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Felix Polish [ Feliks lɑ̃ʒɛl ] (* 12th November 1995 In Laval, Canada), known as XQC or xqcow , is a French-Canadian Twitch streamer and a former e-athlete who played for some of the 2017 season at the position of the tank for Dallas Fuel in the Overwatch League before he had to leave the team because of repeated controversy. Later he also joined the Gladiator Legion tank, an Overwatch Contenders team that belongs to the Los Angeles Gladiators. Lengyel also played in the Overwatch World Cup as a tank for the Canada team in 2017, 2018 and 2019. He often plays different games on Twitch. His main category, and also most viewed, is “just chatting”, almost every one of his streams includes this. In this category, he mostly reacts to pictures and videos sent by his viewers. He uploads his reactions to his YouTube channel under the name “XQCOW”.

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Lengyel was born on November 12, 1995 in Laval, Canada, and grew up there. After his first year of life, his parents divorced. Lengyel lived with his brother Nicolas under the common custody of the parents in both households. [first] In his childhood he developed a passion for skateboarding, snowboarding, trampoline jumping and video games. He uploaded some sports tricks on YouTube. [2]

After completing the high school, he initially studied human sciences at the Collège d’Enseignement Général et Professionnel (short Cégep) before switching to business administration. Shortly before his end, Lengyel broke off after three and a half years [3] And began the live streaming of video games on Twitch. [4] [5] In 2016 Lengyel discovered the game Overwatch and started playing the game at E-Sport level. [6]

Denial eSports [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Lengyel started his career as a tank in the Overwatch team Q? , which was later taken over by Denial eSports. [7]

Arc 6 [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

After Denial eSports had dissolved, Lengyel and the other members of the team played under the name YIKES! that later too Arc 6 was changed. After the qualification, they played the Season Zero of the Overwatch Contenders, but diverted in the group phase. After all, the members went different ways so that they could concentrate on the Season 1 of Overwatch League.

Dallas Fuel [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

On October 28, 2017, Dallas Fuel announced that Lengyel would be the 9th player for the Overwatch League. [8] Lengyel played several games with the team before he came under pressure because of a statement he made in his Twitch stream. There he should have commented on homophobic against his rival Austin “Muma” Wilmot from the Houston Outlaws. Lengyel was suspended for four games and received a fine of two thousand dollars for disregarding the Code of Conduct of Overwatch League. Dallas Fuel expanded the punishment to exclude the entire stage 1. Lengyel returned to the beginning of Stage 2 and led his team to victory against the Los Angeles Gladiators and was therefore awarded the best player in the round by Omen by HP. [9] However, he only played a few days before he was blocked and excluded from the team, this time because of the publication of a Twitch emotion in chat, which many were derived from one of the Caster of Overwatch League as racist. [ten]

GOATS [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Then Lengyel said that he would take a break from the professional game to become a full-time streamer. He continued the streaming full-time for several months before making the decision to return to the professional area and play with the Contenders NA team Goats. [11]

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Gladiators Legion [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In February 2019 it was announced that Lengyel would join the Gladiator Legion, the Los Angeles Gladiators’ academy team to play as a tank at the Overwatch Contenders. [twelfth] At the end of 2019, the team announced that they would stop playing at the Contenders. [13]

Lengyel played for the Canada team at the Overwatch World Championship 2017. They qualified for the tournament with a 3-to-0 victory against the Netherlands. The team made it to the final before they were beaten by the defending champion South Korea. Lengyel was appointed the most valuable player in the event. [14]

In 2018, Lengyel also played as a tank in the line -up of Canada. A few months before the tournament, Justin “Jayne” Conroy announced in his Twitch stream that Lengyel together with the players NotE , Agilities , Overfur and Mangau without a trial period in the team. [15] He played in the group phase in Los Angeles and reached second place, with which he reached the quarter -finals at Blizzcon. [16]

In July 2019, the Canada team announced that Lengyel would start again as a tank in the game. [17]

Under the name of XQC Lengyel works as a livestreamer on the Twitch platform. He already has 9 million followers there and in each of his live streams several ten thousand spectators. [18] He is on Twitch among the top ten mostly looking livestreamer; In the Variety category (many different games), he is in first place.

Lengyel’s YouTube channel has over a million subscribers. There he only uploads excerpts from his past livestreams. In addition to the unprocessed cutouts, stream highlights, i.e. the best moments from his streams, are also uploaded on his channel.

