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Setting The Tone

2018 was the best year of my life. I can honestly say that with total confidence. From getting drafted, to winning the inaugural NBA 2K League championship, but also in all aspects of life, too. It was just a great year. I’m extremely blessed. The feeling of winning is obviously always a good one. But I think what made ours at Knicks Gaming different than most is that we went through so much adversity in the process. We started like 3-7 at one point during the regular season and had a lot of trials and tribulations we were going through [...]

League of Legends

I know Fnatic’s slump has been a bit of a weird experience. We lost five games in a row – if we count the remade game against SK Gaming – before we finally won against Rogue. Though we’ve actually lost the first game of every split that I have played in, it has never been this extreme. After our third loss, I felt so many negative feelings at once; frustration, anger. I woke up the morning before the fourth game, and I remember thinking to myself: “I’m done feeling like this. I’m going to be positive, I’m going to look [...]

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Going To Twelve

My very first cast with a professional co-caster was over Skype with Jatt as part of my nine-month interview process with Riot Games. All I remember thinking was: “There’s no way I’m going to be as good as him. I don’t know exactly what I’m missing but I’m definitely not on this guy’s level.” After a year and a half grinding through the amateur scene and blowing up on Reddit with a series of bootleg casts, this was my big chance. It was a long way from the days where I just hoped that Garena wouldn’t show up in my Twitch [...]

Setting The Tone

2018 was the best year of my life. I can honestly say that with total confidence. From getting drafted, to winning the inaugural NBA 2K League championship, but also in all aspects of life, too. It was just a great year. I’m extremely blessed. The feeling of winning is obviously always a good one. But I think what made ours at Knicks Gaming different than most is that we went through so much adversity in the process. We started like 3-7 at one point during the regular season and had a lot of trials and tribulations we were going through [...]

League of Legends

I know Fnatic’s slump has been a bit of a weird experience. We lost five games in a row – if we count the remade game against SK Gaming – before we finally won against Rogue. Though we’ve actually lost the first game of every split that I have played in, it has never been this extreme. After our third loss, I felt so many negative feelings at once; frustration, anger. I woke up the morning before the fourth game, and I remember thinking to myself: “I’m done feeling like this. I’m going to be positive, I’m going to look [...]

Mads Brock-Pedersen

League of Legends

Going To Twelve

My very first cast with a professional co-caster was over Skype with Jatt as part of my nine-month interview process with Riot Games. All I remember thinking was: “There’s no way I’m going to be as good as him. I don’t know exactly what I’m missing but I’m definitely not on this guy’s level.” After a year and a half grinding through the amateur scene and blowing up on Reddit with a series of bootleg casts, this was my big chance. It was a long way from the days where I just hoped that Garena wouldn’t show up in my Twitch [...]

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