Hello KrosFans!
I'm glad to present to you one of the masterminds behind KIC, he comes from Spain: Dan Mathew!
"My name is Daniel, but I’m best known like Dan Mathew with friends and the Krosmaster community.
I was a Dofus MMORPG player for nine years before I started playing Krosmaster Arena. I tried it out implemented in the Dofus game itself, as there was an option to play Krosmaster Arena 2D within the MMORPG itself, at that time there was no visible intention on Ankama's part to release its physical version.
Later I found out by chance that there was a physical version through my own local community, one of my local teammates for other competitive TCGs, Fran, bought several minis and encouraged us to take the step, after that the game caught us completely. This was at the end of 2014, season 2 was booming and the Dark Heros pack was about to come out.
The members of my team at the beginning were not collectors: Fran, Juan Milan, Nyu, however later all of them became collectors except me, who always preferred to get the miniatures I was directly willing to play with. Our community was small but we quickly grew to almost 30 people. After more than a year of total lack of news due to the change of factory from Vietnam to China by Ankama, our number of players decreased, settling until today in fixed numbers of 15-20 people regardless of the successive mistakes made by the company in its null care of the community created around the game, and with a remarkable effort of those who promote it to keep it active.
I started to offer my help in several Spanish fan pages trying to promote the publicity and in-depth knowledge of the game since 2015. It didn't take me long to become part of the Jalatofus team (fan page dedicated to offering news and updates about Krosmaster and related games from Ankama), and later La Guarida de los Krosmonautas (a conglomerate of players, referees, and local organizers who have been participating in physical and online projects aimed at maintaining interest in Krosmaster Arena for the whole Spanish community and, in many occasions, also the international community). Lastly, I’m in the Andalucia and Spain Kroscommunities’s groups as the voice of my local community, taking part in the global contributions for the Spanish organized game.
Like a player I have participated in many tournaments at all levels in Spain, winning or being a finalist in some of the most popular Byes and QTs, I have been National champion twice in a row (2018 and 2019), after being National runner-up (2017). I have also participated three times in the World Championship, coming in third place this last year 2020.
I have great faith that KIC offers the international community everything it needs to keep Krosmaster Arena alive, it is a joint desire of all its members to devote all the time needed to optimize their proposals for a better global welcome. Always keep in mind clear and reasonable objectives, that later on can grow and perhaps have more economic promoters that help to sustain an even more integrated infrastructure in all the countries where the proposals are adopted. If the international community has faith in KIC, I know that its members are widely capable of offering a great future to the game we all love.
If there is one thing that I must highlight about this game, it is its community. I continue playing for it, I am proud to belong to a group that has been fighting for so many years to make a game bigger, each year more abandoned by the company that developed it. People who love the universe created around Dofus/Wakfu who see in it the wasted opportunity to become one of the main competitive board games worldwide… I have made many friends over the years thanks to Krosmaster Arena, and it pains me to think that Ankama has finally decided to put the icing on the cake of business nonsense by completely closing its best business opportunity in the field of competitive games. A game that must have been dead for almost five years is still alive almost entirely due to the will of the fans and promoters who have continued to push it… A game that attracts children and adults, as well as entire families, whose learning is progressive but allows fluid handling after very few games, and an exquisite depth that has been optimized over the years, becoming one of the most balanced games that exist today.
My functions are oriented to the moderation and organization of the group because they were requested by some members. Therefore my intervention is more limited for the main development areas of KIC. At the moment I participate in the group of Local Communities and Physical Play, where I try to offer my experience for the general brainstorming that each country needs; on the other hand, I contribute to the group of Organized Play and Formats as a playtester and their general votes, besides my extensive record of events and results that have existed in competitive format in all those countries where I have been able to obtain such information throughout the years of the life of Krosmaster Arena.
My favorite Krosmaster is Mil Kluva. Although it is not a miniature that requires great technique or experience, which are often the figures that I tend to develop to make my teams, it is a very underrated character in high competition that nevertheless has phenomenal stats and a very high survival capacity by itself with the right push. I have won and topped it in numerous events, including among the victories with the same the biggest QT held in Spain and the 2018 National Championship."
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