Grand Poobear, Esports speedrunner

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Grand Poobear is a Red Bull e-sports athlete and one of the top competitive video gamers in the world. With thousands of followers on Twitch and Youtube, he earns a very handsome living while simultaneously raising over a million dollars for charity through live events and streams. Payson caught up with Poo at his home in Vancouver, Washington to discuss the grind of esports stardom, why failure is 99% of the job, and how a nearly fatal snowboarding accident took him out of traditional compet...

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0:00.0	broke my back, my L1 vertebrae was broken, my knee was broken, my MCL was torn, and then I had a
0:06.6	ton of internal injuries. I was bleeding internally horribly. Those all got infected really bad,
0:13.5	so I was in ICU for two weeks, regular hospital for a week, got out for a week, went back in
0:19.2	because I had 105 degree fever, and then it was just like surgery, surgery, got out for a week, went back in because I had a 105 degree fever, and then it was
0:21.6	just like surgery, surgery, surgery for like a week after that. It's such a weird thing in
0:29.3	that it was the worst moment of my life and the worst six months of my life, but without it,
0:36.7	I would have nothing. I would have nothing compared to
0:41.8	what I have today. It's showtime, everybody. Showtime! You've been living in a dream world,
0:50.8	Neil. This is the world as it exists today.
0:57.3	Life moves pretty fast.
0:59.6	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
1:02.1	You could miss it.
1:05.2	Listen, we talk about practice.
1:08.4	Repeat on the dude's room.
1:10.0	Donnie, you're out of your element
1:11.4	I see you think this has nothing to do with you
1:14.8	don't ever
1:17.0	trashed hot black Jesus
1:18.8	This is the adventure
1:22.2	Stash with Payson McAlvin
1:23.8	E-Sports
1:26.5	A.k.a. video games.
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