PATIENCE,HOPE AND FAITH

by Rinie Tuesday May 19 09

Suddenly This Sign Post Fit So Nicely In My Writings

How many of us are willing to wait for 4-5 years just to be the champion of a tournament?

I did.

I've been in the competitive gaming scene for almost 7 years now. I've witness so many things, had experience so many situation and had undertake so many struggles in my journey for my dream. In this 7 years, i've started out as a gamer, had tried to play a role as an organizer, as a teacher, as a clan vice leader, as a friend, as an enemy, as a loser, as a champion, as a spectator and now as a media. It all started back in 2002 when my friend Ibrahim(i've to keep on mentioning his name everytime i look back lol) introduce to me FIFA WC2002 and WCG02. But because i was still young and naive, i didnt dare to join WCG02 coz i feel there are just too many pro players out there. But how wrong could i get when Ibrahim became the champion of Pahang. I regretted and vow to join next year, and so i did and thats how it all started.

From just a personal glory, my dream evolve into a national glory because it was through gaming i became matured and understand how important it is to have E-Sports in our country. Unlike what majority people think that playing games make you stupid, but i guess that wasnt true in E-Sports for it has the same core values as any other sports trying to promote. But this article is not about that. Its about PATIENCE,HOPE AND FAITH.

As i said,i've seen many come and go. What worried me is the current trend that we have in our gamers generally. Im gonna put this in a simple example:

A new game start to bloom and became popular. More and more people trying it out thus more and more competition organize out of nowhere. Then there will be this regular group of clans joining competition. At 1st, it was a healthy one with no clear winner. But as time goes by, suddenly there is this 1 particular gamer/clan that will start to dominate any competition joined. Because of the domination,slowly and slowly less and less people starting to lost interest in competing anymore. In the end, with no good basic and with no new faces the community gone in the wind and became another fairy tale to tell.

There are a lot of other reasons actually that we can find. But rather focusing on what we cant control, i prefer to address problems on what we ourselves can do about it. Many of us rate how good a gamer is base on his achievements. Of course that is the most logical way to rate. But we often forget that the only thing, the only one that can measure our success.. is one and only...

TIME

Time is the true measure of someone success. Even if you lost 2,3,4 or more than 5 time, that doesnt mean you are a loser. Always remember that failure is the 1st step to success. Believe it or not, the more you lose the closer you are to success. Haih. But unfortunately, not all of us has this kind of mind set. Usually when we lost more than 3 time, we just quit. Because we feel its impossible to win especially if "that guy" joined the tourney. So whats the point joining the tourney?

Believe it or not, that thinking above is one of the main reason why we are not going anywhere. Thats the reason why we cant compete with international players and thats the reason why E-Sports wont come true in the future. We are scared of competition and worst we are scared of losing. We often measure our own success by the number of trophy in the cabinet rather than measuring our true inner ability and self confidence. So how does time became the true measure of success? Here are the examples:


Si_Jali

If some of you guys follow my gaming history, i started out in WCG03 and break the record in WCG World Final in 05 with no.4 in the world. It was the highest achievement. But do you know, that i only won my 1st Malaysia tournament in 2007? It took me 4 years to win a title! And since then i've won 3 Asian Champion title and 4 Malaysia Champion title. In 7 years i only won that much. Thats why when people talk highly about me i felt a lil bit shy because the truth is.. i dont win that much. Isk.. Malulah~


Forza & H3av3n


I cant really remember when he actually started out but i can roughly say it was around 2004-2005.Back then, Luige a.k.a CK was dominating the NFS scene. It was pretty hard to overthrone his grip on the title. But Forza was never disheartened. He believed the same concept we all believed in, that time will proved everything. In the end, he won his 1st title in WCG.MY06 and has been dominating the NFS scene until now.

H3av3n is another perfect example for this case. Tell me, how many times everyone can remember he lost to Forza? I cant count. After years and years of trying, in the end he won WCG.MY 08 beating Forza in the finals. Wasnt that a sweet victory? Whoever sit on H3av3n shoe at that time will feel how satisfying and worthwhile for all the struggle for the victory.


Tun Dr.Mahathir

What more can i say about our ex-PM? Do you know that during Tun early tenure as PM, many people opposed his decision to create highways in Malaysia saying its a waste of money? Now tell me, which of you doesnt enjoy the smoothness travel between our states? Tun was a visionary, and time was the measure of his success.


Manchester United & Sir Alex

Before all you MU haters say anything, let me remind you of the wisdom Sir Alex possess. After he sold Beckham, he bought Ronaldo. During Ronaldo early days, they were not really consider as title contender, especially with Chelsea and Arsenal domination that time. But he was patient. He value education more than winning, so he prefer to wait and lose and bank all the knowledge in the future.

And now, MU won so many titles including reached the same record as Liverpool since Ronaldo joined and is still in the CPL Final. Though i am a Chelsea fan, i personally wish MU will win the cup.


As you can see, success doesnt come just like that. It was all determine by time. If we all can understand this recipe to success, nothing can stop us.

Now my question is this, are we willing to change our perception of success? Are we willing to be PATIENCE, to keep HOPE and have FAITH? If you do, how long? 1 year? 2 year? 5 year?

Whatever your answer will be, only time will tell truth of it.