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2022 Streamer Awards
The Streamer Awards is an awards show dedicated to live streamers. The Streamer Awards was founded in 2022 by Twitch streamer QTCinderella. History The inaugural ceremony, featuring 27 categories, was held on March 12, 2022, at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles and was broadcast live on Twitch. The event peaked at 381,436 concurrent viewers, making it the 45th highest concurrent viewership for a single broadcast in Twitch history. Event founder QTCinderella and Maya Higa served as the hosts. 2022 For the inaugural ceremony, nominees were selected via an online vote by fans. Winners were then determined using a weighted combination of the online popular vote (70%) and panelist vote (30%). Winners are listed first and in boldface. 2023 The second edition of the awards is scheduled to take place on March 11, 2023 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. Nominations began on January 30 and will end on February 11. The event will be hosted by QTCinderella and Valkyrae Rachell Hofstett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepe The Frog
Pepe the Frog () is an Internet meme consisting of a green anthropomorphic frog with a humanoid body. Pepe originated in a 2005 comic by Matt Furie called ''Boy's Club''. It became an Internet meme when its popularity steadily grew across Myspace, Gaia Online, and 4chan in 2008. By 2015, it had become one of the most popular memes used on 4chan and Tumblr. Different types of Pepe include "Sad Frog", "Smug Frog", "Angry Pepe", "Feels Frog", and "You will never..." Frog. Since 2014, 'rare Pepes' have been posted on the 'meme market' as if they were trading cards. Originally an apolitical character, Pepe was appropriated from 2015 to 2016 onward as a symbol of the alt-right movement. The Anti-Defamation League included Pepe in its hate symbol database in 2016, but said most instances of Pepe were not used in a hate-related context. Since then, Furie has expressed his dismay at Pepe being used as a hate symbol and has sued organizations for doing so. In 2019, Pepe was used by prot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nickmercs
Nicholas Kolcheff (born November 21, 1990), better known as Nickmercs (stylized in all caps), is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber and co-owner of FaZe Clan who plays ''Fortnite Battle Royale'', '' Call of Duty: Warzone'' and ''Apex Legends''. Career Kolcheff is from Detroit, Michigan. He first built his name as a '' Gears of War'' professional in the late 2000s. He won the Gears of War 2 National Championship in 2009. He also played ''Halo'' professionally. During this time he had multiple confrontations with Ninja due to trash talking. He started streaming on Justin.tv in 2010. He used his success in ''Gears of War'' to build a following. He created his YouTube channel in 2011 and made videos of '' Call of Duty'' and later ''Outlast''. In 2018, Kolcheff joined Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag's organization 100 Thieves as a content creator. Kolcheff's channel consistently streamed to 5000+ viewers daily and his stream popped off when his squad broke the world record for total k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungrybox
Juan Manuel DeBiedma (; born June 21, 1993), better known by his alias Hungrybox, is an Argentine-American professional '' Super Smash Bros.'' player and streamer. Recognized as one of the best and most successful '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' players of all time, he is one of the "Five Gods" of ''Melee'' along with Adam "Armada" Lindgren, Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman, Joseph "Mang0" Marquez, and Kevin "PPMD" Nanney, and is regarded as the best Jigglypuff player in ''Melee'' history. He is also an active competitor in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', and he has been a member of Team Liquid since 2015. In December 2021 Hungrybox became co-owner of Team Liquid. Hungrybox has won several major ''Melee'' Singles tournaments, including Apex 2010, MLG World Finals 2015, EVO 2016, The Big House 7 (2017), The Big House 8 (2018), GENESIS 6 (2019), and 2017, 2018, and 2020 editions of Smash Summit. He has been ranked one of the top five ''Melee'' players in the world every year since formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mang0
Joseph Manuel Marquez, known by his gamertag Mango (stylized MaNg0 or Mang0), is an American professional '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' player and streamer from Norwalk, California. Known for his aggressive, high-risk playstyle, he is widely considered one of the game's greatest players of all time, and is one of the "Five Gods" of ''Melee'', along with Juan "Hungrybox" Debiedma, Adam "Armada" Lindgren, Kevin "PPMD" Nanney, and Jason "Mew2King" Zimmerman. Marquez began his career playing Jigglypuff, however he has primarily played Falco and Fox since 2011. He has been part of the Cloud9 esports team since 2014. Marquez has won several major tournaments, including GENESIS 2009, EVO 2013 and 2014, The Big House in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2019 and Smash Summit 11 in 2021. Marquez was ranked as one of the top five ''Melee'' players in the world every year since formal rankings began in 2013 until 2022, and was ranked the best ''Melee'' player in the world in 2013 and 2014. A 2021 l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Smash Bros
''Super Smash Bros.'' is a crossover fighting game series published by Nintendo. The series was created by Masahiro Sakurai, who has directed every game in the series. The series is known for its unique gameplay objective which differs from that of traditional fighters, in that the aim is to increase damage counters and knock opponents off the stage instead of depleting life bars. The original '' Super Smash Bros.'' was released in 1999 for the Nintendo 64. The series achieved even greater success with the release of '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'', which was released in 2001 for the GameCube and became the best selling game on that system. A third installment, ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', was released in 2008 for the Wii. Although HAL Laboratory had been the developer for the first two games, the third game was developed through the collaboration of several companies. The fourth installment, ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS'' and ''Wii U'', was released in 2014 for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super (gamer)
