Sujoy Roy

Sujoy Roy

Sujoy Roy (born September 1975) was a professional online gamer based in the United Kingdom. He lives in Ealing, West London. While studying at Cambridge University, he started playing the computer game Quake online against other players, and found that he had quite an aptitude for the game - regarded by most to be the UK's best all-round Quake player. He spent many hours online, making full use of the high-speed 'JANET' connection Universities were graced with (offering a stable ~20 ping), and competed with clan Demonic Core. He is also credited with discovering how to rocketjump out of deep lava, a demo of him performing this move spread quickly around the Quake community and is now a common move in all FPS games. In the days before broadband Internet was available, he even installed an ISDN line in his bedroom to improve his online performance.

After graduating from Cambridge with an M.A. in Natural Sciences, Sujoy took up a job at the merchant bank, JP Morgan, working on New York City's Wall Street, and regularly being shuttled between London and New York City in first class. However, he famously gave up this high flying career to concentrate on gaming, and the potential from tournament prize money and sponsorships.

Sujoy has appeared on many TV programmes on the main United Kingdom networks and satellite channels. He has also been interviewed by major newspapers and magazines, including the Financial Times and Sunday Times, as well as many computer magazines.

Sponsorships and endorsements included the Razer Boomslang mouse, probably the first mouse designed for online gamers. Sujoy had this mouse custom painted with the Union Jack by a motorcycle helmet artist, and it was a signature item at tournaments in which he competed.

Sujoy retired from online gaming in 2001/ [2002] following the dotcom crash and set about organising multiplayer tournaments in the UK. Along with business partner, Dominic Mulroy, Sujoy helped found the VGA (Virtual Gaming Alliance), an organisation of internet gaming centres throughout the United Kingdom. Sujoy is co-owner of two Multiplayer Lan Gaming Centres named after his community website ESReality, one in Harrow, West London and the other in Maidenhead, Berks. In 2006, with the release of Quake 4 Sujoy briefly returned to compete at several competitons. However, success proved elusive and he slipped back into retirement shortly after.

More recently Sujoy was involved in launching [http://www.omegasektor.com Omega Sektor] , [http://www.gamerbase.com GamerBase] and is the current manager of the London Mint team for the Championship Gaming Series.

External links

* [http://www.BesMella-Quake.com/comments.asp?newsid=356000210389154906365741 An interview with Sujoy Roy]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3089496.stm BBC Report about Sujoy Roy]


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