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WoW Celebs: An Interview with Olympic Gold Medalist Matt Grevers
Posted March 18th, 2009 by Cody Bye
Ten
Ton Hammer: You don't
have anything else to do, right?
Matt: Right. People were getting bored out of their minds, and I was doing just fine.
Ten Ton Hammer: So did you get gaming time in Beijing?
Matt: Yeah,
but my latency was pretty high. I couldn't do much, but it was a a
great way to talk to all my friends at once. I'd just hop on Vent, and
it was the best way to communicate with mass amounts of people.
Ten Ton Hammer: So did you get done with your races, log-in, and talk about how you just won the silver medal?
Matt: Pretty much. It was cool. Some of the guys in my guild actually ended up taking me - and this was before level 70 of course - on a raid and got me some Tier 6 pants and shoulders.
Ten Ton Hammer: So tell us a little bit about your training regimen. What's your day-to-day schedule like?
Matt: I usually have practice from 6-8 AM, then I eat until 9 AM. After that I'll hop on to WoW and play a few games of PvP or do some daily quests. I won't raid during the week very often unless my friends give me a text and let me know that there's a good tank or healer on with the group, because that makes things go a bit quicker.
Sunday is my biggest WoW day and when I put in the time to do the 25-man raids. During the normal week, I mostly PvP.
I've been playing this game before it actually came out. I was in the beta. I mean, when I was in college I skipped class the day it came out to play. I bought three copies, because I knew my roommates would need it to.
Ten Ton Hammer: So you eat from 8-9 in the morning?
Matt: Yup. I don't even like to eat, to tell you the truth. For me, it's a chore, because I get full pretty quickly. When I'm not in the hardest training, it's hard to get in the calories that I should. My weight fluctuates like ten pounds within just a few days. It's crazy.
Matt: Right. People were getting bored out of their minds, and I was doing just fine.
Ten Ton Hammer: So did you get gaming time in Beijing?
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Ten Ton Hammer: So did you get done with your races, log-in, and talk about how you just won the silver medal?
Matt: Pretty much. It was cool. Some of the guys in my guild actually ended up taking me - and this was before level 70 of course - on a raid and got me some Tier 6 pants and shoulders.
Ten Ton Hammer: So tell us a little bit about your training regimen. What's your day-to-day schedule like?
Matt: I usually have practice from 6-8 AM, then I eat until 9 AM. After that I'll hop on to WoW and play a few games of PvP or do some daily quests. I won't raid during the week very often unless my friends give me a text and let me know that there's a good tank or healer on with the group, because that makes things go a bit quicker.
Sunday is my biggest WoW day and when I put in the time to do the 25-man raids. During the normal week, I mostly PvP.
I've been playing this game before it actually came out. I was in the beta. I mean, when I was in college I skipped class the day it came out to play. I bought three copies, because I knew my roommates would need it to.
Ten Ton Hammer: So you eat from 8-9 in the morning?
Matt: Yup. I don't even like to eat, to tell you the truth. For me, it's a chore, because I get full pretty quickly. When I'm not in the hardest training, it's hard to get in the calories that I should. My weight fluctuates like ten pounds within just a few days. It's crazy.
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