With Team Gamersleague, Snute and RiChY made up one of their 2v2 teams, called Gamersleague Moose Destroyers. Despite that, he got invited to Team Gamersleague in late 2010, and that's where his progaming adventure started for real. Snute started playing StarCraft II in the beta, but didn't have time to get really good at it, because of him being busy with real life. After that trip to Korea got a bit of competitive drive back". He "got smashed left and right and some korean BM'd with a simple line: "You need effort". Although he had earlier quit Brood War, he did play some iCCup there. Snute got a taste of competitive StarCraft when he traveled to South Korea a little before the release of StarCraft II. In the beginning of 2013, he was picked up by Team Liquid and with them, he began a lifestyle of traveling to events, competing and training hard. Īs a part of Team Gamersleague, Snute improved dramatically, culminating with a Homestory Cup VI win at the end of 2012.
While in University, he felt that dedication was necessary in order to do well professionally in the field of music technology and that it "cannot be half-assed." Feeling the same way about StarCraft II, he decided had to choose between the two and, in 2012, he chose StarCraft, becoming a full-time progamer.
Snute joined Team Gamersleague in late 2010 while playing SC2 as a hobby and, in 2011, started studying Music Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim with the goal of becoming a "renown trance producer". Falling behind his younger peers and doubting his own ability, Snute was rejected from his preferred school and eventually lost his passion for the piano. But he felt that there "seem to be things that couldn't be understood or mastered" even with amazing teachers and hours and hours of practice. His whole family played some instrument or another and Snute was very dedicated in becoming a good piano player.
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Snute also aspired to become a professional pianist. He continued with DDR as a hobby and for workouts until he moved from Norway and no longer had access to the equipment. Able to perform 10 steps a second, he would go on to become the Norwegian champion of Dance Dance Revolution in 2004, and was featured in several Norwegian newspapers. He was bitten by the competitive (jitter-) bug again in 2002 when his older brother got a dance mat for the PlayStation and he developed a competitive mindset for dance games. However, they lost interest after a while and Snute quit playing Brood War after a couple of years. Competitive by nature, Snute and his classmates in elementary school would hold StarCraft: Brood War tournaments. Snute was born in Oppegård, Norway on July 28, 1990.
However, after Ion Storm Dallas closed in 2001, a few of their former employees were scooped up by Blizzard and two of them later revealed to former Blizzard executive Patrick Wyatt that the demos Ion Storm presented of Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 were actually pre-rendered trailers, and the players "presenting" the game's demos were actors pretending to play the game. StarCraft eventually released in March of 1998 to critical and commercial success, and retrospectively being dubbed one of the defining games of the RTS genre. Realizing that the version of StarCraft they had was worse than they had thought, following the release of Diablo at the end of that year, Blizzard began to "lick wounds and plan for the future" by restarting development on StarCraft and completely overhauling their development process as a whole. The original version of StarCraft developed prior to 1996 was was considered to be inferior to other games shown at the time, most notably the real-time strategy (RTS) game Dominion: Storm Over Gift 3 being developed by Ion Storm Dallas, which was also shown at E3 and the Consumer Electronics Show that year and appeared to be miles ahead of what StarCraft was, with consumers responding to the latter game weakly as " Warcraft in space".
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