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Beastyqt retires

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NovemberstOrm
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Canada16217 Posts
September 17 2013 22:26 GMT
#1

Hey guys, this is I guess my "official statement" regarding my Starcraft 2 journey.

I started Starcraft II three years ago and I was in love with the game and had so much fun playing it. When I was starting out I was bad mannered on ladder and in tournaments to people because I was a kid and was angry at myself. I never really held any grudges against my opponents or hated them for any reason and that mistake haunted me throughout my whole Starcraft II career. People just always considered me..well a douchebag. I never thought I will become a well known player and at the time it was just another online game. Days...weeks and months went on and I kept winning tournaments and more and more people knew about me, but it was too late to "fix" my mistake, people in Starcraft II remembered me as BM player and I tried changing it many times with no success.

Starcraft II was great game for me, being BM was the only thing I regret, I could have tried practicing harder, but im happy how I did overall. I was never able to perform at LAN's even at the time when I was one of the best in Europe in 2011.

There are couple of things that lead to me quitting Starcraft II professionally. One of them is disappointment of not performing at all on LAN events. I had really high expectations for myself and always failed which was extremely demotivating. Another thing is WoL infestor broodlord zerg spam was just...depressing to say the least, I think all Terrans and Protosses will agree on this one
Last reason and biggest reason is just the haters. Yes, yes I know I shouldn't listen to them because there will always be haters, but what can I say it affected me..a lot. I don't think people that insult you on daily basis realize how much they can have affect on you, your play and your motivation. People you insult online are real people and everyone including me don't realize that there is actually real person behind the screen and some of them won't care about what you have to say, but some of them you will hurt.
Losing on LAN event and getting messages like "haha idiot you got what you deserved" the moment when you lost your last game often wanted to make me cry. Of course there were people that supported me a ton as well and they kept me going for this long and I cannot thank them enough.

I was never popular, I had to work my way to stream viewers or tournament invites which is one of the things i'm proud of. I worked my way up to get into a good team and I worked my way into IEM (my first LAN event) and other LAN tournaments.
I was only really into one team for my whole Starcraft II career which was Team Empire that I cannot thank enough for their support, they helped me become the player I was. I was with them over 2 years and had an amazing time

In the past three years I won over 70 online tournaments and got around 40 second places which im really happy about. Those weren't WCS's or IEM's or Dreamhack's, but its something! I attended IEM x2, Dreamhack x2, I represented my country at WCG 2011, I've lived into gaming house for 4 months in California and im just happy overall how I did, I wouldn't trade my experience in eSports for anything in the world!

I will be switching to League of Legends and that's the game I have passion for right now and will try to become professional player there once I managed to find a team. I switched to League of Legends full time 3 weeks ago and I'm in Diamond 1 with 49 points so half way to challenger! Maybe I will fail, maybe I won't, but one thing is for sure and that is that I will regret if I didn't try.
I know there will be a lot of people coming to tell me I sucked at Starcraft II anyway and that im switching to League of Legends simply because its easier. Nope, I lost my passion for Starcraft II long time ago and I want to do something I love and enjoy doing, that something was once Starcraft II and it's time for me to move on.
Those who actively hate on League of Legends are free to unfollow me on all social networks! I will be streaming League of Legends from now on starting tomorrow at 2 PM CET on www.twitch.tv/beastyqt

I want to thanks to ALL my fans that supported me, you guys were and still are amazing, you will never know how much you helped me and made me keep fighting, I want to thank Team Empire for their support, i'll never forget you guys! Oh btw, since Gambit Gaming was Team Empire once im naturally Gambit Gaming fan haha I want to thank Mr Bitter and Rotterdam for their help and for letting me stay once again in their house in California for 4 months it really changed my life around. And last but not least I want to thank my family and my cute girlfriend for their huge support!!!

Have fun guys, I had a blast Love you all!

From Beastyqt's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Beastyqt

you will be missed!
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KadaverBB
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany25657 Posts
September 17 2013 22:27 GMT
#2
AdministratorLaws change depending on who's making them, but justice is justice
tili
Profile Joined July 2012
United States1332 Posts
September 17 2013 22:28 GMT
#3
Well written and uplifting, we need more progamers like this

Godspeed, Beasty <3
imEnex
Profile Joined June 2011
Canada500 Posts
September 17 2013 22:28 GMT
#4
Another player retiring, its kind of obvious that the scene is declining. Lots of fanboys butthurt but people have to realize the truth.

