īlevins' rise in popularity on Twitch is considered to be synergistically tied to the success of Fortnite Battle Royale.

īlevins partnered with Red Bull Esports in June 2018, and held a special Fortnite event, the Red Bull Rise Till Dawn in Chicago on July 21, 2018, where players could challenge him. In April 2018, he broke his own viewing record during his event Ninja Vegas 2018, where he accumulated an audience of about 667,000 live viewers. This stream inspired Epic Games, the developers behind Fortnite, to host a charitable pro-am event featuring popular streamers like Blevins paired with famous celebrities in Fortnite at E3 2018 in June of that year Blevins paired with electronic musician Marshmello and won the event. In March 2018, Blevins set the Twitch record for the largest concurrent audience on an individual stream (outside of tournament events), 635,000, while playing Fortnite with Drake, Travis Scott, and JuJu Smith-Schuster. His followers on Twitch had grown from 500,000 in September 2017 to over 2 million by March 2018. His viewership began to grow, which coincided with the game's growth in popularity over the late 2017/early 2018 period. īlevins began streaming the newly released Fortnite Battle Royale shortly after the PUBG Gamescom Invitational. He joined Luminosity Gaming in 2017 first as a Halo player, then to H1Z1, later moving to PUBG, where he won the PUBG Gamescom Invitational Squads classification in August 2017. He began playing H1Z1, then moved to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. He played for various organizations including Cloud9, Renegades, Team Liquid, and most recently, Luminosity Gaming. Career Esports and streamingīlevins began playing Halo 3 professionally in 2009. Upon graduation, he decided to play video games professionally, entering tournaments, joining professional organizations, and live streaming his games. He attended Grayslake Central High School, where he played soccer. Though born in the Detroit area, he moved with his family to the Chicago suburbs when he was an infant. Richard Tyler Blevins was born on June 5, 1991, and is of Welsh descent.

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