Asking retires from Overwatch

tamagao

September 21, 2019

DPS player Asking has announced his retirement from professional Overwatch. He said he will focus on Apex Legends moving forward.

The end for me

Read: https://t.co/hBCHXuWdZR
— ASKING (@Asking_sf2) September 21, 2019

Asking cited poor results, a loss of passion for the game and a trade between the Valiant and Uprising this season that fell through while Asking was on Uprising Academy as reasons for his retirement.

He first entered the pro scene in the summer of 2018 when Asking made his Trials and then Contenders debut as the DPS for 6nakes. He later joined the Uprising's academy team, at the time Toronto Esports, in October of that year. He remained with them until April of this year after the team finished eighth in Contenders North America East.

Asking joined the Samsung Morning Stars roster prior to the start of the most recent Contenders season. He and his teammates made it into the top six of Contenders Europe by map score, but were unable to win any matches in the playoffs.

The Morning Stars currently have just one DPS player on their roster.

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Emaxmagnus

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🕯️if only that trade happened 😢

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KuroiRyuu9625

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Loss of passions aren't often remedied by getting traded though.

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Emaxmagnus

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Guaranteed 50k and playing in the major league would help a bit :>

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KuroiRyuu9625

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Tell that to Birdring and other players that played in OWL but still lost passion for the game.

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Emaxmagnus

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I dont know know what would these players have to do with asking but okay

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KuroiRyuu9625

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Examples of players that got what you mentioned and still lost passion for the game. I'm saying $$ and playing in the top league aren't always the answer to players not enjoying the game as much?

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at what point do you start to realize that everyone loses passion for there job. but do it anyways.

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KuroiRyuu9625

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Right but Esports careers tend to be short, and putting in as much effort as they do doesn't seem to be worth it if their desire to play the game, their passion, is gone. This isn't even unique to Esports, in many other sports you have players that retire because the grind just isn't worth it to them, and no amount of money would have changed it for some.

I don't know if this is specifically what Asking is going through, but I'm just pointing out that a shiny new contract in the big leagues may not be enough to want to keep the grind going if you've lost the passion to play the game.

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murasaki

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Esports careers tend to be short

esports careers in OW tend to be short

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KuroiRyuu9625

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Just go caster 4head.

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gomak

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a loss of passion for the game

shocking

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Update:
https://twitter.com/Asking_sf2/status/1177603211705901057

"Yeah i've realized that i love that game too much in a team i was fucking mad at ranked specially since i cant play solo soo lets say my last tweet didn't exist : ONE LAST RIDE BOYS"

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b8s hyperomegapoggers

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DixR

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SIKE!

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