MIRAA has left the building

This could be one of the many news I wrote about player X leaving team Y. It is not. I hereby announce that I am leaving HLTV.org and esports in general.

I have been involved in esports for so long that I do not even know when it started exactly , but it was around 2002. I started playing Counter-Strike, then went on to writing news, making videos, and it all led to this point. Most of you know me from my work with HLTV.org, some of you probably know me for my work with GotFrag.com, but it started long before that.

I wrote several hundred pieces of news, interviewed many players and had the priviledge to cover onsite many tournaments, in three different continents. I met some great people, some not so great people, but I guess that's life. I will certainly take the best of this experience in my future life, and I have to say that it was esports that helped make the person I am today.

Everything in life must come to an end, and I feel the time has come for me to move on. I have almost completed my degree in journalism, and I have started working for Goal.com and Público (Portuguese newspaper). As you can probably imagine, I don't have much time left for esports, nor the motivation to continue in a business which still seems so small.

I'm proud to have been part of this wonderful industry and I leave with the feeling that I did my best to make esports grow. However, there are many, many obstacles in the way, some of them disguised as "dead serious" managers or tournament organizers, but that's a different story.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mark "jESUIT" Cheben and Marc "Nix0n" Winther for believing in me and offering me the chance to work for GotFrag and HLTV.org, respectively. I would also like to thank, you, the user, for reading all the stuff that I wrote in the last seven years or so.

Cheers,

Luís "MIRAA" Mira