Rise Nation\u2019s Gunless on Dedication as a CoD Pro \u201cWe\u2019re not supposed to have a social life \u2013 People don\u2019t want it enough\u201d Professional Call of Duty player for Rise Nation, Pierce \u201cGunless\u201d Hillman has revealed the staggering amount of time he puts into practice, and is critical of some of his fellow pro\u2019s who says just \u201cdon\u2019t want it enough\u201d. Gunless broke out into the professional scene with eUnited during the 2017 Infinite Warfare season, where he quickly asserted himself as a top caliber player in the space of only a couple major events. He has since played for FaZe Clan and Echo Fox, before joining current team Rise Nation, and is still considered one of the best players in the world, perhaps even the very best. While clearly naturally talented, Gunless has also been lauded by fellow players and fans for his incredible work ethic and dedication to his craft, known to play hours and hours of public matches, scrims and money 8s everyday. His performances have been so impressive throughout the Call of Duty: WWII season, that other pro players have begun to follow his example in playing more public matches outside of team practice. On the second episode of \u201cCOD over Coffee\u201d, hosted by Taylor \u201cKeat\u201d Keating, Gunless explained more his mentality behind his insane hours of practice and why he believes other players don\u2019t do the same. \u201cI usually get on and play around 2-3 hours of pubs before I team scrim, we team scrim for maybe 2 or 3 series if we can get a third series. After that I play more pubs till around 5 or 6 am. Scrims usually end around 10pm so I\u2019ll probably sit there for a good 7-8 hours.\u201d When asked if he thinks CoD pro\u2019s should \u2018grind more\u2019, Gunless reminisces on his time when he was coming up as player, and how many hours he would put in. \u201cOther [professional] players on other teams don\u2019t really have the same mindset as me and the guys that came up with me on eUnited. Everyone wants to have some sort of social life. I guess they don\u2019t really understand that we\u2019re professional gamers for a reason, we\u2019re not supposed to have a social life. This isn\u2019t a regular job at all, this is something you have to sacrifice a lot to achieve and be successful in.\u201d Gunless explains that even though some players may not particularly like the game, it is their job and they should be driven by the motivation to win. I just think people don\u2019t want it enough, honestly. People can dislike the game and hate on the game, and not really want to play something they don\u2019t like. But at the same time, we\u2019re getting paid for it. Suck it up, go play the hell out of the game and make sure you\u2019re the best at it at all costs. It doesn\u2019t matter if the game sucks, it\u2019s your job. For me, it\u2019s different, every time I win I want it more. Because for that one minute you get while you\u2019re up on the stage after you\u2019ve won, there is just nothing else going through your mind but a smile on your face and happiness. So that\u2019s what drives me, playing endless amounts of Call of Duty so I can have that one minute back, where I don\u2019t think of anything else but just being happy. You can watch the full video of COD Over Coffee with Gunless below, with discussion of his dedication beginning at around the 4 minute mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rise Nation\u2019s Gunless on Dedication as a CoD Pro \u201cWe\u2019re not supposed to have a social life \u2013 People don\u2019t want it enough\u201d Professional Call of Duty player for Rise Nation, Pierce \u201cGunless\u201d Hillman has revealed the staggering amount of time he puts into practice, and is critical of some of his fellow pro\u2019s who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}