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Many times nowadays, watching some stream, I'd like to go back to the past and
take a walk through any of those competitions in LAN cafés, with very little audience,
with people playing for graphics cards and tell them: "Hey, you are not crazy,
Soon it will be possible to make a living out of this." Maybe they'd think I was the crazy one, but hey.
Back to the present, this is Fnatic's house home of one person who signifies
the dreams of all those gamers who, somehow, imagined themselves making a living out of esports.
My nickname is CarvinG and today I'll travel to Cologne in order to know Enrique Cedeño, xPeke, first-hand.
Enrique? Yes?
I am CarvinG, good morning. Good morning.
I'm coming to see you, ¿are you coming down? Yes, I'm coming down in a second.
Hi. Good morning, Enrique.
How are you? Very well.
Nice trip? Nice trip... Long one, but a nice trip.
Any way, do you want me to show you the house right away? Yes, yes.
Let's go then. Let's go.
Well, this is my room. Just a regular one, like any other person's.
Well, not exactly regular because I don't have a poster with me in it in my room.
Well, it's a keepsake rather than a poster. Everything I have on my walls are keepsakes or gifts
I've been filling it little by little, because when I came in everything was empty
and it didn't feel like home. Now at least I have something to look at.
So... what do you have? For example, what is this? I've seen it on Twitter,
it looked smaller. One of my fans drew this and this one
was also gifted to me by a fan. When my mother came here, she saw so many things
without any organisation and said: "I'm going to make this look prettier",
so she framed them. It's the same with everything, here's another
fan-made Ahri drawing. They give them to me, lots of them,
they give me plushes, all sorts of things. ¿Do you keep everything your fans give to you?
Yes. Here in this room
is where you disconnect from your team or do you not use it that much?
Virtually not, because I don't care. When I'm watching a movie or series
I use the TV, but sometimes I want to watch something while I'm going to sleep
and I start a movie or series on my notebook, I chat on Facebook or whatever.
I have a desk that I don't use at all. Let's keep going, show me something.
This is the living room. Here is where we play and spend basically all day,
from the moment when we start practicing until we leave the computer.
What kind of schedule do you have here?. Here is were you train, which hours?
We usually wake up around noon. 11, 12, 1....
Is that when you wake up? Yes, around that time to be honest.
Alarm clocks ring at 11 or 11:30. You wake up and, around 12
you come here, have breakfast... Are you aware that right now
you are the most envied, or one of the most in Spain, do you?
Meybe, maybe... Because of your schedule.
Because of my schedule, sure. Well, that's when I have breakfast, we watch TV
or play a bit of solo queue on the computer. Just a couple of games,
until 2 or 3 o'clock, which is when we begin our team practice and, once we start,
it's non stop until 6 o'clock, when we have an hour or hour and a half break
when we eat or go to the gym. Then, at 7 o'clock we play again until about 10:30 or so
depending on the day. This is the kitchen, we have it right next
to the living room. Pretty neat, here's where all the magic happens.
Who cooks here? In student flats there are usually problems, what happens in a gamer flat?
We have our manager, who cooks when we have to play, but it's usually anyone who's hungry.
You might be hungry, so you say: "I'm going to cook chicken, or meat or I'm going to cook pasta...
does anybody want some?" So you put some for yourself and some for the rest.
Your house is spectacular for anybody who likes esports or
gaming, but... How does a pro-player live?
A pro-player's life is what everybody imagines, right? Play a lot and even more so
nowadays with the LCS format. Our life is practice. We speend
three or four days practising full time. When the LCS begins, we travel three or four hours
before the match. A van comes to pick us up, we get into it and go there.
Once the LCS finishes, we have a day off, sometimes two.
You say "three or four days a week we practice", but someone at home
might say "I already play three or four days a week". Is it a matter of talent?
Is it just a matter of hours? More talent than hours? More Hours than talent?
It's about talent and hours. We train three or four days a week
which is a lot. The rest of the days we also play solo queue, we play a couple of games,
but those three or four days you wake up and you don't just play.
