Interview with Mohamed “Moneo” Fadl

Hello everyone,

as was the case with Viktor Kislyi, Daniel Chau (ESGN TV e-sports channel) made an interview with Mohamed “Moneo” Fadl (AKA “Imhotep”), the chief of EU community department and also apparently the director of the e-sports division for Europe and North America. I hope he got a raise for that.

Inside:

- 2013 was crazy for Wargaming, it was the community who originally pushed for e-sports
- the introduction of WoT e-sports was rushed (WG was not prepared)
- the first year of WGL in EU had like 40 teams, the second (2013) already had 4100 teams (over 200k players)
- WG is very pleased with how the WGL finals in Warsaw went, they weren’t sure anyone would come to visit the finals
- Polish fans are passionate
- Wargaming was quite surprised apparently when “underdog” teams started beating the favourites (Lemming Train vs Synergy is mentioned)
- WG doesn’t want e-sports to stagnate (“same strategy over and over”), so apparently there will be rules changes
- “format (7/42) will most likely change in future”
- apparently, there will be 3 seasons (EU and NA) – two long and one “all-star” short
- Moneo mentioned that since last week, there are integrated Twitch functions in the game, so people can stream (SS: have you noticed anything like that? o.O)

11 thoughts on “Interview with Mohamed “Moneo” Fadl”

Or maybe WG can make WoT client stream and see what player sees. And ban for mods?

I spoke briefly to Mohamed – he seems like driven individual. It is good to know he is also a e-sports director now.

When you think about it all that would need to be transmitted would be the data streams that run the game and the settup. No need to stream video at all. Server side could render the video and add voice and webcam to the output.

good to know an arabic person has a place in WG :D

anonymoususer on April 11, 2014 at 4:13 pm said:

Yea well let’s hope he wont lose his grip one day and strap himself with C4 and blow up WG EU HQ.
- Fabian Witzel on April 11, 2014 at 8:33 pm said:
  
  An Arabic Person who speaks mostly German xD
- Mohamed Dhaouadi on April 12, 2014 at 10:04 pm said:
  
  SS , i wonder whats your reaction to this . samples of hall of shame just infront of your eyes :)

- Moneo mentioned that since last week, there are integrated Twitch functions in the game, so people can stream (SS: have you noticed anything like that? o.O)

He probably means in development?

This
http://www.vbaddict.net/threads/2712-WoT-API-Leak-from-SuperTest-Twitch-streaming

LOL

shame as the file has now been deleted…would have tested it on the 9.0 test server.

Herman_der_German on April 11, 2014 at 3:40 pm said:

It would be locked to stream only into secure Twitch account/s.

jakub_czyli_ja on April 11, 2014 at 10:43 am said:

Or maybe WG can make WoT client stream and see what player sees. And ban for mods?
MotherBomb on April 11, 2014 at 11:09 am said:

I spoke briefly to Mohamed – he seems like driven individual. It is good to know he is also a e-sports director now.
Herman_der_German on April 11, 2014 at 11:25 am said:

When you think about it all that would need to be transmitted would be the data streams that run the game and the settup. No need to stream video at all. Server side could render the video and add voice and webcam to the output.
Mohamed Dhaouadi on April 11, 2014 at 12:27 pm said:

good to know an arabic person has a place in WG :D
- anonymoususer on April 11, 2014 at 4:13 pm said:
  
  Yea well let’s hope he wont lose his grip one day and strap himself with C4 and blow up WG EU HQ.
  - Fabian Witzel on April 11, 2014 at 8:33 pm said:
    
    An Arabic Person who speaks mostly German xD
  - Mohamed Dhaouadi on April 12, 2014 at 10:04 pm said:
    
    SS , i wonder whats your reaction to this . samples of hall of shame just infront of your eyes :)
Nya-chan Production on April 11, 2014 at 12:49 pm said:

- Moneo mentioned that since last week, there are integrated Twitch functions in the game, so people can stream (SS: have you noticed anything like that? o.O)

He probably means in development?
Herman_der_German on April 11, 2014 at 1:38 pm said:

This
http://www.vbaddict.net/threads/2712-WoT-API-Leak-from-SuperTest-Twitch-streaming

LOL
flyingmanticore on April 11, 2014 at 3:34 pm said:

shame as the file has now been deleted…would have tested it on the 9.0 test server.
- Herman_der_German on April 11, 2014 at 3:40 pm said:
  
  It would be locked to stream only into secure Twitch account/s.