[Inside Lounge] Gorge good Ult

We are almost halfway through season two and they are besides No Trick Ponies, FAT #5, and Team TFT one of the strong contenders for the top position in the Division 1 rankings in the end. In four matches so far they went 8-2 and in some of their wins in Division 1 they made it look pretty easy. During the last qualifier for the EU HGC they went up to Round 3, hence in the Round of the 32 best teams in Europe. There, they lost to ExcelenteEleccion, a team most of us would consider to be a professional one and which almost qualified for the HGC. With the Open Division of the Heroes of the Storm Global Championship coming up, Gorge good Ult have to proof if they can be a successful contender for one of these sweet spots at the top and get another chance to join the HGC teams in the second half of 2017. However, before that can happen, they had to answer some question for us at Inside Lounge.

Division 1 team Gorge good Ult is Morpheus, Ljay, oliver, DragonM, Erwin. Would you please introduce your players and their specific roles to the readers?

Morpheus: Heya, I am Daniel, 19 years old and from Germany. I play the main tank role and somehow also do everything else in this team Kappa. Jokes aside, currently I am also doing the organisation of scrims/training, analyzing opponents and do most of the time the "last call" in drafts and shot calling.

DragonM: Hey, I am DragonM, called Thomas in real life, 22 years old, I am a baguette, and I play flex/melee assassin for Gorge good Ult.

Erwin: Hi there, I am Erwin, 22 years old, living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Heroes of the Storm is my first MOBA and I felt immediately in love with it when I started playing the game in Beta. In my team, I play the Ranged DD role, but to be honest, I would like to play the melee heroes much more (DragonM, you son of a biscuit). My goal is to qualify for the HGC League.

Oliver: Hello I am Oliver, 12, from Glosbekistan. I play support heroes cause I am too bad for anything else and still need DragonM to save my ass. PLS HALP!

Ljay: Hey, my name is Lukas , I reside in Berlin Germany and just turned 20. I am occupying the flexible role in this team, i.e., I am going to fill in the blanks in the draft.

How did you five find together playing in Heroes Lounge? 

Morpheus: I played together with Dragon for a long time already. For the qualifier of HGC we created a team with Ljay, (who i consider a close friend of mine) Oliver and Erwin. I actually do not know where we did find these 2 guys, but i think it was just in those super lame blizzard forums. The synergy was/is actually amazing and we are having super much fun, even if Erwin got a lot of flame in the beginning (sorry). 

Important question: If you happen to play against Stitches wants to Play would you choose Map pick or Stiches? 

Morpheus: Well, we were already scrimming against Stiches wants to Play, but obviously I cannot spoil draft tactics here, so sadly i cannot tell anything :'( 

Where does this love for Stitches come from? 

Morpheus: Everybody loves Stitches I guess :D. But it is more in a sarcastic way, because Fnatic always tried to pull of gorge at BlizzCon but it never worked. Also in our match against ExcellenteEleccion we completely failed this strategy. We will try to do better though in the Grand Finals of the Playoffs. :P 

Ljay: Stitches is our team mum, we all crawled out of his belly.

How are you going to prepare for games in Heroes Lounge? Are you scrimming a lot?

Morpheus: Maybe we are the team with the highest amount of scrims, cause we want to get into HGC. As we prepared for the qualifiers, we scrimmed up to 6h per day, but we are doing way less at the moment. 

DragonM: At the moment we are mainly playing TL but we always try to scrim, it's all the time better. Then personally I try to HL most of the time or like duoq/tripleq, it's always good to train coordination as a team between players. 

Ljay: We are doing a group fap as preparation. 

What are your plans? Are you going to compete in the HGC Open Division?

Morpheus: Yes, as I said before, we try to get into HGC this year. It will be super hard, but with the right mindset and training we can do it!

What do you think are your chances in Division 1 of Heroes Lounge? 

Morpheus: As a competitor we always aim to win the whole thing, but i think this season there are a lot of good teams. The hardest opponents are probably Fat 5, Team TFT (depending how much they train) and Blame The healer. Against every other team from the Top of Division 1 we have good to very good scrim results. 

DragonM: I think we have a pretty good chance in Heroes Lounge to win the whole thing, never underestimate our opponents, and that's how we can be the best! 

What is with the No Trick Ponies? They won last season and they are even with you on top of Division 1 

Mopheus: I think so far they got slightly easier opponents and our scrims against them went really really well on our weakest maps. But we will eventually meet them in the round format or in the playoffs, so we can show everybody who the new boss in town is Keepo!

After 4 games you are at the top of Division 1 by winning all of your games and only drop 2 maps. One of them was against CoB Misclick on SkyTemple directly after the Artanis changes. You let Artanis through the draft and last picked LiLi there. Weren't you afraid of the new Artanis at all and was this LiLi a panic pick or what do you think was that loss due to?

Oliver: It was not a panic pick. The loss was simply due to overvaluing her (LiLi) and thus, having Diablo as solo tank with four ranges. Artanis is scary but you can rely on cleanse every now and then. Drafting is a trade-off. We traded Artanis for Diablo if I remember correctly. 

Morpheus: Oliver never takes prisoners, I am sorry. 

Any shoutouts or advertisement you want to share?

Morpheus: Shoutout to my teammates for letting me yell at them, luv ya guys. Furthermore Shoutout to the Admins, Caster and Cosmic for all the great work with Heroes Lounge. And if any Org is interested in signing the coolest amateur team EU, we are up for it. 

DragonM: I just want to thanks my team for carrying me to there oh and the Heroes lounge staff too ! 

Erwin: I am just here for the sellout. Check out my stream for some awkward throws :D. P.s. We are always looking for Scrim partners from division 1. 

Thanks to Morpheus, Ljay, oliver, DragonM, and Erwin for the time. If you liked what you just read, make sure to leave him a Follow on twitter. For all the other interested and talented teams out there: Please make sure you sign up in time for the first tournament of the Heroes of the Storm Global Championship Open Division which will start on Monday the 16th of January, 6:00 pm CET. Any feedback or suggestions for what's next on Inside Lounge? Contact us within the Heroes Lounge Discord or via Twitter or Facebook.