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started playing video games with my father when I was four years old. World of Warcraft, the game which took over my childhood was the first of many games which I’ve “completed”. I am currently 19 years old (5/2/2018), and have played well over 200 different games investing many hours in each one.

It is said that in order for one to truly master an art, he or she must invest 10,000 hours to it, which then and only then, can one call themselves a master. I recently calculated the amount of hours I’ve put into gaming alone, and to date, I’ve got 18,527.34 hours and counting, currently invested into my gaming career. That being said, I like to think of myself as a master of the art of gaming.

Over all this time, I’ve accumulated knowledge most players dream of knowing, but never do: How to get started on a professional level, no matter the genre. Each game has a professional scene. Some in versions of tournaments, others in terms of fan base. I have used my skills and knowledge of how to enter such scenes in a number of games: World of Warcraft (PvP), Lord of the Rings (PvE and PvP), Call of Duty, Gears of War, Minecraft, and Radical Heights, just to name a few…

Over the past three-to-four years, I have gotten big in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene which for those who don’t know what it is, it’s a First Person Shooter game where Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists face off in a 5v5 map in a best of 30 rounds game.

Recently, in the “age of eSports”, Counter-Strike and other eSport games alike have been booming because of tournaments being broadcasted, live on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and on television, on TBS in particular.

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NVeSports vs UW Madison CSGO

Despite having lost their last match against UC Boulder, NVeSports didn’t give up yet! In the final match against the University of Washington Madison, they came out victorious in a demolishing victory of 16-3! Ending the pre-season at 3-4.

This match was highly anticipated as some of my fellow teammates are rivals with some of the UW Madison players, so the fact that we crushed them in our final match makes everyone very happy. Not much to say as we basically just outplayed and out-aimed most our opponents, but all-in-all, it was very fun.

NVeSports vs UC Boulder

Despite the hard work and effort NVeSports has been putting out, they could not defeat the #1 seed, University of Colorado, Boulder in a best of one match resulting in 16-8, making their League record 2-4.

I think our greatest problem was our mindset going into this match. We were all thinking that because they are the #1 seed that we couldn’t beat them. Honestly, I believe that if we were to have a better mindset going into it, we might’ve won that match. All-in-all, we still performed pretty good given the circumstances and I hope to play against them again someday because it was a very good match.

NVeSports vs MSU Spartans

NVeSports struck another victory in the Collegiate Star League today against the MSU Spartans 16-2, making their League record, 2-3!

I cannot begin to describe the level of power my team is aquiring. Each time we play we get stronger and much more fluid as a unit. It’s astonishing the see the caliber of gameplay we are competing at, especially when your team’s name is in the high light.

NVeSports vs WA Esports

WA Esports, once tyrants of the Esports league was taken down today by NVeSports in overtime 19-16, achieving NVeSports’ first win making their League record 1-3!

Today’s match was a huge success. As a team, we decided to hang out more (in person) and I feel as though it definitely helped. We were communicating better, we were calling strategies faster and everything was just a lot smoother. I’m starting to feel the potential in all of the players shine more and more as the season goes on, and I’m very excited for playoffs now.

NVeSports vs Crimson CSGO

In todays match, Crimson CSGO came out victorious in a heartbreaking defeat, 16-14, making NVeSports current League record 0-3.

I don’t really have much to say about this match either… We came up short in the early rounds and only really started showing our potential during the later rounds. Honestly, we should have won this match but we just made too many silly mistakes and were too inconsistent. Again, like last week though, I am confident that we will beat them the next time we see them in playoffs.

NVeSports vs MaryvilleGG

Today, we faced off against the University of Maryvilles, MaryvilleGG. Sadly we came up short on players for the first 14 rounds, so the overwhelming might of the extra player the opponent had wiped us out. Thus, making us lose yet another game, 16-2, making their League record 0-2.

There’s nothing much to analyze about this match really, we were just short a player and our opponents took advantage of that to secure a lot of early rounds, but it’s all right, I’m confident in our ability to beat them come playoffs.

NVeSports vs CSGOphers

The newfound NVeSports just played against The CSGOphers from Denver Colorado and sadly lost, 16-5, starting off their season 0-1.

I personally feel as though we really didn’t communicate as a team too much and should have won this game, but at the end of the day, we are a new team, so we still have a lot of things to work out amongst all the players.