Future Stuff!!

Hey everyone, so as you probably already know I didn't get a starting spot on an academy team this spring. I made a handy dandy TL;DR at the bottom if this is too much, but I tried to sum it up as best as possible.



I guess I'll start this right about when Scouting Grounds ended. I was drafted by CLG, but because they already had a fantastic jungler locked in for their academy team in Omargod, it was understood that I would not be the starter for CLG academy, but be a sub with opportunity to grow within CLG.



I felt at the time that I had what it took to be a starter in academy, and that there was still interest in me from other teams. CLG understood, and went ahead and terminated the exclusivity they had with me well before the three weeks they were alloted; CLG are a class act, and I have nothing but gratefulness and appreciation for them for the time I got to work with them and how they handled the process.



My reasoning for feeling there would be interest is because before Scouting Grounds, I had spoken to multiple teams about potential academy rosters. No promises or anything, mostly just "hey, you're a name we've got our eye on, keep in touch", that sort of thing. Unfortunately, theres not too much more to what happened. I wasn't quite the first option for any of the teams, and I came out empty handed.



However, I don't see this as the end for me. I still plan to remain a free agent and continue to pursue this. In the meantime however, I received more unfortunate news. You see, I've been going to school for an Associates in Computer Science for the past two years, and am three classes from graduating. One of the classes I needed was not offered this spring, so I will not be able to graduate this semester. I had planned on just living at home, finishing my degree and staying a free agent hoping something would come up at some point in the season. With this being the case now, though, I am not going to school this spring and am planning on moving out to the Los Angeles area in the meantime. The majority of my social circle / friend group is out west, so it's kind of a no-brainer to me to try and live out there compared to home in Ohio.



I don't have anything finalized at the moment, but my plan is to find someone / people to move in with, and focus on streaming and content creation for what I do day-to-day as I spend my time as a free agent. I am not ultra familiar with the space, but I've always enjoyed streaming, and when on teams in the past I did my best to stream as much as possible, I've just never had the internet to do it from home.



TL;DR - Did not sign with CLG in an attempt to find a starting academy jungler spot, didn't pan out how I hoped, cannot graduate this spring because college doesn't offer necessary course until fall, plan on moving out to LA, staying a free agent, focusing on streaming.



Thanks everyone for the support, I'm super excited for what the future has in store.



“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

― Edgar Allan Poe





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