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Ramon Saraiva

Yoda

I've always been a fan of games. Specially multiplayer ones. Used to play a lot of DotA (Defense of the Ancients) when younger, in Warcraft 3.

When DotA 1 was dying and DotA 2 was released by Valve, I actually switched to League of Legends. Played it quite a lot casually, then started playing ranked games, solo and with a group of friends. We reached Challenger rank with our team and played one of the CBLOL online classifiers as As Gordinhas (the chubbies?) in 2014.

Okay, but what about Yoda? Felipe Piller "Yoda" Noronha is a professional League of Legends player and one of the most famous streamer in Brazil. He has a lot of memes/phrases he says constantly during his videos/streams, he also played tons of games with a champion called Katarina.

For fun, in May 2016, I wrote a website that had a few buttons (same buttons as skill inputs in League of Legends [Q, W, E, R, D, F]), themed with Katarina's skills, that whenever pressed, played an audio meme from Yoda. It was called EOQ.com.br.

A bunch of professional players shared the website link, Yoda happened to open it in his stream and the team Yoda was playing at that time recorded a video of the whole staff playing with the website in a game house. It had around 30k sessions in 2 to 3 days, pretty awesome for a static website created in 2 hours and hosted in a 5 bucks droplet.

A chart from Google Analytics of those days:

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The video recorded by CNB eSports Club gamehouse (the team Yoda used to play at that time), where all players opened the website at the same time and played the memes:

A few other professional players also shared the website. Dioud, for example, posted the link on Twitter:

https://t.co/UHuQYPjBis

— Dioud (@Dioudlol) May 15, 2016

And yeah, the website had a few Ads on it, I was curious how much money I could actually make from a toy website that would spike for 1/2 days. Probably not worth it, but not terrible as well, I was able to make around U$100 from it.

Go watch a few streams from him, the man is neat.