Doomblud

"I will play this game til they shut down the servers, I have fully accepted that"

## Biography

**History**

Doomblud is a Belgian player who started playing the game during Closed Beta. He lost his account when switching laptops late 2016 which is when his current account was created. His passion for the game grew immensely when the ps4 beta came out which is when he was finally able to play the game with decent graphics and framerate. He transitioned to PC when he got his college laptop, a gaming laptop with a 1050ti, which allowed for a stable fps at lower graphics settings. He entered his first few team around this time as well, not finding much success he decided to learn the game properly before giving the competitive scene another go at the end of 2019.

During this period he would regularly sub for t3 teams, even being part of their roster in some tournament finales and claiming some prizes along the way. Doomblud went through some rough times with his parents during this time which translated to extreme levels of toxicity. A beast that was later tamed by the inevitability of becoming an adult. His calmed down mind led to Doomblud doing one of the most insane things any Paladins player can undertake, learning every small thing about the game. In this period you could ask Doomblud every DPS output, range scaling, aoe falloff percentage and ability duration, he would tell you with 99% accuracy. He studied every champ, not with the intention of playing them, but with the intention of beating them. This would propel him into Grandmaster at the start of season 2 where he would land in the top 25 players within 2 weeks of season 2, split 1. After this he felt like he no longer had anything to prove and returned to quick play to hone his skills and expand his roster of champions.

He would eventually cross paths with Piritex and Kyro. The captain and coach of a small team. Initially the team had a completely different roster. Piri and Kyro gave up on the team though due to the majority of the roster being unwilling to adapt, leaving the team within just 2 weeks. Shortly after however, Piritex would reach out to Doomblud about a new team, while they had a solid roster, the team was lacking a flexible DPS player. Doomblud accepted the offer and was thrown into the new teams third set of scrims. This team was known as Cataclysm at the time but would eventually become part of StushGG, a British esports group. The team had a rocky start, swapping some members and going through the early stages of a team Doomblud had seen so many times by now. But he pulled through. Eventually Piritex left as a coach which left the team in a state where they would have no clear direction of improving. Doomblud then called upon his best friend, GaigeTheViking, to coach the team. One of the things that was immediately clear was the lack of a leader. Doomblud was assigned the IGL role, which transformed his usual quiet nature into a drill sergeant, barking orders, which led to improvement.

Stush saw itself beating their rivals, infected dragons, on a more regular basis and even started taking points from teams which seemed untouchable before, and before they knew it they started hitting top 3 on the regular. Unfortunately, due to strict parents, Doomblud was unable to seriously compete and had to quit most tournaments halfway through. He therefore decided to quit the team and competition as a whole, focusing instead on college and later uni.

After quitting the team Doom would take the game more casually, making cynical comments about the games future.

**Magistrate Legacy League**

Before becoming a serious competitor, Doom was a member of the Magistrate Legacy League. A small Tier 3 league organized by WuffieGG and GGJay. He was responsible for anything technical such as their website and brackets as well as the screens used to indicate the draft.

**Biscuit Inc**

Doomblud and his best friend GaigeTheViking are inseparable. This was proven when they decided to start a tournament together. The aim of Biscuit Inc was to create a fun tournament which bends the rules each edition to provide a more dynamic experience. Unfortunately the Paladins community seems filled with people who only care about playing the game to make a quick buck rather than having a laugh. The crystal prizing was added as a bonus at first but it became obvious that many tryhards simply didn't want to play a tournament which limited their champion pools.

Doomblud understandable decided to ditch the tournament and is working on a video explaining why exactly he left as well as some general concerns for the game.

In the general chat of Biscuit Inc's Discord server Doomblud mentioned the tournament might return when Evil Mojo allows more interesting rulesets to be created within the custom games creator.

**Controversies**

While working for Legacy League TV, Doomblud made a joke in the leagues general chat about the possession of oversized male genitalia. The joke was interpreted as a joke about unconsensual coitus by an ex employee of HiRez which nearly cause Doom to be blacklisted for eternity. Doom had dealt with tons of injustice and fought alongside the 2 founders of the league, Wuffie and GGJay, to keep him off the blacklist and to get the league's prizing back. They succeeded and Doom pretends to be scared of fridges as a joke. "The OG's remember the fridge" is one of his many quotes about the incident alongside him randomly tweeting "fridge" from time to time, knowing that ex employee still checks his twitter from time to time.

## Trivia

* Doomblud's favourite champion is Barik. A funny coincidence alongside this is that his best friends favourite champion is Makoa, who shares the same voice actor.
* Doomblud is known to butcher peoples names on purpose as a sign of friendship. He will refer to NTBees as NTBizzle, WuffieGG as Wuffles (or sometimes Wufflydunklies) and TJDJ as Teejers alongside many more. One of the most notable ones is how he pronounces his friend Feie's name as Fedschjen, which Feie eventually adopted as his online handle.
* The first time Doomblud would refer to himself as Doomblud was back in 2009 on a browser game called Sherwood Dungeon. His limited English led to him slapping some edgy words together and misspelling one at that. He grew attached to it however and started using it everywhere a couple years later.