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Knowing Your Role

The Schalke coaching staff took a lot of the blame for our underperformance last split. Basically, someone had to step up to take the blame but, obviously, it wasn’t just the coaching staff who were at fault, we, the players, deserved our fair share of the blame too. As a team, we didn’t perform to the level that we were capable of. We lacked the winning mentality that is required to reach the top, you have to go into each and every game with the intention of destroying your opponent, no mercy. We didn’t find the right mindset in Spring [...]

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It’s very hard to break a first impression in the esports scene. Once you’re labelled a certain way, or people have a certain perception of you, it’s a very difficult thing to change. It’s taken me four years, but today, when the EU LCS Summer Split starts, I’ll be returning to the LCS with Giants Gaming. I first qualified for the LCS in North America with compLexity Gaming in the summer of 2014. Throughout the season, expectations for our roster were not high. I had only been coaching professionally for about six months, and it quickly became clear to me that [...]

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Completing My Service

In South Korea, every man is required to serve two years of mandatory military service and at the age of 27, I knew I couldn’t postpone it any longer. My time had come. Most men usually serve in the military at age 18 or 19, but under special circumstances, like competing professionally in StarCraft, there is the option to delay it. By the point I signed up, I had already been competing for seven years, which is much longer than the average professional StarCraft career. Many pro players consider joining the military as a de facto retirement. At the time, I felt like [...]

The Win Condition

Knowing Your Role

The Schalke coaching staff took a lot of the blame for our underperformance last split. Basically, someone had to step up to take the blame but, obviously, it wasn’t just the coaching staff who were at fault, we, the players, deserved our fair share of the blame too. As a team, we didn’t perform to the level that we were capable of. We lacked the winning mentality that is required to reach the top, you have to go into each and every game with the intention of destroying your opponent, no mercy. We didn’t find the right mindset in Spring [...]

Featured Stories

It’s very hard to break a first impression in the esports scene. Once you’re labelled a certain way, or people have a certain perception of you, it’s a very difficult thing to change. It’s taken me four years, but today, when the EU LCS Summer Split starts, I’ll be returning to the LCS with Giants Gaming. I first qualified for the LCS in North America with compLexity Gaming in the summer of 2014. Throughout the season, expectations for our roster were not high. I had only been coaching professionally for about six months, and it quickly became clear to me that [...]

My Career Ultimate

Completing My Service

In South Korea, every man is required to serve two years of mandatory military service and at the age of 27, I knew I couldn’t postpone it any longer. My time had come. Most men usually serve in the military at age 18 or 19, but under special circumstances, like competing professionally in StarCraft, there is the option to delay it. By the point I signed up, I had already been competing for seven years, which is much longer than the average professional StarCraft career. Many pro players consider joining the military as a de facto retirement. At the time, I felt like [...]

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