A youth, that turned 20 just a month ago and picked his name after a material called "satin" (Satin is a cloth that typically has a glossy surface and a dull back) is a finlands own WC3 god. Can we say that he is a pride of finland ? What is stopping him showing the world that he IS actualy something ?
Well, lets get a little bit back in time, "just finished watching stargate", and analyze the situation.
Juha-Matti Bäckström aka. Satiini, finnish WC3 player that is playing for wellknown organization called fnatic - IS by the all meanings best WC3:TFT player in Finland. Also, he is a very good player worldwide, being one of the top players Satiini has shown that he can beat a lot of other greak players ONLINE, yes ONLINE. I have attended a lot of international tournaments and have NEVER EVER seen Satiini participating in any of them. That fact, the very same fact is a seed for thousands of speculations - why isn't Sats playing on lans? - Now finnish WC3 players will start whining "but we have seen him playing on minor finnish lans" - yeps, you are 100% correct, but he is hardly reaching any finals. "Now a new question is poping up, if he is sooooo good, why isn't he reaching any of the lan finals even in finland?" Well, according to Juha-Matti Bäckström himself, he is stating clearly that he doesnt want to participate the lans in 1 way or another. Brining up different excuse, most famous of them is "I missed the bus" - tho there are tons of other ones out there.
Latest excuse that comes from finnish WCG qual is that the tournament was badly organized, they could only please sats with the chair that he realy loved. Is that just another lie or excuse ? Well, check this out, these are his very own words :
So im back from the assembly, or actually I already came back in the night, it was a really nice event for the finnish people who like gaming. I had alot of fun there, some good games which replays I hope I'll be able to upload ... Anyways im really happy I won and I hope there are many events like this to come in Finland in the future also!
That was at the finnish WCG prequal. I think he was very happy with the tournament, wasn't he?
http://www.satiini.org/blog_images/3-1.jpg a little bit miserable, but still having fun - according his own words.
SO WHAT IS THE FUCKING PROBLEM THEN ? Why isn't so talented player attending international tournaments, I am more then sure that an organization as fnatic would back him up with the travel expences and such, just to get him playing at a tournmanets - even facts back up this statement, fnatic actually payed for his accomodation fees to NGL one(plane tickets), but he just changed his mind.
Btw, I forgot to mention before. Satiini is one of my favorite players so I am actually not trying to bring him down, just trying to figure it out for myself.
There has been some rumours about his mental conditions, this is not a thing to be discussed on a public site tho, but let's have a small peak. Well, I have had a chat with some finns, that have seen him irl or have heard smth about it. Some state that he has a Claustrophobia.
Claustrophobia is an anxiety disorder that involves the fear of enclosed or confined spaces. Claustrophobes may suffer from panic attacks, or fear of having a panic attack, in situations such as being in elevators, trains, boxes or aircrafts.
As you see, that disorder actually cuts almost all ways of transportation to international tournaments, if that's it, then sats, I am sorry for all the things I have said to you about not showing up on lans and so on, I feel sorry for you :/
But at the same time sats is enjoying his life and nothing indicates anything states previously :
So anyways I was at a party yesterday, I didnt drink much but some. Came back home at like 2am to eat something and then went to sleep at 4am.
At this particular moment my raid to BT is about to start so I can't go on much with the topic, but I would like to say one more thing - if he is just to lazy or how to say it, he is confident in himself that he is better than others, thinking "why should I attend anything if I am better than the others anyway" - GL to him ! But with the last qual, he did show how unproffesional he is. Tho I don't want fnatic to take any actions, because I still like him :)
GO SATS !