Virginia Tech Guard David Wang Spent 6-8 Hours a Day Playing Call of Duty Last Season While Injured
David Wang broke his foot last season after appearing in just two games. Coming into last season, Wang was considered the most improved player in Hokies’ camp. For most players, this would be a lost year. For David Wang, it was a chance to excel in something else. Specifically, Call of Duty. From the Virginian Pilot:
Of the millions of people who play “Call of Duty” on Xbox 360 consoles, Wang can go toe-to-toe with them all. Last fall, after he broke his foot, he sometimes spent six to eight hours a day playing online.
He says he peaked at No. 35 in the world rankings – a feat one gamer on Twitter joked is more difficult (and prestigious) than winning the Heisman Trophy.
“I brag about it all the time,” Wang said during Tech’s media day Saturday. “I welcome any challenges on the team. Most of them know that I’m pure domination on the controllers.”
Understandable. Reminds me of my junior year when I hurt my back and spent the Spring semester playing The Simpsons and NHL ’04. The question is, what happens to Wang now? There’s no way he can keep up his world-class level of gaming with stupid football in the way. [Hampton Roads.com via DC Sports Bog]
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August 15th, 2012 at 11:43 AM
Sometimes I miss playing video games
August 15th, 2012 at 11:45 AM
Counting the days until Wangsanity grips the nation.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:45 AM
Hey, Wang! What’s with the pictures? It’s a parking lot!
August 15th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Also, until the return of dong pix, please allow the Wang pic to tide you over.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Did you win the cup with the Whalers? The NHL needs to bring back the Whalers. Oh, ’04 not ’94.
/maybe he unlocked the Whalers?
August 15th, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Fuckin’ n00b
August 15th, 2012 at 11:47 AM
I hope he talked alot of trash on COD
August 15th, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Relocate them to Kingston, rename them the Wailers.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Sometimes I miss playing video games
I was just thinking the same thing today. I watched a Youtube video of a guy confronting the thief who stole his bike in Seattle and all of the videos on the side were clips of GTA4, almost made me nostalgic for GTA San Andreas.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Wang chung > David Wang
August 15th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
As soon as I quit dipping my video game playing plummeted. I went from almost every night of some combo of Madden, FIFA, Halo, COD — to nothing. It’s great.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:49 AM
I bet he has a Kung-Fu grip on those controllers
/JMac’d
August 15th, 2012 at 11:50 AM
Considering all the time he’s spent playing with himself, he’ll probably be pretty flaccid and sore when he gets back on the field.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:50 AM
/Asian joke
August 15th, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Counter-Strike and Unreal Tournament for me. I miss my losery 20s sometimes.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Reminds me of my junior year when I hurt my back and spent the Spring semester playing The Simpsons and NHL ’04.
NHL ’97
/now I feel old.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:53 AM
NBA Live ’95
/Old as shit
August 15th, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Street Fighter 2 & Mortal Kombat
August 15th, 2012 at 11:54 AM
NBA Live ’95
Dude — that game rocked. Latrell Sprewell could not miss from 3.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:56 AM
RBI Baseball
August 15th, 2012 at 11:56 AM
Street Fighter 2
My one buddy was always Blanka and he would just electrocute his opponenet the entire time. It was so frustrating at the time, but looking back it’s a pretty legendary dick move.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:57 AM
From the corner, ALL DAMN DAY
August 15th, 2012 at 11:57 AM
NHL 2001 intro was awesome.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:58 AM
the guys that highly ranked in COD are not fun to play against in the slightest.
August 15th, 2012 at 11:59 AM
RBI Baseball
I love how in RBI Baseball, as a batter you fit into 1 of three batting stances.
1. Hulking power hitter
2. Wirey (sp?) lead off guy
3. Pussy
August 15th, 2012 at 11:59 AM
if I could add up the money I spent on that game and baseball cards back during my youth, I would probably be driving a Bentley right now.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Asshole move indeed. I know using Ryu is for pussies, but he did have the best skill set. Although if you could really learn Dhalism, he would wreck shop.
Arcade X-Men or Simpsons games…legends.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Wasn’t it Street Fighter where you could back someone to the end of the screen and just keep leg sweeping their ass until they were dead, or was that Mortal Kombat? Also a huge dick move.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:00 PM
My one buddy was always Blanka and he would just electrocute his opponenet the entire time. It was so frustrating at the time, but looking back it’s a pretty legendary dick move.
I had a friend who would play as E. Honda and just down the Hundred Hand Slap over and over and over again and inch closer to you. Not quite as irritating as the electrocution move by Blanka because you could jump kick Honda if you caught him right, but still pretty irritating.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:01 PM
GTA San Andreas was the last video game I played/cared about before Fatherhood hit.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Once knew a Sammy Dong. Love the normal name followed by an absurd one.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Wasn’t it Street Fighter where you could back someone to the end of the screen and just keep leg sweeping their ass until they were dead, or was that Mortal Kombat? Also a huge dick move.
Sounds like Street Fighter to me.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Wasn’t Jordan named “Roster #82″ or something like that in this game?
August 15th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
/high fives arkbadger
//I could be driving a Range Rover
August 15th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
Once knew a Sammy Dong. Love the normal name followed by an absurd one.
You’d love how they name people in Africa then.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
Madden 2002, no one could beat me. the glory days of college…
August 15th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
If I go to a basketball game and sit in the corner with some elevation, I will make a NBA Live 95 joke at some point.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:03 PM
I went to college with a guy named King Kong. He was from, you guessed it, Hong Kong.
