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1s clutch it up with the dagger uses the
4s elbow and try hard is going to pick up
6s his fifth try hard has it try hard finds
9s the
15s win everyone know was asked me like who
18s tryhard is uh tryhard is one of the few
20s players I ever met that really lives up
22s to his
29s name
33s my name is Jared Martinez uh I'm a
34s student at Cornell University and I'm
35s currently studying cognitive science
37s playing the rocket for the first time
38s was it was definitely like it kind of
40s clicked for me and I've never even
42s touched a melee Focus game before and
44s playing it was kind of like a surreal
45s experience just because almost
47s immediately when I first started playing
48s you could see like how high the skill
50s scene was at the
52s game first thing is that he's really
55s really smart we all start very very new
58s just 1 2 3 you know
61s focused attack a lot but try hard within
63s the first two weeks of the game he
66s realized how good Perry was and he was
69s one of the first players to innovate uh
71s you know Dodge Perry shift Perry we call
77s it um it started around my sophomore
79s year of high school I decided to start
81s competing professionally constantly you
83s know playing in tournaments throughout
85s the year and you know I wasn't always
86s you know someone who was winning I
88s actually started out not even placing
89s very high in the first Regional
91s Championship and you know I told myself
92s that uh you know I wouldn't ever let
94s that happen again I wanted to be someone
96s that was you know consistently
99s placed tryhard is a very unique player
102s that if he sees a video of you he
104s understands you that's something that
105s most players don't understand about
106s tryhard is that he watches the game more
109s than he plays the game cuz that's what
111s it takes to be the best player in the
119s world the world championship is a large
121s span of time it's such a large period of
123s time that I have to take off from school
124s and you know uh at such a crucial point
127s in my education where you know I'm doing
128s my college applications I guess one of
130s the critical decisions I made and it was
131s time that I had to take away from school
133s and time taking all that time and
134s splitting my time to compete even in
136s day-to-day life um you know competing
138s does take large part of my week
140s especially the weekend you know when
141s there are tournaments that are late at
142s night um you know sometimes you don't
143s get a lot of sleep you know it was a big
144s sacrifice that I had to make uh you know
146s but it's something I don't regret at
149s all
151s man he was able to do it all the way
152s towards the very hand of here you'll
153s love to see it let's go try hard just
156s because uh last year I felt like I was
158s so close you know and I was halfway
160s there um and I just fell short on the
162s second day for him uh it was
166s heartbreaking cuz he knows that it was
168s in the grass to have rank one and this
171s year I know he's done a lot of work cuz
174s we always say we study the game more
177s than we play the game going into World
179s ey I have the utmost confidence that
182s he'll show everyone that even with more
184s pressure this year he'll perform as
186s everyone expects
189s since I'm really excited to you know
191s participate and be a part of the world
193s championship in
194s Shanghai it's always been a goal of mine
197s to you know practice more efficiently
198s and practice more um like and dedicate
200s more of myself to what I'm doing um and
202s I always feel like there's room for
203s improvement and everything even if I'm
205s already considered the best in a certain
207s region but I would say my goal has never
209s been to be the best in North America my
210s goal has been the typically best overall
213s um so I'm always driving towards
222s that