope by mid-November that I might be ready then. This is not a set time though as I am very busy and between trying to train, Super admin work/iccup work and being a dj...This makes my schedule pretty busy. As for how the pressure effects me well thats kind of hard to answer. I know that there are quite a few people who actually want to see me face ToSsGirl and even beat her. Thus I know I want to work and train very hard, cause I don't let them down. So I guess the pressure is there but I do my best to not focus on it. I want to focus on what I feel is important for me to train on so that I can get better...So that later I can focus on actually beating her. I hope that makes sense.
There was much more included in the interview, read all the fan-posted questions below!
— These are mostly fan-posted questions from the blogs -
Tell us your favorite joke. 
iCCup Netizen
Don't really have one atm, sorry. However the best story ever is my friend calling goons, cyber spiders. XD
You always seem to be online until the wee hours of the morning. Do you ever sleep? sf_torquatus
I am online alot, yes. My favorite answer to this question happens to be «what is sleep?», however in all truth I am no machine and I am unable to go without sleep...just like anyone else. So yes, I do sleep. I just sleep at very weird hours, for short periods of time and look like I am always online because I only reboot my pc about once a month/or as needed.
Which is better — Starcraft or Guild Wars? sf_torquatus
I happen to like both games very much. However I find that Starcraft happens to be more of a challenge to me. I find it interesting how the RTS games work. Such like starcraft. Thus I guess to answer the question properly, I would have to say that I enjoy playing starcraft more than Guild Wars at the moment.
WHAT is your APM? Not good enough, yet. :) LOLMARINE
do u have a webcam? 
Pummeln
No and even if I did, Pummeln, you would never see me. Also to answer your next question, no thanks. I am not that kind of girl. Thanks though. ^_^
Exactly how awesome is Tetris? Tetris[Shock]
LOL. Your a cool guy. ^_^
What is the lowest ranked player you've ever lost a game to? PhoenixM1
D, but it was one of my friends and he was learning from higher ranked friends. ^_^
Any particular reason why JaeDong is your favorite?PhoenixM1
He is my favorite cause he is the best zerg player and I am a zerg player. If I ever get really good at the game, one day, I think I'd like to play him...Just for fun. ^_^
When you were younger did you always want to be involved in starcraft?PhoenixM1
To be honest, not really. When I was younger I saw my parents playing this game and didnt care back then. However this year, I found friends playing it and talking about it. So I decided to get into it.
What qualities do you think are important to have for your work at ICCup?
Good question! I think you have to be well mannered, self motivated, good with people skills and reliable. Having knowledge of more than one language also helps. ^_^ (ED: I want Tesla as a referee in my r?sum? :o — 
deL)
How did you end up working for ICCup?PhoenixM1
I was in a match with my friends when I saw an announcement for ladder section recruiting. So I decided to give it a shot. Thus I have been serving the iccup community since April this year. :)
Do you enjoy answering questions thought up by random people you've never met?PhoenixM1
LOL. Honestly, I am use to it. I get it a lot since I am also a dj.
Are you being forced to do this?PhoenixM1
Nah. Del is my fellow admin and my friend. He asked me if I would mind doing an interview, I told him nah. ^_^
What do you like in this job the most? 
beetlelisk
Lol....honestly? Banning hackers. So bad, but sooo true.
What are you doing in real life?beetlelisk
Hmm. I happen to be a big sister, so I have to be a role model for my little brother and baby sister. Besides that I dj and work for a lawyer part time.
Can you remember the hardest/most annoying complaints? beetlelisk
This is an easy question...Most annoying complaints for me are 2v2 matches where not all the team shows up on one side. Soooo annoying XD...Cause then you have to figure out who is on whos side. Oooo...or even the complains where its 2v2 but the system shows 5 people listed. XD
Favorite porn?Pummeln
LOL. I don't watch porn. Sorry but I find it a waste of time. This might be due to the difference between men and women. I blame it on the fact that I am a chick and just have more important things to do. ^_^ (ED: Pummeln earned himself a nice holiday for his questions :P — deL)
How do you maintain such a hardworking schedule between iCCup and life?
To be honest, by giving up sleep. I sleep maybe 5 hours a night. So I really have to focus on what I need/want to get done or it just wont get done. XD
Are you passionate about your job as an admin? CaTaStRopHiC
I think so. I take alot of notes. I note almost every action I do as an admin. Including screen shots and all. I also try to put alot of time into iccup.
What will you do when Starcraft 2 comes out?CaTaStRopHiC
I will end up learning to play Starcraft 2 and keep working on starcraft 1. It should prove to be a lot of fun!
Thank youfor being such a great admin Tesla.CaTaStRopHiC
Thank you all for giving me the chance to prove myself. ^_^
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