Jobs: "If you want to be the best, to give one hundred percent" - an interview with Ilya cyber Ilyukom

Ilya, what do you do in your 20s?

I am a professional cyber sportsman in the discipline of Dota 2. I played for the team Virtus.pro G2A.

The main part of my work takes the game of "Dot": training and participation in competitions. In May, for example, took Grand finale of Russia cybersport Cup. Our team reached the final of Dota 2, won it and has earned 1.4 million rubles.

If you want to be in something better, you need to give yourself to it 100%.

All that is not associated with the game, - distraction.

Getting started is your fascination with computer games?

The computer I bought in 10 years. Then I played in the popular at the time of the game: FIFA, Counter-Strike, Quake, strategy. My uncle - semi-professional player in the Warcraft, he hoisted me on it. But at some point I felt that I was tired of playing. To escape, I began to try different cards. So the first time I played in "Dot".

By the time I was watching professional players and understand that eSports - the same job for which you're wasting time and nerves, and in return you get material resource.

I started to lead the way in e-sports: playing in different amatorkah and semi-professional tournaments and lans. Then, in the "Dote" introduced a rating system that I have been very high. I noticed, as the first to win the tournament were invited to Virtus.pro team.

Fantasy philistine draw workplace gamer like a dark room, stuffed with computers, monitors and cables. This is true?

Soup on my desktop:

• Keyboard SteelSeries Apex M800;
• Mouse SteelSeries Sensei RAW Rubberized plus some blue carpet Speed;
• Logitech HD C920 webcam;
• SteelSeries Siberia Headphone 800;
• BenQ monitor with a diagonal of 24 inches and an old column with a subwoofer.

Precise with your computer can not remember, but I gathered it to play in the "Dot" without lags and to stream normally.

As an athlete I have important media: I'm live on Twitch, participate in autograph and photo shoots and other events for fans with Virtus.pro team, doing interviews and filming in commercials.

Much time is spent on the maintenance of social networks "VKontakte», Twitter, Instagram. I am therefore it is important that at hand has always been a phone with internet.

My major browsers - Safari and Google Chrome. Actively use Skype, Twitch and Steam.

I also have many applications for photo and video: iMovie, VSCO, PicsArt. I listen to music in "VKontakte", calling a taxi through Uber.

All this is to some extent my must-have.

How are your days?

I am a rationalist to the core.

Despite the fact that my work's all very unpredictable (in one day there are no official games, and the other begin at two o'clock and ends at ten at night), I almost always have a clear plan, I strongly I respected. However, I rarely write something down - all have in mind.

Because of the training, tournaments and flights of my life - a continuous change of regimes.

My typical day at home: wake up without an alarm clock → small charge → → douche breakfast Champion → individual training → lunch → champion team training champion → dinner → warm shower → sleep.

Sometimes it turns out to go outside to get some air, work out on the playground, go to the movies or rocking.

In the view of the philistine people, all day playing a shooter - is drysch. But you're in good shape. How do you do it?

Good physical condition is important in any job. I have a rather intellectual activity, but in any case need to be quite hardy. The final days of a tournament - a serious test when winning is not the one who plays better, and those who are hardier.

Often faced with the fact that the first game in ten in the morning, and the last, the most important, at ten o'clock. You must be able to properly distribute forces to banal fizzle.

I've been doing street street workout, shakes the house, I go to the gym, which is mainly engaged on a treadmill and doing exercises on the scheme for all muscle groups.

Usually takes a day: Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

Do you have some kind of power system, like ordinary athletes?

No power supply system is not: all eat that on a high. Kibersportsmeny not stick to a diet - all individually. My champion breakfasts, lunches and dinners - it's just a favorite food.

In tournaments is usually a lot of snack: eat normally once, and during the hard work necessary to pamper yourself.

Do you have a girlfriend?

Not.

It is difficult to meet with a girl, which would have seen a man in me, not my success and status.

Do you have a hobby, in addition to e-sports?

I'm a lot less than fond of - I do wonder.

Sign up for science, art, music, film and literature. I watch the news in the sport. But most importantly, my hobby became my job.

Travel - also part of the job. Virtus.pro participates in international competitions, tournaments are held in different countries. I always fly to the United States, Asia, Europe.

If someone from our readers want to fascination with computer games turn into a profession that you advise them?

If you want to become competitive players, you need to:

• good to think;
• good to play computer games;
• be ambitious;
• be able to accept criticism;
• work in a team;
• be diligent.

Another very important luck. In the "Dote" a hundred million unique users, but were successful only a few hundred. Go for it!