Account exclusion [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Even before the larger incidents in the Overwatch League, there were known cases of controversial actions. Lengyel’s account was suspended twice for non -compliance with Blizzard’s terms of use. The first incident occurred in November 2017, in which he was thrown out of a round round during a competition. Lengyel was suspended for 72 hours for abuse of the reporting system and had used the function for inadequate reasons. He had reported a player who did not want to change his hero after repeated dying. [19]

In December 2017 he was suspended again for “inappropriate behavior”, this time for seven days. Lengyel published a video in which he apologized for his behavior. [20]

On August 11, 2018, Lengyel was suspended again for disregarding the chat guidelines. Apparently he was repeatedly reported by his teammates. The Overwatch World Cup gave him an official warning, but he was allowed to take part in the tournament. [21]

Overwatch-League-Suspendierungen [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

In the course of his time at the Dallas Fuel, Lengyel was suspended twice. After the defeat of Dallas Fuel against the Houston Outlaws, his first suspension was defeated in the first phase. Lengyel made homophobic comments on the openly gay Houston Outlaws player Austin “Muma” Wilmot after Wilmot used his own sayings against him after the game Lengyel’s game (Lengyel didn’t play with this game). The Overwatch League then made a fine of $ 2,000 against Lengyel and blocked it for 4 games. Dallas Fuel later extended this lock to the rest of phase 1. [9]

Lengyel returned from his suspension in phase 2 just to get a fine and be suspended again because he TriHard Used in a “racist-disparaging manner” in the Twitch chat when the Afro-American moderator Malik Forté appeared in the stream. [22] This time he received a four thousand dollar fine and was suspended for four rounds. On March 11, 2018, Dallas Fuel explained that Lengyel and she would go different ways. In an interview, Lengyel said that he likes to play at a professional level, but also likes to create content on Twitch. If he received another offer for professional games, he would think about it for a while. [23]

Commons : xqc – Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

  1. ↑ Mintino Gaming: Who is xQcOW? In: YouTube. 2. November 2019, Retrieved on October 12, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ XQCOW: xQc Reacts to ‘Who is xQcOW?’ by Mintino Gaming. In: YouTube. 4. November 2019, Retrieved on October 12, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ ScoobaShtacks: CEGEP. In: Twitch. June 2020, Retrieved on October 12, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ arcRox: XQC on Dealing with Adversity. In: Twitch. June 2020, Retrieved on October 12, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ XQCOW: xQc Reacts to ‘Who is xQcOW?’ by Mintino Gaming. In: YouTube. 4. November 2019, Retrieved on October 12, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ XQCOW: xQc Reacts to ‘Who is xQcOW?’ by Mintino Gaming. In: YouTube. 4. November 2019, Retrieved on October 12, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ Denial eSports sign Overwatch roster. Accessed on March 3, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ Dallas Fuel on Twitter. In: Twitter. Accessed on July 4, 2018 . Template: Cite Web/Temporary
  9. ↑ a b Dallas Fuel on Twitter . In: Twitter . Accessed on July 5, 2018. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  10. ↑ Dallas Fuel Announce Release of Felix “XQC” Polish. In: The Overwatch League. March 11, 2018, accessed on July 5, 2018 . Template: Cite Web/Temporary
  11. ↑ Controversial Overwatch Streamer xQc is Returning to Competition . In: Dexerto . Accessed on July 5, 2018. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  12. ↑ Malcolm Abbas: Popular Twitch streamer xQc joins Gladiators Legion as a substitute main-tank. In: Dot Esports. February 12, 2019, accessed on February 13, 2019 . Template: Cite Web/Temporary
  13. ↑ Pedro Peres: XQc discovers he was dropped from Gladiators Legion on stream . In: Dot Esports , December 5, 2019. accessed on December 18, 2019. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  14. ↑ Jacob Wolf: Dallas Fuel suspend xQc for anti-gay slurs; Overwatch League fines player . In: ESPN , January 19, 2018. accessed on December 18, 2019. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  15. ↑ Team Canada Coach Jayne announces xQc, NotE and more to join team roster . In: Overwatch Wire , June 3, 2018. Archived from Original on October 21, 2018 Info: The archive link has been used automatically and not yet checked. Please check original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. @first @2 Template: Webachiv/Iabot/Overwatchwire.usatoday.com . Retrieved on October 30, 2018. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  16. ↑ Canada announce final starting roster for 2018 Overwatch World Cup . In: Overwatch Wire , July 10, 2018. archived from Original am 15. August 2018 Info: The archive link has been used automatically and not yet checked. Please check original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. @first @2 Template: Webachiv/Iabot/Overwatchwire.usatoday.com . Retrieved on August 15, 2018. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  17. ↑ Michael Gwilliam: xQc makes Team Canada’s final roster for Overwatch World Cup 2019 . In: Dexerto , July 29, 2019. accessed on December 18, 2019. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  18. ↑ xQcOW – Streamer Profile & Stats. Accessed on March 4, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Eric van Allen: Overwatch Pro’s Mid-Match Suspension Raises Questions About Blizzard’s Reporting System . In: Compete . Accessed on July 5, 2018. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  20. ↑ Dallas Fuel player xQc receives 7-day Overwatch suspension . In: The on . Accessed on July 5, 2018. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  21. ↑ xQc Given Official Overwatch World Cup Warning After In-Game Ban – Unikrn News . In: Unikrn News , August 21, 2018. accessed on August 25, 2018. Template: Cite News/Temporary
  22. ↑ Dallas Fuel player xQc suspended again from the Overwatch League, others fined. In: Dot Esports. March 9, 2018, accessed on March 3, 2020 (American English).
  23. ↑ AVI SELK: ‘I blame myself’: A fallen e-sports star reflects on video gaming’s image problems . In: The Washington Post , March 14, 2018. accessed on July 10, 2018. Template: Cite News/Temporary

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