Valo Masters is coming to Madrid and I'm so excited

 

Hey lovely readers, I assume most of you who follow Valo have seen the news. Masters is coming to Madrid, and as the title suggests, I'm so freaking excited! So let’s talk about it! (I know a short intro, crazy for me!)

 

Anyway, if you’ve been following literally any news outlet or social media for Valo you’ll know that Masters 2024 is headed to Madrid. I'm really excited for so many reasons (we all know I love a list):

 

-       This is going to be a Masters that I don’t have to watch because of work, I can choose to watch it and create content – this is a major win for me

-       Its literally my time zone – no early mornings or late nights (whoop my sleep schedule)

-       The seats are so affordable (and I mean it compared to other tickets) 

-       Valo on LAN is so hype

-       There is a possibility I can actually go as I won’t have school at the same time(!)

 

So those are my main reasons and aside from the fact I am literally going out of my mind for the above reasons, I'm also so excited to see how Valo has changed since the last time I watched it – which I won’t lie, was a while ago as I moved into LoL more and Valo became a lesser part of my work. So for me at least, being able to see changes in Valo is going to be really cool, especially as I stopped watching Valo streams too for a while. 

It’ll be so cool to catch up on everything that’s changed, rosters, agents, maps, all of it. Also seeing all these pro players I’ve always looked up to literally a stone’s throw away from my home country? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I’ve been chatting to my friend too about this and whether he’s going to go as well – we all know I love a good friend meet up at esports events and this is literally so hype for obvious reasons!

 

I’ll be honest, as we go through the motions of whether I'm going to try and get on sight or stay home I find myself feeling very insecure. I know choosing to create content at events is a luxury that I have been afforded through my previous experience, but doing it with my own blog that I haven’t been the most consistent with, and in the presence of pro players who I know I would stammer in front of – I may have got the knack to LoL but I certainly haven’t got the knack when it comes to Valo players. 

Still this could be an opportunity, right? You can really see how I'm going back and fourth on this whole thing. I find myself feeling how I did when I first attended MSI again, feeling entirely insecure in my own abilities even though I know I’ve done it before and could do it again and not at all worthy to attend as a member of the media. 

 

I know that may sound stupid, I’ve said before about how I felt I had to maintain an image of confident and secure in what I'm doing and want to do. Of course it isn’t that simple, and despite my excitement, I can be honest in the fact that I am scared to create content on my blog here from a tournament, it’s a lot of freedom but it’s a lot of pressure too. To prove Riot were right to put faith in me before and that I can go beyond the expectation that I created last time around. 

But also that I can do better, and I can reach out into something else, and that I can do it on my own blog on my own. Being a lone wolf sounds easy but there is a lot to be said for having a team around you. But onto a more positive note, I'm so freaking excited that Masters is going to be in Europe again and especially in Madrid which is nice and close to home for me!

 

A big reason I'm excited about this is because the ticket prices are accessible, and in my infinitie positivity I really hope that means more people will take a look, think eh why not, and try attending to see if they like it or even just tune in. I'm always so excited to see more people come into esports and become hooked with it just like I did back in 2020, and despite a lot of changes leading up to now in 2024, this event really reminded me why I love esports and why I joined in working in esports to begin with. And if that isn’t an incentive to watch it at the very least, if not attend in person, then I don’t know what is. 

 

Plus a similar time zone that isn’t going to knacker me? Heck yes please. No crazy early or late hours sounds good to me – as I'm actually trying to integrate something of a reasonable sleeping schedule back into my life. Along with a LAN event? 

In case it wasn’t already obvious, I got really into LAN events and being at them after MSI 2023, it was so fun to be on LAN, to be in the arena and witness everything in person for myself, there’s something so special about it and it really encourages me to get back on track with this blog, grow it further and pave my own path in esports, whichever direction that may take me! Plus circling back to the fact I may actually be able to go!!!

Whoop whoop! For once, school isn’t going to get in the way of esports (in the way it might previously have done) and that also makes me so excited because I can take a little bit of time off work for this if I want to be in person and I truly do want to be in person.

 

Recently I’ve been working on changing my mindset to be, ‘if you weren’t ready you wouldn’t have the opportunity’ and ‘believe in the reality of your dreams’ basically all those quotes about jumping and going with it are at the forefront of my mind and I'm really trying to go with that, not least because I know I may not be in esports forever, but I don’t feel ready to say goodbye to it yet. 

Not yet anyway. 

And what better way to see some of Europe than with something I am so incredibly passionate about? Are you planning to go to Madrid for Masters? Who knows, you just might see me there ;)

 

Thanks for reading and see you on the next blog!

 

byeeeeee