- I don't think I'm necessarily better,
but I think I learn faster than others,
and I'm more focused when I play,
because I eat better and I exercise a lot.
I think it's pretty interesting
that a lot of the pro players never do any exercise
and they just play the entire day, in and out.
In the short-term, it's really good for them,
and it shows that they're really good,
but I think in long-term, like over five, maybe 10 years,
it's a lot better that they focus on other stuff as well.
I think my goal for the future is to play in the LEC.
I would like to be there in the next year,
but we'll see what happens.
Right now we're just focusing on myself and
trying to get as good as I can.
I am Christian Jensen, and I am the jungler for Excel,
and my in-game name is Taxer.
My routine is a bit different from other players,
I usually wake up early, I like to wake up at 9:40,
and then I brush my teeths, I make some coffee for myself.
I bought a Moccamaster,
so I make nice coffee in the morning,
I make four cups, three cups,
and I enjoy the coffee while I
play solo queue in the morning.
That's the highlight of the day.
- [Interviewer] Is there a specific kind of coffee?
- I just like strong coffee, so,
whatever I can find that's strong and tastes good.
In the morning, when I wake up early,
I have a guy that I duo with,
I'm usually in solo queue by 10.
We usually talk a lot about how we can get better,
and between games I will always look at my games
and see what I can do better.
And then, of course, I watch VoDs of Korean players
and stuff like this as well, in my free time.
- [Interviewer] How much do you think
practicing solo queue before scrims has an impact?
- I tried doing both, so I think practicing before scrims
definitely is better than not practicing,
because then you actually player during the day
before you get into scrims.
Because if I don't play, and I just get into scrims,
and I play the first game,
I'm usually not playing that well, as if I practiced before.
I used to track my calories a lot,
but now that we get catering,
then I just eat what Excel provides,
but on my off days I usually try to get
some decent food, that's not really unhealthy,
and I usually know how many calories I eat,
but I don't track them anymore,
because I got used to it.
Right now, I'm trying to cut down,
so I'm eating around 2.2k calories.
I take supplements, I take vitamins, all of them
and a lot of extra stuff as well,
I sometimes make food at home after, like in the evening,
I'll make some eggs and some avocados, or something,
if I feel like I didn't catering or something, so, yeah.
- [Interviewer] How important do you think it is
for people to have the correct nutrition?
- I think, if you wanna build up your body,
and be healthy, I think it's really important,
but, for a lot of gamers, they just don't care about it,
and, it's fine, but in the long-term,
I think it's way better to eat healthy and work out a lot.
I play for three hours, and then I go to the office
and we practice as a team.
Usually after a long day at films,
I'll be really tired, and my brain
will be overheated or something.
I usually go to the gym.
I usually swim after practice, I just turn off my brain
and I just swim, and it's really relaxing, it's just nice.
I've been doing serious exercise pretty much all my life,
because I used to be a semi-professional swimmer,
I used to swim a lot,
and I used to play football and all that stuff,
but my swimming was definitely something I did a lot,
and I went to the gym with that as well, and yeah.
- [Interviewer] Is your routine different on a match day?
- Usually on match days, I tend to sleep a bit longer,
because we usually play really late in the evening,
so I'll sleep, I'll go to bed maybe two hours later,
then I'll sleep two hours more,
but that's only because we play really late,
and I wanna be on my A game in the evening as well.
Before competitive games,
I like to watch my enemy teams games,
because I usually look at the enemy jungler
and see if he has something that I can exploit.
I think, usually, I will have a plan in my head
of what the enemy's jungler's gonna do,
but it all depends on match-ups and
there's a lot of variations of what can happen, right?
So I will not always know what's gonna happen,
but I usually have a rough idea of how he will play,
and how he will path, and where he's gonna put his pressure.
- [Commentator] Taxer goes in. A great binding by xMatty,
they're gonna flash forward, the stun's on.
Nji! He's gonna go down, he's gonna go down.
First blood to Taxer!
- [Commentator] Taxer, taking first blood
on Lee Sin, so crucial.
- [Interviewer] Yeah, big big lead there,
that comes off Taxer being very proactive on this Lee Sin.
- [Commentator] MagiFelix is taking the towers,
is taking the base, ladies and gentlemen,
put your hands together for your
UKLC summer champions, Fnatic Rising.
- How do I cope with losing? I don't know, I...
I actually don't know what I do, just chilling,
after a loss, I don't really do much.
I think I just don't get tilted,
because I know what happened, and what went wrong,
and then, why would I get tilted?
I mean, I can get a bit mad if my,
if I feel like it was not my fault
that we lost the game or something,
but it's a team game, so if I lose a game
and I feel like it was not really my fault,
and I feel like I did the best I could,
I usually try to look at what happened and what went wrong,
and then I'll, if some of my teammates made mistakes,
I'll try to help them.
- [Interviewer] Are you more likely
to want to go swimming and clear your head
after a win or a loss?
- Doesn't matter, it's just a routine, I just do it.
The advantage of having a routine
is probably that your brain knows
what it's gonna go through,
and there's not anything new for you,
and you don't have to think about your day,
you know what's gonna happen,
and then you can focus on the things that matter,
so you can focus on League when you're practicing
and stuff like this.
- [Interviewer] So, do you ever get tempted to just say
"I'm gonna play more League instead?"
- I mean, sometimes, when I'm,
when I feel like I don't play that well,
I might skip something, and then play some more
League of Legends, but usually
I find it to be better just to keep doing my routine
and then, yeah, I like that more.
If I could give advice to a new player,
I would probably tell them to get a routine,
go to the gym, play League,
and think about what you're doing,
and find stuff that you can improve on,
and then try to be a nice guy,
don't think about all the toxic guys out there.
Be the good guy on the team, that's it.