Ofcourse they have. If money is on the line why not pop a ritalin if you feel it helps. Obviously people play games on weed too, although I doubt any pro's go for that at lan's these days. I wonder what kind of anxiety reducing meds are a thing amongst some high level teams, as long as they dont mess with reaction time and such they should be great.

Obviously people play games on weed too, although I doubt any pro's go for that at lan's these days

Weed is a performance reducing drug.

And yeah, stimulants like methylphenidate / amphetamine are performance enhancing, and probably used by many pro gamers. The problem with putting restrictions on such things is that many people have prescriptions for these drugs

Weed is a performance reducing drug.

Not true at all. In the game I play CS:KZ it helps quite a lot as it stimulates for a smoother and more precise mouse control as long as you don't smoke too much. Usually it has most efficiency in the after effect. I don't really know about quake, don't remember if I tried but I probably gotta do that soon, I don't smoke a lot though.

Thoughts: "wow revelatory is a real word"

So apparently Adderall is banned in chess tournaments. I reckon we'll see drug testing in popular esports. OR not. Depends how big esports gets.

with chess gunning for olympics, steroids are too

I think this questions need to be directed towards Av3k, no???!

His buissness's show good results.

too soon

it will always be too soon so to be safe let's ask him about his business's's's'$'$ now

We all bought tickets to the Av3k gun show, let's not bullshit around, here.

I think the guy is right, if e-sport continues growing, then we are inevitably moving towards control of this subject.

Do I think someone has used it in Quake? I highly doubt it, the scene is not big enough to promote something like that. Then again,who knows? Maybe Cypher does pop a pill once in a while, like before a lan, then everyone goes ham over his better than ever performance abilities in a much more stressful environment. We will never know for sure.

Quake prizepools don't cover the costs of drugs.

Ritilan is 3$ or less a pill with the right people.

my history quake prize cash is for drugs or is drugs in some cases.

i win good weed in ffa back in 2002

quake is a drug game at it roots

obviously some quake players have at lan

we know atleast one quake player (forever) who was open about using beta blockers on lan, i doubt he's alone in that.

There are plenty of people who openly talk about taking amphetamines while playing quake pubs, so I'm sure there are pros who do as well.

Well if everyone is currently allowed to use drugs, I don't see a problem. Even Steven.

But drugs are bad for you :c

Steven needs rehab
get well soon Steven

Poor Steven.

?

I don't smoke.

according to guard everyone in quake has been using performance drugs for over 10 years

a well known quake player dropped a bag full of adderall right infront of me at a LAN

what was his nationality?

I have seen top players play important matches high (won't name them), and I wouldn't be surprised if other kind of pharma/drugs have been used. But I would not freak out about it.

It's a big gray zone, with a lot of different things which you may or may not consider bad. Talk to some medicine students during their exam sessions and they'll sound like drug addicts, as they discuss openly what they are taking (admittedly, they are generally more knowlegeable about meds and have easier access to them). Yet, these are ppl you trust with your health a few months afterwards.

i wonder who coulde those be. We will never know i guess -_-

U rush to conclusion too much

I wouldn't be surprised if I found out that a high percentage of pub quakers are on drugs. It would certainly explain the level of retardation you witness daily

Hell yeah fucking right

Tl;Dr

HYFR

i donot play pub wiothout drugs.

my lungs feel it + better reaction time

Hey man, only way of having a group hug is by stacking on top of eachother, don't mean we high on drugs. We high on love.

Everyone takes drugs. Even real athletes. It's pretty much the standard in 2015.

I've seen some players looking stoned, others on coke/ritalin, in big lan streams. I dont care tbh, it would be really costly to drug test players, good drug testing is very costly, prolly more than the prizes the best players receive. Also drugs are a fine line from helping to making you play worse, so it could be named a skill in itself, also depends on your characteristics what make you play better or worse.

lol @ weed @ sport

snooker, billard, dart, all shooting sportz its considered doping afaik

At some point I took preworkout (hyper-fx in that case) that boosted my performance by tons. Reaction time, concentration, confidence in ur game, tracking abilities, etc. Played few games right before the gym, but my point is that even that can boost by far your performance and I can only imagine what drugs can do. If I played in tournaments, I would defo take it = I am sure the top players do it to some extend. Good example above for cypher uber different gameplay... from just good to God like.

I wouldn't care to watch much if that's what turns him from great to God.

I'd watch him in the same manner I would watch a demo of an aimbot vs a pro player just to see what you can learn from it nothing else

Skip rope ery day 20 to 30 mins nonstop. Pound protein and hit the weights.

There is no substitute for real hard work. Do drugs all ya want but you'll never be consistent without your physical and mental health.

Top players don't rely on drugs. If they did they wouldn't last.

you could simply put in some caffein with exact same effect

No, you can't. Caffeine alone will make you shaky. Been there, done that. You can't compare good quality preworkout with caffeine alone or energy kids drinks. There are literally more than a few stimulants alone in the boosters. Stimulants a lot stronger than caffeine + strength and durability enhancers. I can explain you in details, but better check out by yourself(just search for the label and check the individual components in google. Cheers! :)

I guess everybody feels it differently. I personally tried like 5-6 preworkout mixes when i was involved in relatively heavy weights. Did not feel anything other than a bit better pumping. On the contrary - coffee always did wonders (never bought preworkouts with caffein though). The only scenario coffee makes me shaky is when I heavily overdose it.

Cypher and drugs, i would rather guess he stopped smoking weed and got serious with his performance in front of and during lan. Not the other way around.

Drugs are most likely a big thing also in esports, but top 5 quake players? Meh i dont buy it.

Weed and quake? Hah now when has weed ever done anything else then make you relax and slow? Its the whole point with the drug.

