Alpha & the Omega

Roughly 4 years ago a close friend and I we're playing the popular MOBA League of Legends. We had been playing for a while after we had both quit playing Halo competitively. The concept of a MOBA grew on me quickly and enlightened a competitive spark in my that I hadn't had in long while. But for some reason, even being a highly ranked (s1) LoL player with little MOBA experience, the actual gameplay... bored me. So I looked for a different MOBA, something similar to WoW's movement with LoL's design. I googled "Free-to-Play MOBA" -- found SMITE -- downloaded, installed, and we began.



Instantly my friend and I were hooked. We were just about to go to bed after what seemed like a couple games of Smite, turned into us staying up until 10am playing this new and exciting game. We notified ALL of our friends at the time about this new treasure we've found, they too, were hooked. We loved physics, style, look, everything about it.



Less than a year has passed and out of all the friends I started the game with, I was left alone, still grinding out games, which was completely fine with me considering how introverted I typically am. I silently continued playing ranked and matching with the "top" pros at the time, your favorites like, "Zapman, Lassiz, Shing, Allied, Ponpon, outlawandinste(lol)" etc. With my experience being a professional at other games, I understood the path in becoming the best. Some of the steps are pretty dirty, some of the steps are pretty clean. For this game I took the relatively clean route. My first PRO team was with Shing, Allied, MLCst3alth and Kaeyoh. We attended out first LAN together and did amazing. I loved it. There I decided Smite will be my future.



Fast forward a few years to Jan2015. We won worlds and with it, a lot of money. It was the best feeling I've ever experienced in my competitive career. Neat! Truly with me, and you can tell and understand if you watch my steam, I've never really been about the money. About 95% of me cared about being the best at what I do. I was very passionate about the game, it gave me a sense of confidence and purpose. I felt I could use my success to teach other people about my passion and help them grow as a player, whether they wanted to become Pro or just Pubstomp with friends, or even just learn.



Fast forward again to Jan2016. I would say the decline in my motivation and dedication to Smite started roughly after winning XBOX Worlds. The moment we won I felt nothing. Not a single emotion. I didn't care about the money or the interviews, the fame, nothing. If anything I felt anger, angry BECAUSE I felt nothing. A couple months go by and I was pretty disappointed in the direction Smite was going. I would go into extreme specifics but at this moment I'm not aware of potential punishments in doing so. So the decline sets in, I start caring less and less about being the best, which is horribly unfair to the teammates I had.



Now: Given my 2016 performances it was obvious to any fan of mine that I just simply was not feeling it anymore. I was offered to play Solo Lane by a few top teams and a few bottom teams. I felt it would be unfair to them, with my state of mind, to accept. I even approached a few teams for coaching/managing, and for the most part I even felt that would be unfair. In conclusion this leads me to announcing my Official Retirement from competitive Smite. I would like to thank all the organizations who sponsored me, all my fans who followed me throughout the years, my teammates, my friends, and HiRez for the amazing game that reignited that spark within me.



Future: I will continue streaming on www.twitch.tv/Omegaqtz with no set schedule and no set games at this moment. More news on that matter will be announced via twitter asap.



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