x0tek in 2017
Hello everyone.
My first match of the official CFNA 2017 season is tomorrow morning.
I've played this game - competitively - for five years. For each of those years, I have been one of the top players in our community...and yet, I've never thought of myself as having a lot of talent for CrossFire. In fact, I think there are a lot of people who have far more talent than I do. And, indeed, in my five years, I probably have more failures than most of the people who play this game.
My goal has, at times, been difficult to understand for many people. I've been offered positions on nearly every top team, ranging from Carbon to Teamw0w. Yet I've always declined. xFam0usx, confused, described it on his stream as, "x0tek...just, I don't know. He never joined because he likes to go do his own thing I guess."
The aim has never been solely to win. Rather, I aim to improve myself each and every day. Whether it is in my ability to lead or my ability to aim, every pub, every scrim, and every match is another step toward my goal. I will settle for nothing more and nothing less.
And, admittedly, there are times when I am losing repeatedly, consistently losing an aim battle or a positional battle, and people will begin to talk. "x0tek is bad now," they say, "he keeps taking fights in an angle and dying for it." Or perhaps my team is losing. "Why don't you quit playing with Toonie?" people whisper, for years on end. "He's holding you back; you'll never go to China with him."
Yet people, time and time again, confuse the process of improvement with the finished result. Focusing solely on the winning or the losing is an impediment to growth.
In the words of Daigo Umehara, if ten is considered the best one can achieve with normal levels of effort, then stopping at ten is pointless to me. I want to beat those at ten, aiming for eleven, or twelve, or thirteen. I don't care how long it takes, or how much ridicule I face along the way.
I look forward to competing this year, and wish all of you the best of luck.
My first match of the official CFNA 2017 season is tomorrow morning.
I've played this game - competitively - for five years. For each of those years, I have been one of the top players in our community...and yet, I've never thought of myself as having a lot of talent for CrossFire. In fact, I think there are a lot of people who have far more talent than I do. And, indeed, in my five years, I probably have more failures than most of the people who play this game.
My goal has, at times, been difficult to understand for many people. I've been offered positions on nearly every top team, ranging from Carbon to Teamw0w. Yet I've always declined. xFam0usx, confused, described it on his stream as, "x0tek...just, I don't know. He never joined because he likes to go do his own thing I guess."
The aim has never been solely to win. Rather, I aim to improve myself each and every day. Whether it is in my ability to lead or my ability to aim, every pub, every scrim, and every match is another step toward my goal. I will settle for nothing more and nothing less.
And, admittedly, there are times when I am losing repeatedly, consistently losing an aim battle or a positional battle, and people will begin to talk. "x0tek is bad now," they say, "he keeps taking fights in an angle and dying for it." Or perhaps my team is losing. "Why don't you quit playing with Toonie?" people whisper, for years on end. "He's holding you back; you'll never go to China with him."
Yet people, time and time again, confuse the process of improvement with the finished result. Focusing solely on the winning or the losing is an impediment to growth.
In the words of Daigo Umehara, if ten is considered the best one can achieve with normal levels of effort, then stopping at ten is pointless to me. I want to beat those at ten, aiming for eleven, or twelve, or thirteen. I don't care how long it takes, or how much ridicule I face along the way.
I look forward to competing this year, and wish all of you the best of luck.
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Ellustrial wrote: »Hello everyone.
My first match of the official CFNA 2017 season is tomorrow morning.
I've played this game - competitively - for five years. For each of those years, I have been one of the top players in our community...and yet, I've never thought of myself as having a lot of talent for CrossFire. In fact, I think there are a lot of people who have far more talent than I do. And, indeed, in my five years, I probably have more failures than most of the people who play this game.
My goal has, at times, been difficult to understand for many people. I've been offered positions on nearly every top team, ranging from Carbon to Teamw0w. Yet I've always declined. xFam0usx, confused, described it on his stream as, "x0tek...just, I don't know. He never joined because he likes to go do his own thing I guess."
The aim has never been solely to win. Rather, I aim to improve myself each and every day. Whether it is in my ability to lead or my ability to aim, every pub, every scrim, and every match is another step toward my goal. I will settle for nothing more and nothing less.
And, admittedly, there are times when I am losing repeatedly, consistently losing an aim battle or a positional battle, and people will begin to talk. "x0tek is bad now," they say, "he keeps taking fights in an angle and dying for it." Or perhaps my team is losing. "Why don't you quit playing with Toonie?" people whisper, for years on end. "He's holding you back; you'll never go to China with him."
Yet people, time and time again, confuse the process of improvement with the finished result. Focusing solely on the winning or the losing is an impediment to growth.
In the words of Daigo Umehara, if ten is considered the best one can achieve with normal levels of effort, then stopping at ten is pointless to me. I want to beat those at ten, aiming for eleven, or twelve, or thirteen. I don't care how long it takes, or how much ridicule I face along the way.
I look forward to competing this year, and wish all of you the best of luck.
Wow. Incredible. So very potent and inspirational.
You ken, I commenced playing Crossfire in the period of the timeline of two thousand nine.
Oh my what a peregrination it has been. Over the thousands of heart throbs it was hard to never get nettled. Verbalizing of which, I often relish to refer to one of my favorites pieces of literature: Nicomachean Ethics by the great Aristotle to help soothe myself, or rather restrain myself from getting in such a sour mood. I would like to offer you an English translation: "Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
You optically discern, since the year two thousand thirteen I made a decision that would transmute everything. For the following years I followed a very stringent cycle:
1. Wake up from the naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles, and reduced interactions with surroundings
2. Ambulate to my electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program
3. Open crossfire and practice for hours on end. No not to acquire victory, that would be preposterous.
Dementia you verbally express?
In the words of Lord King Sir Hillary Barractek Trump Machiavelli George the Third Junior, “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” You see, I am the all knowing toont̶e̶k̶ town
I actually prefer the word insane.
I often times take a break from my cycle to crawl to my window as I optically canvass the rain gradually fall and explode upon impact with the ground thinking to myself:
Just kidding I live in Cali it doesn't rain
I look forward to competing this year, and wish all of you the best of luck.
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