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Can you believe how fast esports has grown? It wasn’t that long ago that I was just playing in my bedroom, eating fast food, and going to sleep at four in the morning… No structure, no team houses, no coaches. Nothing like that. Just five players trying to beat five other players for the sake of being better than them. Making a living out of it was a pretty distant dream. That’s not to say that I didn’t believe in that dream. After I graduated college I knew I wanted to become a pro player. My parents didn’t like that [...]

The Confidence Is Back

It wasn’t until the second season of RLCS that I really started to take the game seriously. I first got into Rocket League on release day, actually. One of my favourite streamers played in the beta right before it released, and it hooked me from there. It didn’t take long to decide that this was a game I really wanted to get good at. Even if it took me two or three seasons. I knew my time would come. My first real taste of competition was with Team Infused for the Gfinity Elite Series. It was a fun league in [...]

Exceeding Expectations

The first time I picked up a Magic card was a little after the release of M14, when a friend and I attended an introductory class at our local game store just northwest of Seoul. At the time the presentation was nothing more than a nice way to spend an afternoon. And for my friend it remained nothing more than that. I’m the only one of us who still plays, though I suppose it’s not too surprising given the environment Magic players face in South Korea. Korea may be home to SK Telecom T1, Faker and Flash, but Magic never [...]

League of Legends

Can you believe how fast esports has grown? It wasn’t that long ago that I was just playing in my bedroom, eating fast food, and going to sleep at four in the morning… No structure, no team houses, no coaches. Nothing like that. Just five players trying to beat five other players for the sake of being better than them. Making a living out of it was a pretty distant dream. That’s not to say that I didn’t believe in that dream. After I graduated college I knew I wanted to become a pro player. My parents didn’t like that [...]

The Confidence Is Back

It wasn’t until the second season of RLCS that I really started to take the game seriously. I first got into Rocket League on release day, actually. One of my favourite streamers played in the beta right before it released, and it hooked me from there. It didn’t take long to decide that this was a game I really wanted to get good at. Even if it took me two or three seasons. I knew my time would come. My first real taste of competition was with Team Infused for the Gfinity Elite Series. It was a fun league in [...]

Exceeding Expectations

The first time I picked up a Magic card was a little after the release of M14, when a friend and I attended an introductory class at our local game store just northwest of Seoul. At the time the presentation was nothing more than a nice way to spend an afternoon. And for my friend it remained nothing more than that. I’m the only one of us who still plays, though I suppose it’s not too surprising given the environment Magic players face in South Korea. Korea may be home to SK Telecom T1, Faker and Flash, but Magic never [...]

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