Pedro P. Romero

Mar 3, 2024 | medium.com | Pedro P. Romero

The second part of my interviews with the people behind the content produced for the 2023 League of Legends World Championship features Douglas Kerr, who worked as the project’s producer. You can read the first part of the piece here where I talked to director Phil Choi. Pedro Romero: Thanks for taking the time to do this interview, Douglas! To start off, I’d like to cover what kind of work you do outside of esports. Douglas Kerr: Thank you.

Feb 20, 2024 | medium.com | Pedro P. Romero

Without question, the 2023 League of Legends World Championship served a cause of celebration for many things. Not only did it take place in South Korea, where the game is deeply rooted in its culture, and saw it be won by T1, by and large the most historic and popular team in the world, it also presented an opportunity for those wishing to make a mark on League’s biggest stage to do exactly that — and then some.

Feb 15, 2024 | nature.com | Aron Szekely |Gizem Arikan |Dana M. Basnight-Brown |Elizaveta Berezina |Juan Camilo Cardenas |Juan Cárdenas | +46 more

AbstractThe emergence of COVID-19 dramatically changed social behavior across societies and contexts. Here we study whether social norms also changed. Specifically, we study this question for cultural tightness (the degree to which societies generally have strong norms), specific social norms (e.g. stealing, hand washing), and norms about enforcement, using survey data from 30,431 respondents in 43 countries recorded before and in the early stages following the emergence of COVID-19.

Jan 31, 2024 | medium.com | Pedro P. Romero

Interview with professional Valorant player Stay, who competes in the North America Game Changers circuit. In case you or anyone else forgot what I did last year since I did so many things at once every so often, I expressed my interest on X (formerly Twitter) in talking to players from the Game Changers scene in an effort to grow the space and have more eyes latch on to those that don’t pull in as much attention as the big names like Melanie “meL” Capone or Ava ”florescent” Eugene.

Jan 16, 2024 | medium.com | Pedro P. Romero

Five-time HLTV MVP winner, Paris Major champion, and winner of other notable events like BLAST Premier Fall and World Final and Gamers8. Truly, no one has come close to putting up the same amount of success as Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut has in 2023. As such, many within the Counter-Strike scene viewed himself as the undisputed best player in the world for the year and one deserving of the aptly named Player of the Year award in the 2023 HLTV Award Show in Belgrade, Serbia.