Here in the Philippines,
there is usually a negative reaction about those playing electronic sports like DOTA (Defense of the Ancients).
But when this group of Filipinos won in a prestigious world championship
that is considered as the Olympics in electronic sports,
the view about electronic sports gradually changed.
I had a DOTA team,
was my motivation for them,
that we help so that E-sports here in the Philippines would all the more be accepted.
It is also like other sports acknowledged in other countries.
However it is not physical, you only sit and use your mind.
In this edition of Paninindigan, let's meet the team owner of the group of Filipinos
who won in the 2017 World Electronic Sports Games that brought honor to our country.
Let us find out the trials he went through and his firm resolve despite the success he achieved.
Back then, making a living was through farming.
So the basis if you are financially capable was by how vast the land you own is.
So when I was studying, we didn't have any land to inherit so I really strove to study.
Brother Eric Redulfin was raised from a family of farmers in Nueva Vizcaya.
From planting, plowing even harvesting, I experienced all of those.
I grew up in Kongkong in the town of Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya.
It's 27 kilometers away from Bambang.
Our town is really Bambang however you still need to walk to get to our place. It's in the mountains.
At a young age, he already gave importance to education.
We studied under gas lamps.
We really experienced that hardship in life until high school.
Because when I entered high school, we moved to the town.
I lived with my grandmother on my father's side.
I studied at a government public school in Nueva Vizcaya.
I studied there for four years.
I finished my high school (education) in Nueva Vizcaya.
After graduating high school from a remote barangay in Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya,
he took his chances in Manila.
That was 1987.
That time it was just the beginning of the Aquino Administration.
There was a massive recruitment of soldiers back then.
When I found out that my mother's sister was near Fort Bonifacio,
I looked for her, I got the address.
Then when I found her, my aunt said that she would just help me study.
She said that I shouldn't be a soldier because my life would be shortenedin the army.
He knew that it would not be easy to achieve his dreams, which is why he doubled his efforts.
My mother would always advise me that in order for me to change my life,
I should help myself. I should study well.
My first course when I was already in Manila then was as an Electronic Technician.
He worked and switched different jobs in order to support his studies.
I became a working student in order to meet the expenses for school.
Back then, I applied at the department store.
If you want to be accepted, you shouldn't be picky about work.
I was a janitor, a bagger.
Being in the department store is an all-around work especially if you only work part-time.
If you're not picky about work, you would never lose a job.
I have already had many different jobs that were more difficult than being a janitor.
I also experienced selling salt in the province.
I also sold slippers. I experienced all those things.
After he finished a vocational course he didn't stop aspiring for his dreams.
When I finished my vocational course as an Electronic Technician,
I returned to the province.
There I applied what I learned here.
I repaired TVs, radios.
I also installed a sound system there in our province back then.
Those were the products of my studies. My sibling helped me.
He strove to save money to increase the level of his studies.
I tried again to enroll in Engineering.
I was granted a full scholarship in TIP.
I again studied ECE. I was still a working student.
After a grievous event in his life, a wonderful opportunity came.
When I was in my fourth year that was the time when my mother died.
So I really needed to support myself.
I left TIP as a working student.
I was lucky enough to get accepted.
My first job here was as an instructor.
I was only in my fourth year of my studies but I was already teaching.
At the school where he taught,
he met the person who greatly helped him to be continuously guided in life.
I had many problems in life.
When I attended a worship service, during the prayer, everything the minister prayed for hit me.
It was a wake-up call for me to join the Church Of Christ.
I continued in joining the Church.
I was baptized in 1999.
When he joined the Church,
his life all the more had direction.
When he got married,
like many who are starting a family, his income was only small.
Before, these were my first projects,
I assembled computers, I repaired them.
Then after about one to two years, there were many customers for computer repair.
So it demanded selling.
Before, what happened was if we would repair a unit and there is a broken piece,
we would buy the parts at a computer store.
Until there were demands for computer parts.
I began to apply as a dealer.
It started with a few pieces like motherboards, CPUs.
