"Try to understand what we do and why we do it": AOE4 winner MarineLorD talks about the Red Bull Wololo, challenges, hardest opponents, and more
The Age of Empires 4 champion during the recently concluded Red Bull Wololo was the fantastic Alexis “MarineLorD” Eusebio. A French Age of Empires 4 player for the Aix-en-Provence-based team IziDream, Alexis is also an active StarCraft II player.
He put in a dominating performance during the competition's Grand Finals on October 30, taking the victory over his Greek opponent TheMista of the Swiss team mYinsanity, with a stunning 4-0 scoreline, winning $100,000 in the process.
MarineLorD also had an impressive 75% win rate, proving his skills at this important Red Bull Wololo event. In a recent interaction with Sportskeeda, Alexis spoke to Jason Parker about Red Bull Wololo, his most dangerous opponents, his path to the event, and much more.
MarineLorD: A little bit crazier than expected because I lost in the first round of the group stage, and after the first day, I lost a bit of confidence. But after checking out a few replays and seeing how everyone else plays, I said, “Okay, I’m just going to keep my good strategy, I’m going to do a good mix, and it should be working very well.” And it did.
MarineLorD: They’re all very good, but I would say it’s between Aleksandar "Beastyqt" Krstić and Benjamin "DeMusliM" Baker. Especially DeMusliM because when we played, it was a best of three, so it was very dangerous because we were almost close in skill level. But Beastyqt was very good too, he had some good strategies.
Themistoklis "TheMista" Bonidis was very dangerous. I felt confident going against him, but I knew that sometimes, his strategies are incredible. You think you’re going to win and then you don’t.
MarineLorD: It was crazy. Especially on the media day, we went around visiting the castle a little bit–it felt so amazing to
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