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An awkward Monday morning in the microbiology lab where there is somehow nothing to do… perfect time to fulfil - given the circumstances- the last chapter or rather part (Episode kek) of this Competitive Journey: Ep. 4 A New Hope :D DIESOFCRINGE Having stopped at the start of May when I was looking forward for the Team Germany Strikes Back Roster in Heroeslounge, my „maintenance mode“ for competitive while intermediary exam phase was lasting (till end of July) : At the start and through the missle it became an enjoyable experience, until my incentive for certain committments became an issue - looking into vacations and travelling and such while also realising my (old) gaming laptop became weaker and weaker. At the start of July I took a step again sub‘ing for 3LeggedCat while in the middle of their X-Cup run they had a tank „hole“, in which they couldn‘t perform on old strengthened level from Masters Clash. Weeks later I joined them for the last remaining Qualifiers as a fix member of the roster. Unfortunately due to my study exam travel into the „life-goal“ meet-up with Asdlow IRL in Hungary, Szombathely, I haven‘t gotten the chance to play the X-Cup playoffs with them. Having had returned home + having met him meeting was a blast and besides the short stay it felt there was an effect to it and I was proud of myself. I arrived after a few days staying at Casp3r‘s apartment on August 5th while being engaged to prepare for more upcoming scrims with the Cats. With an own buest initiative tho I came up with a plan of visiting my grandparents at the same time which made the scrims still happen at their place, however with false valuable outcome (Korean ping, fps freezes etc… once more confirming PC is going next for Competitive performancw matters.) Nevertheless I made aqwsome surprise visits on the day of arrival to both Kira and SirDavis! UwU The start of an ongoing campaign -catchword Europa Conquest! [EUIV] A week later an engaged Jedi Master called DanyR supported me a ton by cramming up a new PC Setup with me online and within a week fo a time we met up IRL in his home-town to build it up together - besides my omega embarassing and clueless skills at handworking techniques and PC knowledge! (Quote: „Marlow09Kringel“ kept here) On the departure day of Sunday, August 21, at night, I declared Drakyr that I am not feeling in comfort and line with my tank role and playstyle anymore, furthermore on that note, from my POV that also caused a lot of synergy problems within the team of the Cats. Thinking in a way I hold them back but also not enjoying it because of mentioned facts, it was - at first sight - fitting idea to join up Sven‘s Team while they were looking for a dps as you haven‘t been playing it competitively for a long time now and got an approach to it again. However you were on a clock as in the same week‘s weekend the first Qualifiers of the Heroes International were starting:(August 27-28). At the start of the week being confronted with a suprising misunderstanding which didn‘t get me in first, they (ukkie& sven) reverted what has been said and took me in - (for real ). To my expectation I was miserably performing at the first Qualifier doing a lot of random stuff and having confidence issues about failing your team cause you realised you are not on your old 100% anymore - undnerstandably. Going with - in hopes - better conditions into the 2nd Qualifier the lack of vocality was for me a major problem I‘ve noticed which hindered me to either intervere in drafts or set my comforts straught and more precise, which ended up being bad and once more a disgrace for the Vinland Raiders. However! For once I stood up by it fully and engaged for a talk on the same day we lost (Sunday) and give a clearer picture about what‘s. Going on and I am willing to improve so hard for next week given those criteria. Without much worries worries because of they way it was dealt that day I went in fully engaged into the last week. To my fortune even my apprenticeshio principal on that very Monday granted me the permission to swap vacations during that time and travel to Miami - if I am to be qualified. So much excitement was there until… the turn few hours later, when I read Sven‘s sugarcoating but real message abput the abrupt ditch. Explosion of a shock came to me while I was at the dentist waiting for my therapy check. With very much disapproval and fury loaded up I demanded an immediate talk between me and my two (former) captains, Sven & ukkie themselves to know the details and WHY. With more faith I‘ve lost in personaö matters with HotS ppl or formerly portrayed as friends I recorded the upcoming discussion without their proper agreement, resulting in a counter backstab move. . I made them clear that tonight’s scrim and we go all the way through and they leave their idea out of desperation aside or else… they will regret it, so do I.

