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Canadian cyberspace personality and Twitch streamer

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Lengyel in 2021
Personal information
Built-in Félix Lengyel
(1995-11-12) November 12, 1995 (age 26)
Laval, Quebec, Canada
Occupation
  • Twitch streamer
  • YouTuber
Twitch data
Channel
  • xQcOW
Years agile 2014–nowadays
Genre Gaming
Followers 10.iii million
Total views 518 million
YouTube information
Channels
  • xQcOW
  • xQc Reacts
  • xQc Clips
  • xQc Gaming
Years active 2015–present
Subscribers 2 meg (main channel)
Total views one.i billion (chief channel)

Creator Awards

YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg 100,000 subscribers
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg 1,000,000 subscribers
Updated: Apr 7, 2022
Esports career
Career data
Game Overwatch
Playing career 2016–2019
Function Tank
Career highlights and awards
  • OWWC Most Valuable Player (2017)

Félix Lengyel (French pronunciation: ​ [feliks lɑ̃ʒɛl], born Nov 12, 1995), improve known as xQc or xQcOW, is a Canadian Twitch streamer, internet personality, and onetime professional Overwatch player.

Lengyel began his esports career in 2016, while also regularly streaming. Most notably, he played for the Dallas Fuel in the Overwatch League's inaugural season, before being released midway through the season due to repeated controversy and suspensions, every bit well as for Squad Canada in the Overwatch Earth Cup from 2017 to 2019.

Afterwards leaving competitive Overwatch, Lengyel focused on a full-time streaming career on Twitch, while existence a content creator for organizations such every bit Sentinels and Luminosity Gaming. Although he has been temporarily banned multiple times on the platform, he was the most watched streamer on Twitch in both 2020 and 2021.

Career

Early streaming

Lengyel was streaming on Twitch when he was xix years onetime, playing League of Legends (LoL), and streamed under the alias xQcLoL.[1] The online alias of xQc came from the last letter of his first name, 10, and the abbreviation of his abode province Quebec, QC.[2] With the release of Blizzard Amusement'south video game Overwatch (OW) in 2016, Lengyel transitioned to more often than not playing Blizzard's title; becoming so synonymous with the game, he inverse his alias to xQcOW.[1]

Esports

Lengyel began his Overwatch esports career competing in small online tournaments as a tank role player for teams such as DatZit Gaming.[1] In Oct 2016, he was picked up by the multi-game esports organization Denial Esports.[3] Later on a few months, Denial disbanded, and the former members of the team operated equally an independent roster under the moniker Yikes,[4] which was later changed to Arc 6.[5] The team competed in Season Zero of Overwatch Contenders, which is when his competitive drive increased to an unhealthy level. "I did not intendance most sleeping or eating well, keeping up with friends or family," he said. "I would only turn my phone on before going to bed. If I performed poorly I would put everything bated and play ranked until I felt meliorate near my play."[six] Lengyel also played for Team Canada in their 2017 Overwatch World Cup campaign. He and the squad reached the finals of the tournament, before being defeated by defending champions, South Korea.[7] Despite losing the finals, Lengyel was named the event's most valuable player.[8]

Lengyel was signed to the Dallas Fuel of the Overwatch League (OWL) in October 2017, ahead of the league'southward inaugural season.[5] Prior to the outset of the flavour, he received two suspensions on his personal Overwatch business relationship from Blizzard. The commencement was a 72-60 minutes break in November, after he misused the game's reporting system, and the second was a seven-24-hour interval suspension in December subsequently he threw games on stream.[9] Lengyel's OWL debut came in the Fuel's first lucifer of the season, on Jan 10, 2018, in a i–2 loss to the Seoul Dynasty.[x] Following team's tertiary lucifer of the season, a 0–4 loss to the Houston Outlaws on January 18, Lengyel fabricated homophobic remarks on his personal Twitch stream towards Outlaws player Austin "Muma" Wilmot, who is openly gay. Lengyel apologized to Muma on Twitter later that mean solar day, stating the he did not mean to say annihilation with "malicious intent" and spoke "too fast." The Fuel responded to the incident by benching Lengyel in the following match, on January 19. That same day, the Overwatch League fined him $2,000 and suspended him for iv matches. The Fuel and then extended that suspension through February 10.[11]

Lengyel's start match back from his suspension was on Feb 23, in 3–ane win over the Los Angeles Gladiators.[12] Still, his return did not last long, as he was fined $4,000 and suspended by the league for some other iv matches on March ten, after he used an emote in a "racially disparaging manner" during an Overwatch League stream and on his personal social media, likewise every bit used "disparaging language" against Overwatch League broadcasters and players on his social media and personal stream.[13] The post-obit day, Lengyel was released from the squad.[14] In an interview with The Washington Post, Lengyel said that there were no racial undertones intended when he used the emote, and while he "did not feel like [he] did a mistake at all," he did regret using it because of how information technology was misconstrued. He went on to say that he enjoyed playing Overwatch professionally, but he was unsure if it was the career path he wanted continue to accept.[15]

