Riccardo Romiti ( Italian: Riccardo Romiti , born July 1, 2002 , Greve in Chianti , Italy ), better known by his nickname Reynor , is an Italian professional player in StarCraft II , playing for the Zerg race and playing for the Gamers Origin team since 2019 of the year. In 2014, he became the youngest Grandmaster of StarCraft II , reaching this rank at 12 years and 40 days. As of 2019, Reynor has earned over $ 40,000 in prize money over his career [1] .
| Riccardo Romiti | |
|---|---|
 Reynor at 2019 WCS | |
| Date of Birth | July 1, 2002 (age 17) |
| Place of Birth | Greve in Chianti , Italy |
| Aliases | Reynor |
| Career | from 2010 or 2011 (active) |
| Games | Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void |
| Teams | |
| Ace of Spades (until 09/27/2013) mYinsanity (11/12/2013 - 01/10/2016 ) True eSport (01/13/2016 - 06/12/2017) Next Gaming (06/12/2017 - 09/04/2017) Prophecy E-sports (09/04/2017 - 01/19/2018) Exeed Esports (01/19/2018 - 12/12/2018) GamersOrigin ( 01/12/2019 - p.t. ) | |
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Biography
Riccardo Romiti grew up in Greve in Chianti in the province of Florence , Italy [2] . He was introduced to StarCraft II and eSports by his father, Massimo Romiti, who plays this game in the diamond rank and is the manager of the Exeed Esports eSports team. At home, Riccardo’s career was supported in every possible way; he came to all tournaments at a young age either with his mother or father [3] . In addition to StarCraft II , Reynor likes to play Dark Souls and League of Legends , and also plays tennis to maintain the speed of reflexes [4] . StarCraft II attracts him with its competitiveness and complexity [5] .
Romiti joined his first eSports team, Ace of Spades, at the age of 8. From 2013 to 2016, he played for the mYinsanity team. At the age of 12 years and 40 days, he reached an elite league in StarCraft II (the Grandmaster League , the highest game rank, which includes 200 players with the highest in-game rating in the region), becoming the youngest grandmaster in the history of StarCraft II [6] . Subsequently, Reynor played for the True eSport team, briefly joined the Next Gaming team, and then joined the Prophecy E-sports team, which later developed into the Exeed Esports organization. Riccardo left Exeed Esports at the end of 2018 [7] . At the beginning of 2019, he joined the French e-sports organization Gamers Origin , for which the well-known e-sportsman Iles “Stephano” Satori stands for [8] . According to Riccardo, “the transition to GO seems to me a breath of fresh air, because for a very long time I was not in the team from outside Italy” [9] .
Since 2018, upon reaching the age of 16, Reynor has been able to compete in the WCS . Before the start of his speeches, he spent a month in South Korea , devoting all his time to training and studying new strategies and tactics [4] . His first tournament in this series was the 2018 WCS Valencia, in which he reached the quarter finals and lost to Joone “Serral” Sotale [10] , future world champion [4] . In the next tournament, 2018 WCS Montreal, Reynor defeated e-sportsmen such as Alex “Neeb” Sanderhaft , Lee “TIME” Peinan and Mark “uThermal” Schlappi , making it to the finals, in which he again met with Joona Sotala and lost him with a score of 3: 4 [11] . It should be noted that for Serral it was the fourth WCS tournament won this year [12] .
In the same year, Riccardo Romiti calibrated for GSL Season 3: Code S - the most prestigious Korean StarCraft II tournament, where he reached the second group stage, in which there were 16 of the best e-sportsmen in the world. He was one of the three youngest players to achieve this result, after Cho “Maru” Song Chu , who succeeded at 14, and Lee “Life” Son Hyun , who achieved this result at 15 [3] . According to Romiti, Alex “Neeb” Sanderhaft , Juan Carlos Tena “SpeCial” Lopez , Beck “Dear” Don Joon and Kim “Stats” Dae Yop , with whom he was preparing for the competition, helped him achieve this result [5] .
Reynor also repeatedly won in small tournaments, such as the WardiTV Christmass Invitational 3 [13] and WardiTV Summer Championship [14] in 2018, but did not score the number of points necessary for getting into the 2018 WCS Global Finals [14] .
