Reckful once mentioned that he used to spend more than 16 hours a day playing and improving his gaming skills; he never used a mouse, only playing with his keyboard. He said that it was fun to compete with his friends in the game where a mouse was strictly needed, which meant Reckful would lose all the time since he just couldn’t use a mouse properly. When Reckful started playing “World of Warcraft” he was inspired by another gamer, Error, who had the same character class in the game, a rogue. Reckful led his arena team to success for six years, being the first one to hit the 3,000 points arena rating, and his team won the title “Furious Gladiator” for six seasons in a row, being among the highest ranked in arena battles. Reckful also won the MLG (Major League Gaming) “World of Warcraft” tournament which too place in Washington DC in 2010. Before that tournament he was always a runner-up or in third place at MLG.
When Reckful posted a movie in which he showed the most interesting and skillful moments of his arena-playing, the video called “Reckful 3” attracted a million views in no time, and now the video has more than five million views. In 2011 Blizzard banned Reckful’s main account in the game, which made his fans write official petitions to Blizzard asking to bring him back to the game since his success inspired many others to play “World of Warcraft”. Blizzard is well-known for their “ban-hammer waves” when a huge number of accounts get permanently banned for any kind of violations, and once you’re out, you’re out forever. One can create another account in the game, it’s not forbidden, but one can never get the blocked account back. Reckful’s fans created a petition to Blizzard asking the company to unban Reckful’s main account, but the petition didn’t even attract a 100 signatures, so it never happened.
