Esport Talk

Yesterday, the eleventh season of the Intel Extreme Masters concluded in Katowice, Poland. The StarCraft 2 Championship was one of the IEM's highlights, especially its showdown between TY and Stats. The Polish crowd saw how Koreans dominated the tournament, although local hero Nerchio had quite a run as well. Mikołaj 'Elazer' Ogonowski took part in the tourney as well but didn't do as well as 'King Artur'. He lost to HeRoMaRinE and PiLiPiLi in the offline qualifier, but he is still a force to be reckoned with in European StarCraft. After all, Elazer defeated Nerchio at BlizzCon in November 2016, and made it to the semifinals beating ShoWTime in the Round-of-Eight. The 19-year-old Zerg player is a rising star of the StarCraft scene, and today we are going to talk about his first steps in RTS and gaming in general. Who were his idols when he started playing competitively? Are there players he still looks up to? Despite his young age, Elazer is one of the most consistent and resilient players in the scene. This