1 00:00:00,00 --> 00:00:00,800 Haro- 2 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:04,400 This is the first video recording for a Q&A Corner 3 00:00:16,700 --> 00:00:22,700 OK, this time we're going to answer questions from Mondo's listeners 4 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,700 In charge of reading the questions is me, Sovault 5 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:30,000 I'm good at Japanese (?) and often play with Mondo. Let's start. 6 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:34,900 Why do you like Japan? 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:41,400 Ee... Firstly, I like Japanese dramas and animations 8 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:44,700 The food is also delicious, that's how I started liking Japan 9 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,300 I see, what dramas do you watch? 10 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:53,000 Recently, I liked watching "HiGH&LOW" and "Crows ZERO" 11 00:00:53,300 --> 00:00:56,900 That's why you keep calling Vodka with "Serizawa!" 12 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:00,600 By the way, what food do you like? 13 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:03,100 I like ramen the most 14 00:01:04,300 --> 00:01:05,300 What kind of ramen? 15 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:06,500 Ichiran Ramen (ramen franchise in Japan) 16 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:07,800 Ichiran! Tonkotsu ramen then 17 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:10,800 Is there anything else you like other than ramen? 18 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:11,300 Sushi 19 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,200 Ah, sushi is good too, right 20 00:01:14,300 --> 00:01:15,600 Have you ever eaten sushi in Japan? 21 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:16,900 Yeah, I have 22 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:22,900 What filling do you like? 23 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,000 Eel! Or tuna. 24 00:01:26,100 --> 00:01:29,700 What part of the tuna do you like? There's ootoro and chuutoro... 25 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,500 I don't know what, I just ate them. 26 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,600 Since it's ordered for you, it should be something pricey 27 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:36,900 Yeah. 28 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:37,900 I like chuutoro 29 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:38,560 Eh? Eh? 30 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,000 Right, I forgot this is Mondo's QA corner 31 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:45,400 This year's resolution! 32 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:50,300 33 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,800 It's already May though www (we accepted the questions on January) 34 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:57,600 Right now, it's to have 300.000 subscribers on YouTube 35 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,340 I think 300.000 is possible! 36 00:02:02,350 --> 00:02:05,000 But it's already May and I just reached 140.000 subs, so it might be impossible 37 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:16,070 But recently you've been playing in competitions with people from other industries as well 38 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:20,700 From those, Japanese people who follows Apex will increase 39 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:27,490 Then those people might come to watch Mondo's playing or talking streams 40 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:30,800 so I think you can get 300.000 subs. 41 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:31,870 That's good, everyone please watch. 42 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:34,930 Please subscribe to the channel 43 00:02:34,940 --> 00:02:38,540 Why did Mondo became a pro-gamer? 44 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:44,000 This is going to be a long story... 45 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:49,160 At first, I was a pro-gamer for PUBG 46 00:02:49,170 --> 00:02:58,280 I just started streaming, back then it was on Twitch 47 00:02:58,290 --> 00:03:03,610 and then a pro-gamer coach invited me into the team, 48 00:03:03,620 --> 00:03:07,400 and that's when it started. 49 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:13,890 I wasn't thinking about becoming a pro player then 50 00:03:13,900 --> 00:03:17,270 But since a coach invited me, I thought why not give it a try. 51 00:03:17,300 --> 00:03:19,990 So it started from your curiosity. 52 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:25,950 Did you manage to leave any amazing records in PUBG back then? 53 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,400 No, I was probably only a pro-gamer for PUGB for 3 months 54 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:34,260 That's short! 55 00:03:34,270 --> 00:03:39,510 I just got bored with PUBG so I quit back then 56 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,820 Then you became a pro player for Apex? 57 00:03:42,830 --> 00:03:47,600 After that, I thought, "let's just quit the gaming industry" 58 00:03:47,610 --> 00:03:50,930 "I should find a more realistic job," 59 00:03:50,940 --> 00:03:55,530 and after that a battle royale game that needs skills came out, that's Apex. 60 00:03:55,540 --> 00:04:00,450 I thought to give it a try, so I did. 61 00:04:00,460 --> 00:04:06,310 Back then, there was a team I met at the scrim. 62 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:12,240 It was the Korean team called "MVP" 63 00:04:12,250 --> 00:04:13,890 64 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:16,420 Yeah, the team's no more now, 65 00:04:16,430 --> 00:04:23,590 I think, on the scrim, I defeated all the team members with a Longbow 66 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:32,760 And then they got the impression that I'm strong. 67 00:04:32,770 --> 00:04:36,930 It happened that 1 person on the team quit, 68 00:04:36,940 --> 00:04:44,210 so Ras contacted me via Discord, "Come to MVP~", he invited me. 69 00:04:44,220 --> 00:04:46,870 Apex for me started from MVP. 70 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:50,070 From that, how did you get into Crazy Raccoon? 71 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:56,650 After that, MVP team disbanded and we needed a new team. 72 00:04:56,700 --> 00:04:59,790 73 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:06,600 We were thinking of quitting Apex and starting Valorant, back then when Valorant wasn't out yet. 74 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:14,980 Before I went on anything for Valorant, I was practicing on playing CS:GO too. 75 00:05:14,990 --> 00:05:21,870 I think it was me, Ras, Cpt, and several others practicing CS:GO. 76 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:29,970 Then Include chatted from Steam and asked why were we doing, 77 00:05:29,980 --> 00:05:35,060 Why were you not playing Apex? Why were you doing CS:GO? 78 00:05:35,070 --> 00:05:43,690 MVP team's no more, so we were thinking about moving another game. 79 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:49,900 We'd have tried for a new Apex team if there was any. 80 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,430 But there wasn't any team back then. 81 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:59,130 Then Include said, "Well, there's a team called Crazy Raccoon. I'll try to ask there." 82 00:05:59,140 --> 00:18:18,000 And then suddenly 10 minutes after we started chatting, we were in a call with Ojiji.