Bulat

Zakirov Bulat, considered to be one of the best Russian QuakeWorld players since his debut in 2003 on a major Russian lanparty, finally winning Russian QuakeWorld League 13 in 2009 and becoming the undisputed reigning champion of Russia. Bulat started playing Quake in 1998 but had no internet connection until 2005. During the 7 years without internet access he played mostly against bots, which explains his stunning aim.

Being an ethnic Tatar, Bulat speaks little to no English and only limited Russian, his native language being Tatar. He is from and resides in Ufa, the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia.

Peculiar eccentricities of his behaviour and a remarkable kind of linguistic giftedness have earned Bulat a cult status among certain circles of QuakeWorld community. Numerous top players (LocKtar undefined, bps undefined, lakso undefined and goblin undefined in particular) have praised Bulat's personality and worshiped him as an Idol. Unfortunately, due to the long distance from popular QuakeWorld servers, Bulat almost exclusively plays with a ping over 40 in Russia and ping over 52 in Northern Europe. This unfortunate circumstance currently limits Bulat's ability to conquer the European QuakeWorld scene.

In 2020, Bulat upgraded his old 17" crt monitor for a state-of-the-art 280hz 27".

Quotes
"CEMPER"

- during official DM2 game vs Valla

"Bulat naice aim"

- saying that Bulat has nice aim

"Bulat best pov russia"

- saying that Bulat is best in Russia on Povdmm4

"Bulat win all pov more ping. good forma 60%. normal 50%"

- saying that Bulat wins all Povdmm4 games on high ping and that his LG is 60% in good shape, 50% in normal shape

"UL YOU CPIK ENGLESH I NO ANDERSTENT TEBYA"

- saying that Bulat doesn't understand UL's poor English, before their official game in Ownage

"Bulat SUNDAY BULAT OUT / TUDAY AND MONDAY"

- telling about the days when he can play

"bulat kill reppie control map"

- boasting about beating Reppie in official DM6 game

"bulat in mega. reppie go in. bulat kill kill kill. no reppie"

- describing his victory against Reppie

"bulat champ win paradoks eh murdoc"

- saying that Bulat beat Paradoks, Eh and Murdoc in official games

"NO LENGYIJE"

- admitting that language skills are not among biggest talents of Bulat

"CPIK INGLESH PLIZ"

- to some illiterate imbecile

"BULAT NO ENGLAND"

- saying that Bulat has nothing to do with England

"VSE RL AMMO U TAKE"

- whining that Reppie took all the rockets

"DA A CHE NE CHE DRUGIE VON CHE I TO NE CHE"

- impossible to translate, causes instant brain damage to native speakers

"Hi ping no lag. Pl lag. Ping time wait"

- explaining what lag is in qw

"Bulat unikom taktik"

- after camping 100h on dm6 2on2

"I am cofe"

- replying to someone who said he's making food

"30 min move work"

- stating that he has to go to work in 30 minutes

"Bulat kill lamer"

- threatening stupid people

"i return woman bulat go sleep"

- saying that Bulat is about to go to sleep with his woman

"pliz talk i am time play 24 04 10 k ? time sleep move vork"

- scheduling his Ownage game against Avenger

"bulat wait #ibh no avenger. bulat want blood"

- trying to contact Avenger to play his Ownage game

"bulat no play 3b no win"

- explaining why 3b lost to tVS in EQL while playing without Bulat

"OUT TIME"

- said in a game when in lead vs LocKtar, stating that LocKtar has run out of time.

"[translation] Once a quake player, always a quake player. It's in your heart."

- original from #qw.ru: "Квакеров бывших не бывает. Это в душе."

"YA TOLKO PRISHEL I NERAZOGRELSAY KAK SLEDUET POETOMU NESMOG VIIGRAT DM4 NO SHAFT VALLA VERI NAICE TAKTIK VERI BAD"

- occasional tatar-english train of thought after official game vs Valla

"bulat win strong unikum taktiks. bulat naice aim NO NERAZOGRELSA NADO BILO PRAC A NEVISHLO"

- describing his victory against Avenger and whining about being unable to practice enough before the game

"i am move!"

- saying that Bulat comes to QHLAN

"I AM PLAY VS BOT 2 HOURSE ALL DEY 3 YAERS"

- about his practice regime

"will not drive in a game, will drive in love"

- after hearing that BLooD_DoG who he just beat got married the day before

"you pick map, bulat play all"

- showing he is not afraid of new-school kenya maps in a tournament game

Quotes about Bulat


"Bulolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Bu-lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Bu. Lo. Lee. Ta. He was Bu, plain Bu, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. He was Bula in slacks. He was Bully at school. He was Bulat on the dotted line. But in my arms he was always Bulolita."

- Humbert Humbert

"Versus bulat I started getting a bit nervous because everybody was talking about how good bulat is and so on. We played some really tight games, and he has a very weird style of play (in a good way), attacking when you least expect it and stuff. I remember last map as being really really tight :) He was really good."

- Mawe

"That dm6 was hardrape, bulat style."

- Stev

"bulat kill all"

- Pyta

"BULAT BEST AIM WORLD"

- Hooraytio

"Milton doesn't stand a chance against allmighty Bulat"

- Zepp

"Yeah!!!!!!! RUSSIA IN ATTACK!!! :) div1 lames :) BULAT DIV0!!!!!!! Grrrrrr :))"

- Armadon

"Bulat king kong! Bulat strong!"

- Spoink

"Be afraid, be very afraid of Bulat's LG, even at ping > 60... ;)"

- Anonymous

"bulat russian beast, go own them son!"

- Anonymous

"'' My Bulolita, butterfly of gore, the cruel mistress governing my soul, How could you, in the gloam of DM4, Have martyrized hysterical Rikoll?

He was the shadow of the waxwing slain By rays of lightning damaging his brain, He was the smudge of ashen fluff and high Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. ''"

- Humbert Humbert

"go bulat!"

- bent, suddenly

"this guy, so epic, im his fan right away tho i've never watched quakeworld :D pure win :D"

- Kaide

"Bulat is the best thing happened to quakeworld in recent years. His character is SO EPIC that I don't really care much if he is any good or not in 1on1."

- Anonymous

"fuck, bulat signed up!"

- Reppie

"prepare to get 70% in your face"

- Jissse, frightened about Bulat using his lightning gun at QHLAN

"BULAT shaft. BULAT kill. BZZZZZ!"

- hanslolo @ esreality

Interview
The following interview was taken for the now-defunct NQR site in 2008. First, Soma wrote the questions in English. Then, Exile translated them into Bulat-speak. After that, Bulat wrote the answers in Bulat-speak. Finally, Exile translated the answers from Bulat-speak to both English and Russian. BuurVrouw did the linguistic polishing of the English version. If you are a native speaker, feel free to fix any of the surely present mistakes.

Trivia
Since early age Bulat has been fascinated with electricity and recently fulfilled his dream of becoming a high class electrician. His rank allows him to operate in high altitude environments and work with ultra-high voltage. This fact of biography might give a slight hint to the elusive nature of his ability to harness the power of the Lightning Gun.

Occasionally Bulat gives show-off performances as a regional Ski racing legend. Some day we might see him competing for medals at the Winter Olympics.