![]() His first few teams and seasons in the NA LCS were rocky ones. Park's ascent from semi-normal high schooler to professional gaming star wasn't a rapid one. ![]() So I thought it'd be a good idea, and my parents supported me." ![]() "But I only got accepted into my backup schools so I, 'I guess I'll try out and see how it goes.' Anyway, school was taking its toll on me, so I might as well take some time off and explore because - I did some research - people who take time off go back to college and have a really refreshed mindset and don't get burnt out. ![]() "It probably would have been a lot tougher of a decision between playing in LCS and going to college right away if I'd gotten in anywhere I really wanted to go," Park said. Immortals went 17-1 during the 2016 North American League Championship Series Spring Split, but was unable to adapt to the meta in time for the playoffs. He was only held back from being at the top of his class due to the endless hours spent in League of Legends. In terms of the schoolwork, Park had little to no issues passing through his school curriculum and doing well on his SAT scores. Luckily for Park, most people at his self-described "pretty nerdy school" didn't make a big deal about it and thought it was cool he was a mini-celebrity in the world of competitive gaming. " didn't like it when random people would come up to me at school and go, 'Yo, you're Pobelter,' because I didn't that. "I just tried to keep it pretty low-key," he told me when I asked how he dealt with being a popular face in the League community since his early days of high school. Since starting as one of the first people to test the game in the closed beta, Park has gone from an unknown playing in his childhood bedroom to playing in front of thousands on the North American League Championship Series stage. The adolescent Park turned to a game considered to be a tweaked version of the same genre. I played Dota, and I thought Dota was pretty fun, but at the same time, I was playing on 300 ping and people were flaming me in Turkish Portuguese, so I ended up hearing about this so-called Dota clone called League of Legends entering closed beta."Īnd that's how one of the best North American mid laners of all time came to be. I downloaded it illegally - sorry Blizzard - and I played on this bootleg European private server because I didn't have the legit CD key. "As a 13-year-old with no money whose parents didn't want him to be playing video games all the time, I couldn't afford to buy games, so I ended up starting WarCraft III somehow. "I spent most of my time playing WarCraft III and MapleStory in middle school," Park said. From there, he moved onto playing PlayStation games like Frogger before eventually turning to educational games on the computer that started his love for PC gaming. He started out playing on the Nintendo 64 when he was around the age of 5 until his mother accidentally cleaned out the system incorrectly and broke it. Like many pro-gamers, Park's fascination with video games began at an early age. really up the skill allocation on my main character Pobelt. Anyway, my new account name was Pobelt because I thought it sounded cool, and that eventually became Pobelter when I played MapleStory. "But that got banned because me and my sister would play on the same computer, and I think they thought we were account sharing. "Actually, my first ID was like Pipsqueak7," he admitted. Now, probably a decade later, our colorful creatures probably live in electronic purgatory, wondering what had happened to their handlers. Although I'm a bit older than the 19-year-old starting mid laner for Immortals, I'd also taken part in the online pet community during my youth.
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