As it was not enough counter-acting allowed that day after an ARAM session for/with my community where the last game made me upset of getting confronted with my underlying but silenced potential in comparison with the actual state of fact being cast aside cause of underperforming observations. The inheld disrespect (subjective opinion) from a few members who have played that ARAM with me not tolerating my current mood made me in one swing expose them why I happened to be in this shocking mood, by showing them the very recording of my „talk & scream“ beforehand. Om that shocking note I was told by more than one person to delete the VOD which I did aside from originally intending to keep - as a sign of betrayal and consequential counter-acting of backstabbery. Consequences for that os that Jia has been taken into the roster of Vinland Raiders and them altogether fight for their spot as the third qualifying team or the Heroes International in Miami As the will of heaven wanted it or for me personally the „Jinx“ that I always had to be, they lost to both 3LeggedCat and 5ShotsofCOPIUM in the Last Chance Qualifier, Saturday into Sunday. Meanwhile I was watching with tregobad at his home together who got to be a closer member that very week. So what are the consquences: MY former passion for the competitive drive in HotS has finally died of and leaving that very scene to itself is the best decision regardless. Nex to that my community took upon the drivers seat for now and hopefully it ends up for more bright times and in time in harmony again with the greater looking, still advancing real life career. Everyone who got to be part of it, thanks for having been there and reading it out! I‘ll always keep on trying and figuring new things out now. Special shoutouts near the end as well to: Gibbygl, MeowMixLive xerati, MoonLightRain. Former knights like BecauseHenry, MontanaHotS, DanyR and asdlow0192 for rollercoaster months! siberkatana, WarmeMilfMitHonig, Airfrischung Die_Horrorbrezel and not to mention the rest of this community that still was part of it until now and didn‘t turn against me, especially someone like sirdavis17, xxJLNxx, moskay_aya, darhanis, DingoLondo, Moyeon, HotsKira, valaar__. I hope our upcoming projects will lift up things and create a new, chill and less cold-hearted adventure. Cheers luv, the cavalry was here! Part 4 ~ Written on Mo, 12th September 2022 by Marlow(o)

So where do I start? Oh yes, when did I first time play the game? On February 2016 to be precise, (15 y.o. back then) when a IRL friend got me into it. Then pretty much I played on lags and very rarely, met some very ancient online friends that are still part of my community in later 2016. That is Kallesin, Branka, Simoxon, Nefalius, Razzara, MrPenguin, EvilEzzy and not to mention Juminator. Grinded a lot with them, and I managed master first time in January 2017. After some breaks, up and downs I somehow salvaged Grand Master with hardstuck winrate in 2018, but after that it took me a long time to become really good. Carried that misery into 2019 as well and finally I managed to play my first comp series/tournament - Method Mayhem in June 2020 with Octer and Galaxy, OutofOrder and Freakz (AYAYA). Months later CCL was on the horizon and I was in need to play inhouses and get known, sadly on the second part of the inhouses I couldn't participate in them, since I needed to drive 50 minutes to my freshly starting apprenticeship in October 2020 and I was hella nervous driving that distance! Over the course of the months, I got the chance of exposure by NicHeroes (commonly referred to Niche these days) himself, who got me into Meta Madness, the first real meeting I got with BadBenny as well, one of my current role models in HotS and a very dear friend! After that Wit and bLaDe were pretty cute and wanted me into their team into MC, we were called "Power Spike", my DPS teammate was called darkmok. Sadly it didn't last that long and I rejoined my team Overdue Boomers (originally called, now known under the name "Corridor Comrades") when I left them for the MC but still played a HL season with them. Yes, decisions were rough but I had to live with it. Besides the perceptible struggles in SL for me since I think I am a mechanical cuck, sometimes I never really achieved #1 what I strived for quite some seasons (12 y.o. rundowner guys). As the time went on and CCL Season 1 has ended and the new Season about to come, at least the Draft in April 17th, I was asked by many friends and one of my closest was messing around me: "You should start streaming and get exposure I think you have the right mentality to build up a community, especially when you care for other communities even more :O " So all of a sudden I got the bravery and successfully first timed a stream on the transition night from April 2nd to April 3rd! 2 days later on a cozy Monday, Grubby even raided me with my 3rd lifetime stream, it felt like dreams came true, I caught onto the belief maybe my goals might be achievable eventually, becoming a role model in HotS and one of the players at the