MoMaN
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| Background Information | |
| Name: | Emmanuel Marquez |
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| Team: | Team LDLC.com |
| Sponsor: | Republic of Gamers |
| Race: | Zerg |
| Alternate IDs: | ROGMoMaN, brain, Pigeon |
| Country: | France 
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| Birthday: | December 27, 1982 |
| TLPD: | International |
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| Livestream: | TeamLiquid.net Twitch TV |
| Fan Page: | MoMaN's Fan Club |
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| Team History: | Virus Gaming, Cyber Nation, Millenium |
Emmanuel "MoMaN" Marquez is a French Zerg player, who is currently a member of Team LDLC.com. He is known for his unusual playstyle, which relies almost exclusively on Roaches in every match-up.
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[edit] Biography
MoMaN has played several games competitively in the past, starting with Duke Nukem and followed by Quake 2, Counter-Strike 1.5/1.6, StarCraft: Brood War, and now StarCraft 2. He has played on the French national team for each of these games, as well as for the Spanish national team for Brood War.
[edit] Beta
MoMaN started to play to Starcraft II during the beta, and competed in many weekly tournaments, making a habit of playing in US online events, because they took place at night, after work. He joined Millenium on 2010-05-03. [1]
[edit] Wings of Liberty
On December 2010, MoMaN left Millenium, and joined the young team Cyber Nation, which offered him to become the first fully-professionnal French Starcraft II player (even if the major part of his job is to animate the cyber café). [2]
Despite keeping a low profile after release and only participating in weekly tournaments and French offline events, he decided to make a more relaxed application for NASL than most other players [3]. MoMaN was placed in Division B, becoming the only French player in the tournament. After an encouraging victory 2-0 against qxc for his first match, he gradually came down in the rankings of his group. MoMaN still managed to win his last confrontations against iNcontroL, White-Ra and July (who was already qualified for the main bracket at this time). He ended up sixth of his group, failing to get a spot in the qualifier bracket. He is confirmed to return for the second season of the NASL.
On July 31st, MoMaN announced in a long interview that he was leaving Cyber Nation. He explained that his wages were too high comparing to his performances, therefore leaving Cyber Nation's staff and him to decide to part ways [4]. He joined Virus Gaming a few days later [5].
MoMaN competed in French Master Series Finals 2010 - 2011, where he took the fourth place, therefore failing to qualify for Electronic Sports World Cup 2011. He tried again to qualify for this event by participating in the European online qualifiers, but was unable again of reaching a qualifying place. He was eventually invited to the tournament at the last minute in order to replace Seiplo who couldn't attend. However, he wasn't able to pull a notable performance, being eliminated in group stage.
On January 6th 2012, MoMaN joined Team LDLC.com and signed a personal sponsorship contract with Republic of Gamers, hence switching his ID to "ROGMoMaN" [6][7].
[edit] Trivia
- He was a high-level tennis, handball and judo practicioner, but had to drop it because of knees issues, which led him to eSport.[citation needed]
- He played Zerg in Brood War, and was a member of the French National 2v2 Team alongside Chobo.[citation needed]
- He describes himself as a former clan hopping player, having played for almost every major French team during his long career. Furthermore, he still sometimes plays to Counter Strike for various teams.[citation needed]
- His nickname "MoMaN" comes from a running joke of his teammates who gave him the nickname. When he would play overnight in LANs and cyber café, his mother often called to ask where he was, and he invariably answered "allô, moman" ("Yes, mom" in French) to all her calls, resulting in the laughter of his comrades.[citation needed]
- He has dual citizenship, being French and Spanish. This particularity allowed him to compete twice in ESWC 2011 qualifiers.[citation needed]
[edit] Achievements
[edit] Wings of Liberty
| Date | Event | Result |
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| 2012-01-21 | LDLC Winter Trophy 2v2 |   MoMaN/Adelscott  3 : 4 BlinG/Stephano
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| 2011-11-09 | MSI Pro Cup #4 Qualifier | MoMaN 0 : 3 Feast
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| 2011-10-01 | Sennheiser Cup Season 2 #5 |  MoMaN 3 : 1  nukestrike
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| 2011-09-14 | Go4SC2 Cup #133 | MoMaN 3 : 2 BabyKnight
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| 2011-07-03 | French Master Series Finals 2010 - 2011 |  MoMaN 0 : 1 AureS
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| 2011-06-07 | RageQuit.TV Open #5 | MoMaN 1 : 3 DieStar
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| 2011-05-03 | Go4SC2 US April Monthly Finals | MoMaN 3 : 1 Daisuki
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| 2011-04-05 | Go4SC2 US March Monthly Finals | MoMaN 0 : 3 Attero
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| Date | Event | Result |
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| 2010-12-26 | GosuGamers Holiday Special |  MoMaN 2 : 1 HasHe
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| 2010-12-10 | eOSL Winter 2010 | MoMaN 1 : 3 SarenS
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| 2010-10-31 | Azerty Party 2010 | MoMaN 0 : 4 Adelscott
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| 2010-10-10 | PxL-Lan #28 | MoMaN 1 : 2 Adelscott
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[edit] Beta
| Date | Event | Result |
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| 2010-04-25 | ZOTAC Cup #9 | MoMaN 2 : 3 NaNiwa
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| 2010-04-17 | US.CraftCup #2 | MoMaN
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| 2010-03-23 | ESL StarCraft II Beta Saturday Cup #4 | MoMaN 2 : 0 affenjunge
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| 2010-03-16 | ESL StarCraft II Beta Saturday Cup #3 | MoMaN 3 : 1 LaLuSh
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| 2010-03-09 | ESL StarCraft II Beta Saturday Cup #1 | MoMaN
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[edit] Interviews
- MoMaN explaining why he left Cyber Nation in French and in roughly-translated English
- Interview of MoMaN in French / rougly-translated English
[edit] References
- ↑ "MoMaN joins Millenium. Millenium.org. May 3rd 2010.
- ↑ MoMaN leaves Millenium
- ↑ MoMaN's application for NASL
- ↑ MoMaN announces his departure of Cyber Nation
- ↑ Three new players for Virus
- ↑ "MoMaN lands at Team LDLC.com". Team-LDLC.com. January 6th 2012. Translated version
- ↑ "Announcement of MoMaN's sponsoring by ASUS ROG". Republic-Of-Gamers.fr. January 4th 2012. Translated version
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