Since he was mentioned so much in my previous post, I have decided for this post to be a testimonial to our one and only beloved Tofuboi.
Here he is in all his glory (facing us). Pictures will mostly be taken from those I have from the recent Malaysian tournament since I'm too lazy to take pictures from anywhere else.

To explain the origins of his nick, one must look back into a time where his nick was Steaky, of non-existent DoDa fame. Obviously, this was to express his love for Steak. As he puts it, his mother one day cooked tofu for dinner and he found it so delicious that henceforth he was known as Tofuboi. His seemingly healthy switch away from meat though seems to have done nothing to stop his rapidly ballooning physical build, swelling to soon be comparable to his already inflated ego.

Tofu's involvement in the team goes as far back as when GPS & friends decided to form a DotA team for RGN Season 1, and Tofu teamed up with his brother. Since then, Tofu has more or less stayed through, from KODO to DsD to mVp to Zenith.

A citation of Tofu should not be given without talking about the sheer advantage in skill he had in the early days of DotA. Back in the days of 5.84c and for the early days of version 6 (of course, in version 6 he was augmented by the rest of his team quite obviously, but in version 5 the difference in skill was quite obvious), Tofu was virtually unchallenged. I remember his Morphling in 5.84c fending off a push 1v5 (yes, Morphling was overpowered, but it's still 1v5), his Clinks dominating lanes game after game, etc. Back when many people still didn't have a firm grasp of competitive DotA, Tofu was one of the few giants in Singapore (although physically he seems to be twice as large now).

Tofu called most of the strategic shots for most of version 5 and the early months of version 6 (it took something like 1 and a half years of me pitching strategies to him before he finally listened to anything I said). Much of DsD/mVp/Zenith's dominance in the early stages of competitive DotA can be credited to him.

The virtues of Tofu as a DotA player are rather well known around the community. When focused, once given the chance, Tofu will farm insanely quickly. In fact, Tofu seems to be able to farm quickly no matter what role he plays with whatever hero he gets.

While no one will ever admit to it, Tofu is simply good at playing DotA. He CAN play a lot more heroes than late gamers, most of the time better than almost everyone else in the scene.

Tofu has also a rather good attitude towards improvement. He has improved tremendously in his two weaknesses, which are being suicidal in the early game, as well as being completely deaf to the rest of his teammates. Tofu is also much less suicidal in the later stages of the game, though not as cautious as some of his teammates would like him to be. Instead of being absolutely clueless to his teammate's shouts, Tofu now merely has a few seconds of lag between receiving information and comprehending it. Deadly enough for us, but at least he has enough time to retreat when the entire enemy team moves from one lane to another to hunt him down.

Tofu has actually shown rather good commitment to the team, perhaps partially due to his relationship with GPS (meaning that they are relatives, no innuendo here). Aside from a few hiccups here and there, Tofu has remained dedicated to the team, informing the team of any arrangements in advance, and giving team events quite a high piority. He has been a dedicated teacher to NutZ and has shown that he is willing to sacrifice time to help teammates improve in whatever he can help in. He has shown almost full commitment in sponsorship events and whatsnot, attending most with a positive attitude.

Now that we've settled that, let's move on to the more exciting part.

Firstly, Tofu will take risks that are so insane that against many competent players, he will often die, and he will die often, which greatly impedes his fast farming capabilities. Often due to sheer cockiness or simply carelessness or just plain stupidity, Tofu will die deaths that could have easily been avoided.

Which leads to the next point. Tofu can lose the game for you. Tofu has been known to be cocky enough to turn sure win games into losses (or games that are too close for comfort), even for games as high stakes as the quarter-finals in a single elimination tournament OVERSEAS. Tofu makes the dumbest game-costing mistakes ever, getting caught at crucial moments which result in the opponent's push having no way of being repelled, or simply not looking at his screen for an extended period of time after he has been nether-swapped in the middle of the opponent's heroes. To his credit, part of the reason why Tofu can lose the game for you so often is because he gets himself in the position to win the game. Thankfully, he doesn't do it so often anymore in competitions.

Tofu will do tremendously stupid and selfish things in practice games, but at least he doesn't do so in competitions. In fact, Tofu will often be happy to blatantly cause you to LOSE a practice game to satisfy his own sadistic cravings, not really caring at all that perhaps his teammates might have wanted to win.

Then again, his performance in competition hasn't been too bad as of late, so I guess he can be forgiven.

Going on about cockiness, Tofu has a habit of refusing to cooperate against teams he doesn't find very good (unfortunately, far too many for comfort) unless we give him a hero that he knows he shouldn't be playing. It isn't very comforting that most of the justifications for his choice of hero, when it differs from the team's general opinion, is somewhere along the lines of "nvm, chill, we will win, got me". He will also make major draft decisions sometimes without consulting the team, though fortunately this has not happened in competitions for a long time.

Tofu, to say the least, is at least rather entertaining as a person. He has many interesting life experiences to share, and will have no qualms about shamelessly sharing them with you. His rather verbal nature however can get rather unpleasant for the public.

Tofu will shout, very loudly, for absolutely no reason, possibly to satisfy his craving for more attention, which unfortunately can cause great public annoyance and some form of uncomfortability for those around him (partially due to the shock and the absolute unbearableness of someone screaming something high-pitched rather loudly right next to you).

Tofu is uncontrollably vulgar. He uses the word "fuck" in about every possible way you can imagine, for reasons that will elude most, and he uses it very loudly too. This would be fine in most places you hang out with, but when you're eating at Aston's right next to a Father and his about 9-years-old kid, and the word "fuck" comes out of him so loudly that half the restaurant can hear him, one starts to question his self-control.

And of course there's the whole part about Tofu's very warped sense of humour, including acting like a fag, setting channel topics for fun, interrupting serious conversations with irritating meaningless spam, massive irrelavant noticing and spamming etc... which I don't have the right to elaborate on since I'm not a judge of character nor a humour dictator. The many IRC bans and whatsnot as a result of trying to change his warped sense of humour have been fruitless, so in this aspect, Tofu is incorrigible.

Finally, Tofu seems to be a little lacking in moral character. Not that I have any authority over moral judgement, but... well... here's a little story I've told, with a few embellishments here and there.

There is an overhead bridge linking to Parkway in Katong, in the middle of the route from Gamers Inc to Gaming Giant, a route which we often take. It runs over some rather quick-moving traffic.

So if one day NutZ jumps off the overhead bridge, the road is going to be like a trampoline, and NutZ will get run over by a car, then bounce up, and up, and up...

Then if Tofu jumps down, since he brings with him a lot of mass, he will jump down, hit the road, and keep going down...

and down...

and down...

and down...

and down...

You get the point. He's not an evil person, but he can do very very wrong things if it results in personal gain, but then again that's just my opinion. I'm no judge of moral character. As for any examples, I won't be giving them since it won't be very good for his health when a dozen people turn up at his doorstep with Molotovs and any other form of makeshift weaponry.

All that being said, Tofu is by no means an evil person, merely rather undesirable to be with at times, and when all the lobbying has been done, he's ultimately smart enough to not hurt anyone or ruin anyone's future (including his own), and not to mention that he's been reasonably dedicated to the team and is a rather good player, which I guess is good for a teammate.