top - in competitive, at least what's left of it. Sadly the 1-2 weeks of streaming wasn't enough exposure for me to make it into the CCL draft and I was deeply frustrated or more like down, my small communtity back then gave me warm words, especially Line and SirDavis, next to TazDingo and Aviater <3 So then it was just about to grow with the community and hope I can get into something one day again. Meanwhile I took a break tho from the EU scene since it tilted me or I was too stressed/burnt out all of a sudden and escaped into the NA Amateur/Academy scene, where I am actually still playing for Can't Censor Ship :^) Then my first young adult travel has begun: Visiting Masters Clash since my confidence in driving said to me, time to monkaSTEER to Paris hihi and it worked! I met wonderful people, not to mention first place Lauber, Rutzou, Svamp, Skogh(i), Dynouh <3, Xrayy, Uli, HasuObs, Niche, Benny, Line, Malganyr, Yia and many others! peepoHappy After I travelled back right into my statistic exam and smurfed it with 91% result, I just continued streaming and all of a sudden past week (week of August 16th) Lauber and Skogh asked me to sub in for them in their Team called "The Donuts" one of the top 3 teams currently iN EU, since Rutzou had PC issues. This exposure and managing the Qualifiers to the X-Cup playoffs gave me another chance to play out the whole playoffs. We managed to get thrid place and for me that was amazing, actually my goal, sadly I was sick on the final's day and if at all we woudl have made it into finals maybe but then my brain or headaches would have gotten me next, I mean Bo7 btw KEKW. Anyway, now due to this row of events over the years, I started to create my own Heroes of the Storm storytelling Marlowo essay, enjoy it, I love you my dear (Kid's) Community and without you and I guess also without me, I wouldn't sit here, being able to type this and be genuinely happy with what I am doing in my life, as simple as it sounds, but some kid here is really grateful, much love. TO BE CONTINUED: Special shoutouts to my closest community members, especially around twitch streams, naming: sirdavis17, cptjackslater, Destijla, Juminator, DingoLondo, octopalo, itsLimuw, Aviater, vomschatteninsnichts, DarkWanderer12. Hymirth, Jozo08, kakarotgg, unins0, khanelia, Niche, Benny, podian, drivron, TTporky, bobismvp (at the begininng) with slpointsstealer, Kallesin, Snopex, DoKatsu, valaar__, SiroHots, Nano__Hots,Ta55dar, Shawzy44, Meat__Bicycle, Scytheclaw, Snakel0rd OTAMOT; rch500, IamPetz icnbah, HaroldKamping and many others including Dynouh even if mostly lurking <3 ; Even some of the latest viewers right now, also naming some of these: sturgepv, Chennley, Célune, Curtisx_ Reepray2182, (yday Argentarana), laazyisnice, SandroSC2, qopenhagen, EnablerHots, popeofpoop, Moyeon06 and so much more <3 EDIT: [Fantastic :P] Four marked personalities I have closed in my heart during the last essay‘s arrival and having finalised it for the new year is being introduced here: Alexastra, Darhanis, NoZZ(plays) and Limuw(U). However not having them added here to begin with is kinda concerning „:visible confusion:“ I wish you and me a wonderful time to continue being a strong and cute, but righteous force in the Nexus! See you until then, Cheers Luvs, the cavalry is here! :^) :marlow8Heart: ~Written at the 24 th August 2021 ~ To be Continued… Well I guess I sit in a lecture hall wasting hours of break time to continue writing the HotS essay after a hot while. We were stuck in August weren‘t we? During Early to end of September HotS has feelingly boomed for me with the zeal and aspiration to get into CCL Season 3, the reception for the streaming was proving it. However when vacations started in end of September and presumable full HotS committment was a good idea… well it escalated to some extent with burn-out, mental pressure of maybe not getting drafted and overcommitting time. The end result was a frustrated vacation of full HotS, starting into the new year/semester of apprenticeship and not getting drafted for CCL S. 3 on Saturday (Oct. 9th) the week after… this big loss from my past „I“ dropped everything quite low, general incentive and the feeling of „waste“ became onmipresent. While X-Cul was going on shortly after, I haven‘t really been in Any fix team there aside from sub‘ing… a tradegy competitively which resulted in a pre-retirement of 1 month onwards UNTIL…30k-Violet has happened. Without any clear sight or will even to go ob and using a weekend to meet up with the first online friends I met in HotS in a so called „Clan-meeting“ or what used to be left of it in Marburg Germany there happened private messaging by both Casp3r and Xatiie, friends around the past year HotS that have been following and both cheering for my competitve career which resulted in me giving it a last shot for some tryouts after the weekend was over but with a new approach. My indication or rather implication was, that I put myself into a „Tank-DPS-Flex“ position which meant to be more focused on Tank competitively, the role that I had to play a