Lengyel joined several Overwatch teams throughout the following years, including Overwatch Contenders teams GOATS and Gladiators Legion,[16] [17] as well every bit competed for Squad Canada in the 2018 and 2019 Overwatch World Cups.[18] [nineteen]

Return to full-time streaming

After his release from Dallas Fuel in 2018, Lengyel focused mainly on his streaming career. In February 2019, esports organization Sentinels signed him as a content creator,[20] and past May 2019, Lengyel became one of the about successful diverseness streamers on Twitch.[half dozen] According to Lengyel, he received a three-solar day ban from Twitch on July 30, 2019, for streaming a "sexually suggestive" video that briefly showed a penis; the ban came despite a Twitch employee permitting the video. Withal, a day afterwards, he was unbanned.[21] In Dec 2019, he was Twitch'southward virtually watched streamer, logging well-nigh eight 1000000 hours watched — over ii million more hours than the 2d-most viewed channel of the month. On the year as a whole, he was the sixth-most watched streamer, with nearly 54one thousand thousand hours of picket fourth dimension; over 14% of his scout fourth dimension came from December alone.[22]

Lengyel received another 3-day ban on February 29, 2020, after he showed nudity in Strip 4: Classmate Study, an developed-themed game based on Connect Four. Past default, all nudity in the game is censored, only he entered a code into the game that uncensored it, and the female grapheme in the game had her breasts exposed. Twitch upheld the ban after he appealed. Following, the game was at the top of Steam's "new and trending" list.[23] Towards the end of March 2020, Lengyel started playing chess on stream, and in April, chess grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura began mentoring Lengyel. Twitch and Chess.com partnered to create the kickoff edition of PogChamps, a chess tournament that occurred from June 5 to nineteen.[24] Lengyel played in the tournament. In ane of the matches, Lengyel faced Cr1TiKaL; Cr1TiKaL defeated him in but 6 moves. The match is the most watched video on Chess.com's YouTube channel with over ten 1000000 views equally of May 2021.[25] Lengyel ultimately lost to Ludwig Ahgren in the alleviation bracket semifinals.[26] Lengyel received a 24-hour Twitch ban in the centre of PogChamps, on June 12, after he accidentally opened a video of two gorillas having sex that was submitted by one of his viewers.[27] On August 27, 2020, Sentinels parted ways with Lengyel, after he requested to be released.[20] He plant a new organisation on Oct 1, signing with Luminosity Gaming.[28] On November 18, 2020, Lengyel was banned for seven days after he and his squad stream sniped an opposing team in Autumn Guys during a Twitch Rivals upshot, mark his fourth suspension from Twitch. He likewise received a six-calendar month ban from Twitch Rivals and was forced to forfeit his prize winnings from the event.[29] Despite the his 3 bans in 2020, Lengyel had the highest watch hours at over 174million hours — nearly lmillion more than the 2d-highest channel.[i]

Midway through 2021, Lengyel led all streamers Twitch in terms of viewership with 163one thousand thousand hours watched, which was nearly double the second-largest channel.[30] In June 2021, Lengyel moved back to Canada, stating that he was swatted multiple times, a trouble that many Twitch streamers have had to deal with, and "was genuinely scared [he] was going to die."[31] His earnings from the platform was leaked in October 2021, along with all of the pinnacle streamers on Twitch. The leak revealed that he was the highest paid individual streamer, earning over $8one thousand thousand since 2019. Although accurateness of the leak has been questioned, Lengyel confirmed that his reported numbers were correct.[32] [33] With 274million hours watched in 2021, he was once again the about watched streamer on Twitch. He as well had a tiptop viewership of 173,000viewers, although it was well below the channel with the highest superlative, which had 2.fivemillion viewers.[34]

In early Apr 2022, Lengyel took office in the r/Place social experiment, an online sheet in which registered Reddit users could edit past irresolute the color of a unmarried pixel. Subsequently he had targeted a My Little Pony art piece, he said that he received more expiry threats in one hour than he had in his previous vi years of streaming combined.[35] Lengyel broke his Twitch viewership record during the event, peaking at over 293,000 viewers.[36] He broke that record later that month while streaming a beta build of Overwatch 2, with a peak of over 312,000 viewers.[37]

Personal life

Lengyel was born on November 12, 1995, reportedly in Laval, Quebec, Canada.[38] [ better source needed ] He is of Hungarian descent.[39]

Awards and nominations

Year Ceremony Category Result Ref.
2017 2017 Overwatch Earth Loving cup Most Valuable Player Won [8]
2018 2018 Esports Awards Streamer of the Yr Nominated [40]
2020 Canadian Game Awards Best Streamer Nominated [41] [42]
2020 Esports Awards Streamer of the Year Nominated [43]
2021 2021 Esports Awards Streamer of the Year Nominated [44]
2022 The Streamer Awards Best GTA Role-play Streamer Nominated [45]
Streamer of the Year Nominated
Canadian Game Awards Best Streamer Nominated [46]

Meet also

  • List of most-followed Twitch channels
  • List of people from Laval, Quebec

References

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External links

Media related to XQc at Wikimedia Commons

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQc

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