Hello and thanks for viewing the first post on my new blog, this will be a blog about rants, thoughts on current events, 'Road to 1000' and walls of text. Now to make a proper introduction post about myself, here comes the first wall of text, enjoy?

Background
Hello again, I go by the handle 'mole', a nickname I got when I went to school at the age of 14, 'mole' is a reference to the animal and not this kind of mole :
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Moving on, being a young, kid from Sweden I did what almost everyone did in my class/school, play Counter-Strike 1.6, this is how my interest started in games, going to the local internet-cafe on the weekends with a bunch of friends playing Counter-Strike, TowerDefense, Quake and afterwards going to eat a pizza and talk about how someone got owned on catwalk.

It was a way of competing but not psychically competing, since I was a small kid compared to the majority of my friends who played floorball/football, myself playing golf, but my temper wasn't / isn't fit for that sport. (I had a mean slice)

Skipping ahead a few years since High School was mentally bad for me, I don't mind talking about it but lets keep this first post somewhat positive. During these years of High School I continued playing Counter-Strike 1.6, most of my friends stopped and started playing instruments, starting a band and had somewhat of local success. The guitar and bass player being one of my best friends.
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I found a couple of online friends to keep playing with, a team I would play with off and on for a couple of years, but I wanted to play more serious and the others didn't want to, so I quit. During all these years I had been playing WoW off and on aswell.

To fill my time I started a blog on a site called 'dingblog.com'(now a dead url) I had moderate success with my documentation of soloing old TBC Heroics, getting 'Loremaster', Counter-Strike tournaments and the SC2 Beta. How I got into SC2 was basically everyone in my guild signing up for the beta, getting in to the beta and it sparked my interest, I had never played a RTS and when the beta ended I had placed myself in Gold, playing Protoss. I picked Protoss because I liked that I didn't loose a worker to build a building, a silly reason to pick Protoss but that was my reason.
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Early video from the cracked SC2beta

During all these years I got more and more interested in competitive gaming, never being able to get good enough in a game myself I watched all the major tournaments thinking 'Oh I wish I could do that'. But my dream of thinking I could be a pro-gamer has changed now into wanting to be the 'James Lipton' of the eSport community, now you might ask what have I done to make that dream come true, well.. nothing, yet. Since I am a realist I know it probably won't happen, but it's nothing bad about being a professional dreamer.

Road to 1000
If you are still with me, I appreciate it, I have a tendency to go on and on, its a habit I have from doing schoolwork the night before its supposed to be turned in.
I am starting this blog to motivate myself to document my way to get the Pandas and to actually play. Because I am not a great player, I often just log in, play a game which takes 20 minutes and then not get motivated to start another game because I know I might loose and I would have wasted my time. (Being in Platinum at the moment and having a ~50%WL-ratio)

Now I am not that far off, so hopefully I can get my Pandas soon. Wish me good luck and I hope I sparked your interest in this blog.


Thanks again for reading and I hope you enjoyed it somewhat.
Song listened to while posting;
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