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The first Lithuanian and the best foreigner enter the WCS-stage tonight

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While Jens ‚Snute‘ Aasgaard is considered to be the best foreigner at the moment, his opponent in WCS Europe Group tonight, Kristijonas ‚Krr‘ Barisas, will play his first Premier-League-match ever – and the first match a Lithuanian ever played in this competition. Seems to be obvious who will win this match but who will come in second: Gerzegorz ‚MaNa‘ Komincz or Samayan ‚BlinG‘ Kay? „It depends on who gets lucky in PvP“, both say in our double interview – which you should read after these stats and trivia about WCS Europe Premier League Group B.

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Results

[snute] 2:0 [krr]
[bling] 2:0 [mana]
[snute] 2:1 [bling]
[krr] 1:2 [mana]
[bling] 0:2 [mana]

Final Standings

  1. [snute]
  2. [mana]
  3. [bling]
  4. [krr]

WCS is played in Double Elimination mode: A player who wins two matches advances, a player who loses twice is out

Trivia

  • [snute] won 8 out of 9 matches against [krr], the Lithuanian last won in 2011
  • [mana] and [bling] met four times so far and BlinG won every map they played – until the deciding match in this group
  • Snute returned to Europe last season after one good and two disappointing WCS-seasons in America
  • Mana didn’t qualify for the last WCS season, in 2013 he played all three season but never made it to the Round of 8
  • It’s the third consecutive season in Premier League for Bling and so far he consistently improved from Ro32 to Ro16 to …
  • Krr is the first Lithuanian in WCS and one of sic debutants this season
Kristijonas "Krr" Barisas

Krr: „I could not prepare for Genius specifically, so i hope for the best“

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He doesn’t get nervous or angry, but not being able to prepare for his first WCS Challenger match ever bothers him: Kristijonas ‚Krr‘ Barisas debuts in the World Championship Series tonight in a best-of-five against Jung ‚Genius‘ Min Soo. The 24-year-old is the first Lithuanian in WCS and the only notable Starcraft-player of his home country. But Kristijonas had a lot more „first times“ he tells us about.

What was the first time…

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… you got nervous because you realized you are close to qualify for WCS?
I don’t think i got nervous at all. This was only the first qualifier. I knew i had three more chances if this one was to fail. I don’t really get nervous at all. At least not that much that it would affect me.

… you evaluated your chances in the upcoming Challenger League?
It was after I saw my opponent in Challenger league, which is [genius]. But actually I can’t evaluate my chances against him, since I don’t know how active he is or how he plays. Haven’t seen him playing anywhere for a long time and can’t get any replays to analyze. So will just have to play and hope for the best without any specific preparation against him.

… you smashed an (in-)animate object after losing a game?
I’m not the kind of guy who does this. This has never happened to me. I don’t get angry or whatever.

… you traveled to an offline tournament?
First time I think was maybe Digifest in Estonia where I placed second. Don’t even remember how long ago it was. But its always fun to travel for me, no matter if with or without the game – I enjoy it.

… you ever played Starcraft II?
It was after i got the beta key. At first I thought broodwar was the better game, but I don’t think so anymore, this game is fast and entertaining.

… you shared a hotel room with another player?
Probably in Denmark, at Copenhagen games 2010 or 2011. We stayed at our teammates house, like five of us were there. Fun times.

… you went online?
Better would be to ask when i went offline 😀 Hm, i don’t know, somewhere in the childhood. Had no much interest in that at those times.

… you read a wise saying that really inspired you?
First to come to my mind is “never give up”. But that’s probably because i know only that one 😀

… you read a whole book in less than a week?
No idea. But if I read a book and like it, I usually finish it in a day or two. I’m not a reader though so that happens rarely.