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Eduardo 'PR Balrog' Perez discusses his plans to win Evo 2013, training regimen, origins of his name and more

Posted by DreamKing23
February 10, 2013 at 7:37 p.m. PST

Eduardo 'PR Balrog' Perez discusses his plans to win Evo 2013, training regimen, origins of his name and more

TechZwn recently conducted an interview with Evil Geniuses' Eduardo 'PR Balrog' Perez in which he talks on a wide variety of subjects. Eduardo is dedicated to his training as he aims to win Evo 2013 and divulges a bit of insight on his training regimen.

You can check out a bit from TechZwn's article below.

Practice for a pro like Perez-Frangie means a lot of time spent gaming each day. “A typical day for me would be waking up, taking a shower, maybe doing some house chores, and then setting up the stream to start playing for six to ten hours,” he says. “Usually when I’m not streaming I just practice in training mode.”

Online play is a staple in Perez-Frangie’s training routine, but he has warned his followers to take online play with a grain of salt. “The thing about fighters online is that it will never be perfect because the timing online is completely different than playing offline. The fact that the internet in America is not that fast and we are all so spread out makes it really hard for a top player to take it seriously. Fighters are based on really fast reactions and combos that require strict timing and online makes most of that impossible.”

Interestingly enough, Eduardo discusses the origins of the "PR Balrog" handle and admits he wishes people would address him by his real name as he didn't assign the surname himself.

In addition to being the biggest accomplishment of his career, a win at the EVO championships might give Perez-Frangie the chance to change his current handle. “I wish people would call me by my name, or at least by Eduardo Perez, instead of PR Balrog since I actually didn’t give myself that name—Especially now that I don’t even play Balrog anymore.” That handle was given to him when he became the first player to win a major Street Fighter tournament using the Balrog character. Players, fans, and spectators knew little about Perez-Frangie except that he was Puerto Rican and played using Balrog. The PR Balrog name has stuck since.

Be sure to check out the rest of the interview as it retains quite a bit more interesting information.

Comments

kuroi_aima said on February 10, 2013 at 7:41 p.m.

does he have a job?

zUkUu said on February 10, 2013 at 7:42 p.m.

The best he can change is nick to is "PR Rog" - but he will never be able to get rid of it entirely. It's just too prominent.

Draconian said on February 10, 2013 at 7:45 p.m.

i wish i could spend an hour a day xD.

HardRojo said on February 10, 2013 at 7:57 p.m.

6 to 10 hours a day? I can barely play a couple of hours during weekdays :(

juliocubo said on February 10, 2013 at 8:05 p.m.

san francisco fei?

Whengameswerefun said on February 10, 2013 at 8:06 p.m.

LOL I made this post before man 6 - 10 hours a day haha i can't do that my ADD mode will kick in.

JesseRobles said on February 10, 2013 at 8:07 p.m.

Does he have a job? And sleeps?
Man, I'm lucky to even get to play 2-4 hours per week!

xShonuffx said on February 10, 2013 at 8:20 p.m.

Getting rid of his "PR Balrog" name is gonna be as hard as Lil' Bow Wow changing his name to Bow Wow. But I will respect him and call him by what he wants to be called.

aubergine said on February 10, 2013 at 8:22 p.m.

No, he said he doesn't have a job and that this is his full-time job at the moment. He has a Master's degree (I think in international marketing) so he says he's not too worried when he needs to do something else

zUkUu said on February 10, 2013 at 8:31 p.m.

He wants to be called "Cute Princess" afaik. :p

#10

gentlestrength said on February 10, 2013 at 8:33 p.m.

Respect for this guy. Six to ten hours a day isn't anything new for progamers (talk about Korean Starcraft training houses). Daigo also trains this way. Eduardo would be even more of a beast if he could stay in Japan for extended periods of time. Six to ten hours in the arcades there would make a huge difference for his match-up knowledge and consistency.

Hope he continues to do well in EVO.

#11

edrigo said on February 10, 2013 at 8:47 p.m.

I think if usa players trained a month before evo japan they would be super sharp maybe even avoid a few majors.

#12

MCHAWKING said on February 10, 2013 at 8:55 p.m.

I feel like Eduardo is the hardest working American player right now (along with Dieminion). A lot of the other top players in the US are legacy and have been great in earlier games but those 2 are relatively new to the seen and look hungry. Basically what I hear from the legacy players in interviews is "I only play 10 hours a week unless a major is coming up then I train hard" but these guys are putting in those "major"-type hours every day of the week. Legacy players can get by on their skills when its just North American talent, but when the best international players come to play it seems like the new bloods are the ones placing the best. Maybe its time for some of the old dogs to pick up the sticks instead of posting on twitter?