I applied at the distributors of those products.
Until, gradually,
we sold full computer packages.
Then after about a year of combining sales and repair,
that was when we sold in bulk.
It wasn't long before a good opportunity came to expand his business.
Someone bought computers from us.
It was quite many but they weren't able to get it all.
They didn't need the other units.
So if I would sell it at the time, it would be at a loss.
Because when it comes to technology, it is quick to depreciate.
So I thought about putting up and trying out computer rentals.
So we started out with for computer.
At this point in life, he all the more understood that all his experiences
and the hardships he went through would guide his future.
Being a working student greatly helped me in starting out my business.
Because then, I helped out in the computer laboratory.
There are computers for repair.
And, of course, we also had seminars.
Aside from ECE was my course; I already had experience in repairing computers.
Now, I'm still here.
This is the job that I love.
I started here so I continued with it.
There are only services that are added but the information is still there.
This location was our first branch.
It started out as a repair shop
and this was also the first computer shop we had with only four computers in this space over that part.
But it didn't look like that back then.
It was only made of wood.
It gradually came to order,
through the help and mercy of our Lord God,
he now had a full internet shop.
I brought it over to the other side (of the street).
At present, we now have more than 115 branches.
Then we expanded to Indonesia and Malaysia.
30% of those are company owned.
The rest are mostly franchised.
In starting out electronic sports or E-sports,
he thought about not only how to keep up with his business
but also how to help in changing its image.
Before TNC was recognized,
E-sports as a whole is not patronized here compared in other countries.
In other countries, it's already considered as sports for them – an athlete.
It's the opposite here in the Philippines
If you're a DOTA player here, it's either you skip school, you're a dropout,
you're a bad influence and your parents are mad at you.
That became a great challenge for us.
Sir Eric had a vision to assemble a team who would really be professionals.
(A team) that would be a role model for other Filipino players to be professional.
Because there is a great gap when it comes between Philippine E-sports compared to International (E-sports).
And it helped a lot in terms of promoting the business and promoting the E-sports in the Philippines.
For those who don't understand, the game DOTA is like basketball.
It's composed of five players.
So if in basketball there is a Center,
here in DOTA there is a Mid.
So if we have a Forward, here we have a Support.
Then there's the Captain, he's the ball-handler,
there's also one in DOTA. It's the same.
So there's a rotation.
You could only win if there's teamwork.
Trying to be a star won't do it.
I assembled a DOTA team.
That was my motivation for them
so that E-sports would all the more be patronized in the Philippines.
It's like other sports that are recognized in other countries.
However, it's not physical. You only sit and use your mind.
Even then he desired to represent the Philippines in the World Championships of E-sports.
It's prestigious.
Even just to be invited there, there are 16 teams from around the world.
Just to qualify going there is already a great honor.
Brother Eric Redulfin is the team owner of TNC Pro.
He showed us the former headquarters of his players where they practice.
This was our first boot camp.
This is actually the first boot camp in the Philippines.
We were the first ever to do that.
Though this is smaller than the boot camps abroad.
This was where they would train and practice.
It's really small so we preserved it.
So the players could compare their life back when they were just starting out
and to what they have already achieved, to see the difference.
And because they were new to the world championship,
they experienced being belittled by the seniors and more famous teams.
We also went to the US. We were really underdogs.
You could really feel that they think that it was like only by luck that these guys are here.
That was how other international teams saw us.
We beat the back-to-back champion team OG.
That team was the all-time favorite and they were the number one team worldwide.
They also have a player who's the number one worldwide
and they were the crowd favorite and are predicted to be the champions.
What happened to us was really a priceless experience.
That history might be hard to repeat.
Of course now, we're not underdogs anymore because of the victory of our team,
like the achievements that they are able to do,
we are not only known in the Philippines
but also in South East Asia and even in other countries.
In every competition they join, Brother Eric himself would lead his group in prayer.
It has been taught by sir Eric, despite not being in the same religion as him.
He teaches us how to pray to God.
