Name - Emmanuel Brito aka DMG CD Jr (Twitter - @MK_CDjr)
Age - 20
Fighting Out Of - Bronx, NY
Years Competitively Gaming - 1
Character(s) of Choice - Kung Lao, Kabal, and Jax
Major Accomplishments - 1st at MLG Winter Championship, 2nd at EVO 2012, Top 8 at MLG Spring Championship, Top 8 at MLG Raleigh, 1st at Summer Jam 5, 1st at T13, 1st at MLG Spring Fighter Arena
Hello CD Jr, I last interviewed you prior to MLG Raleigh. What
have you been up to since then?
Nothing
much really just playing video games and going to the gym.
You recently competed at Seasons Beatings and T13, talk
about your experiences at both tournaments.
Well my
experience at SB outside of MK was awesome. I had a lot of fun hanging out with
Dieminion, Yipes, and 2 of my friends Euri and Victor. I was kind of
disappointed with my performance in MK but it was my fault because I wasn't
playing the game for 2 weeks because I was playing Tekken. However I think
Wafflez and especially Dizzy leveled up a ton so shout outs to those guys for
grinding it out and getting better. I had a lot of fun at T13, it was a great
tournament and Russell ran it perfectly so shout outs to him. I also want to
say that I freaking love Canada and can’t wait to go back and hang out with K
Frog, Jer, Zaf and all the Canadian players.
First was Seasons Beatings, looking back, how did you feel
about your overall performance?
Like shit!
But oh well I guess I can’t win them all right?
Talk about your set with GGA Dizzy and what exactly went
wrong for you at SB.
Everything
went wrong my spacing was bad, I dropped a lot of combos, my footsie game was
bad I was playing like shit and dizzy was playing on point. I basically got
outplayed.
Despite losing to Dizzy, you managed to rally through losers
bracket and ended up making the switch to Jax, why did you opt to switch from
Kung Lao?
I switch
to Jax cause when I got send to losers I didn’t care about winning anymore
because I was mad with the way I was playing plus I was mad with the whole
monitor thing not having sound so I couldn’t hear anything.
Talk about your set with GGA Wafflez, why did you stick with
Jax when you also had Kabal and Kung Lao there that you could’ve utilized?
Like I
said on the last question. But real talk though if I was playing Jax like
before Wafflez wouldn’t have won 1 round against my Jax. I mean he was poking
me with d1 and d3 and I wasn’t poking back? What? Me? One of the players who
started using pokes as a way of offense and defense? You can tell I was playing
like shit. also waking up with dash punch all the time when I knew smoke can
just buffer d4 all day and full punish it lol.
How did you transition from Seasons Beatings to T13? What
aspects of your game did you work on with Kung Lao that leveled you up as fast
as you did?
After SB I
just started practicing more and more with my brothers because I want to get
back to my old dominating days and that's exactly what I’m going to do.
You performed extremely well against REO in your winners
finals set as well as your grand finals set, how did it feel to see your Kung
Lao flourish against arguably the best Kabal in the world?
LOL
honestly it felt like casuals just for the fact that REO and I have been on
that same spot so many times but it could’ve gone either way like I always say.
REO and I always go back and forth.
Did you feel as if you were the underdog going into your
matches against REO given his recent success at MLG Raleigh?
Me? The
underdog? Nah I don’t think so.
REO reset your grand finals series after 3-0, what was going
through your head when he brought it down to a final first to 3 set after
beating him in winners finals?
I was
actually laughing when that happened because I felt for so many random nomad
dash and after that I just decided to be more patient next set.
Will there ever be a clear-cut winner in the friendly saga
of REO vs. CD Jr?
I feel
like REO is better than me in MK but I’m a better all around fighting gamer.
This is something I’ve always wondered; do you (as a player)
go back and watch footage from your previous tournaments? If so, do you study
your bad tendencies and work on them?
Of course I
do I don’t see why any player wouldn’t go back and see footage of when they
lost so they can work on things they did wrong or did not do right.
Will MLG Dallas be the ‘last hurrah’ for competitive Mortal
Kombat?
For me? Nah
I will still support this game at every tourney I o until it dies which isn’t
happening anytime soon. I just hope other players still come out to the
community majors and support the game they love.
Looking ahead to ‘Injustice: Gods Among Us’, how do you feel
about the game after having the opportunity to test it out at the New York
ComicCon?
I already
like it more than MK that all I have to say.
Where do you see it existing among the Fighting Game
Community? Will it be received more negatively among the hardcore fans like
Mortal Kombat or will it be a treated as a legitimate front running fighting
game?
Hopefully
a lot of players try it out and take it serious because I know it will be a
good game. But we can only wait till the game comes out and see how well it
does in the competitive scene.
From the characters you’ve tested, who do you see yourself
maining when the game releases in April of 2013?
THE FLASH!
And Quinn. I also like Green Arrow a lot and hopefully they put black Adam in
the game.
Do you think Injustice plays like Mortal Kombat? Will MK
players be able to make a smooth transition from MK to Injustice?
I think Injustice
is like a mix of SF and MK and players from both games should feel comfortable
going into Injustice.
Let’s talk a little about MLG Dallas; will you be using 100%
Kung Lao no matter what happens? Or is there a chance that we will see you make
a switch if you deem it necessary?
I was
going to go all Kung Lao but I might just might, also use Kenshi.
Is Kung Lao THE character that you’ve been working on in
preparation for MLG Dallas?
Yes sir I’ve
been playing Lao nonstop. I also have been playing Kabal just to teach my bros
the match up.
Is there anything particular about the way that you play
Kung Lao that makes you different from the rest?
I’m less
RANDOM! And like to play safer against low hitbox characters like Kitana, Sonya,
and Cage.
How would you feel about going head-to-head with a Kung Lao
player like Perfect Legend?
I feel
like my Lao is already better than his and if he doesn’t think so we can do a
ft 10 mirror match for $100 but knowing PL he won’t do it.
After T13, where do you think your confidence level will be
at if you come across REO at MLG Dallas?
Same. Like
I said we always go back and forth I really can get confident against REO or
else I will lose.
Do you have your sights set on anyone specific that you
badly want to play in competition?
No not
really. I just want to go compete and try to win. I do have mission here like I
did in Columbus. I promise to donate $500 to Kerri Hoskins (Sonya) twins which
suffer from severe cerebral palsy. When I read the story about her kids it
really touched me and I want to help as much as I can.
Before I let you go, is there anything that I didn’t cover
that you would like to? Any shout-outs?
Shouts out
to all my VSM friends and all my Canadian friends. Shout outs to my sponsors
DMG and NOS for everything they do for me and shout outs to all the MK players
who still support the game, you guys are the best! Oh and NY is going win Dallas
:)
Thanks for the time Emmanuel, I wish you luck at MLG Dallas
and we will have to do this again.
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