Shaggyshenk · @Shaggyshenk
13th Jan 2017 from TwitLonger
The thrill is gone
When I first started playing Smite I would've never considered for one moment that it would become such a big part of my life. It was yet another free game me and my friend Korinyo picked up, because we were bored and looking for something fun to play. It turned out to be one of the best games I've ever played, and the amount of fun we had with it was unreal.
At one point the casuals were getting pretty boring and we started experimenting with competitive play. Along with our two german friends who we regularly played with (keloxx and BurningBody) we decided to go on reddit to find ourselves a proper jungler, which turned out to be Harry or Variety (he's pretty shit you've probably never heard of him ;]). We proceeded to start scrimming the some teams and entering the weekly EGL tournaments to earn some gems, and it soon became clear that this was waaaay more exciting than casuals and it came to me that this is what I wanted to do.
Fast forwarding a couple months we had some internal issues and lost Keloxx and BurningBody, so we replaced Keloxx with Jake, later known as PrincessTomato. Variety moved to solo and our only real problem was a jungler, because good junglers were hard to come by. We ended up picking up NinjaBobat a couple of days before the qualifiers started and it just clicked. Worth Gaming was born and goddamn it was fun. We did surprisingly well coming in as the unknown underdogs and actually ended up being first in the SPL Season 1 EU Qualifiers.
We qualified for the Smite EU kick-off LAN in Cologne and got picked up by Coast. Going there felt very unreal, because it was obviously our goal to go there, but we didn't really expect it being a new team and all that. After beating TSM in the semi's and playing a really close set against SK gaming, we ended up second. Which was unfortunate, but we were happy considering we were such a new team. (shoutouts to coach Emilzy)
The second season we didn't do so well, and the downside of this career path became pretty clear. Namely that losing is fucking depressing. The difference between winning and losing in this business is literally night and day and after ending 6th in the qualifiers we ended up disbanding.
Honestly from that point on I don't think I've really had that much fun in smite anymore. LC was decent, but really had it's ups and downs. Our overall performance was mediocre and I was really getting sick of being in that spot of JUST missing out on the boat every single time. It made me feel awful and made me question why I was still doing this.
I wanted a stronger roster going into season 3 that could reach the top, and it wasn't until the addition of Repikas and Zyrhoes that I thought we had some serious potential. We had a strong roster this season. We were amongst the few that could take games off of NRG once in a while, but we really lacked consistency. It was unfortunate how we lost our last qualifier games due to power outage, but it should have honestly never come to that. Once again we fell just outside of the boat.
At this point season 4 is closing in. I haven't played Smite since losing our last games, and I don't really have any desire to. For a very long time I've been playing competitive smite because I didn't really know what else to do, ofcourse at some points it actually was fun and it gave meaning, but for the most part it wasn't making me happy.
I'm done with not being happy and would like to be happy, therefore I am quitting competive Smite and will be looking to try my luck elsewhere. I'm still gonna try out season 4 when it hits, but don't expect me to return to the competitive scene.
Soooooo, this is goodbye. Sorry to all the fans that I had, but barely interacted with over the years, I'm a socially anxious fucko, but I'm working on that. Sorry to my one true love Emilzy for finally leaving your side, I'm sure you'll find another great adc/team and kick ass there. Good luck to Variety, you're Worth Gaming's only hope at this point, but you've been doing great so I'm sure you'll be ok. And good luck to the rest of my former teammates.
TLDR; Bye ;)