Sometimes he would also bring us to his church's gatherings.
And I think it's really good to keep the team humble, to keep the team grounded.
Though they are considered to be rookies in electronic sports
however they took home the highest title for the 2017 World Electronic Sports Games.
We were champions at the (WESG) World Electronic Sports Games.
It's the first tournament where the team is fully of the same nationality.
It's somehow like an Olympics.
That was the first world title of the Philippines.
As a member inside the Church Of Christ, there's no gambling involved here in DOTA.
Especially in our team.
Because, first of all, it is prohibited for us.
There's no gambling in the actual DOTA games.
If ever there's gambling, there are already third parties involved.
But if they get caught, the company of Valve itself bans them. Valve is the owner of DOTA.
At present, E-sports continues to be recognized in different parts of the world.
DOTA is part of the Olympics this coming 2022.
The start of their trial for the Southeast Asian Games is on 2018 in Indonesia.
Because of their successive victories, they brought home not only honor but also great prizes.
That is why his players were able to surmount poverty.
Now our players have their own businesses.
So after they won their first big tournament, they invested to have their own internet café.
So I would say that's an evidence that there is a good side of E-sports.
Back then they would talk about how their allowance was not enough.
How they would share a foot-long hotdog for a snack.
But now it's different. Because they now have money.
One of my players bought a car.
Another one bought a house.
And all of them now have businesses.
So we also teach them about business so that if their careers don't reach their peak,
they still have a fallback.
From a poor province in a remote barangay in Nueva Vizcaya,
now an E-sports World Champion Team Owner and a successful businessman.
Despite all the success, his top priority in life remains –
his fulfillment of his duties to God inside the Church Of Christ.
My first duty is as the SCAN President.
Then I was recruited to be a deacon.
That's it, that's what I noticed that every time I accept an office, our livelihood also gets better.
It seems to go at a better pace.
Then after a year, they entrusted me to become an assisting deacon
who performs at the pulpit during the worship services.
There are also many hindrances in our duty inside the Church,
example, you desire to fulfill then suddenly comes an opportunity in your life
which seems like it's the last.
It's like if I went there, it would possibly brought a good result for our business.
Then, suddenly, that time, the time for our Holy Supper,
I really cancelled all of those. I really prioritized performing my duty.
For me, opportunities come not only once in a lifetime but many times.
The thing is we should really prioritize our duties.
One of the things we pray for is to be good examples in the Church.
In that way, my entire household is seen fulfilling our duties.
We are devoted to our duties.
All things would be given to us, the blessings, if we fulfill our office
and prioritize our duties and our being members of the Church Of Christ.
Though Brother Eric may have gained material things,
what he prioritizes more, as the pillar of the household,
is to lead his family in serving God that serves as the way for the blessings they receive.
Whatever my status right now,
the blessing I really recognize is that I'm inside the Church Of Christ.
And I also have a Church duty.
And my children voluntarily accepted duties in the Church.
That is one of the great blessings as a member in the Church Of Christ.
My Father's upbringing of us is both strict and balanced, in strictness and enjoyment.
He's strict when it comes to waking us early for the worship service.
He makes us sleep early and stops us from using the computer.
He's humble everyday.
He taught me how to pray back when I was only nine.
My wife is a deaconess then my eldest child is an officer in the Children's Worship Service
and my two other children are both choir members in the Children's Worship Service.
Brother Eric desires that whatever trials that may come in their life,
they will continue to remain on the side of God Whom they acknowledge as the source of all things.
I believe that God will give the way on how He would bless you.
I myself can prove many impossible things have happened to us.
If you were able to follow our life, it's hard to explain.
It's really the help of the Father.
It's impossible for me to achieve this without the help of the Lord God.
What I have now is exceedingly more than I need.
My only dream back then is to provide a good future for my children.
That they won't get sick.
That I'm able to get them through their schooling.
That they won't experience what hardships I went through.
What I'm praying for now is that time comes that my whole life is only dedicated to serving God.
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