Matthew DeLisi (born March 28, 2000), better known as super or supertf, is an American former professional ''Overwatch'' player. During his career, he played in the Overwatch League (OWL) for the San Francisco Shock, and prior to OWL's inception, he played for Bird Noises, Hammer Esports, and Luminosity Gaming Evil (LGE). A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, DeLisi began his ''Overwatch'' career playing on team Bird Noises before joining Hammer Esports in early 2017. Shortly after, he was a part of LGE, after LGE acquired Hammer Esports. DeLisi signed with the San Francisco Shock in late 2017, ahead of the OWL's inaugural season. Underage at the beginning of the season, he made his professional debut in April 2018. While with the Shock, DeLisi became a two-time OWL All-Star, was named an OWL Role Star, was an OWL MVP finalist, won three midseason tournament titles, and won two OWL championships, in 2019 and 2020, and won the 2019 Overwatch World Cup as a part of Team USA. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shroud (gamer)
Michael Grzesiek (born June 2, 1994), better known as Shroud (formerly mEclipse), is a Canadian streamer, YouTuber, professional Valorant player and former professional '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' player. , his Twitch channel has reached over 10 million followers, ranking as the seventh most-followed channel on the platform, and his YouTube channel has over 6.82 million subscribers. Early life Grzesiek was born on June 2, 1994 in Toronto, Ontario, and is of Polish descent. Career ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' Grzesiek started his '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (''CS:GO'') career with several ESEA teams, particularly Exertus eSports and Manajuma. He was soon signed by compLexity Gaming as a stand-in, and later by Cloud9 in August 2014 when they acquired the roster of compLexity. He helped lead Cloud9 to a first-place finish at ESL Pro League Season 4 in 2016. He stepped down from the starting roster in 2017 to move to full-time streaming for Cloud9. St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-person Shooter
First-person shooter (FPS) is a sub-genre of shooter video games centered on gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action through the eyes of the protagonist and controlling the player character in a three-dimensional space. The genre shares common traits with other shooter games, and in turn falls under the action game genre. Since the genre's inception, advanced 3D and pseudo-3D graphics have challenged hardware development, and multiplayer gaming has been integral. The first-person shooter genre has been traced back to ''Wolfenstein 3D'' (1992), which has been credited with creating the genre's basic archetype upon which subsequent titles were based. One such title, and the progenitor of the genre's wider mainstream acceptance and popularity, was ''Doom'' (1993), often considered the most influential game in this genre; for some years, the term ''Doom'' clone was used to designate this genre due to ''Doom''s i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VRChat
''VRChat'' is an online virtual world platform created by Graham Gaylor and Jesse Joudrey and operated by VRChat, Inc. The platform allows users to interact with others with user-created 3D avatars and worlds. ''VRChat'' is designed primarily for use with virtual reality headsets, such as the Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest series, SteamVR headsets (such as HTC Vive), and Windows Mixed Reality, but is also usable without VR in a "desktop" mode designed for either a mouse and keyboard or gamepad. ''VRChat'' was first released as a Windows application for the Oculus Rift DK1 prototype on January 16, 2014, and was later released to the Steam early access program on February 1, 2017. Features ''VRChat''s gameplay is similar to that of games such as ''Second Life'' and '' Habbo Hotel''. The game is made up of thousands of connected worlds, in which they can interact with each other through virtual avatars. Avatars and worlds are created and uploaded by its users, which require technic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules, Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). It has been published by Wizards of the Coast (now a subsidiary of Hasbro) since 1997. The game was derived from miniature wargaming, miniature wargames, with a variation of the 1971 game Chainmail (game), ''Chainmail'' serving as the initial rule system. ''D&D'' publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry, and also deeply influenced video games, especially the role-playing video game genre. ''D&D'' departs from traditional wargame, wargaming by allowing each player to create their own Player character, character to play instead of a military formation. These characters embark upon adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Critical Role
''Critical Role'' is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play ''Dungeons & Dragons''. The show started streaming partway through the cast's first campaign in March 2015. Campaign one ended in October 2017 after 115 episodes, and campaign two started in January 2018 and ended in June 2021 after 141 episodes. A number of one-shots were aired in the hiatus between the two campaigns. After campaign two was completed, the limited series ''Exandria Unlimited'' aired from June 2021 to August 2021. The third campaign premiered on October 21, 2021. The series is broadcast on Thursdays at 19:00 PT on the Critical Role Twitch and YouTube channels, with the video on demand (VOD) becoming available to Twitch subscribers immediately after the broadcast. The VODs are made available for the public on Critical Role's website and uploaded to their YouTube channel on the Monday after the live stream. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show had broadcast l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rust (video Game)
''Rust'' is a multiplayer-only survival video game developed by Facepunch Studios. Rust was first released in early access in December 2013 and received its full release in February 2018. ''Rust'' is available on Windows and macOS. Console versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One developed in conjunction with Double Eleven were released in May 2021. ''Rust'' was initially created as a clone of '' DayZ'', a popular mod for '' ARMA 2'', with crafting elements akin to those in ''Minecraft''. The objective of ''Rust'' is to survive in the wilderness using gathered or stolen materials. Players must successfully manage their hunger, thirst, and health, or risk dying. Despite the presence of hostile animals such as bears and wolves, the primary threat to the player is other players due to the game being solely multiplayer. Combat is accomplished through firearms and various weapons, such as bows. In addition, vehicles controlled by non-player characters will occasionally roam, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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