In April this professional streamer had more social media interactions than LeBron James, Cristiano Ronaldo and Shaquille O'Neal, making him the most popular athlete in the world. He also makes more than $500,000 a month jumping off a virtual bus onto an island to farm, fight loot and dance with 99 other players in a fight to the death. And he generally wins.
A lot. (Stream) He’s played alongside the likes of Drake, Travis Scott and a number of professional athletes. (Stream) He’s raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity. (Stream) And even hosted his own esports event that broke the Twitch viewership record he set when he played with the 6 God. "Welcome to Ninja Vegas 18" "We have ourselves a fire alarm here." "Ninja Vegas 18, I'm super excited to get started." This is Ninja. And if you don’t recognize his face yet — it’ll only be only a matter of time until you do. But where did this guy come from? And how did he carry the gaming world out of Tilted Towers? (Stream) This is his story. Tyler “Ninja” Blevins started his esports career in Halo, just as Halo 3 was coming out and made his esports debut at MLG Orlando 2009 with team Four of a Kind. Only 19 at the time, Ninja made a name for himself as an aggressive player whose risky playstyle quickly became his calling card. "I knew right away like this kid is going to be amazing. He's got a lot a lot of talent." "You just basically have to run with him because he is just going to hold forward, get in people's faces." "And challenge and he was a 1v1 god. He was that very individually based player." But it was only when Halo Reach came out in September 2010 that Ninja truly flourished and quickly rose to the upper echelon of Reach players. "They're kinda like Impact here, a lot of people not giving the credit they deserve." "I couldn't agree with you more there Chris, and the thing is you have a player like Ninja on their team "Who is going to spark. He's just got so much individual talent and Status Quo, although they have a lot of teamwork aren't necessarily the best shots. So Ninja could really disturb this team." Ninja bounced between various team between 2010-2012 but was picked up by Final Boss at the end of 2011. In the world of Halo esports, playing for Final Boss was as big as it gets, and when they picked up Ninja everyone knew just how good he was. (Casting) Shortly after he joined Final Boss, the scene switched from Reach to Halo 4, it was in that game that he finally won it all. (Casting) And as he took the Halo scene by storm, Ninja was also streaming on Twitch. Even at the beginning of his streaming career, when he was only broadcasting to a handful of viewers, it was clear that that he was at his best in front of an audience. (Casting) After Halo 4 came Halo 2: Anniversary during which Ninja competed with Cloud9. He put up a string of strong finishes highlighted by a Top 4 finish at HCS Season 1 finals. Ninja finished his Halo career during Halo 5. He played on Team Liquid, Renegades, Evil Geniuses and Luminosity during that era. His last major event as a Halo player was DreamHack Atlanta 2017 with Luminosity. While he was playing with Evil Geniuses he continued to play Halo, but was balancing it with his new love - H1Z1. The zombie-style Battle Royale game helped Ninja’s stream take off in a big way.
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