Maciej Krzykowski at the Electronic Sports World Cup 2007

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 the 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].

[edit] Player Biography

Maciej Krzykowski at the Electronic Sports World Cup 2007

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 him and held five world champion titles at a time in which Kryzkowski 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.

Currently he is focussed on Quake III competition and intends to enter the game's competition at the upcoming Electronic Sports World Cup in San Jose, California. 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].

[edit] Full Tournament Overview

[edit] 2009

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

[edit] 2008

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

[edit] 2007

• 2nd - Multiplay i32 $20.000 Quake IV Cup - Quake IV (Newbury, United Kingdom) [seeded #2]^[9]
• 4th - World Series of Video Games, Toronto - Quake IV (Toronto, Canada) [seeded #8]
• 1st - Electronic Sports World Cup - Quake IV (Paris, France) [seeded #1]
• 1st - World Series of Video Games, Louisville - Quake IV (Louisville, USA) [seeded #5]^[10]
• 1st - Electronic Sports World Cup, Poland - Quake IV (Poznan, Poland)
• 1st - Multiplay i30 & Belkin Tournament - Quake IV (Newbury, United Kingdom) [seeded #3]^[11]

[edit] 2006

• 1st - Poznan Game Arena - Quake IV (Poznan, Poland)^[12]
• 3rd - World Cyber Games All-Stars 2on2 - Quake IV Monza, Italy^[13]
• 5th - World Cyber Games All-Stars 1on1 - Quake IV (Monza, Italy) [seeded #5]^[14]
• 2nd - Digital Life Expo - Quake IV (New York, USA) [seeded #7]^[15]
• 4th - QuakeCon - Quake IV (Dallas, USA) [seeded #14]^[16]
• 1st - The Gathering - Quake IV (Hamar, Norway)^[17]
• 1st - Samsung Netgamez - Quake IV (Nieuwegein, Netherlands) [seeded #2]^[18]

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] References