I once took small dose of adhd medicine that made me energetic and increased focus, but that shit like all other drugs will so easily mess you up badly. So easily addictive psycologically, and when you start doing it regularily, you cant really stop it , ever.

Drugs are bad mmmkey? :p

You're not really sure what you're talking about. that's ok though

weed just like alcohol has a sweet spot. overdo it and you become useless :p

that said, alcohol doesnt work for me. and weed has various types each with varying effects from making you calm and sleepy to making you more energetic and also more anxious. plus weed works differently for different people.

dont know how addictive adhd medication is for regular folks other than -like you mentioned- mental aspect (that goes for any type of drug)
i have ad(h)d myself and ritalin just makes me more focused and keeps me awake. it also completely gets rid of my tendency to get a rush aka addictive behavior, so the opposite effect of what normal people experience i believe.

inb4 'yay free drugs' or 'people with adhd will always have an advantage with the legal drugs', but i wish i didnt have to use it to feel motivated/awake/more focused.

cypher = marijuana
evil = ritalin
av3k = everything altogether
cooller = protein
ins = burrito
zoot = growth hormone
spartie = guess what
rapha = holy water

z4 = statins

dkt = jobs

dahang = mcdonalds

i thought he runs on batteries

uNkind = bongs

Meth*

I like weed.
morphine is cool.
I can see in slo mo on shrooms

Psychedelics... Omg...best ever. Can't decide to grow Cubensis this year or not!!!!

They're easy to do.
Takes 1-3 months depending on the method.

Heard about this?
http://gawker.com/i-won-a-5-000-magic-the-gat...1705333524

I won't be surprised if they eventually implement drug testing in e-sports. I also won't be surprised if people move on to things that don't show up in common screenings i.e. research chemicals.

I definitely think that Adderall has been used in tournaments as it helps you focus. As for weed - I don't see anyone using it in a tournament environment unless they were addicts. The idea that Cypher used weed while playing in the dh final is laughable

lol

Totally possible in the right amount. Sativa to enlighten you instead of couchlock :)

Definetely but focus/ability for cognitive thought is impaired no matter if its indica or sativa.

ztrider in 2015



don't even think about trying it you wannabe-coollers. one hit and it's game over.

This guy looks like 3000 ELO.

LOL@1stGIF

Dancing skills: Godlike

serious think it my dad back in day. always sayhe a good dance moves

dat gif.

"Why the issue of drugs has been ignored in esports"
Because its just a bunch of nerds playing video games for money.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/2...ontroversy

Just lay down the ____.

In the QCON 2013 finals it was clearly seen on stream as evil was setting up he took some pill. I always assumed it was PED. I also found it strange that nobody picked up on it. I was wondering if he took it with him on the plane or Voo set him up in the US. If anyone has a link to the recording of that final that includes pre-match setup I can try and find the exact timestamp (or you could do it yourself, it was pretty overt).

In a number interviews Cooller was enumerating things that are necessary for winning and said something to the effect of "it's mostly psychology, the rest is medical/medicinal". The statements were always possible to interpret as referring to eating well, if you wanted to, but I found the choice of words curious. Given that he takes or has taken steroids, I don't find it hard to believe he was (perhaps unwittingly) referring to PEDs for Quake as well. I don't have a link handy, I think I heard this at least twice in different interviews done with him around the time he "retired".

I'm surprised this apparently went unnoticed at the time and wasn't mentioned in this thread either. I don't care if they take the PEDs, but it would be interesting to know in more certain terms that they work and are part of the pro scene as well as which substance does what exactly.

Found it! http://www.twitch.tv/quakecon/b/440209211?t=4h14m55s

That's chewing gum.

indeed you can actually see him chewing during the following shots of the warmup

Gum can't melt steel beams.

lol

Lol that's a serious bomb if true. Anyway it wouldn't really surprise me, in every sport doping rules, from the amatorial levels already.

It's just that people associate doping more easiliy with physical activity rather than mental ones.

Let's just say that most of the athletes have a mentality of winning at all costs. Even if you don't have it, you must adapt or quit.

Once i read on reddit about a study that asked anonimously some top athletes if they would take a drug that would kill them after a while if that made them win the olympics. The majority answered yes. Asking the same question to athletes outside the top roaster didn't produce a similar result, confirming the old motto that it's the bigger turds that floats higher :)

The guy is teetotal and tanked and you're accusing him of popping pills...lol

why do you think cooller took roids?

It's probably under utilised if anything.

come on guys you're all cra

there we go: "Top eSports league will begin drug testing Players"

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/23/esports-league-drug-testing/

Goto 7:45

A top Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player has admitted that everyone in his former team, Cloud 9, were taking the psychostimulant Adderall during a professional tournament. In a video interview, Kory "Semphis" Friesen said: "The ESL (Electronic Sports League) comms were kinda funny in my opinion -- I don't even care, we were all on Adderall."

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/17/esports-adderall-doping/

"It was a significantly different experience playing in a tournament while on the drug," he says. "On Adderall I would never freak out. Stress had no effect. Adrenaline can be useful in eSports, but the benefits of Adderall far outweighed them."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-04-08-...-use-drugs

"We're drug testing at esports events in the future..." (c) Michal Blicharz @ fb

get any of cns stimulant and will improve your skill, its not a secret u goddamn fucks

I've talked with Rapha and he said something like "If there were drug tests in lans I would have a lot more wins" or something to that extent, in a joking manner (we were talking about Rapha doing drugs).
But yeah, I thought it was kinda general knowledge that t least some pros used drugs before LANS.

Sativón pal corazón

Everyone who uses drugs and dont Hit Overall accuracy 80%
Is a fucking shitnab