A few weeks ago, the Obelisk glowed purple. Color can be quickly associated with themes linked to the genre. But this time, the sense of tonality taken by the symbol of Buenos Aires has to do with something else: The 9z Team became the first Argentine team to qualify for the Antwerp Major in Romania from Counter Strike: Global Offensive.
An isolated event, but also historic. That is why the city government recognized the enormous effort and trajectory of the esports team at the helm of Francesco Postiglione, better known as Frankkaster; one of the pioneers in the world of gaming, esports and streaming.
“The Obelisk thing is a dream I have long dreamed of; in fact, we had planned that if we won the Blast when we were traveling to Serbia, we were talking to the Planetarium to light it up purple ”, Frankkaster enthuses.
In 2021, the 9z Team defeated Vitality of France, the world leader, during the BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2021, at the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament that took place in Serbia. That marked a great milestone in the team’s career, though eventually fell to Heroic in Denmark.
The Obelisk, tinted purple by 9z Team
The 9z Team painted the Obelisk purple with their success in the international Counter Strike: Global Offensive scene.
“I always thought‘ crazy if they make the Obelisk purple for us ’, but it’s impossible. If they arrest him for a national action, see if they arrest him for an esports team, and ayun, it happened. This is historical recontra. I am very happy and grateful for the recognition because it positions the Counter elsewhere that the ecosystem has long been looking for ”, details the CEO of 9z and streamer.
“La Violeta” fulfilled the dream of becoming the First Argentines in history to qualify for the Counter Strike World Cup. It’s the result of Fran’s many years of work, innovation and driving that have put everything into a passion to make his hobby, and passion for work. This is a machine that encourages you to go for more.
9z Team, the esports team that qualified for the Counter Strike world tournament. Photo: Maxi Failla
The 9z Team performs in a variety of disciplines, from Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CSGO): Principal at Academy, League of Legends (LoL)LoL Wild Rift, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG)FIFA, Free Fire, fortnite at Bahaghari 6 until Valuable. Within one of them there are different teams (teams) with different players (players) and proplayers (pro players).
In the case of Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CSGO) they have two categories of players. Those in the Principal, who will be propplayers -players who have been in the discipline for a long time and have some expertise-, as is the case in Luca Nidottibetter known as “Luken” in CSGO, and players who are in the Academy, who if we translate it into soccer jargon would be “reserve players”, as is the case in NazzLoL player.
The gaming house of the 9z Team
Luken, the propplayer who traveled to Romania to compete with the 9z Team. Photo: Andres D’Elia.
The 9z Team organization currently has GH (Gaming House) where the players stay and live which must adhere to the daily routine programmed by professionals such as a coach, a sports manager, a nutritionist, a cook, a sports psychologist -Lorena Gaivizzo, who is also a CENARD psychologist- and a kinesiologist.
All of these professionals put together the work of each of the players living in Belgrano GH, organizing by person and adapting their schedules so that they have four to five hour training sessions with intermediate moments of rest, that they can eat and rest properly, and at the same time practice some sport or consult a kinesiologist in case of lumbar discomfort, due to the number of hours spent by players sitting in practice and training to play in the different disciplines.
On the whole, they are a large group of men, young people and adults who belong to the organization who obviously have followers who follow them everywhere, the famous. “fandom” which is a kind of fan, harangue and motivation for esports (electronic sports) players.
“La Violeta”, the 9z fandom
“The Violet” This is the common call of the 9z organization and it even has its own song, which is inspired by those in the field, and created by its CEO. “What could I want more than to spend my whole life, with this fan who deserves to come first, let’s lay eggs Violeta, go to the front, 2 to 1 is celebrated forever. Touch it, touch it, 9z. Give it, give it 9z ”, Francisco said waving his hand.
The fandom has its own color, purple, its own shirt -sold at Gamergy for 5,000 pesos and Within 10 minutes, a thousand copies were sold out.– Own band and swollen first. Drums, cymbals, bugles and songs. Is there anything more similar to soccer folklore? This passion was awakened by electronic sports.
Francisco saw it in front of everyone. “It’s an industry of the future. In addition to being entertainment, it’s like sports, it’s training kids, like football saying it’s getting kids off drugs, sports can be the same.” , he reflects on the influence of the esports and entertainment industry on young people.
“Actually, the human bond that exists in esports is incredible. We’re all internet nerd babes. We’re social misfits, we don’t end up socializing and we find our place on the internet and there we are well received, we form a belonging group, a family“, Explanation.
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Source: Clarin
