LoL NACL top laner for
@BlueOtterLoL
6 years challenger, consistent top 50, peak rank 4 NA
also peak rank 90 hearthstone americas
b.s. cs uiuc '23
disc: qwacker
i hope everyone who looks at the situation with 5fire and value and understands that it's not just that a couple kids couldn't play games for a living, people are giving up their education, social life, health, other life goals, and more to try to make it pro
1. take a 6 month break from the game after clol season ends
2. get motivated by lcs finals in-person to tryhard again
3. climb d1 to chall in 8 days of play, 10 days real-time on a fresh account (never before master+) with 70% wr
4. refuse to elaborate further
NA darius is back
LFT in NACL/OQs as top for 2024
Quick rundown:
5 yrs high chall
Qualified PG 2021 spring
Qualified NACL 2023 summer
#1
solo kills across all players in NACL 2023 summer
Recently graduated from university and have since been rapidly improving with my newfound time
disc: qwacker
Super grateful to SN for giving me a home after I was unexpectedly teamless with only 1 day to roster lock. This is this split where I finally set aside all my time to compete as well so don't know what I would've told my friends/family if I was teamless. Time to win
Unless things change, it doesn't look like I'll be playing NACL next split which is a bummer considering my breakthrough regular season last split. Will be taking some time this next week to think about and decide what the future is gonna look like, more updates soon.
and if they've sacrificed so much and still can't make it pro after doing everything they can, that's a damn shame and at least for me i cant take the scene seriously anymore
not saying this is necessarily all true of them in particular but i know it's true of some people
LFT NACL Summer 2024
I've put up a good number of exceptional games these last 2 splits, and I believe I took good steps toward well-rounding my gameplay this split. Excited to see what I can do in another split of NACL.
Discord: qwacker
My contract with AOE runs out in May so I am exploring my options for summer
LFT in NACL/OQs
Just requalified into NACL subbing in for AOE
Qualified for PG 2021 Spring on WC
(took 2022 off for school)
I'm about to graduate in May and can finally give my 100%
disc: qwacker
#0003
LFT spring 2023
took a year off competitive but now testing the waters after getting my school, work, and health in order
confident that I can return to top of amateur level and beyond as many of my former competitors went academy+
open to all opportunities
disc: qwacker
#0003
crazy series today, im glad I was able to show up and carry game 1 but I think my champ pool was exposed as the series went on. Im about to graduate in early May so Ill have time to improve and cant wait to smurf in summer. thankful to my team for the opportunity
p.s. ban olaf😄
poor weekend from us, just the way our mindsets and our practice was working out it was hard to keep it together in the tourney. myb. gonna take some time to reset and then look towards the future for some potential soloq push or bootcamp during the offseason and see what happens
just found out my high school league team (hickman) won the gateway legends tourney in st louis. kinda nuts how far both they and the hs esports scene have come. the guys were all freshmen when i was a senior and so i feel proud that they won 😄
this games changing way too fast man, first i have to learn 10-15 matchups for nocturne, lee, gwen, etc. then all of those are nerfed or fall out of meta so i have to learn 10-15 matchups for camille, tk, irelia, and during this entire time jayce, akali, sett like i cant keep up
Also apparently I'm at
#1
in solo kills in the league at 10 and now 11 after today's match, that's pretty sick gonna look to keep it up as we move forward
Ended up deciding to sub for my old team, this will give me some more time to individually relearn the game since I took a yr off, and once I graduate in May I can really ramp things up as well. If I'm ever needed as a sub then I'm confident I can fulfill that role.
with everything falling into place after taking this semester to focus on my school, career, and health, im left wondering if i could compete again in the spring. i ended up not playing any tryouts or scouting combines tho so idk what opportunities i would have
2-0 vs FEAR, i wintraded a weekend for content two weeks ago (jokes) but been i've putting in the work since and feeling good about my form as of late. we scaling📈
Also glad i was able to pull out the tf and qwack the deck with it, watch out for my evolving champ pool 😎
rough end to the split, not sure where im gonna go from here. might be time to just focus on school, ive been neglecting everything in my life this past yr for league and im not sure i can keep on going with this lifestyle, esp with this result. nothing final for sure yet tho
Also wanted to add that I am open to considering collegiate options in 2024, I would be aiming to do my master's. Discord contact is on original post or contact in twitter DMs
LFT in NACL/OQs as top for 2024
Quick rundown:
5 yrs high chall
Qualified PG 2021 spring
Qualified NACL 2023 summer
#1
solo kills across all players in NACL 2023 summer
Recently graduated from university and have since been rapidly improving with my newfound time
disc: qwacker
Turns out we ended regular season in 4th place, that's pretty sick considering most people predicted us at 9th/10th coming in.
I had some rough patches along the way but mostly just glad I was able to adapt and persevere, now onto playoffs, ready for a deep run with the boys 😎
never actually hit 1k lp before, even when i was pushing rank 40ish, i was just barely off. proud to be a 4-digit lp top laner now, even if it's not as impressive nowadays.
