There and back of a gamer, LoL Worlds 2022

I've been wanting to write this for days, without knowing how to start... until I said "pfff from the beginning", of course something logical, right?

Oh! it has been an incredible journey. My brother and I were two children who loved video games, who went to a cybercafe while their dad printed things for work, Age of Empires, Mythology, Warcraft, Worms, etc. Children who had no chance of even having their own computer, but admired the worlds that could be explored in that metal box.

Years passed by... incredibly, we went from being children to teenagers, full of ideas and passion, accompanied by parents who let us fly, who even after a long time bought a computer, their always latent effort to give us the ideal world.

I won't lie to you, it was glorious, we had in our hands the possibility of live new adventures from home That's where we began our greatest adventure, Warcraft, full of necromancy, orcs, elves, fantasy and epicity. Here we got to know one of the game modes known as "Defense of the Ancients" (DOTA), we became experts in this and other maps, eager to be the best. Together with our cousin "Wollust" we created a clan, the powerful Sunde (sin in German), years of glory followed us, the fires of the serpent of sin dominated the battlefields.

Years later, a certain League of Legends came to light, created by the same people that make the DOTA map, although we ignored it at the beginning because it only had servers in the US, little by little the title began to reverberate in our hearts. Thus, in the third year of the game, the 3 of us migrated to what would be, as every good LoL-maniac knows, our greatest misfortune but one that we can never let go of.

Years passed and we grew up, school, friends, work, everything began to gain more strength than a simple game, causing my brother, my cousin and I to separate little by little from the world of videogames... really you believe that? It's just that I'm stubborn as a mule, videogames are my passion and I wasn't going to let it go so easily, so I had an idea.

What if I form my own competitive team?!

Of course!!! it was an excellent idea hahaha, a young man of 19 years, studying at the university, working and running a business. Without hesitation, I've got sponsorship, players, official tournaments, and many more. If you ask me how I did it… the truth is that I don't know, I could call it “the passion”.

After doing this for a while, my brother seeing my love for this team, which by the way I decided to call “Sunde Gaming” for the old days, joined me. Oh WOW! you have no idea how happy I was. My best friend, my partner in thousands of adventures in different worlds, decided to be part of this dream.

This of course planted the idea of ​​being part of these great international events, and believe me we were achieving it. Sunde grew, of course it is enough to say that we did not achieve the final goal, time passed and for personal reasons I decided to leave the team a little over a year ago that I am writing this, but my brother has managed it since then, receiving my moral support and tips. The team has participated in national-class tournaments, giving great results that we never expected to see.

So we come to the present, today is the 2022 LoL Worlds final, and my brother is just about to enter the stadium where this wonderful event will take place and I am about to receive my friends in my independent adult apartment , living by myself for already 5 months. Yes sirs! My brother and I are now adults who have the possibility to achieve all of this.

4 years ago my brother went to the United States for the first time, a dream that we did not even have in mind as a family for many years, I still remember that beautiful day, all nervous and happy that for the first time someone in the family could even dream of leaving the country. Now he surely must be preparing his flag, his screams, his happiness and seeing what he buys to bring me.

Those children who left "Rural Atlas" (from the most dangerous and poor neighborhoods in the city), those children who dreamed of unimaginable worlds, who were cared for and loved by two extraordinary beings who never let us down and who dreamed by our side (thank you dad/thanks mom).

Today my eyes fill with tears writing this, I hope you understand my emotion, this is the first final that I will not see next to my brother, the first final that I will see in my own home, and the first final where I hope to see my brother in the transmission shouting like a true fan, like that boy who did not eat for a day at school to be able to have an hour of cybercafe with his brother.