lot in SL and felt I wasn‘t as rundown on it but yet haven‘t gotten any thorough seasonal environment to expand the horizon competitively speaking. With around 1 1/2 months of playtime with 30k Violet in the tournament HRCS (= Heroes Rise: Contendor Series) we managed to close in - literally - a 3-2 grand final against NotFans during a Saturday night for Europeans (6h degen HandsUp) After that, Christmas Holidays came and new ways to branch out after having held on a big individual success. But there comes a trap of it. With the impression of feeling invincible I signed myself up to continue playing for 30k Violet in the whole NA scene (NGS storm div) + HRCS Season 2, starting an EU competitive grind again with my incoming team „Five Shots of Copium“ (w/ Nano, Casp3r, Unforgiven, Alfredo and me both for HL and X-Cup and eventually MC )and last but not least being there as a semi-consistent HotS streamer and founder from a quite cute community, that I infinitely care for. Next to that there is obviously RL with an apprenticeship and incoming part time studies of biomedical science. All this was stressing up the mental and things had to become worse with two very striking and unfortunate death announcements one of them having been during Christmas (26th report of Fangirl/BudSannin having passed away) and right after my holiday were over, on Monday night it was YugoBetrugo that has fallen. Those fatalities cumulated up desperation, so that I couldn‘t think clearly anymore. With the help of my friend Xatiie it became clear that my only chance to spontaneously try getting a more „free head“ asap is that I had to drive on the motorway for a longer route to be completely for myself and alone. Well on that night, I almost encountered with a ghost driver.. But during that load of intensity I was able to compose myself and realise the magnitude of both deaths, thus the impact for myself. Then it became clear for me that I shouldn‘t risk my early life by simply committing to overeager scheduling and trying to manage too many things at once without having any spare time for your own self and sake… Consequently I cut the NA branch and abdicated from 30k Violet temporarily in order to get some scheduling freedom but also knowing more than ever that my hopes of getting into medical research and being a useful asset there will be a success and most important goal even if I may drop an old CCL Dream completely for it … just because I lost two lovely People, I barely got the chance to know more personal stuff of them - even if they were omnipresent in my daily Internet life -, due to medical complications like metastases or inflammations… Now it‘s mid January and my path in both HotS and in the medicine is yet unclear. For the love of Yugo‘s and Fangirls legacy I will do my best to endure. May you rest well in Peace and your deeds in the HotS community won‘t be forgotten. Happy New Year to everyone who will read the next chapter. At the end now special shoutouts to the most recent and lovely community members that got part of me: moskay_aya, Xatiie, ElektrikZ, Clammy (only_clams), dermeistermike, darko2112, GTea4ever, Bockelie, Frozen_Civforum, 6Rorre9, Rayze, MataHari (zadomspremni1986), taccr, achillescosmos1, nogoat_real, Peudanos and mswindupbird! Part 2 ~ Written on the 10th January 2022 by Marlow(o) It‘s been a long while since I put in another essay, now it‘s time for part 3, especially thanks to my incoming „semi-final“ period of intermediary exams that are coming in from end of May onwards until July D: January was a month of dynamic. I can still recall how Nano together with Alfredo asked me to reunite and forge a team together, right at the time when I freshly got into the tank role competitively and as the idea sounded very appealing to me I signed in and even suggested Casp3r - who became my best friend over the course of the past months - as our offlane spot. At the start he was unsure to go while still wanting to stick with his old For-Fun team but also the zeal to grind with us. He decided for the latter. After a rough start and very few overlaps with us 5 playing together (back then with Unforgiven taking the second dps spot and Alfredo on Support)we barely managed to achieve good results in X-Cup winter at that time. Also I finally had to cut off from the NA path alongside 30k Violet since the scheduling was too mzch to handle and my capacity of staying awake throughout a long day in medical lab school. Eitherway with a small break between incoming MC Qualifiers and X-Cup there was a smaller size - French-hosted - tournament „Nexus Cup“ by Malganyr where I got invited by aymerig - a viewer and Frenchie that appreciate(d) me a lot - to play with his underdog team and we named us „KeepoShyers“ Managed to get #5 spot which basically meant the top of the amateur teams with the other 4 remaming teams being aggregates of the best players in this game. I still remember how being this close was utrerly frustrating me and confirmed me being just some hardstuck (competitive) player who can‘t cross this „amateur line“ . Weeks have