Who I am, my goals in League of Legends, Big Gods Jackals, and my first LAN.

Heeey. So if you don't know who I am, my name is Noah "Fiku" Martin. I began playing League of Legends avidly in the middle of season 4 I believe, so some may say I missed the "golden" years of League.



(Disclaimer: I'm sick and fatigued from what i did today, so sorry if this is difficult to follow [It isn't chronological, but I made paragraphs so woo-hoo!])



{I promised to make a twitlonger about BIG 3 months ago, well I'm late, sorry.}



Since then, I've climbed from the bottom pits of Bronze 5, maining Master Yi, Sivir, and Jinx ADC all running flash clarity, to peaking at 250 LP Master tier in season 6, and managed to pull off the right moves to get the right connections to be introduced by someone, evaluated by someone, and for him to come back, months later, and offer me a substitute position for the NACS team that he would be the head coach of, and it wasn't just because I knew him, it was because he saw potential in me.



Before I unveil who that was, there is a larger story to tell.



I was playing and/or coaching under fake organizations in random tournaments (They call themselves orgs, I like to call them fake orgs, or if I'm feeling nice I'll call them a clan) just to try to see what competitive League of Legends is like, what it takes, what it requires for one to do to actually make something out of LoL, and I learned, a bit, from that. I made small connections from that, nothing too fancy, but I've made some friends that I still talk to and occasionally play with today (the support that was on my team for BeachCon was actually on a previous sister-team.), but those experiences led to me being added to the Gamers Network skype group, where I met MizzPeach.



I posted in the chatroom who I was and my past experiences, which were at the time DIG, MBR, the previous "clans" I was on, as well as almost getting a job at Riot, though being declined in the final screening process as they didn't ask me my age until then (I was 17, legally couldn't be hired). The DIG / MBR experiences were true, though a white lie at the same time. I wrote a couple of articles for DIG, and helped MBR beta test their academy program as they declared bankruptcy and didn't make the NACS finals.



So after MizzPeach spoke to me for a bit, she pointed me to a project known as Stepping Stones Pro. It was a project to grow local talent as well as coaching staff, and that's where I met Jukaah, who at the was fictionally unemployed in the esports world as he left Keyd Stars.



Shoutouts to Doruk, Nicole, Matt, Max, and Ryan. They helped me a fuck ton as an individual.



During all of this, I was depressed. My father had died that summer, and it was painful for me and my mother (they were separated), as he was a huge part of our lives, for better or for worse? Who knows, but he was my father and that's just something that no teenager should have to cope with.



So I was considering making a team for OQ, though it was last minute, people dropped out, it didn't seem promising. I think our roster was going to be Rohammers/Me/Fas The Magi/Cam/Sawyerr at one point though people all expected different things from the one running the show, so we all pursued different opportunities, and honestly me and a couple of the other players just weren't ready, if we even are now.



Jukaah invited me to be a substitute jungler for Big Gods, and I said sure after he told me the roster, which at the time was RF Legendary/Wiggily/Pekin Woof/Tails/KonKwon, and after hearing that, I was like "Fuck yeah dude! I could learn SO much, and possibly help out, even if it's just a smidgen by giving some "neat tips!" or just being there to talk with a player(s) and making them feel more comfortable. I watched RF's stream as well as followed his CS to LCS journey with Misfits / Renegades, and they were a favorite team of mine. Wiggily I didn't know anything about except that he jungled and played Kassadin mid if he had to, Pekin Woof I knew he qualified for LCS with CST (I didn't follow the split of him with dT), Tails I didn't know anything about, but my boy Sawyerr told me he was on a team with him and that he's good and cool. KonKwon I knew about from CST/NRG/APX, and for some reason I still have some of his esportspedia page facts memorized.



That was my introduction to, well, real competitive League of Legends. I learned so fucking much, it was basically my NA scouting grounds. It was so awesome to watch the scrims, participate in the discussions, to hang out with the team after their day of scrims, to actually be around people that I aspire to be, at least in one way or another. Even though I was only attached to the team in probably the smallest way possible, being a "sub" / analyst, it still felt really good to be behind the organization to qualify for NACS.



