|  Duncan "Thorin_" Shields
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| Handle: | Thorin_ | | Real Name: | Duncan Shields | | Country: | United Kingdom | | Gender: | Male | | Birthday: | March 5, 1983 | | Signed Up: | 2008-01-10 12:48 AM EST | | Last Posted: | 2008-10-22 7:59 PM EDT |
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| IRC Network: | GameSurge | | IRC Channel: | #TAO-CS | | AOL Messenger: | Not Specified |
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| Account ID: | 784831 | | Account Rating: | 3,382 | | Account Completion: | 30% | | Comments Posted: | 298 | | Comments Nuked: | 1 | | Threads Started: | 1 | | Thread Replies: | 0 | | Polls Answered: | 1 | | Profile Surveys Answered: | 0 | | Favorite Pages Added: | 0 | | Buddies Added: | 3 | | Times Buddied: | 3 | | Demos Uploaded: | 0 | | Articles Submitted: | 0 | | Messages Sent: | 0 | | Messages Received: | 0 |
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www.tao-cs.com - Watch the trailer and read quotes from top pros to find out more.
Esports journalism
Professional:
2001-2002 Pro-cybernews.com - Chief writer, event journalist
2002-2003 Gamers.nu - Chief writer, event journalist
2004-2005 Esportsea.com - Chief writer, site consultant, head of content
2006- Esportsea.com - 'top 100' writer, host of 'Ask ESEA' and 'Master Debater'
2008 Co-author of TAO-CS volume 1
Pro bono publico:
2001-2002 XSReality.com - Site admin
2003-2004 Team3D.net - consultant, writer of amusing and offensive news posts
Events attended for coverage purposes:
2001 CPL London, UK (Pro-cybernews)
2002 CPL Summer Dallas, USA (Gamers.nu)
2002 CPL Oslo, Norway (Gamers.nu)
2002 WCG Qualifier Stockholm, Sweden (Gamers.nu)
2002 CPL Winter Dallas, USA (Gamers.nu)
2003 CPL Cannes, France (Gamers.nu)
2003 Clikarena Toulouse, France (Gamers.nu)
2004 CPL Winter Dallas, USA (EsportsEA)
Miscellaneous:
* Innovator of the 'Ask X' concept. 'Ask HeatoN' and 'Ask element' for Gamers.nu, 'Ask ESEA' is self-explanatory.
* Innovator of the CS/gaming movie review. Reviewed over 1,000 movies since July of 2002.
* Donated personal airfare to the 2001 WCG finals in Korea to the 2nd place finisher in the UK Q3 qualifier, sid. He went on to place 9th at the finals.
* Conducted over 100 audio interviews (not including Ask ESEAs) and 10 video interviews at esports events.
* Can be seen interviewing Johnathon “Fatal1ty” Wendel in the MTV special “True life: I’m a gamer” at ~26:07 onwards.
* An article written for ESEA, “CS history: NiP”, chronicling the origin and life of the CPL Championship team Ninjas in Pyjamas was included in the CS movie release ‘NiP – Hard Wired’. Naturally consent for this was not requested as that movie was terrible.
* Innovator of the catagory box site design ESEA currently employs where each type of content has its own box which is then rotated down the front page as new content is added to other boxes.
* Innovator of 'Between the lines', a satirical series of pieces examining topical events in the world of esports.
* Father of the infamous captions on Team3D's event photo galleries from 2003-2004. |
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