Warcraft III sensation and professional player Manuel Schenkhuizen, better known as Grubby, made the decision to start playing Dota 2 a few months ago. After mainly playing other RTS games like the Age of Empires series and Starcraft, he decided to take on the new challenge of playing one of the most complicated MOBAs. And now, he calls it one of the best decisions he’s ever made, going so far as to say that he regrets not starting the game earlier in life.
Now that he has been retired for over a decade from the RTS esports scene, Grubby streams full-time on Twitch. His current streams have left him at the tail end of his A to Z challenge, where he wanted to learn everything about the game by playing through all the heroes in alphabetical order. Along the way, he hit 100 hours of Dota 2 and was given the option to play ranked games to calibrate his Matchmaking Rating (MMR).