TACO: "VP is a hard match"

2-10-2016 01:41

We talked to SK's Epitacio 'TACO' de Melo ahead of the team's match against Virtus.pro at ESL One New York.

SK, currently the world's best team, have a 2-1 record in the ESL One New York group stage Swiss system and are heading into an all important match against the Poles of Virtus.pro that will see one of the teams advance to the $250,000 event's playoffs.

We spoke with youngster Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo in what was a groundbreaking interview for both of us as last time I had interviewed the 21-year-old with the help of a translator whereas now TACO was able to answer all of my questions in a succinct English.

You will be able to find all of our interviews from ESL One New York on our YouTube channel here.

stich writes for HLTV.org and can be found on Twitter

Will be a really interesting match. Whoever has to face the winner after will be super fucked though (fnatic if liquid wins, optic if liquid loses).

2016-10-02 00:03

nice

gl to both teams.

he is right

fak

VP 16-14

Yup lol

ofc it is

the real fnatic is even harder.

gl to both teams

Choke

2016-10-02 00:04

SA english

2016-10-02 00:05

Vp is a team not match but nice try XDDD

taco with the BOT english

2016-10-02 00:15

I dont know why people are talking shit, his english is not even that bad i could understand everything

2016-10-02 00:16

Any VP fan could tell me if there are chances of it being played on d2? I mean their games (sk vs vp) never had d2 and I think it would be interesting

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vp and d2? dont think so

2016-10-02 01:09

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no chance my friend

2016-10-02 01:10

taco needs to wake the fuck up if they wanna win this tournament

2016-10-02 00:17

bad ENGLANDO

2016-10-02 00:18

10 replies

when's the last time you learned a foreign language, did something worth being interviewed, and then were interviewed in that language? :)))))

2016-10-02 00:26

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Not a critic, he say it in a lot of videos... It's a herself phrase

2016-10-02 00:28

4 replies

word, no worries. I just find it funny that people choose to critique over appreciating someone's hard efforts :D

2016-10-02 00:30

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I always cheer him in every game... Different culture, speaking ENGLANDO a lot of Brazilians (include him) will understand it's a joke...

2016-10-02 00:40

no worries I get where you're coming from!

2016-10-02 00:41

2016-10-02 04:37

A Brazilian is calling out another Brazilian's English for being bad. I don't see the issue tbh kek

Here we call fat being a fat... Normal and not ofensive, it's like a joke

2016-10-02 00:37

in general brazilian is very annoying. they criticize the regional accent from TACO's city. hope oportunity to bullying everybody

2016-10-02 08:22

youtu.be/2oeRM4xS5p0

2016-10-02 08:25

stitch biggest VP fanboy?

2016-10-02 00:24

I cheer for them but they think I'm a critic because of my captions apparently xD

2016-10-02 00:31

His english was fine. I understood everything. And props to TACO for giving the interview and not being ashamed of his english skills.

2016-10-02 00:27

if cheats dont be load VP take it of course :)

FISK

great interview, try to convince interviewee to stay in the camera's center ;)

2016-10-02 00:33

He's actually speaking english really well, he has improved a lot. Nice Taco

VACO <3

2016-10-02 00:38

taco <3 hes starting to improve his english =P thats cool

2016-10-02 00:46

his english is so much better n1 VACO <3

2016-10-02 01:03

good interview!

2016-10-02 01:04

i.imgur.com/gqPSdpD.jpg 16-0 BOYS

2016-10-02 01:11

LETS GOO PAPA

2016-10-02 01:12

I find it to be quite funny that Taco turned out to be one of the nicest guys in SK and Cold turned out to be an angry and cunty midget.

2016-10-02 02:04

He was joking

2016-10-02 02:18

TACO!? he's English is improved!

2016-10-02 04:08

damn...taco has nice cheekbones

2016-10-02 04:15

Try to convince more people to do such interviews Stich. Finally hearing TACO talk makes him seem much cooler.

2016-10-02 07:44

I'll try mate but convincing people to do video interviews is always a challenge :D

2016-10-02 16:31

"VP is a hard match" LONDON IS HARD LANGUAGE

2016-10-02 20:49

TACO: "VP is a hard match"

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