A sad announcement

[inseedious]

Hello guys. Sadly, I have to announce that Roland Garros, whether I'll win or not the final, will be my last tourney.

There are many reasons why, but I'll tell you the main two:
- the game is still fun, but no more enough to create the motivation needed for training and, at least, keeping a good level. Since the beginning of the year, I haven't been able to keep my motivation up through the whole tourney, so I ended up playing mediocre matches in semifinals and finals;
- I'm a gamepad breaker. Maybe it's my fault, because I use to be too "aggressive" while playing, using buttons and analog stick with too much power. Thus, usually my pads last no more than 3 months, so I have to replace them 4-5 times a year. It's not a matter of money, since I manage to get free replacements under warranty almost all times. The problem is that every gamepad is unique and may require even more than a week to adapt to, even if the brand and model are the same.That means that I played many important matches in sub-optimal conditions.

It's not that great to leave after my best year so far, also considering that it's maybe the highest level era of the ITST TE tour - Vramvrim, Pidzi and Richie are imho the players who have won the most in the tour history, and have been very active in the first half of this season and the last half of the previous one. Neither it's great to leave after the best result of my career - RG final in the worst case -, and just before my favourite tournament, Wimbledon, but that shows how low my motivation is, so I don't deserve keeping on gaining nice results without caring much about them.

I'd just want to thank all players and staff for gifting me a great time during all matches. Of course, it will never be a farewell, since I always look forward making a great comeback, stronger than before, maybe when the new TE will be released. This time, though, it will be much different, as I'll try to switch to a different control system: maybe keyboard, maybe a gamepad with an innovative movement system, who knows...

Goodbye and good luck to all for next tourneys!

[FEDERER2]

very sorry inseedious. You were honestly a very inspirational player, and admittedly, 90% of my game comes from your style from playing sets vs you You were an amazing sportsman too, i always looked forward to seeing what you could bring on the itst tour in terms of scores and matches vs top players. I hope when you do comeback, its a flaming one Honestly though, if you don't have motivation, just focus on your everyday life though, and stick to that, i wish you great luck.


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P.S. Dont pull too many FEDERER2's viewtopic.php?f=1047&t=18268 lol

[Vramvrim]

It is for sure difficult to stay motivated right now. The game is just old. No new ITST mod/meaningful update from Manutoo in a long time. A shame to retire before the best part of the season though, where you can actually hit winners in less than 20 shots. Especially if it's your favourite tournament.

Goodbye and good luck in your studies, next game, or whatever you do in your life.

[GOBI84]

Hard to understand, that you retire, when you can enter number one spot in rankings and win Grand Slam event. Must be TE burnout.

[IsniperXZ]

Ho visto questo post più per caso che per altro, che dire, rappresenti quello che volevo e forse potevo essere ma che non sono mai stato, mi ricordo quando ero tornato un po' attivo prima di Indian Wells e tutti parlavano un gran bene di te, e questo dice tutto... ti capisco per la storia della motivazione e anche se non siamo mai stati grandi amici mi fa piacere aver giocato insieme a te più volte, e mi dispiace non aver visto con i miei occhi quanto tu sia forte ora, ti auguro il meglio, Ciao Bello

Italians only no traslation

[VMoe86]

Congrats, inseedious! Hats off for winning Roland Garros and thus going out in style!

[FEDERER2]

Congrats, inseedious! Hats off for winning Roland Garros and thus going out in style!

Can't argue with that. Agreed.

[kenos]

Not so stylish to me but yeah, congrats.

[inseedious]

Thank you so much for your support.

Anyway, as I wrote in IRC chat, it is not a retirement intentionally placed after a great result. Instead, I already wanted to retire during Rome tournament, but couldn't because I was already playing RG, and retiring from that tournament would have meant having a 0 points result in my breakdown. I asked VMoe to make an exception to the "point breakdown" system and pretend I had never signed up, but since it wasn't possible I was forced to play, and decided to train seriously for my last tourney.

[Robbin92]

Congratulations mate. See you whenever a new tennis game worth playing is released.

[Sorauze]

Congratulations dude !

[VMoe86]

I'd just want to thank all players and staff for gifting me a great time during all matches. Of course, it will never be a farewell, since I always look forward making a great comeback, stronger than before, maybe when the new TE will be released. This time, though, it will be much different, as I'll try to switch to a different control system: maybe keyboard, maybe a gamepad with an innovative movement system, who knows...

So, which control system will you use at AO 2017? Anyway, welcome back!

[pidzi]

I'd just want to thank all players and staff for gifting me a great time during all matches. Of course, it will never be a farewell, since I always look forward making a great comeback, stronger than before, maybe when the new TE will be released. This time, though, it will be much different, as I'll try to switch to a different control system: maybe keyboard, maybe a gamepad with an innovative movement system, who knows...

So, which control system will you use at AO 2017? Anyway, welcome back!

VR obviously.

[inseedious]

Thanks!

Pidzi, how did you guess that?! I bought VR mainly for Resident Evil 7, but now I control my character looking left-right-up-down. It's like telling him "Go there!"

[pidzi]

Unfair, we mere key/pad mortals cant compete with that.