passed and ar the end if February after acing some exams I got the amazing chance to meet Casp3r IRL (again) at his residence in Munic! A joyful ride on the German Autobahn to get to him and spend a lovely weekend with him. These days put me closer in relation to him as a real friend ^w^ Shortly after that, at the start of march where MC Qualifiers began and for the first two Qualifiers our roster of FiveShotsofCopium experienced another change with Alfredo swapping to Dps and Guiltyspaek joine dus for the support role in the 4th qualifier. We had a big run and almost beat RageQuitGami g (RQG) in the finals which would have guranteed us the spot into the Masters Clash Group Stage.. pnt hat very Sunday I also celebrated my twitch birthday (yes it‘s been a freaking year with you Pepega s and 12 y.o. has grown!) that went on a 12-13 hours stream in total with a karaoke episode to finish it off after the Qualifiers have ended {yes still can‘t imagine I sang in front of „my“ crowd :criiiiinge: } During these weeks there also happened to br Meta Madness #6 - which due to my me tal burnout period - I completely overlooked and passed out on. However after having talked shortly before the Meta Madness draft took place at Sunday evening, Khaldor gave me the chance to apply for it still and be draftable as a player. To my surprise I even got drafted and that was by Nic! The week after in the middle of the week we played group Stage and got second seed there, heading into playoffs the week after. There - with some overlaps of other tournaments and your part-time study math lecture you ended up making 4th place with Team Nic where we ended up losing 2-3 against Team Daykwaza on Sunday (yes I still recall that closely missed Dshield due to miscommunication in game 5 or my start of game (Game 1) on that day with Garrosh against Breez‘ Tyrael… REEEEE And who could have thought? Right after that we (FiveShotsOfCOPIUM) were mesnt to play Masters Clash Qualifiers against Granit Gaming - a team of mostly former HotS Pros that had worse seeding of us. Even with us being in the driver‘s seed for the first 3 games we ended up losing 2 od them and lost the fourth map by far which resulted in the denial of entering the Masters Clash Tournament… After this very day (signaling it for myself with one of my favourite Star Wars quotes being „Every choice you have made, has led you to this moment.“)I started being very critical upon seriously continuing and just after the nex few days I decided to quit competitive entirely from my team - before already signing out of the free agent pool in CCL (which was already up to unlikely due to the „draft“changes). It was time to retire and go into exile from the scene I used to aspire, since what‘s coming ahead of me (very noticable concurrently) is more important and very demanding, a phase of exam and a test id you can go on in your life with this path you chose or not. My grand final of that story was marked by the end of my vacation which was described by one word: community It actually happened that I was meeting the „heart“ of my community from April 22th to April 24th in Frankfurt am Main. The cute particpants have been: DingoLondo, sirdavis17, cptjackslater, Anduinsehne, Frozen_Civforum, Darhanis, Moyeon, GeeX, loqust, Kaischie and the rundowner himself! These moments have showed me how some people out there valued me for what I did and for them more than I could have ever imagine and because of that I still spend time with them through streaming and will continue this cycle for the time being and when I have time left to spare. So to sum it up, my future with this game is uncertain, I switched my style of being a German HotS streamer when it comes to streaming Grand Master SL and even if I am very recently part of XraYY‘s for fun German stack in Heroeslounge I won‘t even think of what will happen after. I have learnt that thinking that way was… and is bad… Eventually for another return or forever gone! A story of a hobbit-sized eager, thrilled and passionate 12 year old in Heroes of the Storm. His name, Marlow. The last two quotes of two franchises will always describe me: Cheer luvs the cavalry is here! Always remember, trust only in the Force! Special shoutouts to the recent members that came closer to this stream: asdlow, nansi35, AlpakaMann, SlySgaile, OakwardSilence, kurasphey, trumpetsofjericho Perfect_Prince_Slaanesh Part 3 ~ Written on the 3rd May 2022 by Marlow(o)

Cheers luvs, well I finally got my Animated Tracer emote going while searching out for new artists to draw emotes for me and I found a destination when it comes for innovative and passionate designing of Animated ones. Luissiza_ (on twitch) or leidanplay on fiverr was doing a very cooperative work with me on my 4th Animated Sub emote - the Tracer monkaSTEER. Small leak, I am gonna order a second animated emote which has been in queue from me for far too long to them as well! Go take a look and get one yourself! UwU

Our most recent & final updated follower emote! In honor to my cute member aymerig and his approval idea! Cheers cOwO :3