The Loadout - OpTic's Kenny Williams

I'm from Memphis, Tennessee, born and raised. From the South, so I'm a southern boy. And I love playing video games.

I am Kenny, and I play for OpTic Texas. On our team, OpTic Texas, it's me, Shotzzy, Dashy, and Pred. I would call Shotzzy a goofball. Dashy, I would call him a volcano. Pred, I would say class clown.

I just joined the team this year. I was on a team, LAT, for like, ever. Nobody ever thought I would leave, but here I am. When I joined this team, I promised to bring championships. I brought one so far.

So, my controller choice is the SCUF PS4 controller. It's always been my choice. Everything default except I keep my rumbles in, and I use digital tap. It's fast reacting. I also use vibration, I'm like one of the only pros to use vibration, and SCUF gets the right vibration down every time.

Also, you can add paddles to your controller. You can map them to anything you want. Those can help a lot because of the fact that you can jump and keep your thumb on your analog stick. For me, the controllers have been perfect. I'm not going to change anytime soon. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

My style of play would definitely be aggressive, radar. I'm good at getting information. I call out a lot of information, but I also play an AR role at a faster pace than other players. My role is kind of a flexible role and do it at obviously the best of the best. I kind of learned a lot from a lot of veterans and learned how to play the game more maturely. And that's one thing I kind of like trying to teach my teammates.

We usually play an hour and a half before our match. We're kind of just trying to get our vocals warm and kind of communicate to each other to make sure everybody's awake. Also, the fact that we're not making that many mistakes. So for me, that's the biggest thing mentally is to get into that winning mindset. If your culture is good and your chemistry is good, you can kind of predict what your teammates are going to do, and that helps with winning. So I feel like this year, it's definitely been a lot of that because I've joined a team with three new players. We've been getting to know each other, hanging out a lot, so it's been really, really fun.

A few rituals that I do, I mean, I love music. For me, that kind of just clears my mind and gets me level-headed. Rod Wave, Drake, Lil Uzi Vert, I'll turn on some Adele. Love in the dark. Like, that's my go-to. I can't sing. I can't sing. You got something like a shot in here or something? Give me a shot. That's when I'll start singing. That's when the karaoke Filipino side of me comes out.

Definitely, there's a difference between in-game and out-of-game. I guess for me, when I sit down and I load into the map and we start running with our characters, that's me. I'm the super fundamental guy, so I like things to be fundamentally right. Whenever I'm in the play, I notice when things are off or whenever I'm out the play across the map, I can notice things.

For me, I would say a good map for our team is when I don't notice any bad things during the map. Of us kind of slowing down our plays or making the map feel awkward or like missing this gunfight, not doing this, not doing this. So no matter what the score is, as long as we're doing the right things, I consider that a good map.

When I'm bumped back into reality is when the end of the map happens and I either see victory or defeat. As the leader of the team, I'm usually the first one to speak, regardless, um, after the map, win or lose. I do a lot of yapping when you the game ends and it's either good or it's bad, yapping. That post-game ritual, if we lost, I just want to eat really, really bad food. I only eat healthy when we win.

I think to be an elite player, as I like to call it, is you need to be coachable, that's number one. You need to be able to give criticism and also take criticism well. You need to think more about the game, think about the game in a more general aspect and like, playing a shooter game. I think that's when you become elite.