Profile of Symbiosis

So far the summer has been pretty disappointing :/ Now You See Me was prolly the best film I saw in 3 or 4 months in the cinema, and it was 'okay'

I also saw A Beautiful Mind again and that film is still really great though! Crowe is acting great again and the music and story is nice too (bit of a clishé ending though) ★★★★

• What do you consider to be competitive gaming?

A match where both players/teams play to win for glory/aknowledgement/cash in a situation where both players/teams have a fair chance at winning (by balance, refs, bo3 in case there can't be mirrors) on a prefixed moment/place.

Above all I personally play for my own hunger to perform and to still my competitiveness I'd like to take on a player in a tourney game or a challenge to see who's the best player and enjoy the feeling of success when I win. Things like a community or cash prices are secundary but they are however a good motivation to keep practising/performing after I made it to the top. Also the idea that I wanted to be THE BEST kept me motivated for practising/playing and are at least essential for my own sense of competitive gaming.

I never feld ladders were truely competitive but I never played for top 10 positions when there were still cash rewards for the lvl 20's back in vCoH. If such a thing might come back for coh2, and when coh2 ladders will be more competitive than the coh1 ladders were at 2.601./2.602 ladder games might be considered competitive. But for now i'd say they're not.

• What games have you considered to have played competitively? How involved did you get? How was your performance in these games?

I played CoH ofc and made it to the absolute top, I also still play Call of Duty 2 competitively but at sub-top level. I played Starcraft II serious for a time and made it to top platinum but I never considered it as truely competitive since I don't feel like i'm playing competitively when I'm only some mid level player. (Continuing with Q1, I think the level at which you play is also important for competitive play. But it's not key. I consider myself to play footbal competitive too, since there's a clear idea of matching within a competition with a reward for the winner, yet I don't even play at the highest level of amateur football.)

• For games you don't play do you watch any vods or streams? If so which games?

I long stopped playing SCII, but I still watch streams/day9 sometimes and did the same before I started playing SCII.

• Have you ever been to an offline or in person competitive event?

Not one that was connected to videogames, but I did played in all kind of sports events competitively.

• What do you believe makes a game competitive?

I think I already answered this.

• Have you produced any content or organised any competitive events for any games? If not are you interested?

Yes, I steam coh1/coh2 and I write strategy guides for both games. I also hosted 2 in-house Allstars tournaments and was involved in leading/organising the CoH1 2v2 Premier league.

• Who do you believe is instrumental in building a strong competitive community?

I've been thinking about this and I'm actually not sure. A community and people who produce content for it (guides, streams, tourneys, snf) are ofcourse important but almost every game does that and yet not every game has a succesfull competitive community. An event like SNF has really made a name for itself and is by now really important for the community, as are the devs interacting with us at these forums, which is great! But I can't point out the origami unicorn for creating the most awesome coh2 community there'll ever be! (10 points for whoever gets the film reverence )

So, 15th it is reuben???

Reuben, if you go to Köln and get picked up there, I might go there aswell and go with you ^^