Let me tell you a story…
Have you ever felt like you don’t fit? You’re a teenager or maybe in your early twenties and you look around and you know that’s not the place you should be in, those are not your people.
Then something happens, somebody you didn’t expect comes into your life and suddenly it all changes. You discover a brand new world. A world where you have to use WASD to move, where you have to be fast, skilled, competitive, better… a world sometimes violent, always beautiful, your world.
And they say shooters are not for girls but you found your place, your family, your people. You found the root growing inside of a seed that was planted when you were a kid and Super Mario was your best friend. And that root becomes a tree, because now you are a Quaker, you are in a clan and girls can shoot as well and better than many boys. But that’s not enough.
“From Super Mario to Quake III, from writer to e-sports editor, from gamer to Euskal Encounter and GameGune organizer”
You want more, you’ve always wanted more. So another gamer girl and you create an emagazine called Disturbed Pink. You learn HTML and write your own shitty code, you interview pro-gamers and manage to get their cfgs so your fellow quaker friends can download them. So you become a unique piece of the Quaker society and Disturbed Pink becomes a part of 4Quakers, the most important spanish Quake III site by then. You interview Lakerman and Akiles and all the pro-gamers you can get in touch with, you cover the World Cyber Games and the impressive ESreality uses your coverage in their site. You’re living the dream.
Meanwhile you’re still playing, you’re really bad at versus but you kick it in TDM and you love it.
And you want to do more for the scene.
So you start helping organize tournaments for Euskal Encounter, mount servers for competitions, become a clanleader and in the end you organize the AllStars tournament for GameGune where 12 of the best international Q3 players compete for one of the highest money prize ever given in a tournament in Europe.
And that’s how Yezabel was born and Verónica became much more than the girl who didn’t fit, I became a quaker, a journalist, an organizer, a clanleader, and that’s how I found a family and a purpose. That’s how I became who I am.
So once a gamer, always a gamer.