The beginning

This is the first of many to come in this series of entries. So I shall now explain what this series is exactly. It is the recollection of my involvement and future in E-sports, how it is getting started and every other day updates to come.

I guess I will start off by saying how I got into competitive gaming.

It all started when I was in grade 8. I had finally gotten my Warcraft 3 to update so I could play online. At the time I only had dial up so I was generally 5 seconds behind everyone which made me worse (not that im any good today). I kept seeing these advertisements for the WCG. I inquired about them and finally figured that I would try my hand at it. I soon found out you had to pay to enter and was rather upset; but now a dream was born, to play in the WCG. I then started to play for many hours a day (more then my parents found acceptable) and joined a few teams but still wasn’t ready.

Around 2 years later of still not qualifying, I got cable. Around 6 months after that, my brother told me about CS:S. I said no, FPS games were easy and a waste of time. But when he brought his computer home from school, and he went away for Tree Planting. I decided to give it a shot. I was hooked instantly. I looked for a few teams and started to play in random pub servers. I finally joined a team (noone wanted me until then) and they said that they competed in leagues. I thought this to be absolutely absurd. But as they explained to me, there was potentially millions of dollars in gaming. They informed me of a lot of major tournaments and teams, sponsors and the additional factor that really appealed to me, traveling.

From then on I would practice hours a day, not knowing that I was practicing the wrong way. I then left the team and team hopped for a few years until I got to the skill level I figured was "good". I had then found an Ontario LAN team and entered my first CSS LAN event. I had been to LANs before and the nervous factor was never a problem placing 1^st in war3 twice in my previous tournaments. But I soon found out that the skill I thought was acceptable was definitely not, not even close. I left the LAN team as they had performed less then stellar, and at least I was able to hold my own. I had made a few new friends at the event and began to practice with them online after the event.

Around this point I knew that this was for me, I had been hooked from day one really. But now with the potential to make money and help make E-sports become mainstream, it was a dream almost come true. A few months after this (now 2007) I had been good friends with Chris ‘TheLunat1c’ Schulze. We had spoken before about making our own team organization, but now since I would finally be done school, the opportunity had risen.

Now I am where I am today, finally finishing up the last pieces of moving to Florida and starting my own organization.

What’s next? Stay tuned for updates. There is a lot to happen in the all to near future so stay tuned!

Note: these will not be edited or spell checked unlike my articles.

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