[BigTastyBaconAOE]

I have been playing video games for nearly my entire life, ever since I watched my dad play Age of Empires 1 (AOE1) in 2000.

I was so captivated by it that I wanted to learn everything about it.

When I turned six in 2001, my parents gave me my dad’s old PC and his copy of AOE1, and I was ecstatic.

I spent countless hours playing against the AI and having matches that lasted days, since my playing time was monitored.

In between gaming sessions, I would think of ways to defeat the AI and eagerly look forward to my next gaming session.

As I grew older, I moved away from AOE1 and played some AOE2, but not to the same extent.

I became a console player and played games like FIFA, Halo, and GTA, and later on games like The Witcher and The Last of Us.

Living in the countryside, I rarely had a stable enough internet connection to play online.

That changed when I was in my early twenties.

When I discovered online play, I jumped into Rainbow Six: Siege.

I was fascinated by this game and eventually joined a team and competed in small leagues.

In late 2021, after four years of playing, I became frustrated with the game and started watching a video by T90 called “The Legend of WALL”.

I was instantly captivated by AOE2 and started consuming more and more AOE2 content.

This rekindled my desire to play, so I bought a friend’s old PC and the game.

I immediately started playing ranked and quickly realized that I didn’t know much about the game.

Nonetheless, I was hooked and felt a joy playing that I hadn’t experienced in a long time.

I eventually climbed up the ladder and reached 1,000 ELO.

I then started looking for tournaments to play in and formulated my goals for AOE2.

I wanted to reach 1,200 ELO by the end of the year, 1,400 by the end of 2023, 1,500 by 2024, and 2,000 by 2025.

I joined several discords and met a lot of people, and I even started helping to host my first tournament.

Now, a year later, I have played nearly 400 1v1s, 600 team games, and 50 tournament games, and I am sitting at my highest ELO of 1,353.

I am very thankful to the AOE2 community for welcoming newbies and keeping the game alive.

It is an honor to be a part of it!

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