Maciej Krzykowski

Maciej Krzykowski

Maciej Krzykowski (born April 1, 1991^[1]), who also goes by the pseudonym av3k, is an active professional player of the first person shooter series Quake. He has Polish nationality and resides in Ostróda.^[2] He has been activily competing in international Quake competitions since March 5, 2006^[3] and is signed to Dutch electronic sports team Serious Gaming.^[4] On July 8, 2007 he became the youngest Quake and Electronic Sports World Cup champion ever after winning the annual Electronic Sports World Cup in Paris, France without losing a map.^[5] He won three professional Quake Series competitions at DreamHack 2008-2010 and is the current Electronic Sports World Cup & Intel Extreme Masters Europe vice-champion.

Player biography

Quake IV

Krzykowski is widely regarded as the strongest Quake IV player ever alongside former Swedish professional gamer Johan Quick and was defeated by only four players in the game: Russian Anton Singov, Johan Quick, Swede Alex Ingarv and Swede Magnus Olsson. Notable as well is that he faced American professional gamer Johnathan Wendel three times in competition and won all their encounters, this has garnered attention because the player is ten years older than he is and held five world champion titles at a time in which Krzykowski was not old enough to enter most professional competitions. One of Krzykowski's victories was considered the 6th biggest moment in professional gaming^[6] by gamepro.

He is also considered a prodigy player due to his young age. In 2006 he was considered one of the players of the year and the Quake revelation of the year by competitive gaming media around the world^[7] In 2007 he was awarded the eSports Award's 'Breakthrough of the Year' award in all of competitive gaming.

Quake III

Following Quake IV he focussed on Quake III competitions in 2008 as it became the main game of professional Deathmatch competition. He took third place at his first competition in the game, losing to Magnus Olsson and Belarusian Alexey Yanushevsky at the Masters event of the Electronic Sports World Cup.^[8] He would win two major LAN competitions that year (DreamHack and GameGune) as well as take another third place at the Electronic Sports World Cup masters in Athens, Greece. He was unable to defend his Electronic Sports World Cup title as his visa to the United States was denied.^[9]

Quake Live

Following the beta launch of Quake Live professional competition started focussing on the new game in hopes of attracting a new generation of players. It became the main game played starting in the 2009 season, a year in which no Electronic Sports World Cup took place.^[10] This, combined with the previous cancellation of the World Series of Video Games meant there were very few professional competitions that year. In 2010 the Electronic Sports World Cup is to take place again and the Extreme Masters has decided to use Quake Live as a main game of choice, making it a more active year for professional competition. Krzykowski proved himself one of the strongest players in the world in the new game, taking second place at the European championship of the Extreme Masters in 2010 and third place at the world championship as well as defending his DreamHack championship in 2009 & 2010. He is the current Electronic Sports World Cup vice-champion.

Full Tournament Overview

2011

• 5th - Dreamhack Summer - QuakeLive - Jonkoping, Sweden^[11]
• 5th - ESL Intel Extreme Masters V World Championship Finals - QuakeLive (Hanover, Germany) - 600$^[12]
• 2nd - ESL Intel Extreme Masters V European Championship Finals - QuakeLive (Kiev, Ukraine) - 2.500$^[13]

Prize money total: 3.100$

2010

• 5th - DreamHack Winter Kaspersky QUAKE LIVE Championships - QuakeLive (Jonkoping, Sweden)
• 5th - BEAT IT Finals - QuakeLive (Jonkoping, Sweden)
• 3rd - ESL Intel Extreme Masters V Global Challenge Gamescom - QuakeLive (Cologne, Germany) - 850$
• 2nd - Electronic Sports World Cup - QuakeLive (Paris, France) - 4.000$^[14]
• 1st - DreamHack Summer Kaspersky QUAKE LIVE Championships - QuakeLive (Jonkoping, Sweden) - 3.881$
• 3rd - ESL Intel Extreme Masters IV World Championship Finals - QuakeLive (Hannover, Germany) - 1.600$
• 2nd - ESL Extreme Masters IV European Championship Finals - QuakeLive (Cologne, Germany) - 1.500$

Prize money total: 10.981$

2009

• 1st - Dreamhack Winter - QuakeLive (Jonkoping, Sweden) - 2.400$
• 9th - QuakeCon - QuakeLive (Dallas, USA)

Prize money total: 2.400$

2008

• 1st - Dreamhack Winter - Quake III (Jönköping, Sweden) [seeded #1] - 985$
• 3rd - Electronic Sports World Cup Masters - Quake III (Athens, Greece) [seeded #3] - 2.000$
• 1st - GameGune 2008 Professional Competition - Quake III (Bilbao, Spain) [seeded #4] - 4.235$
• 3rd - Electronic Sports World Cup Masters - Quake III (Paris, France) [seeded #16] - 1.000$

Prize money total: 8.220$

2007

• 2nd - Multiplay i32 $20.000 Quake IV Cup - Quake IV (Newbury, United Kingdom) [seeded #2]^[15] - 3.500$
• 4th - World Series of Video Games, Toronto - Quake IV (Toronto, Canada) [seeded #8] - 1.200$
• 1st - Electronic Sports World Cup - Quake IV (Paris, France) [seeded #1] - 10.000$
• 1st - World Series of Video Games, Louisville - Quake IV (Louisville, USA) [seeded #5]^[16] - 5.250$
• 1st - Electronic Sports World Cup, Poland - Quake IV (Poznan, Poland)
• 1st - Multiplay i30 & Belkin Tournament - Quake IV (Newbury, United Kingdom) [seeded #3]^[17] - 4.000$

Prize money total: 23.950$

2006

• 1st - Poznan Game Arena - Quake IV (Poznan, Poland)^[18] - 1.500$
• 3rd - World Cyber Games All-Stars 2on2 - Quake IV Monza, Italy^[19]
• 5th - World Cyber Games All-Stars 1on1 - Quake IV (Monza, Italy) [seeded #5]^[20]
• 2nd - Digital Life Expo - Quake IV (New York, USA) [seeded #7]^[21] - 7.470$ for DigitalLife, QuakeCon, The Gathering & Netgamez^[22]
• 4th - QuakeCon - Quake IV (Dallas, USA) [seeded #14]^[23]
• 1st - The Gathering - Quake IV (Hamar, Norway)^[24]
• 1st - Samsung Netgamez - Quake IV (Nieuwegein, Netherlands) [seeded #2]^[25]

Prize money total: 8.970$

Online

• ZOTAC QuakeLive Cup #90 (100€)^[26]
• ZOTAC QuakeLive Cup #86 (100€)
• ZOTAC QuakeLive Cup #85 (100€)
• ZOTAC QuakeLive Cup #64 (100€)^[27]
• ZOTAC QuakeLive Cup #54 (100€)^[28]
• ZOTAC QuakeLive Cup #18 (100€)^[29]
• ZOTAC QuakeLive Cup #7 (100€)
• G Data QuakeLive Cup #27 (100€)^[30]

Awards

• (Global Gaming League) Player of the Year / Quake Player of the Year (runner-up) 2007
• (ESports Award) Newcomer / Breakthrough of the Year 2007
• (Global Gaming League) Player of the Year / Quake revelation 2006

References

External links

• av3k on e-Sports Earnings