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| Name | Sujoy Roy |
| Born | September 1975 |
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| Games | Quake |
Sujoy Roy (born September 1975) is a former professional online gamer based in theUnited Kingdom. He lives inCamden,Central London.
While studying atCambridge University, Roy started playing the computer gameQuake online againstother players, and found that he had quite an aptitude for the game. Through an online server, he found that he was one of the best players in Europe.[1] 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 torocketjump out of deep lava on the Quake 1 level DM4, a demo of him performing this move spread quickly around the Quake community and is now a common move in many FPS games. In the days beforebroadbandInternet was available, he installed anISDN line in hisbedroom to improve his online performance.
Roy graduated from Cambridge University with anM.A. inNatural Sciences.[1] After graduating from Cambridge, he took up a job at the merchant bank,JP Morgan, working onNew York City'sWall Street, and regularly being shuttled between London and New York City.
Sujoy has appeared on manyTV programmes on the mainUnited Kingdom networks and satellite channels. He has also been interviewed by majornewspapers andmagazines, including theFinancial Times andSunday Times, as well as many computer magazines.
Sponsorships and endorsements included theRazer Boomslang mouse, probably the first mouse designed for online gamers. Sujoy had this mouse custom painted with theUnion Jack by amotorcycle helmet artist, and it was a signature item at tournaments in which he competed.
Sujoy retired from online gaming in 2001–2002 following thedotcom 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 founded two Multiplayer Lan Gaming Centres named after his community websiteESReality, one in Harrow, West London and the other in Maidenhead, Berks. In 2006, with the release ofQuake 4 Sujoy briefly returned to compete at several competitions. However, success proved elusive and he slipped back into retirement shortly after.
In 2008 Sujoy was involved in launching Omega Sektor and managed theLondon Mint professional gaming team that competed in theChampionship Gaming Series.[2]
In December 2007 Sujoy launched Gamerbase, a gaming centre located within theHMV store at the London Trocadero in Piccadilly Circus. Gamerbase was acquired by the high street entertainment chain, HMV, in October 2008 and Sujoy subsequently joinedHMV in a managerial capacity to oversee the technical aspects of Gamerbase.
Gamerbase won the Retail Innovation award in 2009 fromMCV, the leading UK video games trade magazine. Sujoy has opened three further Gamerbase stores in the UK inside HMV stores in Manchester, Glasgow and Reading.