So lets fast forward a bit, I sort of relapse into old habits, both in-game wise and mentally wise, as well as making a bad life decision in almost ODing on speed accidentally (don't do drugs kids, unless it's weed, weed is in my book. So is Minute Maid, Melatonin, Tylenol, and whatever your girlfriend does... Kappa)



BUT BAM, suddenly I'm busy. CS season starts, I'm back in traditional high school (was doing online schooling for the majority of the first semester of my senior year, dealing with my deceased father), I meet a beautiful, cute, fun, girl (she's a year older than I, should I say women?) and now I have a lot on my plate, and it feels good honestly.



School so i can socialize and grow as a person, being on an NACS team, gaming house is only a 30 minute walk away and a bus ride from my high school / home (even offered to scrim), met a girl that I can talk to and just chill with, and have fun with. Life is pretty good. Still having those ups and downs, but that's life you know?



But then, I get a notification on facebook about a convention at Cal State Long Beach, called BeachCon.



tl;dr, (for beachcon, I've been writing this for like 30 mins I'm tired, blow me.) 32 teams play, we get to quarterfinals easily. Quarterfinals+ is live at the blue pyramid on campus. We win quarterfinals and beat CSU Fullerton, that felt SO FUCKING GOOD. Like the feel that you get for winning a bo3 is just amazing. There is nothing else like it. We ended up losing to UCSD, but I played really fucking well (first game I was a retard and drafted us an all AD comp, game 2 we lost, but I almost 1v9'd). The importance of this is to see what I can do, running with a gold toplaner, a jungler playing adc, a diamond support, and a diamond midlaner, shotcalling them to win against teams who on paper might seem better, who in fact are better (in most cases even individually), and see how far I can go. We won 3rd place match, won 200 bucks, ok. Cool. Now to the point I guess.



After the feel of losing, after the feel of winning at a LAN, I know, for a fact, that I want a real career out of League of Legends. I'm not going to stop until I achieve LCS. I know what I must do now, I know what I must translate from what i've learned from being on BIG, from this LAN, from studying the game, from soloq, to get onto a good team and make some good shit happen.



I know I can be a phenomenal competitive jungler, I know I can be the best. I sort of wish I was lying, just because I feel it would be more realistic. But I will make this happen. My foot is more in the door than most people with the same goals and aspirations as me, even if they are higher on the soloq ladder than me. I know what I want now, for a fact. I'm going to get it, and *queue anime closing*.... nothing will stop me.



List of important shoutouts, random order, it's just if you influenced me as a League player or not, directly, indirectly, whatever. Some I have spoken to, some maybe I just had a question, and you helped some may not even know I exist, some we might be friends. Thanks!



@LoLMizzPeach, @Coach_Doruk, @JukaahVargas, @ShorterACE, @Xemmypoo, @LSXYZ9, @ProphetCrumbz, @MeanMisterKien, @DIG_LOD, @Stuntopolis, @Liquid_Matt, @RF_Legendary, @lol_Wiggily, @TLKonKwon, @TailsJJ, @PekinWoof, @Fabbbyyylol, @Baianolol1, @Leomanehs, @AlexIchLoL, @Maplestreetlol, @Keenan_Santos, @Echofox_baby @bvcx2222 @grigne_lol @TSMTheOddOne @KingKrymer @camlolADC @revengeleague @lol_cris @sawyerGG @xajido and @P1Inori



Thanks for the soloq, content, lesson I've learned, being a friend, being an influence, helping me out. Thank you thank you thank you.



Real life wise, thank you Ahlrich. Thank you Werdna. Thank you Jack Scott. Thank you Baby, Baby 1, Baby 2, Tom, and Action. Thank you Forss. Thank you Kitty Luna. Have my platonic love, except for possibly the latter, I'm not sure.



-xo











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