

Speaking of which, do you ever want to be a professional player? I feel that ambition is itself also a talent, so I hope that you might become more ambitious. Maybe I’ll put together a streaming setup. Most of the things I want are reasonably priced, easily purchased. That said, I'm not interested in cars or watches.

$30,000 sounds like a big deal to many people, but considering the time and effort that you have spent on the world championships, I don't think it's too much. Then taxes have to be paid, so I’m not sure how much I will get. I get asked that a lot, but I haven't received it yet.Ģnd place is about 15,000,000 yen (about $150,000 US), and then that will be divided between five people. How are you planning on using your prize money? It seems that the number of subscribers has increased this year, but I also feel like I’m being supported by a fairly different player base than before. I have felt the activity, especially on YouTube. However, thanks to your efforts, it feels like the Japanese community is even more active than last year. And yet you always seem to stay calm in public. I’m kind of surprised by this, but your mentality really seems to depend on the match results. Back then, I also felt like I was definitely going to win. It’s like you were blessed by the gods of Clash of Clans.Įven during the world championships against Ni Chang Dance, the QueeN Walkers would’ve lost if l didn’t get three stars. I suppose that was because I wasn’t feeling confident.Īs for the last match, it felt like that I was definitely going to win, since I felt much more confident from getting three stars from my assault. I wasn’t nervous at all, but I was during the other games, though. The moment when you won the qualifier during your assault was so dramatic! Were you nervous at the time? Then I got into the finals and had a winning streak. I didn't tell my team members about this, though. If I couldn't win a qualifier, I was going to give up my career.

There was a time when I wasn't confident about my skills. Oh, you were going to retire!? Did you think you had accomplished all of the things that you could have? And so I thought that if I didn't make it to the finals in the last qualifiers, I would retire from the competitive scene. Thoughts like "It shouldn't be like this," kept me impatient. My loss in 2019 kept dragging me down, so I couldn’t move on during the qualifiers.

You got results in some tournaments, but you couldn't quite get a ticket to the finals in 2020. I’m still frustrated about 2019, even now. The basis for your motivation is regret, right? And so that feeling became the motivation for me to continue on until the 2020 World Championships. So then it was like, "We could have won in 2019!” I was so frustrated! (laughs). “Oh, so we can win!” I feel like that confidence has led us to victory, more than it being that we changed our methods. Regardless of scale, I won some of them and even defeated the clan that we lost to in Germany. However, the number of tournaments with prizes has increased since the end of last year's world championships. Therefore, it was difficult to see the difference in skills between the world and ourselves. In 2019, we had few opportunities to fight with teams in other regions. Of course, we have changed, but the more important reason is that the environment surrounding us has changed. Did you change any of your methods going from being "on the path to victory" to "victory"? I watched it in-person in 2019, and you really didn’t seem to be satisfied. It was more like we were still on the path to victory, instead of having taken a loss. Was there anything special that you did to achieve that?įirst of all, I was not satisfied with the result at all at that time. However, this year you took second place. To be honest, I felt that there was a huge difference between Japan and the overseas professional teams at the World Championships in Germany in 2019.
