Resume and Documentation

When you begin your transformation from gamer to player, you start to do things, there are signs. For one, your scores start to get disproportionately higher than the rest of the server. You may be playing a title that's only just been released a few days earlier, and people begin to tell you that your name is in the top ten of the leaderboard. You would've known this yourself, but you'd been too busy playing.

You begin to screenshot and take digital pictures of your television screen to save an incredable match score as a personal trophy. You begin to record matches. You start to hit LAN tourneys and didn't care about the prizes you won, you valued the respect your peers, the player community cut you while there. You begin showing screens and vids locally, it blows your friends away. Girls like to come over to your crib and watch you wreck lives. Friends come over to spark and watch you, they say it's better than watching what's hot on TV at the moment. You begin uploading these screenshots and videos online.

That was my story, but there were other contributing factors which I'll cover in my "reasoning for online play." Although, I have to say, I wasn't motivated to post anything online until I started to see non-players exploiting our community for profit. This was something I wanted to put a stop to. To think, that if PurNwb or Athn had been genuine, had actual footage of match replays, did the tourney circuit, had the wins, I would've just kept playing, content that actual players were getting paid. But this isn't the case, so I have a battle to wage, one against ignorance. Somehow I have to shake up the masses, and make ethic count to at least a portion of our community.

But this concept of creating an online identity, documenting skills in the form of match score screenshots // photos, and from that making a resume to demonstrate skill level is what I'd like to flex first on the community. It's part of the transformation process anyway, you and I knew that we were doing better than most, and part of us was laughing so hard enjoying it, and another part half couldn't believe it, so we had to capture it.

I see a time, in the near future, where players with genuine resumes will be getting paid to do what we do. If you haven't started to already, I urge you to do so. If you are on another level in whatever title you play, you owe it to yourself to begin the documentation process. Then you will have to embark on the creation of your online identity, as did I. Our time is soon, be ready players.



As always, there's a side note. Player resume's and documentation of skill are more then just pedigree's, they're qualifiers. How many arguments start online between an actual player, or truth speaker, and a pathalogical liar? The liar will make all sorts of claims to refute the players, yet the player has links to actual gameplay and documentation to backup what has been stated, the liar is merely hitting his keyboard, hollow keystrokes. This is another reason, just as important to create a resume, to cast aside the liars and deceivers.