At the 2019 WCS Winter Europe, Riccardo Romiti met with the reigning world champion, Joona “Serral” Sotala , in the group stage, defeating him 2-0. Reynor and Serral met again in the final of this tournament, as a result of which Reynor won with a score of 4: 3 [15] . According to Riccardo, only after winning the WCS Winter did he begin to consider StarCraft as his career; before that, he played it only because he liked it, while learning programming [16] . At 2019 WCS Spring Reynor took 3-4 place, losing in the semi-final of Joon “Serral” Sotale with a score of 0: 3 [17] . At 2019 WCS Summer, Riccardo took first place, in the final meeting again with Serral and defeating him with a score of 4: 2 [18] .
Game Style
Among the players who shaped his playing style and inspired him, Reynor calls Lee “Life” the Son of Hyun and Jens “Snute” Oskord , and also admits that Joona “Serral” Sotala could also influence him [5] .
Reynor did not immediately select the Zerg race. Before that, he played for both the Terrans and the Protoss, changing races because of the desire to experiment, until he fell in love with Zerg for the mechanics of unit production and their high speed of movement [4] .
Achievements
- 2018 WCS Montreal (2nd place) [19]
- 2019 WCS Winter Europe (1st place) [15]
- 2019 WCS Spring (3-4 place) [20]
- 2019 WCS Summer (1st place) [18]
Notes
- ↑ Reynor - Riccardo Romiti - StarCraft II Player Profile . Esports Earnings . Date of treatment March 11, 2019.
- ↑ Simone Trimarchi. Riccardo “Reynor” Romiti, professionista di Starcraft a 15 anni (Italian) . La Gazzetta dello Sport (April 17, 2018). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 George Yadvidchuk. Riccardo Reynor Romiti - The Future of StarCraft 2 . " Championship " (July 5, 2018). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Francesco Lombardo. Reynor, il presente ed il futuro dell'eSport italiano (Italian) . (18 marzo 2019). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Izzard. Reynor: “Playing StarCraft brings me pleasure, and after victories I feel pride” . GoodGame.ru (August 22, 2018). Date of treatment March 20, 2019.
- ↑ Leonardo Vilona. StarCraft 2 WCS: l'italiano Riccardo Reynor Romiti prigioniero del regolamento (Italian) . (18 gennaio 2018). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ Reynor abbandona gli Exeed, quale futuro adesso? (Italian) . (13 novembre 2018). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ SC2: l'italiano Reynor sceglie la Francia (Italian) . (13 gennaio 2019). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ Izzard. Reynor joined Stephano as part of GamersOrigin . GoodGame.ru (January 13, 2019). Date of treatment March 20, 2019.
- ↑ Paul Arrivé. Esport - Starcraft II: Reynor s'engage avec GamersOrigin (Fr.) . L'Équipe (13 janvier 2019). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ Giovanni Calgaro. Starcraft 2: il WCS di Montreal parla - quasi - italiano, storica impresa di Reynor (Italian) . (10 settembre 2018). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ mercoledì. WCS Montreal: impresa sfiorata per Reynor (Italian) . (12 settembre 2018). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ Starcraft II: Reynor si regala il WardiTV Christmas Invitational (Italian) . (21 dicembre 2018). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 SC2: Reynor vince il Wardi Summer Championship ed entra nella top 10 mondiale (Italian) . (19 ottobre 2018). Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 16-Jähriger gewinnt europäische Wintersaison in Starcraft 2 (German) . Süddeutsche Zeitung (8. April 2019). Date of treatment April 8, 2019.
- ↑ 16-year-old Reynor quickly ascending ranks in StarCraft . ESPN (April 22, 2019). Date of appeal April 24, 2019.
- ↑ StarCraft 2 | 2019 WCS Spring Playoffs . cybersport.ru . Date of treatment June 16, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 Seventeen-year-old Italian won 2019 WCS Summer . www.cybersport.ru (July 15, 2019). Date of treatment July 15, 2019.
- ↑ StarCraft 2 | 2018 WCS Montreal . cybersport.ru . Date of treatment March 18, 2019.
- ↑ Serral won the 2019 WCS Spring . cybersport.ru (May 19, 2019). Circulation date May 31, 2019.