hi boys!! Want to give any young and budding gamers an opportunity to ask a veteran any questions they feel like! I am 34 btw
I started competitive pvp gaming with Warcraft 2 on kali in the 90s... i wasnt great but it was a good learning experience
My first big game where i was able to dominate people online was diablo 1.. i played legit/ pure characters and with proper counter builds i was undefeated dueling on my lvl 40+ war and rogue. The community of strong players was a chan called "legit" on us east bnet
After that was starcraft, my longest played game of all time, and my first game where i was able to compete in and win tournaments. I played mostly 2v2.. hung out mostly in clan x17 chan or like DS clan chan when i was in DS.. this is the first game where i was at a level where i could meet professional gamers. I met guillaume patry (x'ds~grrrr...) while playing sc, one of the best players world wide before koreans took over, played with testie for years (who was one of best north american players), i met sal garrozo (3d volcano) while playing starcraft, we went on to play counter strike together, and he eventually became on of the best CS 1.6 players in the world, winning top tournaments with team 3D, a long time best north american team. Sal is overall the best gamer i have ever met. At his peak when 1v1 against him for practice, it felt like playing against a cheater, but i knew he was legit as we competed together, were friends, and he competed at many live lans by then.
Which brings us to CS. I played in cal-m before there was a cal-p, so there was only a 16 team cal-i above cal-m. I was about a mid tier cal-m player competitively. But of course there was no match making at the time so when joining public servers to play for fun i could often destroy the game 40-5 or so and get banned for "cheating" by a sore admin.
After that was my next big game, and the game i feel was my peak over my career. Wow arenas. My greatest success was playing resto shaman where at my peak (seasons 2-5) i was able to hit about 2600 rating in all brackets and achieve gladiator. My highest rank was top 30 shaman worldwide when it was at about 10 million subscribers. I was an absolute monster in battlegrounds and arenas, and i could play any class at about a 2200+ level, but shaman was my best.
After that i went into league of legends. In the beta my friends and I were able to win the first ever tournament they held called "baron nashor tournament" and i was able to hit beta grandmaster (top 100) for the beta overall (still have summoner icon). Here i was able to meet and play with a lot of guys who became pro lol gamers such as dyrus, hotshotgg, reginald, etc etc. However at this point i was working full time and getting older, so ive been mostly a platinum level player in league. Diamond is really a struggle, i have hit it in 3s but not in 5s solo queue. The kids a very good these days and diamond players are quite challenging for me at this point.
I also play hearthstone now and then and am able to hit legend if i put in the time. It takes a solid deck and about 200 games played
Other than that, i currently play rocket league, pubg, and heroes of the storm once in a while
So thats my gaming career, never professional but i definitely fell into the top tier of the amateur game at certain points, so if you are a curious gamer, ask me anything!
