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Rainbow Six: Siege

Finding a New Home

When I was young, there was a single game that changed my life. My father brought home a demo disc of Doom and I’ve been hooked ever since. From there, it’s been a straight line through the ages of FPS games. I got an Xbox, and Halo was it for a while. Hard to believe Halo is almost 20 years old at this point. But my first online FPS was Rainbow Six 3 and that was where things really kicked off for me competitively. It wasn’t quite where my esports journey started, though. That was something entirely different and hard [...]

League of Legends

Good Days and Bad Days

Times are a little different from what they were in 2019. On one hand, you’d expect it to be different: different people and different coaches are around the team. However, I’m not really thinking about it on a conscious level. Change happens. To begin with, every organization was a little sceptical about me because I didn’t perform for a long time. When that happens, people put less value onto you; even Misfits were sceptical about keeping me. Those were hard times. I got to a point where I simply didn’t care about the money. I would have played for free. [...]

League of Legends

I’m Coming Up

I was born in Italy. I knew how to speak Italian, so it was easier, but I would have preferred to grow up in China. I was different from the other kids around me. Of course, that lead to me getting bullied. To them, I wasn’t Italian, I was Chinese – there was some racism in my childhood. There weren’t many others like me in my school, and being “alone” like that makes you an easier target. I escaped the problems by playing video games every day. Rather than meeting up with other kids and playing together, I mostly isolated [...]

Rainbow Six: Siege

Finding a New Home

When I was young, there was a single game that changed my life. My father brought home a demo disc of Doom and I’ve been hooked ever since. From there, it’s been a straight line through the ages of FPS games. I got an Xbox, and Halo was it for a while. Hard to believe Halo is almost 20 years old at this point. But my first online FPS was Rainbow Six 3 and that was where things really kicked off for me competitively. It wasn’t quite where my esports journey started, though. That was something entirely different and hard [...]

Loviel Cardwell

League of Legends

Good Days and Bad Days

Times are a little different from what they were in 2019. On one hand, you’d expect it to be different: different people and different coaches are around the team. However, I’m not really thinking about it on a conscious level. Change happens. To begin with, every organization was a little sceptical about me because I didn’t perform for a long time. When that happens, people put less value onto you; even Misfits were sceptical about keeping me. Those were hard times. I got to a point where I simply didn’t care about the money. I would have played for free. [...]

Fabian Diepstraten

League of Legends

I’m Coming Up

I was born in Italy. I knew how to speak Italian, so it was easier, but I would have preferred to grow up in China. I was different from the other kids around me. Of course, that lead to me getting bullied. To them, I wasn’t Italian, I was Chinese – there was some racism in my childhood. There weren’t many others like me in my school, and being “alone” like that makes you an easier target. I escaped the problems by playing video games every day. Rather than meeting up with other kids and playing together, I mostly isolated [...]

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