Ramos was champion gamer
February 21, 2020
Kaitlyn Flanagan
THE MIRROR
Ralph Ramos is a wonderful and very enthusiastic math teacher who is very passionate about teaching and helping his students when they need guidance. Ramos has many different interests and gaming was one of those big interests that had a very big positive impact on his life.
Growing up Ramos played lots of video games just like any other average teenage boy. Ramos played a lot of fighting games including Runescape, Guild Wars, Tekken 3, and many more.
Ramos enjoyed playing games with his friends and they did very well together. They placed in the top 50 in the world.
“So we figured, why not try,” Ramos added.
Ramos and his friends played in-game tournaments. They played every day and they got a certain number of points depending on how well they played. The team, if they had enough points, could participate in the monthly tournaments which consisted of 400 players each month. They were single-elimination games of around 50 or so teams of eight people.
Gaming has had a huge positive impact on Ramos’s life. Ramos has made many new friends all around the world. He has traveled to many places after his high school career to see these online friends including California, Boston, Texas, and many more places.
“To this day they are still some of my closest friends and I still play with them. Oh, and they were at my wedding,” Ramos said.
Not only has Ramos met new people but every month they did pretty well and earned money and game prizes. Some of the prizes were wanted by other players so Ramos would sell those prizes and earn money that way, too. He earned approximately $400.
“Not a lot of money from a real job but it was still enough to pay for my textbooks,” Ramos added.
If Ramos was not a math teacher he wouldn’t be a professional gamer even though he grew up playing many games a lot and was very good at them.
“No, I’d want some boring office job where I don’t have to talk to anyone,” Ramos said.
Growing up Ramos loved to play video games and do math. Math was the area of study where he decided to pursue. He student taught with Paula Perron and realized that he loved it so much he decided to stick with it.g
Mazie Maluka • Mar 11, 2020 at 1:22 PM
It is so weird to think about our teachers as teens. However, I think your piece did a wonderful job of letting Mr. Ramos’ personality show through which made this piece feel more like a conversation than fact dumping.
Brian Kraege • Mar 5, 2020 at 1:57 PM
He’s probably one of the best teachers in the school so it’s nice to know more about him. It was good to add in the games he played.
Wyatt Cornell • Mar 4, 2020 at 5:13 PM
I can’t believe that Ramos is a big gamer. I liked that you didn’t jump around everywhere with your piece.
Larson Lewis • Mar 2, 2020 at 1:16 PM
This is an interesting part of Mr. Ramos that I did not know about. You had good quotes that enhanced the piece.
Erich Vanblargan • Feb 28, 2020 at 8:53 AM
Mr. Ramos is a great guy while I had him in Algebra 2 we always talked about how he used to competitively play League of legends where he earned all of his money from tournaments.
Kenny Schultz • Feb 27, 2020 at 1:32 PM
Mr. Ramos sounds like a great teacher and an even better guy. It must be very entertaining to have him as a teacher.
Noah Viegut • Feb 27, 2020 at 1:15 PM
I never would have thought that Ramos traveled around the world to see his online friends.
McKenna Coyle • Feb 26, 2020 at 1:27 PM
Ramos is such a good math teacher, I got lucky to have him for 2 years. I could read his quotes in his voice perfectly