You wake up and you watch matches, you analise your own games
you discuss strategies, which heroes you think are the best, it's more about
knowing what to play and what you need to do with your heroes.
We've played for so many hours that we have the practice.
Now what we need is to polish the details. Do you think anybody can play
at an elite level provided they invest a lot of hours?
Yes, with the right mindset, because there is many people who play a lot of hours
but do not play to become the best. I think every pro-player's mindset is the same:
to be the best. We play for fun, but, even when you are thinking
about having fun, you are thinking about becoming the best in this game, you are thinking about learning
something new in this game. At least that's what happens every time I play and I believe
all the pro-players have that same mindset. Other than learning, when you are in a game
a normal game... How influential is the mental factor?
You hear in Rafa Nadal's case it is or it has been extremely influential
over the course of his career. It's really influential. Maybe it's 50%
about how you mentally feel. You get into a game and many times it's what people say about
reading negative comments on reddit or Twitter. It is true: it affects you, even when
you think it does not. Nothing happens when someone says it, right?
Yet when you read 500 people saying "you are a baddie. you are a baddie", you join the game
with that mindset: "***, I don't want to play bad so they don't say that".
You come under more pressure. Does it happen to you?
During your recent bad streak, did you wonder about it? I mean, you start the game with some insecurities
and maybe that's the reason you start in a bad way and you lose.
Yes, I think during our bad streak there have been games where
from the moment things started going bad, someone died or it just didn't go how we wanted,
we said "it's downhill from here, we're not going to be able to do anything.
It affects a lot, especially because even when it doesn't affect us all, in every game
there were some of us more struck than others, and that ends up affecting everyone.
One it's just one of us who's not confident, but the rest is, nothing happens, he can get the confidence from the rest
of the team. When it's two or three in the same game, team morale goes through the floor.
Enrique, you've been a world champion.
How does it feel being a world champion? What goes through your head?
When I won, that was the biggest thing I've ever won It was my first tournament,
to go there and win was brutal. I don't know, there were some days when it was a bit surreal.
I had to say "now, back home after this". It's like being in a movie.
One weekend playing abroad. Now it's a good memory.
I'll always remember it. Even though now I don't feel I was that happy, I remember
that week, those two weeks... I was the happiest man.
Suddenly now, there's the Koreans in the mix. As in every game,
they are the professionals of the video game professionals or esports.
This is almost a tradition. What can you do about that?
How can the Europeans be world champions again? Even though we play lots of hours and practise a lot,
they don't do just that. They have a team behind the players taking care of them,
making sure the team morale stays high when they lose. They have a coach
who makes sure that they are comfortable, even if it doesn't affect them that much or it affects them just 1%.
Why can't we have\that here in Europe?
It can be had, but it's a big investment There aren't many organisations with enough money
to hire a coach, an analyst... Not just that, whom do you hire?
It's not a career that you could Google "looking for League of Legends analyst"
In Europe you need someone who likes the game, who likes doing that and see if he learns.
I think it will be done over time, but not right now.
We were talking about you being a world champion and how it feels like being one,
but there's this play... One day you do a big play inside the game
and you change its name: the backdoor, that all of a sudden starts being called "xPeke".
In any server, in any game, when someone tries to do a backdoor
it's called an xPeke, how do you feel about that? Right now you're watching a stream,
someone tries doing a backdoor and you can see the chat, where everybody is spamming it.
That's something I see every day, it's not just a memory. I see it every day and I'm really happy,
it's what made me take the leap and get known; that play.
In the end it's five of you who won a competition, it's five of you who win a match,
but it's your name the one that, maybe, stays there forever ,
for the rest of the game life and history. I can imagine it must be an enormous joy.
I don't know if your friends or your family remind you that backdoor,
or they say "an xPeke". Yes, sometimes they tell me. There's even people
who do not even play and say "I soy your play, I don't even know what you were doing
but it looked really cool, with you jumping around." There are some plays where you get enraged,
you go crazy and make a mess. What's up with that?
I'm used to playing assassins, heroes that can get in, kill someone and get out.