🥳
Been griefing in some of the combines but the offseason tourneys have been mostly going well thus far, hope to show everyone what I can do in a practiced team environment
although our results were meh at 66games LAN at ISU it was cool to see that i still got it after 1-2 months of not playing, and it was a fun short road trip with my team/friends. i've decided to step down as UIUC's top laner now so i suppose this is my official full retirement
well my pocket counter didnt perform like it did in practice in game 2, that's on me mb, still a decent 1-1 vs DSG and a good game 1 watch out for our run to playoffs for the rest of the weekend and ggs
Tough loss earlier tonight, I haven't been in the best mental or physical state these last couple weeks and it's become clear to me that if this continues, it won't be enough to win out in NACL. Glad to have the reality check now than later, will be doing my best to bounce back.
although wildcard achieved more than most expected in spring split, i was looking back today at some of the stats and games and realized im not too happy with my performance across the split. after im done with this school semester ill grind to the top for summer
happy for wildcard red winning cup but now blacks gotta step it up to catch up some. think ive been taking it too easy during this break in between tourneys and need to get back on the hard grind. tweeting this so i stay motivated
ive been watching the lolworldchampionship stream on twitch and its kinda crazy how back in season 5 worlds darius had 70% presence like this champ was considered legit and not just a cheese pocket pick back then
should've been able to convert this to the win, MB, feeling good about our potential though so im sure once ive learned my lessons and our team has meshed more we will be a solid team
well that's the end of OQ2 for us, im thankful to my team for taking me on as their top after my long break from comp. i feel like ive proven i can still compete and beat the best in amateur, moving forward i'll improve even more, especially once i graduate in may. watch out
Hey, lookie here, another 2-0 on the night.
Who’d have thunk it? I believe there were a certain two:
@RaafaaCasts
and
@Cubbyxx
You two are not only gentlemen, but you’re also scholars, and we’re here for it.
GG
@MaryvilleGG
not the way i wanted to go out losing two super close series. feel like if i was just a little bit better then maybe we could have won either of them. oh well i will work to improve so i can show good form next split.
1-1 vs WC, finally lifted my olaf curse for this split (was 0-4 this split after 6-0 last split), gave everyone a reminder of why u need to ban this champ against me but regardless i still got work to do, dsg series last week was atrocious from me so still got to make it up
tough weekend for us, we've had next to no scrims tho so still optimistic about our potential once we get real practice and meta read. pretty confident now i can be one of the better tops if i continue improving. fuck man feels like shit but gonna make sure i scale into the split
couldve played way better today esp game 2, bummer but i still feel like our team has a lot of potential. once i clean up my mistakes and we improve as a team, our games will look much better. we will smurf soon
hey my two accounts are the same rank again
ive been working to pick up jayce and lucian for the first time this season, dropped quite a bit on my smurf when i started but they are starting to get decent 😁
time to smurf it at MU LAN with the UIUC team
also, 1k lp coming soon™
I could've carried these games if I played better. Sorry to my team and to my friends and family watching. Still can make playoffs I think with tomorrow's matches. I will make sure to show up 1000% and leave nothing on the table.
even though we couldnt get the dub last night here was a play im proud of from the series. weve been optimizing our dives studying lpl teams and this one just went beautifully.
Another okay 1-1 against MU, feel like I'm saying that a lot, gonna start getting 2-0's soon hopefully. Had a nice darius game in the first game so feels good to be able to pick the champ and perform in one of its rare angles
havent been playing as much these days and ive been spreading out my games across a few diff accs so it took me a bit longer this time but ya mans still got it
1-1 vs MU not the worst result, we felt the nerves game 1 leading to some poor decisions and my pick could've been better, but we bounced back game 2. Onto TLC tomorrow gonna walk away with no regrets
Trying something new today, I'm not huge on content creation as I prefer spending my time and focus on competitive and my skills, but I sort of combine the two into this ProView review video. Hope you guys enjoy.
borderline wintraded a few games last weekend but I've leveled up my practice this week, hope that I'm able to translate it to the stage. down but not out
another great thing about proview returning is that u have access to msi proview vods so i can watch all the msi proviews that arent the ones on some random youtube channel with 100 subs and have no sound and are sometimes laggy
id argue that darius was at the same strength or better than s5 worlds earlier this season during peak stridebreaker meta but he still didn't catch on or stick to the meta
@PrussianLoL
@JensenGohLoL
thx for mention but i ended up deciding to just continue with school, sorry to let u down prussian but i am probably done as far as am/pro goes
been streaming 12 hours running on caffeine only and going until i pass out games on my 600lp smurf. can i make it to 24 hours?? find out on qwack the deck
@forestwithout
not saying they deserve to make it pro just because of the sacrifices they've made, moreso that they deserved to go pro because they did everything they could to prove they were good, the sacrifices are just the damage done when someone who deserves a shot doesn't get it
@myra__davis
@CoachJuliusLoL
still though people will think that the same thing could happen to them as 5fire and value. they will think of the worst case which is them giving up everything to try to go pro and then doesnt make it for the same dumb reasons. this thought process was also part of why i quit