It was always in the back of my mind that I needed to get higher elo to be taken seriously.

I always felt that intelligent people would be able to pick apart anything I said with method and scrutiny. If it was worth saying then why would it matter my elo.

I felt that getting diamond was just a way to appease the unintelligent (but not necessarily undesirable) into appraising the worth of my words.

I'm diamond 5. I figured people would take me more seriously after plat so plat was my goal. Now I think to myself diamond 5 isn't high enough. Why not diamond 1? Even in the LCS though... Read More