Introduction

Greetings Scorum community. I run by a lot of names, but for the simplicity’s sake call me Fingersik. I am 23 years old student. I study Information science on a Faculty of Philosophy (Charles University) in Prague. I have just finished my bachelor’s degree and am enjoying some free time before the “master’s degree journey” begins. I have arrived from the Blockchain neighbourhood (Steem) to target a very specific niche – the sports. If you want to get to know more about my academic adventures, philosophies, analysis of cryptosphere, or the projects I currently am up to, I recommend visiting my Steem’s blog. The Scorum’s branch will solely concentrate on my career, the team’s journey and the Ultimate Frisbee itself. Allow me now to dive deeper into my sportsman’s history. Since I lack photos of “prenatal” and “virtual” phase, I will use only the ones from the “mature” phase throughout the article.

Prenatal phase

Being born into a top level athletes’ family (both my parents played handball for our National Team), I was always encouraged, almost forced, to do some sports. When I was 3 I had the experience with the first sport – the hockey. I attended only few trainings. My mom soon realized that hockey is not really for me, when we played the actual game for the first time, someone bumped into me and my reaction was something like “didn’t you see that I was going this way?” Good observation mom, I salute you:P.

Then I started playing basketball, but I was teamed up with some older guys that I didn’t really understand back then. It took me 2 years to leave the sport to find my first dedication.

At the age of 8 I started playing soccer as a goalkeeper. I spent all my youth playing the damned sport. I’m not really fond of soccer, mainly due to the mental level of the players, total lack of spirit of the game in the sport and from my perspective not so enjoyable gameplay. Goalie’s life is though completely different dimension. It’s all about catching stuff. You’re the last line of defence, you jump a lot, fall to the ground a lot and don’t need to run (almost) at all. Perfect conditions for me. I remained loyal to the sport till the age of 15. That was the time when all I wanted to do was to hang out with my friends on weekends and to play more PC games. As I grew older a realized what kind of corrupt community the sport has and I simply had to stop. Before II committed to PC gaming fully, I player table tennis for 2 years still.

Virtual phase

The dream of becoming a progamer was born. I have always loved playing computer games, but in between the age of 15 and 20 I pushed it to the limits. I recommend reading this article to understand my overall perception of PC games. I started playing Trackmania, transitioned to Team Fortress 2 which was the game where I was invited into a competitive team for the first time and since then I didn’t want to experience games in no other way. We managed to reach division 3 in Team Fortress league, but then the team disbanded for “lack of progress” and I changed games once again. I started playing MOBA games. I started with Heroes of Newerth, but received an invite into DOTA 2 closed beta in about a year or two and then my semi-pro gamer’s career started. I dedicated over 8 thousands of in-game hours into MOBA games combined. In our best times, we have trained against the International 1 teams like old Roxkis (or what the name was anyway) and stuff. We were really good, but not too good to actually manage to pull off a win against such a teams. Nevertheless I saw a huge potential if only we stuck together and continued to practice together. But after about a year or so the team was disbanded for “lack of progress”…meh…it gets repetitive right?

By that time I realized that I will never ever have such a luck for such a good teammates again and I decided that it’s probably time to let the dream be.

Mature phase

When I thought that I won’t ever play physical sports again a strange thing happened. I uncovered a community that was as competitive as I would like, as free as I would like and as sympathetic as I would like. It was an Ultimate Frisbee community. I will dedicated future posts to explaining everything in more detail, ranging from what Ultimate Frisbee even is, to the individual tournaments or our sort of decentralized team structure, but here’s a TLDR.

My body was a total mess since I have never really been moving throughout my sports career. When I was a goalkeeper I only had to fall to the ground from time to time. When I played table tennis (since I’m 2 meters tall) I didn’t really have to move too much because I reached all the places on the table with ease. I though started playing a sport when one has to run…A LOT…abruptly change directions…A LOT…and vertically and horizontally jump from full speed…A LOT. The first 2 years were really intense. I was often times injured because my body simply was not able to do what I needed it to do. It was still worth it. I did what I could to contribute to the team and the players there saw it. They took me to the European League in my very first rookie year. The next year I was invited to the Czech National Team which was insane back then. After 3 years my body is FINALLY becoming used to the pressure it has to withstand. My rookie years are also at the end and it’s time for me to start contributing even more, and that’s what I intend to do. We have managed to qualify to the European League Finals every single year since I started playing (not my doing lol) and we have also managed to do so last weekend, therefore the season is currently peaking. But more about Ultimate in separate posts really.

What I want to accomplish here

Since all the players have to pay for everything connected to the sport themselves, I find myself in need of spare money quite often. Since we are a “European team” we travel across Europe a lot and every single season costs over 600 dollars (the supreme low cost budget style lol). Scorum could be the place where people would be interested in our endeavours and users here could help me crowdfund resources for the tournaments and equipment so I could easily continue doing what I love doing and spend all my money for, thus further increasing the time I could commit to practices and rehabilitations. We shall see. What I know is that I’ll try to contribute with top level content!

Hope you guys are looking forward to reading more about us! See you next time and leave comment below.