Interview with #Hero team captain Big Hatoonda

#Hero will make their debut at the Canberra DOTA 2 Autumn Cup and hope to learn as much as possible.  Previously having participated in the ANU DOTA 2 competitions, can the team of Pinoys make their mark this coming Friday?

Find out more about this team and what they had to say about themselves and the tournament.

Player profile

Name: Kyle

Age: 19

Current Team: #Hero 

Headset: Some trash Logitech one

Keyboard:  Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard

Mouse: Basic HP mouse

Essential tournament food: Hungry jacks frozen coke+ chicken nuggets  

G’day, mind introducing yourself to the Canberra DOTA2 scene?     

Hey everyone I'm Kyle, known as Big Hatoonda in game and I am the captain of #Hero. As far as DOTA goes I believe I will be playing the offlane for the team.

Are you able to introduce your team mates as well and their roles in the team?

My teammates are Dylan(FreEZe) who will be taking up the midlane, Jordan(B1GS3XY) who will be playing the safelane farmer, Peter(White Mamba) who will be playing support and finally Ash(David Luiz) who will also be playing support.

You guys are pretty much a new team around here, what do you think you can bring to this tournament?

Well someone’s gotta lose right 😉, having only participated in two ANU tournaments prior with a few players swapped out and different names, we aren't really expecting too much. We are just some boys who want to have a go at some more organised DOTA, hopefully we can pull of some good games and maybe go further into the bracket, but really we are just in it for the experience.

Would you guys rate yourselves as the second coming of RAVE?

Absolutely.

RAVE RAVE RAVE RAVE RAVE

We're bracing up for a pretty big solid tournament, what are you most looking forward to?

Just seeing what the Canberra DOTA 2 scene has to offer, hopefully with so many teams the tournament will have lots of exciting games.

We have 4 interstate teams competing in this tournament, with the strongest one of the lot, being BlackShatan and friends.  Are you familiar with any of them and how do you fancy your chances against them?

Unfortunately I am not familiar with any of the interstate teams. As far as our chances go I’d assume if they are coming from interstate they are pretty confident in winning and probably have participated in other Australian DOTA 2 tournaments, so I don’t like our chances really, but you just have to beliEEve

What are your thoughts on the Australian DOTA 2 scene?

Haven’t seen too much of it, but from what I have there appears to be a really strong base community around the country and with the ever growing popularity of DOTA hopefully the Australian scene will also grow. Would be nice to see more Australian teams doing well in the big leagues.

Back to our own local scene in Canberra, is there any teams that you’re familiar with and respect?

Well from the 2 other tournaments we've played I have fond memories of getting crushed by BOYSBOYS and RAD, although we haven’t played BOYSBOYS in at least a year. But RAD definitely has our respect if we make it far enough in the bracket to face them. But obviously we are going to be careful of every team, and especially those who got higher seeding.

A renactment of the ANU tournaments

Will we see you in future Canberra DOTA2 tournaments?

Should do, we just struggle getting a 5th member sometimes, but the group we have now should be able to play into the foreseeable future

Big Hatoonda, thank you for your time, is there anything further that you’d like to add or any shoutouts?

Just props to you guys really for hosting the tournament (Y)