"I'm gonna win it all!" Mouz.VortiX on ASUS ROG

Q. Hello VortiX, thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us today! Could you introduce yourselves to those readers who may not be too familiar with you?

My name is Juan Moreno Durán, I've been playing RTS games since 2006 when I started with warcraft 3. I'm from Barcelona, Spain, I'm 20 years old and I combine studying computer science with playing SC2 professionally for team mousesports with the race Zerg.

Q. As one of the famous Durán brothers, yourself and LucifroN have proven your ability to compete at the highest level of professional Starcraft 2. Do your parents support your individual pursuit of eSports? Who do you feel is the strongest Durán going into NorthCon?

They have always been very supportive, my father liked video games when he was young, and he still does, he enjoys both warcraft 3 and StarCraft 2 so they always looked at it with good eyes, as long as it didn't interfere with our academic results, and after all right now it's a job for us too and given the situation in Spain right now, it's much better than most jobs.

That's a hard question, right now I think I might be in better shape, but when he is at his best he can definitely be better than me.

Q. Throughout 2012 and into the beginning of 2013 you pulled off an incredible run through Starcraft 2’s Premier tournaments, having finished in the top five of four major events. What do you feel has been your crowning achievement as a progamer thus far?

I think my biggest achievement, or the one that I am more proud of is IEM cologne season VII, everyone considered Supernova and ForGG contenders for winning the tournament and they were in very good shape, it was my first premier international event in SC2 and I managed to win them 3-2 and 3-0 respectively. I feel the series vs Supernova is probably the best series I've ever played. However, the only major tournament I've won was Thor Open, so it is a pretty important performance too.