![]() ![]() By this point, I was very accustomed to pushing high keys. For three days, I spent a solid 8 hours each day on the training dummies, and then an entire week pugging the raid to practice. I always thought it very important to learn from the best players so I always reached out to get to know them and learn from them. I had previously become friends with one of the best Fire Mages in the world at the time. Something was clearly telling me I should finally give Fire a go, as it was the last spec left to master. When corruption hit in Season 4 of BFA, I had incredibly bad RNG of getting masterful corruptions from dungeons in the first week. I also off-specced Arcane and regularly played it in the raid. I would regularly come top 10 on a lot of bosses on logs while playing a unique build of Frost called the “orb build”. In the raid, I also quickly became high on rankings as Frost Mage. It was really nice as I’ve always enjoyed helping people. (I regularly joke that I know no one was playing Frost back then, so I was probably competing against 20 people.) In BFA, I would regularly get DMs of questions, and people used to always add me to ask me questions as well. Various seasons during BfA, I was ranked one of the highest Frost Mages in the world for keys. I was well practiced and decided I was going to take it to the next level. ![]() I needed to become the best and I practiced so hard every day until I was getting there. This was back before boosting was a thing, so to be honest, killing multiple bosses about 40 times in pugs was pretty funny. Much to the amusement of my guildies at the time, they would regularly meme on how many times I’d killed bosses. In Tomb of Sargeras, I actually wracked up close to 40 kills on most bosses in Heroic just because I spent 8 hours a day in pugs practicing and practicing to get better. Every season, I would do hundreds of keys to practice and get better. I’d never experienced this competitive side of WoW and it sucked me in completely. This also made me become very interested in high-end Mythic raiding. It completely resonated with every single competitive bone in my body and I couldn’t get enough. However, as soon as Mythic+ was released, I knew I’d found my true calling in the game. Initially, I didn't enjoy the game as I disliked questing and levelling, and I wasn’t ever interested in farming mounts or achievements. Okaymage: I pretty much started playing the game in WoD, although Legion was where I truly got into WoW. Q-2: How long have you been playing WoW and how long have you been doing competitive Mythic+? What do you love most about M+? However, the level I was playing at quickly drew the attention of a lot more people.” “My streams were mostly to my guildies who were interested in the very high keys we were doing at the time. His music taste has largely inspired my streams now. When he was younger, he was signed to the same record label as Prodigy. He's always had such a passion for producing music and has been a DJ on and off throughout his life. I know it's probably cheesy to say, but he's my hero and he really does inspire me. My dad is someone I've always massively looked up to. By that point, I was very experienced in leading and training teams of players. In my second year, I became the captain of my university's team. Each university has a team like they do for other sports such as football or basketball, and they all compete with each other in a tournament that is taken very seriously. In my first year, I joined my university's official NUEL team, which is the UK’s university esports tournament. ![]() Just before I went off to university, I turned my attention more towards PC gaming as I massively got into League of Legends playing Mid, ADC, and Jungle. I became very good at these and, on the side while I was at school, I competed in many tournaments for money. I grew up playing console and first person shooters such as Halo and Call of Duty. I grew up competing in sports such as ski slalom races and I competed in many swimming galas representing my Essex county. I’ve always been a highly competitive person. At the age of 2 years old, my dad has video footage of me setting up an entire chess board by myself. I’ve always naturally gravitated towards gaming and have played ever since I can remember. I was born and raised in Essex, but now I live in central London. Okaymage: Hello! My name is Jordan and I am 28 years old. Can you please tell us a little bit about yourself? What is your background in professional gaming? Q-1: Thanks so much for chatting with us today. You need to be able to think clearly in high-pressure situations, calm the panic, be logical, and not make rash decisions.” “In any competitive content, mentality is the most important part. ![]()
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