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I Haven’t Forgotten

I think about it all the time. How close we were to winning a world championship. I had been to every RLCS Worlds up to that point, but I had never made it that far before. Usually, by the Grand Finals, I’d be watching the tournament from the stands, eliminated. Even when I got 3rd in Season 3 the possibility of winning still felt so far away. Last time out though, not only did we make it to the grand finals, but we were up 2-1 with about two minutes left in Game 7 of a bracket reset. We made [...]

I’m Not Trying To Be A Loser

I think I got my competitive nature from playing Tennis when I was younger. I was really good at tennis, to be honest. Even though I was still young, I was training with people who were much older than me. I think I was maybe 12 or 13 years old, training against actual adults. It might be different elsewhere but in the Netherlands, the tennis ranking system goes from nine to one, where nine is the worst and one is the best. I was a four when I was just 13 or 14 years old, which is insane. I had [...]

Defining Success

If you were to ask any Dota 2 player what their definition of success was, they’d probably say that winning The International was everything. Before winning the International in 2015, I had the same ambition, the same goal. I put everything into winning; I was full-throttle Dota 2. I didn’t think about or focus on anything other than winning The International. I can look back on the tournaments I competed at with Evil Geniuses and say that it was our singular focus that made us the best in the world, but it was also that singular focus that led to [...]

I Haven’t Forgotten

I think about it all the time. How close we were to winning a world championship. I had been to every RLCS Worlds up to that point, but I had never made it that far before. Usually, by the Grand Finals, I’d be watching the tournament from the stands, eliminated. Even when I got 3rd in Season 3 the possibility of winning still felt so far away. Last time out though, not only did we make it to the grand finals, but we were up 2-1 with about two minutes left in Game 7 of a bracket reset. We made [...]

I’m Not Trying To Be A Loser

I think I got my competitive nature from playing Tennis when I was younger. I was really good at tennis, to be honest. Even though I was still young, I was training with people who were much older than me. I think I was maybe 12 or 13 years old, training against actual adults. It might be different elsewhere but in the Netherlands, the tennis ranking system goes from nine to one, where nine is the worst and one is the best. I was a four when I was just 13 or 14 years old, which is insane. I had [...]

Defining Success

If you were to ask any Dota 2 player what their definition of success was, they’d probably say that winning The International was everything. Before winning the International in 2015, I had the same ambition, the same goal. I put everything into winning; I was full-throttle Dota 2. I didn’t think about or focus on anything other than winning The International. I can look back on the tournaments I competed at with Evil Geniuses and say that it was our singular focus that made us the best in the world, but it was also that singular focus that led to [...]

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