#13

Shinebox said on February 10, 2013 at 9:07 p.m.

It's like riding a bike you can only play for so many hours before your ass is about to fall off

#14

Cammystrike said on February 10, 2013 at 9:37 p.m.

6 to 10 hours? Damn I can't play for two hours at a time before I either get bored or too pissed off from losing to play.

#15

dro2191 said on February 10, 2013 at 10:22 p.m.

i would love to do what he does play video games mon-thurs for 6 to 8 hours, weekends to do what i want, that be awesome sadly life doesn't work that way,

@ 7 you play all these games id figure you spend some time playing lol

#16

FoxHound24 said on February 10, 2013 at 10:32 p.m.

I just love this guy. I'm Puertorican myself and im really amazed that he was able to get into the fighting scene. He will forever have my support, I love it when he kicks ass in Marvel. I think im probably gonna do that after I finish studying, get into the scene, maybe with MVC4? lol I play UMVC3 pretty good but I have to get to play in a tournament, unfortunately I would have to travel... Ohh money, money, money... -.-

#17

chipndip said on February 10, 2013 at 10:59 p.m.

Make Puerto Rico a state already. Also, hope this dude beats Infiltration in SF X TKN at Evo this year.

#18

JesseRobles said on February 10, 2013 at 11:42 p.m.

@16
When I play a game, I play ONLY that game. Sometimes maybe 2 or 3 at the most. Some of those in my list I haven't touched in months, some even a year, so my skill level in a few of them is probably 0 right now. lol

#19

brobo said on February 11, 2013 at 12:18 a.m.

LMAO @ him winning evo

#20

MaverickHunterX said on February 11, 2013 at 12:22 a.m.

Is it really that difficult to change handle names? I mean, Ron Artest became Metta World Peace at the drop of a hat and that's his legal name.

#21

roknin said on February 11, 2013 at 12:40 a.m.

JesseRobles - same here. I listed a lot of games I play but I can really only be active and hungry in one game at a time - the others I probably haven't played in months (ie., I haven't played UMvC3 in almost a year). On average unless its a light week I max out at like 2 hours a night of one fighter (usually not even that), most of that being training mode. I'm actually going to try to calm that down now because my priorites are picking back up (namely writing and of course my day job).

Props to people that can dedicate those kinds of hours thiugh.

#22

XeroDgX said on February 11, 2013 at 4:37 a.m.

when sf4 vanilla came out his nick wasn't his real name nor pr balrog, it was vVv Scrub....

#23

nebbiez said on February 11, 2013 at 5:09 a.m.

Why is how many hours pro players put in practicing so hard for people to believe? It's the same for musicians and stuff like that. It is basically your job to be on top of your game and perform at the peak of your abilities. These are not normal guys with 9-5 jobs who squeeze in their play time. It's like Eduardo said, they are bang on it from once they've got up and had a shower in the morning. What amazes me is that once they play that much and have to treat their training as a job, how they can still find enjoyment in it. I would probably die of boredom within a week of sitting in training mode or playing online scrubs for 10 hours a day.

#24

emiller527 said on February 11, 2013 at 5:47 a.m.

Agrees with #24.

I have a full time job and my gf has 2 kids therefore I have 2 kids and I get more time in than 2 hours a week. I assume it depends on age and school + job but I don't see a problem with several hours spent on a hobby or in this case a job you enjoy.

#25

Dark_Obliske said on February 11, 2013 at 5:47 a.m.

@20 lol at the salty online scrub,he's accomplish more than you have in his life time

#26

edrigo said on February 11, 2013 at 6:07 a.m.

@20 he nearly reached the top at evo with balrog.

he also beat chris g in scr13 finals i respect this mans dedication

Having said that infiltration is too scary he has talent and also puts in the time. But i have no doubt rog can achieve great things in several games, i definitely see him in a different light recently.

#27

anthonygamer said on February 11, 2013 at 6:26 a.m.

#4 And that's why you're not good.

#28

lukecage83 said on February 11, 2013 at 6:40 a.m.

@28

uncalled for

#29

wBENDERw said on February 11, 2013 at 7:07 a.m.

more of a fan of Eduardo now that i'ved watched his stream

#30

throughsilence said on February 11, 2013 at 7:12 a.m.

He's still pretty young, he said he's 25 or 26. Plays full time, and the money he makes from EG, tournament wins, etc helps him survive. It's probably not a glorious earning but at least he's having fun and able to do what he wants. I believe he'll make it to the top in EVO.

#31