Elon Musk claims he’s one of the best Quake players in the world but he isn’t

Not contented with being the richest antheral successful the world, Elon Musk says helium was besides 1 of the archetypal esports stars, though his communicative doesn’t look to cheque out.

It’s agelong been known that Elon Musk is simply a instrumentality of video games, adjacent if helium often seems to agelong the information astir his level of expertise. He’s antecedently streamed footage of himself playing a Diablo 4 quality called IWillNvrDie, wherever helium died respective times, and seemingly helium was booed disconnected stage astatine a Valorant lawsuit successful 2023.

He was besides a inheritance character successful Cyberpunk 2077 and offered tips for Elden Ring, but the latest revelation is that helium was 1 of the apical Quake players successful the satellite backmost successful the precocious 90s. Or astatine slightest helium says helium was.

‘At 1 constituent I was possibly 1 of the champion Quake players successful the world. I really won wealth successful what I deliberation was 1 of the archetypal paid esports tournaments successful the US, we’re doing four-person Quake tournaments and we came second,’ helium told podcaster Lex Fridman.

‘I was the 2nd champion idiosyncratic connected the team, and the champion person… we were really winning, we would’ve travel archetypal but the champion idiosyncratic connected the team, his machine crashed halfway done the crippled truthful we came second. But I got wealth for it and everything. So fundamentally I got skills. Albeit, you know, nary outpouring chickenhearted these days,’ says Musk.

The existent champion Quake subordinate successful the satellite is undoubtedly Dennis ‘Thresh’ Fong, who has mentioned Musk being progressive successful the aboriginal esports country before.

‘Elon Musk, he’s known arsenic a immense gamer, we utilized to play connected the aforesaid Quake server, astir each time I’d spot him on: Zip2 was his username,’ helium said successful an interrogation with DJWheat a fewer years ago.

‘He wasn’t precise good, but he’s inactive an OG – he’s legit erstwhile helium says he’s a gamer,’ revealed Fong. ‘I saw him each time connected this Quake server and a bully buddy of excavation ended up being the CIO [Chief Information Officer] for each 1 of his companies.’

Other fans online person besides disputed Musk’s claims but it’s little wide whether they were astir successful the 90s oregon conscionable presume he’s lying.

Given the full thought of esports didn’t truly beryllium backmost then, and surely cipher was keeping immoderate records, its hard to archer precisely however overmuch Musk is overstating his abilities.

There weren’t immoderate due planetary tournaments successful those days, and hardly immoderate nationalist ones for the US, truthful portion helium astir apt did good successful section events, particularly arsenic portion of a team, he’s undoubtedly imagining helium was amended than helium was – some past and now.

Ever since its merchandise successful 2023, Musk’s favourite crippled has seemed to beryllium Diablo 4, which he’s inactive playing and occasionally tweets about. Although helium seems to dice a lot, erstwhile streaming it, helium has made the database connected astatine slightest 1 unofficial leaderboard.

Given his engagement successful the US election, you’d presume Musk would person little clip for video games from present on. But that’s ne'er stopped him earlier and he’s inactive apt to proceed to speech astir gaming successful the future.

This nonfiction was archetypal published connected 21st November 2023.

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