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SmoKim
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark10305 Posts
September 17 2013 22:28 GMT
#5


Best of luck Beastyqt, always loved seeing you play <3
"LOL I have 202 supply right now (3 minutes later)..."LOL NOW I HAVE 220 SUPPLY SUP?!?!?" - Mondragon
XaMaXaM
Profile Joined June 2012
Germany113 Posts
September 17 2013 22:30 GMT
#6
On September 18 2013 07:27 KadaverBB wrote:

Nothing more to add.
I always liked to seeing him performing well and he has also a high SCIQ imo
QCD
Profile Joined September 2012
Suriname81 Posts
September 17 2013 22:30 GMT
#7
Will miss him, strong macro terran
k03k
Profile Joined June 2011
Netherlands15 Posts
September 17 2013 22:30 GMT
#8
y u do dis to us

Goodluck in the future <3
Fleshcut
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany592 Posts
September 17 2013 22:30 GMT
#9
Kinda breaks my heart even though I'm a zerg player but he surely made up for some awesome matches to watch (sadly he didn't win anything big). Be sure that I will remember you! =)

On the other hand, I am sad that so many WoL talents leave the game. I don't really care about the kespa guys because I never watched anything BW related BUT I do care even about the smaller players leaving the community. The reason why I am not devasted whenever someone leaves, is that I got the hope that some day some new Stephano will come up. Some new BeastyQT. Some new Kiwikaki and so on. =) HotS is relatively fresh, so please you unknown guys go out there and impress me!
ElhayM
Profile Joined February 2013
Canada134 Posts
September 17 2013 22:32 GMT
#10
Well written. Good luck, Beasty!
Team Captain Flipsid3 Tactics | @F3ElhayM
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
September 17 2013 22:32 GMT
#11
Sad to see you go, best of luck on your new path
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
splasha
Profile Joined August 2011
Brazil86 Posts
September 17 2013 22:32 GMT
#12
another one
Pooshlmer
Profile Joined August 2008
United States1001 Posts
September 17 2013 22:33 GMT
#13
Best of luck.

I'm afraid the League haters are just as widespread though.
evilCursor
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany49 Posts
September 17 2013 22:33 GMT
#14
Was always cheering for you, all the best for you future endeavours
Discoverist
Profile Joined May 2012
10 Posts
September 17 2013 22:34 GMT
#15
i thought you slavs preferred dota 2
renaissanceMAN
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1840 Posts
September 17 2013 22:35 GMT
#16
Sad to see him go, he was a good Terran.
On August 15 2013 03:43 Waxangel wrote: no amount of money can replace the enjoyment of being mean to people on the internet
MtlGuitarist97
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States1539 Posts
September 17 2013 22:36 GMT
#17
Aw, I liked Beasty.

Good luck in life anyway. It's hard to make money as a progamer and I guess it's kind of good (in a sad way) to see people realizing that there are more stable ways for them to live their life. It sucks, but not everyone can be the number one player. Hope everything goes well for you and you find a career that you enjoy.
Keeemy
Profile Joined November 2012
Finland7855 Posts
September 17 2013 22:38 GMT
#18
On September 18 2013 07:36 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:
Aw, I liked Beasty.

Good luck in life anyway. It's hard to make money as a progamer and I guess it's kind of good (in a sad way) to see people realizing that there are more stable ways for them to live their life. It sucks, but not everyone can be the number one player. Hope everything goes well for you and you find a career that you enjoy.

Well he did say that he's switching to LoL so still staying as a progamer...
Hello
mikkmagro
Profile Joined April 2011
Malta1513 Posts
September 17 2013 22:39 GMT
#19
It's a huge pity that someone like Beastyqt is retiring, but at least he's retiring on a high note. He accomplished a lot of things in SC2 during the last 3 years, and anyone saying he was not a top foreign terran is mistaken; it's just a pity that he never translated those skills to the big stage.

Good luck Beastyqt!
mousesports, Team Acer, Fnatic!
Lasbike
Profile Joined January 2011
France2888 Posts
September 17 2013 22:39 GMT
#20
One of the first terran I followed like 3 years ago
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