Since I've always played Ahri, Zed or Kha'Zix, when I saw someone with low life
I got in, I killed him and I left. The problem right now is that I'm playing heroes
that do not fit that style, but I play them the same. When I see the opportunity to kill someone,
I try to restrain myself, but it's always the same. I see someone, I flash to kill him
and many times my team tells me "don't go crazy, don't get in".
What happens through the mics in a moment like that? I mean, when they can see you are going in
and they try to stop you.
We've improved our technique. Now, before going in, I say "can you follow me?
can you follow me?". I ask just in case... and now they always tell me not to do it.
Sometimes I ask and they tell me "yes, go for it. Even if they kill you, we're here
to clean up". There this one play though, not long ago,
where you go in and you even jump with Ziggs, and you go alone against five.
That was a failure in our technique. We were far ahead in that game,
at that moment if I hit someone with my full bomb combo, I'd kill him. So I remember.
during that play I jumped through the baron, and I remember Bora was telling me...
I was alone and he was cheering for me: "Let's go, Peke. Let's go, Peke".
Of course, when he told me that I went ham... and they killd me and my whole team.
Any way, that's what happens, I need it... I always tend to ask and it's always better
when I ask and the team tells me "yes, we're here to support you", or not. We do it much better this way.
Who directs a team like Fnatic? "Fanatic" or "f-natic"?
How is it said? "Fanatic", right? "F-natic" I've never...
I thought it was "f-natic" too, but inside Fnatic everybody says
"fanatic". You can say "fanaric" if you pronounce it a little bit different, but it's "fanatic".
So, who directs in Fnatic? Well, we don't have... It's mainly sOAZ.
He's the one who takes care of it because he's the fastest one seeing rotations, when we have
to go for a tower or when we need to control a dragon. He's the one who usually takes care of that.
During fights, though, there's free will, more or less. Everyone says something
and everyone analyses what it's said. Do you have time to analyse it?
No, that's what I mean. There's no time, when someone says: "kill this one" and he sees the situation clearly
but somebody else says "kill that one", in your head you quickly says "okay, I can go for this one
and I'm going for him". In the end it's all about doing the same thing together.
Even if it's a bad play, if the five players do the same, there's a chance it won't end up that badly.
The problem is when you go for one, he goes for another one, you separate and you don't play as a team.
So that's it, during fights it's usually the one who sees the best play who calls it and the rest follow.
I told you to take me somewhere that's part
of your day-to-day and I know neither what you've prepared for me nor what you want to do.
Yes, yes. Come with me, I'm going to make your legs unable to move for a week.
¡Follow me! Where?
To the gym!
Now that we're in the gym, tell me something about you. I know nothing, you've been here recording me...
I have a turbulent past interviewing grandmothers
inside malls. Everybody knows you because of that, don't they?
That's my label, my home brand. When I knew you were coming, that's the first thing
I watched. I went to YouTube, "CarvinG, best moments". ¡Rafaela! Well, what do you think?
It's cool, but do you come here every day or did you just bring me so it looks
that you go to the gym. I need to give a good image... Nah, I usually come
three or four days a week. Some days I do more, others I do less.
I usually warm-up with the bike, like this, but the thing I do the most is lifting weights.
When I'm stressed out, it's a joy. There is no punching bag here, that would be nice.
After losing some games, I'd feel like hitting it.
I played Counter-Strike, good team... Before x6tence existed, it was eu4ia and us.
Where you any good?
My team was good. Let's say inside my team I went unnoticed.
I played with FlipiN. Really?
FlipiN was in my team at that time. That's the reason I'm friends with MusambaN1, DrastyK...
I had no idea you played... Even if you weren't a professional, I didn't knew you played
at a professional level. Yes, we went to the CPL Europe, we got classified.
It's the only time we managed to win the CPL in Spain.
Did you win it in Spain? Yes. In Europe, though,
the Swedish sent us home. I would have liked to live this moment.
It has changed a lot.
What's this area? This is where we always go out
After the matches. It's not the liveliest place, but it's where we go out
after the LCS. We come all together: players, casters Riot employees. We always get
together around here. This is like the tapas area. There's a bar,
called Boogaloo, whose owners are friends with Joe Miller, the caster.
