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So my life has changed a little bit over the past year. About ten months ago I was picked up by iM and a lot of people had huge questions about who the hell I was and why I was chosen. Without going into extreme detail to unnecessarily justify myself, I was at University studying a borderline useless degree. This meant I could slack off and play StarCraft II 8-10 hours a day with no repercussions except a bunch of missed tutorials.

So when iM was looking for up-and-coming players I was lucky enough to be chosen because of my continued dedication to the game and while results were average there was steady improvement because of my life situation. This was in Brisbane, and at the end of last year I made the move to Melbourne which meant I was closer to iM HQ and the the huge hubs of Australian e-sports that are Sydney & Melbourne. Originally, I was going to support myself through a part-time job and game professionally the rest of the time and just scrape by, but that genuinely is not realistic for me.

As a result, I'm returning to University to do an actual degree that will account for something substantial. In the past I've been the first one to say 'Hey, University can wait! If you got the passion for pro-gaming, goddamn go and do it!', but the reality is I'm getting older, and University DID wait and now I gotta step aside from pro-gaming for a little bit and get the SundeR house in order. If you're a kid who is thinking about deferring University or dropping out of High School to professionally game, that's great, you deserve all the support in the world for following your dream, but you just gotta be prepared to do Real Life(tm) a little later than everyone else. This will mean finishing a degree and starting a career at closer to 30 than 24.

So, this means that the SEACL is my send off from competitive StarCraft II for a while. I'm hoping that this will motivate me to push forward to get us the results iM needs when I'm called upon and do the rest of the guys proud, and even additionally motivate my teammates to success too (they have plenty of motivation regardless!). I've been a competitive gamer for almost a decade now and I'm so thankful that I have been given the opportunity to be part of such a great community, SC2SEA, as well as such a phenomenal team in the StarCraft II Immunity side. I'll still be playing in the ACL Online Rounds and hopefully get up to Brisbane to play in the Open Bracket if things don't go my way.

This doesn't mean that I'm leaving the community or Team Immunity at all - quite the opposite. I love StarCraft II, I love watching it and I love playing it casually (I recently got a laptop for University that can also be used for some gaming, so the girlfriend and I are the newest additions to a Bronze 2v2 division! Couples league anyone?), so I'll still be around the chatbox and Battle.net. I'll be moving from the StarCraft II side of Team Immunity to be the Content Manager for the organisation, so you guys will have to put up with me producing content for some time to come.

So while the Team Immunity website starts churning into gear (soon!), you can still read the articles I've been producing about SEA and international e-sports at http://shitsundersays.blogspot.com!

Thanks to everyone who even reads this - I might not be the most important player around here but, hey, whatever. I just felt I needed to write this!