It's that time again where instead of seeing gaming through a players point of view, I've been observing from a
outside view, all most like thinking out of the box.
I also need to say that I find it quite awesome that people are still putting a effort into gaming, especially
games like Starcraft and Quake3 - these games are about 5 years old now... go veterans! I personally still love to
play the odd game of Quake1 after work, this game reminds me where gaming was and where it is now... people think
and say gaming has advanced, grown and mutated, yes it definitely has and people will become even richer, smarter,
better and even uglier - however what does go on underneath the fame, fortune and glory?
Let me cut to the chase... we are all gamers, yet we are not all pro-gamers.
Ask yourselves, what is a pro-gamer?
Ask yourselves, what is a non-pro-gamer?
Ask yourselves, what makes you a pro-gamer and what prevents you from becomming a pro-gamer?
I think the view most people have about this particular subject isn't accurate, I myself might not be in a
position to clarify what it takes to be a pro-gamer because I certainly am not. Just because I won competitions
and went to WCG does not make me a pro-gamer, however it allowed me to see what a pro-gamer is all about.
A pro-gamer is fatal1ty, someone who had made everything from nothing, a simple computer game putting fatal1ty
above the rest of the world... the question isn't whether he was good enough, we all know he was more than good
enough, but what really made him to be who he is today? The force behind the closed doors? The ability to adapt to
any situation? There are always points and area's that make define the mouse vs the man. Sometimes those points
are so minimal that there is all most no difference, but a milisecond's decision can determine a future of an
individual.
Scores are tied 12 - 12, sudden death of 2minutes has already been played and all of a sudden you get spawn
fragged, are you going to tell me the person who spawn fragged his enemy is better? - Does he deserve the number1
title and all the sponsorships? Did he work harder at allowing the spawn frag to originally happen or was it just
luck and bad timing? I think the point of this paragraph is so say that there is always someone better. May it be
a boy/girl sitting at home without the internet and access to transport, however playing a game so damn well he/
she smashes every record the world has ever seen - without even realizing it because playing that game that way is
all they know... It should make one think, how many gamers out there don't even realise they are gamers? How many
of them have the potential to be even better and bigger than movie celebraties?
The world is moving a particular way forward and unless you ride the same wave you will get left behind. Why did I
just say that? Well, it's actually quite simple - join that wave and become better than the best... does it sound
easy? Trust me it's not... but it's a way forward, right? - Who said being the best was easy?
As much as the world has seen in the last 7-8 years of computer gaming, there has never been 1 "UNDISPUTED"
champion of anything... everyone has lost, even Schumacher on a good day has lost a grandprix race... so my
question to the world is, what does it then take to become "UNDISPUTED?" Undisputed meaning, never losing to
anyone, at any time.
All people hear about is what the world tells them, what about the stories, news and light the world doesn't tell
you about? I think a champion has to have more than just skill to become the best. A player with the mind and
skill will do better than a player with just skill or just strategy. Understanding what the game is about - what
you need to do and how you go about doing it would be a good start. Actually it's just using your real life
abilities into another form... a virtual form. The object is to become as good as not even thinking, yet when
needed to think you can... often people don't think and therefore loose out on something that they lost between
their finger tips... Most of the world drive cars, we drive cars everyday and therefore we begin to "not think"
when driving a car... you end up doing it so well because you have been doing it for so long and you don't even
have to think to get a reacton. What if, you can do that on a virtual battle world? The mind is faster than the
body.
Anyway, it's just a little article for some of you to read and to think
about... these are often thoughts people SHOULD be thinking instead of
"CAN I PRAY TO THE FATAL1TY GOD?" Why not become your own god.