So we always go there because Joe Miller does, the rest of the casters do as well,
the players and we always gather in the same area.
You can have a drink everywhere here. Then, if you keep going,
there are clubs, pubs and so, but this is more of a place
full of small bars, which is what we like. Regarding good vibes between players...
Is that an urban legend? Do you get along well among inside your teams and among others?
No, not every team... Wait, Araneae is making faces.
No, I think every team has a good relationship with other team. We've always gotten along
well with Fnatic, mainly because of me and peke, because were good friends.
We have that kind of relationship, while the rest of the players just get along.
There are other teams that get along, but talking about friends...
The ones who go out the most, who are good people, are Fnatic, Millenium and maybe Alliance.
¿Are there players who don't go out? ¿Are there teams that stay at home?
I've never seen Gambit partying. Neither Roccat, nor Gambit, I've never seen them.
Roccat, Gambit... I think from SK just a couple of players go out... what's the other team?
Copenhagen Wolves, just one of them goes out,
Copenhagen Wolves and Supa Hot Crew, none of them go out either.
In the end it's just Alliance, Fnatic and Millenium. I guess going out the last day of LCS happens
because you are all together, but also because it allows you to release some tension
after a week full of competition. You can say "look, I can disconnect when I lose
and I can celebrate when I win". That's right. We have two or three days a week
when we can't do anything, so this comes just perfect. After playing, whether you win
or lose, you are stressed out and say: "Today I forget. I'm going to forget everything, go out
drink, talk about the matches or anything and have a good time".
For example, today you lost. On the other hand you won, Alvar.
We are the bottom team, but... Did you win?
We played against Supa Hot Crew, dude, they are always a free win for us.
What do you usually say to each other in moments like this? When you win, Alvar, but he lost.
Is it complicated? Do you say anything to each other? Or do you just disconnect?
Fnatic is the only team I try to cheer up when I see them losing.
I get along really well with Peke and sOAZ. They are my friends,
not just talking about players and competitions, they are my friends in real life and I try to
cheer them up every time I can. They are excellent people I try to do it.
It's the same with me when I'm feeling down. For example, last week I was about to abandon
but I had sOAZ in my room, who came to console me, to stop me from talking nonsense,
to tell me to keep going, to tell me that we were playing well. That kind of friendship is way above League of Legends
I don't think there's that kind of friendship among other teams in the LCS,
that's the only difference. You are the only two Spaniards
nowadays in the LCS. You live far away from each other here in Germany and these moments
seem to help you, right? Seeing each other, being able to speak Spanish...
Yes, we talk a lot. Since we can only speak Spanish with each other, every time
I see him I'm glad I can speak Spanish with him. Even when there's people around, I sometimes
say something in Spanish, even though we always speak English.
¿Does it come handy, having each other? Yes, it comes really handy.
That said, last year we were four Spaniards, but even then...
We were the same. Last year it was the same.
I get along a bit better with Carlos [Ocelote] but it's not the same.
I don't talk to Peke because we are Spaniards. I talk to Peke because he's one of my friends
and it's a relationship I care about. Being far away from your family,
you spend four months without seeing them... Well, his mother... I was going to say a curse word.
His mother comes almost every week to live with him. That's good.
I haven't seen my parents since Christmas though. I saw them in New Year's Eve,
I haven't seen them in three months. I haven't seen my friends, I haven't seen my parents and the only support I have
as friends are one of my teammates, Creaton, and Peke. I don't have any other friends
I can rely on and talk to them. So it looks like you are friends,
not because you are Spaniards or share the same language. When did you friendship begin?
We've known each other for a long time. Ever since I started playing, we had some beefs with each other.
He teleported with Morgana, killed me, stole my Nashor and I said "I sh**..."
Do you remember we were angry at each other?
No, dude, when? Don't you remember?
That was nRated, he was the one who hated you. nRated is the one who hated me.
