What is xQc’s real name?
Felix Lengyel XQc, also known as xQcOW – was born in Laval, Quebec, Canada on November 12, 1995 – his zodiac sign is Scorpio, he is of French descent and holds Canadian citizenship. He is a former professional “Overwatch” gamer, social media star, and Twitch streamer, who today is perhaps best known for his Twitch channel where he primarily broadcasts live while playing the “Overwatch” video game. .
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Early life and education
XQc grew up in Laval alongside his brother Nicolas – their parents divorced when xQc was just a year old, after which the boys spent equal time with their mother and father.
XQc grew up interested in various sports, his two favorites being skateboarding and snowboarding – knowing that these sports are dangerous, his parents agreed to let him skateboard and snowboard only if he was wearing his knee pads and his helmet. Around the same time, xQc became interested in video games and often played against his peers.
After graduating in 2013, xQc enrolled in the pre-university post-secondary CEGEP of the technical college where he studied humanities, but then switched to administration – he dropped out just before obtaining his degree to focus on his career as a gamer and Twitch streamer.
Professional player career
XQc originally wanted to play the “League of Legends” video game, and mostly streamed it live on Twitch, however, after discovering “Overwatch”, he started playing it instead, and quickly found himself in competition with and against professional e-Sports players.
He started by playing for the semi-pro team DatZit Gaming as a main tank, and on August 13, 2016, the boys won the Dreamhack Montreal 2016 Overwatch tournament. XQc left the team soon after and joined Team Q?, which was acquired on October 12, 2016 by Denial eSports, a former professional e-Sports organization based in the United States.
About to hit the stage with the @playoverwatch team
Posted by XQC on Saturday September 8th, 2018
Denial failed to pay its players and, as xQc stated, they owed them $2,800 each when the team disbanded. The boys then formed their own team, calling themselves YIKES! before changing it to Arc.6 – they qualified to compete in Overwatch Contenders season zero, but lost in the group stage. Their last tournament together was the Beat Invitational: Season 2 which they finished in third place.
It was announced on October 28, 2017 that xQc would join Dallas Fuel as the ninth player, and he played several games before it was revealed that he had made homophobic remarks towards Austin ‘Muma’ Wilmot, a playing rival. for the Houston Outlaws, during one of his Twitch streams, and was therefore fined $2,000 and suspended for multiple games.
The suspension was later extended, but xQc eventually returned and led Dallas Fuel to victory over the Los Angeles Gladiators. Shortly after, he was suspended again for violating social media, then announced that he was going to retire and just focus on being a Twitch streamer. However, xQc changed his mind and joined Team GOATS, then joined Gladiators Legion on February 2, 2019, but left at the end of 2019.
He has also appeared in international tournaments with Team Canada and was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 2017. However, Team Canada still lost in the final to defending champions South Korea – in 2018, the team reached the quarter-finals, while they failed to pass the group stage in July 2019.
Twitch and YouTube
In 2019, xQc became a full-time streamer, and now spends around nine hours livestreaming each day – he was the 29th most-followed streamer in October 2019, and now owns one of most subscribed channels, with around 35,000 monthly subscribers. XQc still plays “Overwatch”, but today seems more focused on testing new Steam releases, streaming while attending various gaming events such as BlizzCon and TwitchCon to show his fans what the events are like. xQc’s all-time highest viewership today stands at 222,720, while its record for total unique viewers in a single stream is 1,971,819 set on April 9, 2020.
He also took an interest in chess and occasionally streams while playing it. He started playing chess in March 2020 and grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, who is also a Twitch streamer, decided to teach him – many streamers have since joined Chess.com, and the website has subsequently created a chess tournament. special chess for streamers, in which xQc lost in the semi-finals.
He also runs his “xQcOW” YouTube channel, which he launched on March 8, 2015, and now has around 1.25 million subscribers, and has around 525 million views of all of xQc’s videos combined. He mostly uploads highlights to his Twitch streams, while his most popular video “xQc REACTS TO DAILY DOSE OF INTERNET | Episode 1 | xQcOW” has been viewed around 3.5 million times since January 19, 2019.
Bans and suspensions
XQc has been suspended twice from ‘Overwatch’ for violating Blizzard’s Terms of Service, and has been permanently banned from playing ‘League of Legends’ – he is one of the 0.006% of players in the game who are considered as “negative enough to be permanently banned”.
He was banned from Twitch (for three days) for the first time on July 31, 2019, when he posted a video featuring pornographic scenes – he was banned again for three days on February 29, 2020 after showing nudity in the video game “Connect Four”. XQc was banned for one day on June 12, 2020 for watching two gorillas have sex, and on November 18, 2020 he was banned for one week after doing stream sniping while playing “Fall Guys” at the Twitch Rivals event – stream sniping is when a person watches someone livestreaming while playing the same game as them, so they can know their location and eliminating them in-game. XQc was also banned for six months from Twitch Rivals for this.
Loving life and relationships
XQc is pretty secretive when it comes to his relationships and keeps details of girls he might have dated hidden from public view.
However, there are rumors circulating on the internet, primarily on Reddit.com, that he is currently in a relationship with another Twitch streamer who has occasionally appeared in his streams when they play the video game “Fortnite” together. The girl in question is one of xQc’s best friends, but many believe she’s also his girlfriend and they’ve been dating for over a year now – however, neither has commented on this.
There are also rumors that xQc is gay but these have not been confirmed either.
As of December 2020, xQc appears to be single, unmarried, and has no children.
Hobbies and other interests
XQc is physically active, as he has several workouts at the gym each week, however, since he is quite skinny, his body does not appear to be very muscular.
He became interested in travel when he first competed overseas, and has since traveled to various European countries as well as Asia, both for work and pleasure – his travel destination dream is Tokyo in Japan.
MAKE A SHAPE SCRATCHED HOLIDAY KITCHEN FLOW. LIVE AS 30 OR LESS https://t.co/t5RK1NIG7w pic.twitter.com/tvMp3sCFo4
— xQc (@xQc) December 24, 2020
XQc is a huge animal lover with dogs being his favorites – he has a pet dog and a pet cat which can be seen in some of his Instagram photos.
He watches movies occasionally, and his favorite actor is Johnny Depp while a few of his favorite movies are ‘The Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise, ‘Edward Scissorhands’ and ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’.
What is his wealth and what is his salary?
XQc is 25 years old. He has short brown hair which he dyes blonde and his eyes are brown. He is 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) tall and weighs approximately 78 kg (170 lb).
As of December 2020, his net worth is estimated to be over $2 million.
