Gamer with success in the USA
Rough translation into english:
Gamer with success in the USA
Team Rune with Erik "carapace" Åhman from Boden and Dennis "LocKtar" Larsson from Stockholm came in second place in QuakeWorld at QuakeCon in Dallas. The winnings, 7000 USD.
So they won 59.000 SEK for playing a computer game one day.
Erik Åhman, 31, have been doing E-Sports since he was eleven years old.
E-Sports is competition in computer games, which can be anything from console
or mobile games to the more traditional computer games.
- It was my brother who started. He is three years older and played with his
friends. I thought it looked incredibly cool and wanted to try it out.
And you wanted more?
- That´s an understatement. It became a theme throughout my upbringing.
What made you wanting more?
- Community, you meet friends from all over the world. It opens doors and
you make contacts, that would otherwise have been hard to get. The other
major part is the competition. It´s addictive to get better and compete.
The convent he was attending is called QuakeCon 2016. Con stands for
convent. It´s annual. Quake is the game they´re playing and one day was
for QuakeWorld only, which you can play either as a duelist or in a team.
- It was a pretty generous prize pool. First place got 12.000 USD, second
place 7000 and third place 3000.
But, Erik explains, it is actually a small prize pool since it´s a small game.
The largest prize pool is for Dota2. Over 20 million USD is handed out in
the largest tournament with 16 teams competing for the prize money.
In the competition in Dallas there was also 16 teams participating and the
competition was a knockout tournament. During the summer the participants
have been competing in three seeding/qualification tournaments.
- The goal was to reach top2. We said that if we´d end up in second place
we´d be content, everything else was a bonus, says Erik Åhman.
It is the first time he´s competing for prize money.
- Since I can´t support myself on E-Sport I can not put down as much time
I would need to become the best. It would be cruel not being able to be
content with your effort even if you don´t win. I´m playing to win for sure,
but you have to be a realist.
The sport isn´t acknowledged as a real sport in Sweden, yet, says Erik Åhman.
Countries that have acknowledged it are among others Denmark, Italy and South Korea.
The game, QuakeWorld, is about killing your opponent as many times as possible.
- You have to control the resources you have.
The resources is in a map and consist of health, armor and weapons. When you have
control over them your opponent is denied access to them and your chances of winning
the next fight are increased.
What do you work with?
- I´ve been working as a gunner at the main battle tank squadron at I19, but I´m now
serving under a more time restricted contract to be able to finish my studies as a
fire protection engineer.
Erik Åhman will never stop gaming. Like other sports the way to success is your love
for the competition, your burning interest and talent. He has always been tinkering
with computers and puts his own computers together himself.
Rough translation into english:
Gamer with success in the USA
Team Rune with Erik "carapace" Åhman from Boden and Dennis "LocKtar" Larsson from Stockholm came in second place in QuakeWorld at QuakeCon in Dallas. The winnings, 7000 USD.
So they won 59.000 SEK for playing a computer game one day.
Erik Åhman, 31, have been doing E-Sports since he was eleven years old.
E-Sports is competition in computer games, which can be anything from console
or mobile games to the more traditional computer games.
- It was my brother who started. He is three years older and played with his
friends. I thought it looked incredibly cool and wanted to try it out.
And you wanted more?
- That´s an understatement. It became a theme throughout my upbringing.
What made you wanting more?
- Community, you meet friends from all over the world. It opens doors and
you make contacts, that would otherwise have been hard to get. The other
major part is the competition. It´s addictive to get better and compete.
The convent he was attending is called QuakeCon 2016. Con stands for
convent. It´s annual. Quake is the game they´re playing and one day was
for QuakeWorld only, which you can play either as a duelist or in a team.
- It was a pretty generous prize pool. First place got 12.000 USD, second
place 7000 and third place 3000.
But, Erik explains, it is actually a small prize pool since it´s a small game.
The largest prize pool is for Dota2. Over 20 million USD is handed out in
the largest tournament with 16 teams competing for the prize money.
In the competition in Dallas there was also 16 teams participating and the
competition was a knockout tournament. During the summer the participants
have been competing in three seeding/qualification tournaments.
- The goal was to reach top2. We said that if we´d end up in second place
we´d be content, everything else was a bonus, says Erik Åhman.
It is the first time he´s competing for prize money.
- Since I can´t support myself on E-Sport I can not put down as much time
I would need to become the best. It would be cruel not being able to be
content with your effort even if you don´t win. I´m playing to win for sure,
but you have to be a realist.
The sport isn´t acknowledged as a real sport in Sweden, yet, says Erik Åhman.
Countries that have acknowledged it are among others Denmark, Italy and South Korea.
The game, QuakeWorld, is about killing your opponent as many times as possible.
- You have to control the resources you have.
The resources is in a map and consist of health, armor and weapons. When you have
control over them your opponent is denied access to them and your chances of winning
the next fight are increased.
What do you work with?
- I´ve been working as a gunner at the main battle tank squadron at I19, but I´m now
serving under a more time restricted contract to be able to finish my studies as a
fire protection engineer.
Erik Åhman will never stop gaming. Like other sports the way to success is your love
for the competition, your burning interest and talent. He has always been tinkering
with computers and puts his own computers together himself.
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