I remember there was a time when I wanted Peke in my team and I said
"I want Peke for SK, now. This guy is a beast", but nRated replied "never,
he's the worst player in Europe". Where were you then?
I was in myRevenge. Cyanide was with me and three other players, we were the first ones
who joined Fnatic. At that moment they were around the third best team
in Europe. The two best teams were us, SK, aAa and then it was them. After that there was an IEM,
the first outline tournament, and they wrecked everyone. Sushei doing his thing with Peke...
From that moment on, they started to stand out above the rest of the teams.
Well guys, you are already well versed in these German drinks... Show me
how you drink this. Who does the honours?
He starts. Alvar...
Begin by saying how it's called. This is called Osfront Bomber, it's a typical
German drink with ***, Jägermeister, in Spanish we know it as Jägemeister...
Jäger. ...and Red Bull. Who better to show us
how to drink this than the marvellous xPeke?
Let's go. I take this one first, right?
Take it and it'll fall, Perfect. Now, what do I do? Shot?
Let's drink a toast, so everything goes very well for you,
so you stay in Germany. Thanks!
You owe me some drinks. I'll get you some drinks tonight.
Where are you taking me? Now it's your choice.
My choice... Just what you usually do, show me some places.
I haven't seen the village, I haven't seen Troisdorf.
Have you not? Let's see, there's not much to do here , the museum is the most beautiful thing around
and the park. Other than that, nothing, walking along this street is the only thing.
Okay, let's go. Where do you want to go first?
Do you want to take a walk? I don't know, I haven't seen the village.
Okay, okay. Take me somewhere.
This is a pretty standard village, unlike Cologne. There are many things to see in Cologne,
but it's nice going out here. It reminds me of my home town. I live in a street
that's almost the same as this one and it feels the same, except for the fact that you don't
listen to Spaniards, you listen to Germans... They don't recognise you often on the street, do they?
They do when I'm wearing Fnatic stuff. When I'm wearing Fnatic clothes
someone sees them and it's easier, but usually it does not happen. Sometimes,
someone recognises you, stares at you and says: "are you Peke?".
On a normal day, do you usually dine out or do you stay...
On a normal day, no. We're usually at home and we have lunch and dinner there, almost always.
We go out once or twice a week, when we do. Maybe on the days we have to buy something,
we go to the supermarket and, coming back, we stay in some place in that street.
You can see some ambience in these streets...
I don't know if it's because it's a Friday afternoon, though. Maybe it is a quite village.
It's always like this, but it depends on when you go out. Between 4 and 7 o'clock
it's always like this because everything closes at 7, really, really early, so when you go out
between 4 and 7 it's always like this. There's even more people
on Saturdays and Sundays.
It's a pretty nice village. I don't know, I like it because it's a lively area.
You can take a walk when you are bored and it feels good.
This started right when we moved here. We wanted to look for a gym, but we didn't knew where
there was one and we didn't knew who to ask for one, so we always came here
to exercise or run a few laps with some music
Pretty Manhattan... Pretty Manhattan, it's like the movies.
You finish running, you stop here to take a look. at the scenery. It's really good.
When you came here, at the beginning. What's the hardest thing
when you leave your home? You always miss your friends
you family... In the end you are here with a group of friends, as I said,
so it evens out, yet you are always thinking that you'd like to come back once in a while,
that my friends would come here. Your friends. In reality,
the first time you leave your home is to go to Korea. I mean, it's the first time you spend a long time
outside home. Those friendsyou left in Murcia because suddenly you are
going to compete in a game... what do they think? They are happy for me. Some of them do not believe it,
some say "damn, how cool", others are envious and others just say
"I'd like to be able to do that". Everybody supports me all the way, because
all of them would like to travel, even more so doing something you like. Yet when you go out
for a long time and then come back, it's different. Being used to going to the same bar
with your friends or hanging around. Does it feel weird?
When you come back it's a bit different. You like it, because it's what you've always done,
but it feels a bit weird. It's like going on holidays to your parent's home village
three months in the Summer, then you come back and it's hard to resume.
