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S1mple (Олександр Олегович Костилєв)
S1mple (Oleksandr Olegovich Kostyliev), born 1997, is a Ukrainian professional Counter-Strike player who spent nine years with Natus Vincere, winning a Major, 21 HLTV MVP medals, and HLTV's best-player award in 2018, 2021, and 2022.
Scump
Scump (Seth Abner, born 1995), nicknamed The King, is a retired American Call of Duty pro, 2017 world champion with OpTic Gaming, 30 LAN wins, $1.19 million in prizes, now an OpTic streamer.
Sean Plott
Sean "Day[9]" Plott (born 1986), American StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II player and commentator, brother of Tasteless; 2005 WCG USA champion, host of the Day[9] Daily, PC Gaming Show host.
Sgares
Sean "sgares" Gares (born 1988) is an American esports executive, coach, and caster, formerly a Counter-Strike in-game leader for compLexity, Cloud9, and Misfits, now Head of FPS at 100 Thieves.
Sh1ro (Дмитрий Соколов)
sh1ro (Dmitry Sokolov, born 2001) is a Russian AWPer for Team Spirit, formerly Gambit and Cloud9; four HLTV MVPs, Shanghai Major 2024 champion, HLTV top-20 every year 2021-2025 peaking at #3.
Shroud (gamer)
Shroud, also known as Michael Grzesiek, is a Canadian former Counter-Strike professional best known for his time with Cloud9 and his huge Twitch streaming audience.
Sjokz
Sjokz (Eefje Depoortere, born 1987) is a Belgian esports host, LEC/EU LCS host since 2013, freelance since 2018, Game Awards 2019 Best Esports Host, also Counter-Strike events.
SmallAnt
SmallAnt (Tanner Ant), Canadian speedrunner and YouTuber known for Super Mario Odyssey, Pokémon, and Minecraft challenge content; former Panda member, Minimum Captures record holder, about 3.26 million YouTube followers.
Sneaky (gamer)
Sneaky (Zachary Scuderi, born 1994) is an American former League of Legends AD Carry, Cloud9's longest-tenured player (2013-2020), 3-time LCS champion, 7-time Worlds competitor, now Cloud9 owner, advisor, and full-time streamer and cosplayer.
Soloz
Soloz, the alias of Mohd Faris bin Zakaria (born 1993), is a Malaysian Mobile Legends: Bang Bang player who became Malaysia's most-watched Facebook Gaming streamer, with over 2 million followers.
SonicFox
SonicFox (Dominique McLean, born 1998) is an American fighting game pro, eight-time EVO champion across five franchises, The Game Awards 2018 Best Esports Player, and the highest-paid fighting game player.
Stephanie Harvey
Stephanie 'missharvey' Harvey (born 1986), Quebec-born Canadian esports pioneer: five-time Counter-Strike women's world champion, ex-Ubisoft Montreal game designer, and FlyQuest Chief Culture Officer and advocate.
Steve Wiebe
Steve Wiebe, Redmond, Washington arcade player, Donkey Kong world record holder, star of The King of Kong (2007); set 947,200 points in 2003, first recognized million-point Donkey Kong record holder in 2018.
Summit1g
Summit1g (Jaryd Lazar), American Twitch variety streamer and former semi-pro CS:GO player; streaming since 2012, most-followed Twitch channel in 2018, 6.4M followers, peak 310,998 viewers.
Tarik (gamer)
Tarik "tarik" Celik (born 1996), American Sentinels streamer and former CS:GO pro; won ELEAGUE Major 2018 with Cloud9 as MVP, then became VALORANT's leading watch-party co-streamer until stepping away in August 2026.
Technoblade
Technoblade (Alex, 1999–2022) was an American Minecraft YouTuber and competitor: four Minecraft Monday titles, 6–4 win over Dream, Dream SMP anarchist, 'Technoblade never dies'; died of sarcoma at 23, posthumous tributes from Mojang and 20M subscribers.
Tfue
Tfue (Turner Tenney), American Fortnite streamer and pro player, once the world's top Fortnite streamer; known for his 2019-2020 contract lawsuit against FaZe Clan over an 80% revenue contract, settled August 2020.
Thebausffs
Thebausffs (Simon Hofverberg, b. 1999), Swedish League of Legends top laner and streamer, alias Baus, famous for full AD Sion and trading deaths for objectives; EUW rank 2 Season 8, Los Ratones titles.
Twistzz
Twistzz (Russel Van Dulken, born 1999) is a Canadian Counter-Strike 2 in-game leader and rifler for FaZe Clan; PGL Antwerp 2022 Major winner, two-time Intel Grand Slam winner, six-time HLTV top-20 player. Not the Swedish player twist.
Tyler1
Tyler1 (Tyler Steinkamp), American League of Legends Twitch streamer; permanently banned by Riot in 2016, hosted the Tyler1 Championship Series, reached Challenger in all five roles, and runs Tyler1 All-Stars.
Typical Gamer
Typical Gamer, or Andre Rebelo, is a Canadian YouTuber and streamer known for Fortnite content, with 16 million subscribers, and the founder of the studio JOGO.
Willis Gibson
Willis Gibson, aka Blue Scuti (born 2010), American classic NES Tetris player from Stillwater, Oklahoma; first human to reach the Tetris kill screen, crashing the game at Level 157 on December 21, 2023.
Wirtual
Wirtual is the online alias of Øyvind Iversen, a Norwegian Trackmania content creator, streamer, and commentator who founded the Trackmania esports organization Jetlag Racing.
Xiaohai (曾卓君)
Xiaohai (曾卓君, Zeng Zhuojun, b. 1989, Guangzhou) is a Chinese fighting game player, nicknamed 小孩; Tougeki 2007 KOF '98 champion, back-to-back Esports World Cup SF6 winner 2024-2025, six-time Evo champion.
XQc
xQc, Félix Lengyel (born 1995), Canadian streamer and former Overwatch pro (Dallas Fuel, 2017 World Cup MVP). Signed a record $100 million two-year non-exclusive Kick deal in June 2023.
Zeus (최우제) (gamer)
Zeus (최우제, Choi Woo-je, born 2004) is a South Korean League of Legends top laner for Hanwha Life Esports; two-time Worlds champion (2023, 2024) and 2023 Finals MVP with T1, first top laner with back-to-back world titles.