No I’m not making that up.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:03 PM
wow you must’ve sucked so bad, you deserved it.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade Game.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:04 PM
I played so much Tiger Woods Golf in college.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:04 PM
A dude in my Econ classes in college was named Dat Ho.
Dat Ho.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
wow you must’ve sucked so bad, you deserved it.
My strategy in Street Fighter as an 11 year old was lacking.
TIGER UPPERCUT!
August 15th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
Fuck yes. /Team Michaelangelo
August 15th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
YES!!! Once I hit that link, I immediately remembered it. Tons of free time/hungover days lost to that game…
Forget which year, but definitely enjoyed when they added the foreign league rosters (Elitserien, SM-ligga, etc.)….
August 15th, 2012 at 12:06 PM
NBA Live ’95
/Old as shit
This game for some reason was one I couldn’t put down. You could unlock Jordan by just typing in his name!
August 15th, 2012 at 12:07 PM
senior year i didn’t have class until 11am. I’d wake up, fire up TW 2004 or 2005 and play a tournament. had more money than i could spend in that game.
loved the ball spin controls. unreal.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
GTA San Andreas was the last video game I played/cared about before Fatherhood hit.
Hoping that I can enjoy them again in my 50′s
August 15th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
007 Golden Eye for N64 was the greatest game every only for the multi-player aspect. I think we spent almost every weekend playing this game and getting wasted.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Pavel Bure was nasty in the NHL series. So was Federov.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Freshman year, a dude living on the same floor had the same mind set about whatever the latest NCAA game that was out(2002 or 2003). I had yet to play it and beat him on like a punt return TD. He got so mad. Ended up punching a wall.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:08 PM
I was also terrible at all arcade fighting games, which, looking back on it, probably saved me a lot of money. except I spent that shit on baseball cards too. and probably cheap booze and cigarettes
August 15th, 2012 at 12:09 PM
Pavel Bure was nasty in the NHL series. So was Federov.
If I recall, Federov was consistently given the highest individual player rating behind only Gretzky. Bure and Roenick were right behind him.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
i played that with my dad all the time. he would always pick oddjob and just blow everyone up with the grenade launcher. he was surgical with that shit, crouching down and hiding. bastard.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:10 PM
Let’s not forget Contra fellas.
/Up Up down down left right left right B A select start’d
August 15th, 2012 at 12:11 PM
That was always one of my favorite part of playing friends in video games….how completely unglued they could get by winning or losing.
Well…that and the “points” that changed hands afterwards.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Let’s not forget Contra fellas.
/Up Up down down left right left right B A select start’d
Original Contra > Super Contra.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Let’s not forget Contra fellas.
I think that code only worked for SUPER Contra.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:12 PM
Being Oddjob in Goldeneye was another classic dick video game move. Crafty and smart, but still a kind of cheat because once you panned down you were getting lit up by RPC-90′s. I don’t like how I remember that gun.
An equally terrible character for the opposite reason is Jaws. If you were Jaws you were an idiot.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:13 PM
It’s Fedorov. Don’t disrespect the most talented player in the NHL during the 90′s.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:13 PM
i ran into those types on college. i wasn’t allowed to use the 92 bills since they would always fall behind then come back. madden’s comeback AI was really shitty then.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:14 PM
This made me laugh Expendables 3
August 15th, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Alexander Mogilny was my guy in NHL 94
August 15th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
That weapon was so ridiculously overpowered in Goldeneye.
I’ve said before, but I won most of my drinking money my freshman year killing Perfect Dark multiplayer.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Contra III has to be the most manliest game ever created. How can you beat hanging with one arm off a gigantic flying missile while destroying a huge enemy warship?
August 15th, 2012 at 12:17 PM
My younger brother and I would play RBI baseball and the rule was if you get hit by the pitch you got punched in the arm. Gave meaning to the brushback pitch.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:23 PM
I’m shocked there hasn’t been Seung-Hui Cho joke.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:23 PM
I guess you’ve never tried CrossFit.
/Bear
August 15th, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Wow, an asian football player. Have we had that since Dat Nguyen was running around?
August 15th, 2012 at 12:24 PM
rule was if you get hit by the pitch you got punched in the arm. Gave meaning to the brushback pitch.
Tremendous
August 15th, 2012 at 12:25 PM
DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THE WOD I DID TODAY??
August 15th, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Any relation to Dong Dong?
Wang is known for his dick moves.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Odd Job was cheating. Little fucker was too short and didnt provide an equal target, we outlawed that little Lin.
I would then, and probably still now, pwn all you bitches at Goldeneye.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Timmy Chang, Eugene Chung come to mind.
Also, raycess.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:37 PM
Goodluck Jonathan concurs.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Once knew a Sammy Dong. Love the normal name followed by an absurd one.
Hernia from under the white hood!
August 15th, 2012 at 12:53 PM
Haruki Robert Nakamura plays for the Panthers, played for the Ravens. I’m gonna guess he’s somewhat Asian.
August 15th, 2012 at 12:54 PM
Tekken 2. RC Pro Am. NHL 93. Pro Wrestling (Kin Korn Karn, Amazon). Tiger Woods is still fun.
/Thanks
August 15th, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Patrick Chung is actually Jamaican of Asian descent…so I guess that makes him Asian…