The first few weeks feel super weird It's like some prolonged beach holidays
You make some friends at the beach, you come back and you see things differently for a few weeks.
Do they consider you a privileged person, because of your life, doing what you like and winning
money for it?I don't know, many of them tell me I should take advantage
of this situation and are very happy that I have this opportunity, but I don't know
if they think I'm exactly privileged. They surely know I've had a lot of luck
coming into this situation. What about you?
I do. Do you consider yourself a privileged man?
I consider myself very fortunate, yes. Do you enjoy what you do?
I enjoy it a lot. Well, it shows. It looks like you are happy.
Even during bad moments, when things don't go well, you think about it and say:
"It's worth it". I'll tell your mother, because I added her
on Facebook, that I see you happy. She does too, when he comes here. Every once in a while
she comes and she knows I'm happy. I can imagine you miss your mother too.
Many times, but in small dosages.
She coming a couple of weeks is good. If she stays more than a month then...
Like every mother and every son.
It's the same situation. First weeks are really joyful,
but then she starts saying "clean your room, cook something, don't stay all day in front
of the computer". What does you mother think about all this?
You are already famous and she joins you a bit in that game. What's her opinion?
What does she say to you? She loves it, she enjoys it because
I'm her son and she loves seeing that lots of people follow me and look up to me.
She enjoys being on Twitter, Facebook. She reads everything I write and everything
people reply. Many times she is something like...
Your guardian angel. My guardian angel, you could say,
yes. She's always looking and she reminds me when I
forget a fan's comment. She sees the same person posted ten times and tells me:
"say someone to this one right here, he or she's been here all day hoping that you talk to him".
What happens when something bad happens, does she suffer? I guess so,
she doesn't tell me so I don't worry, but it's pretty clear when there's something bad
because then she tells me: "don't read any comments today,
go out with your friends and tomorrow you can take a look at what happen during the matches".
Of course she suffers. Looking at you, we've been here
for a while, seeing what you do, how you live and so. It seems like you live
well, relaxed, is that the reality? I mean, do you live well? Do you have to worry
about anything in your day-to-day? Are you comfortable? I'm comfortable and I live a relaxed life, but there's
a lot of stress with the LCS because every every week there's a new tournament, a new battle
begins every Monday and you have to be focused on your week's matches. It's all day long.
You wake up, you start looking at matches, you start preparing, thinking about strategies, you practice
in solo queue, then five or six hours of team practice, you finish your practice
and you need to look at your games, what you did well, what you did
wrong and the whole day goes by. Even though it's still something you like, you don't
it just for fun anymore, you do itbecause you want to win and sometimes you don't have enough free time.
Do you miss free time?
Sometimes I do, I love when I have days like this one, even though I have to put up with you.
I love being able to wake up...
It's my pleasure too. I love being able to say "I won't worry about
the game today, I haven't even turned on the computer". Of course, it's a job after all, it wears you out,
like every other job, it might end up tiring you out or overwhelming you.
People might say: "how are you going to get tired doing this..."
It's true, I've been doing this for three years. The first year I was glad I had to stay
some nights without sleep because I had to play, waking up to play... The second year it was the same.
This third year it's the same, but there are some days when you notice it, you say "I have played...
I don't even know how many hours I played today". When your passion, or a hobby,
gets transformed into your job. As I said, the LCS is what has made it a job,
before that it was just a hobby. You played for fun, you didn't have
to practice every day. Only when there was a tounrnament, one month or three weeks before
you practiced non-stop. Is that pressure good or bad?
It's good, it's bad, it's a job after all. We get paid to play
every weekend. It's good because before you depended on being really good
and winning tournaments. When you didn't win, you had to look for a side job.
At least now you have the assurance that you can live well as long as you are
among the eight best teams in Europe. When did you notice your life
had changed? You went from being a regular person who plays League of Legends,
or any other game, and suddenly that turns into a big change in your life.
I think the change started with the first tournament. When you go to your first tournament,
there wasn't much money, but they paid for my trip. That gives you some joy. I don't know,
you see it from another angle when you think "***, they are paying my trip so I can come here and compete,
how cool would it be if I could do this more than once". When you do it the first time,
you aren't even sure if it's going to happen again. Basically the trip to Korea
is what started it all. It was the first trip that I noticed it had totally
changed my life. Before that I played a lot, I played tournaments, but I had never
emancipated, I had never lived with my teammates. Korea is when, more than a team,
we became friends. Three months living together in the same house,
going out together and eating out together. In the end you become fond of your team because of that
and that's when you notice your life has changed a little, it's no longer what it used to be.
Can you make a living out of video games?
Can you make a good living out of esports? When you are really, really, really good, unless
you are the very best, you need some luck. You need a good team and, not just that,
a team you get along with. Just imagine, no matter how good you are, if you are
not on good terms with your team, as soon as you lose a match you won't enjoy it and even if you do win
you won't live well if you aren't comfortable with your team. Playing 10 hours a day with people
you don't like just because you want to win... It's like life in a shared flat, really:
"I need to move out" "I need to find another room"
It's the same, that's why I see it as a family. We fight, but it's the same as fighting with your
brother. You fight and the next day you forget it, you don't even remember you fought.
Do you think about the future, Enrique? Yes, a lot. Many times I think about the future,
but I'm the kind of person that doesn't worry much about the future. I've always said
whatever will be, will be and now I'm going to do what I want to do. Nowadays, though,
I often think about the future and say: "What will I do when this is finished?", because I'm already
getting older and I've played for a long time. Well, are you getting older?
How old are you? I'm 27 years old.
27 is not getting older. I'm 22, dude.
It doesn't matter, even if you were 27, there are cyclists, Michael Schumacher, people who
are on their late thirties... Pedro de la Rosa, I think he's 40. They are top athletes
hold, there's a long way. I was talking after that.
After that, I don't know. I don't think about it, as I said, I don't like thinking about the future.
Even though people say you have to worry about the future, I just can't do it.
Every time I worry about the future I end up feeling anxious, so I don't like giving it
much thought. It really is better to live in the present.
Also, you are already doing some other stuff Just the other day, searching Peke on YouTube
because I had to document myself to know you a bit better, suddenly I saw you in Cincinnati,
in the University of Cincinnati, having a a conference or some kind of meeting.
Yes, that was a fan meeting I did there, in Cincinnati. I was staying at my
father's after the World Championship and I wrote it on Twitter.
Why not? I'm here for a few days, I have nothing to do, my father is behind it...
so I said "I want to do a fan meeting around here". I remember I had
lots of Twitter messages telling me "no, come to this place", "come to this other place"
so one guy from the university, from some computer group,,, Wait, it was League of Legends, it was a group about
League of Legends. He contacted me and he told me: "if you want to do it here,
don't worry about anything, you just tell me and we use a conference room and we'll even bring
cameras so we can record it and take pictures.
League of Legends and a conference... Sounds weird, doesn't it?
Not weird, but it was a bit shocking that people interested in a video game would be interested,
in that, but there were many people there. There was a lot of people. I remember,
before going, I asked myself "how many people willl be there?, what happens if they get bored?"
They started asking and I remember the one who organised it said, we're going to have
one hour of Q&A, then pictures and afterwards another hour if people want to ask again.
I was thinking, "mother of god, one hour, what am I going to talk to people about during one hour?",
but once it started, the first minute, it was a bit like "let's see how this goes".
Then they started asking and the whole hour went away in what seemed like 10 or 15 minutes.
¿Were there university people there? Yes, but what surprised me the most
is that it wasn't just people. It wasn't like when you are in a tournament. Lots of people go to
watch it, and, since they are there, they go to the players they like to take a picture
with them, which is nice. I was surprised, though, that even people from town came to see me
and not only from there, there were even people who told me they came from a town
three hours away by car. Three hours away?
Three hours away. I come from farther away.
You came from further away, just to see me, though?
Just to see you. What about the LCS?
A bit of that too. Listen, maybe that's your future.
What? Those conferences, that's some experience.
You know, I liked meeting you. Me too, it's been a good experience
having you here.