Félix “xQc” Lengyel has already experienced great success and controversy. From being an MVP at the World Championship, to being kicked off his team, and back to the top of Twitch. Since he’s off the Esports radar, let’s take a closer look at his career and see what made him so exceptional.

The Overwatch League is the most prestigious and popular of Overwatch’s three official leagues. A league which has the power to take kids out of their rooms, put them on a big stage and turn them into superstars. With so many unique players from around the world, few have achieved the fame – and notoriety – of the Canadian “Monkey,” also known as xQc. This is his story.

World Championship 2017
The release of Overwatch in 2016 changed the gaming world as we know it. Blizzard Entertainment’s highly polished and incredibly addictive hero shooter was the Team Fortress formula that, with the financial backing and enough marketing, presented a masterpiece of Esports.

The attractive cash prizes and the opportunity to gain fame and glory attracted experienced players with FPS backgrounds in spades. The first World Championship was just around the corner and both fans and teams paid attention to the game.

Entered xQc, a fairly talented tank player who specialized in the gorilla scientist Winston. A character both heavy and mobile, able to protect his teammates but also create space and deal heavy damage with his Ultimate Primal Rage. A character that fits xQc very well….

XQc started out as part of a small team that made it to the very first – Season of Contenders. Eventually, he was even able to make it to the Canadian National Team.

In 2017, Canada made it to the silver medal, finishing second to South Korea – a team that had won all three previous World Championships in a row. Despite losing in the finals, xQc received the 2017 MVP award – a trophy he cherishes to this day. Things were looking great for the new prodigy in white and red.

OWL – Season 1
The year 2018 saw the birth of the Overwatch League (OWL) with its massively hyped Inaugural – Season . A brand new club league with location-based teams, all looking for the world’s best players.

Naturally, xQc was on everyone’s radar and ended up getting snapped up by the Dallas Fuel – the team that most analysts at the time considered the outright favorite to win the OWL. This was thanks to star player Brandon “Seagull” Larned, who was considered one of the most versatile and powerful Western players.

The time of controversy
Fans of OWL quickly found out that xQc was not their stereotypical shy Overwatch pro. During his streams, he would often explode in a storm of emotion and say things he would later regret.

Things got worse when he was taunted by Austin “Muma” Wilmot of the Houston Outlaws, an openly gay player. In a fit of rage, Lengyel made a homophobic remark against Muma that immediately earned him a $2,000 fine and got him banned from OWL’s Stage 1.

The “monkey” returned in Stage 2 and continued to fight for Fuel with more and more skill and determination. His behavior, however, did not improve quite as quickly. In his earlier offenses, xQc involuntarily painted a target on his head and was monitored even more closely and strictly for further misbehavior. And another opportunity was soon to come.

The Winston main was fined again and eventually fired from the #BurnBlue, this time for posting a Twitch emote during a live stream that was perceived as racist towards African-American host and analyst of the OWL Malik Forté. Not a pretty sight all around….

In Part 2, we’ll watch Monday morning around 8am to see how xQc’s career evolved and what everyone’s favorite Winston player is up to today. Everything else about Overwatch, is as always with us on EarlyGame, for example.

Overwatch

Overwatch is a computer game by Blizzard Entertainment (Diablo 3, World of Warcraft) and a first-person shooter with individual fantasy elements. The game was released in May 2016.

In Overwatch, the player must choose between 21 unique characters, which can be freely selected in a loosely held classification system (offensive and defensive class, support unit and tanks).

A character’s three to four different abilities can be controlled and activated through the mouse and keyboard. The game modes already vary from scoring points to cargo hauling. Team play is required in both modes, as each character takes on a specific role in the battlefield (e.g. heal teammates, provide backup, or secure defensive lines).

The name Overwatch derives itself from a fictional elite military unit that came together when robots tried to subjugate humanity in a near future. Individual characters are associated with this unit in the game, while others oppose it. It is not yet known whether the storyline will continue in multiplayer.

Brawl

Brawl is a game mode in which time-limited rule variations of the well-known modes are drawn. Sometimes completely new game modes are used in Brawls.

Rule variations include, for example, the restriction to certain heroes or classes, changes to the cool-down times or certain cards. New game modes that have been playable so far include a soccer game and a PvE mode.

Usually, Brawls are restarted as Brawl of the Week every Tuesday at 22:00 UTC and are then playable for a week. On certain occasions, such as – Season al events, Brawls may also be playable for a longer or shorter period of time.

The game mode is comparable to the card chaos from Hearthstone and was activated for the first time in the beta phase on March 22, 2016 through a patch.

Actions

• Arcade: More health, shorter skill and ultimate cooldowns, and faster resurrection after death.
• Girl Power: Female heroes only.
• Head’s Up!: McCree, Genji, Hanzo, and Widowmaker. Only head hits count.
• High Noon: High Noon on Route 66, only head hits with McCree count.
• Highly Offensive: Only offensive heroes. Limit is two of the same hero per team.
• Junkenstein’s Revenge: Soldier, Hanzo, Ana, Mc Cree only (1 each). The first co-op PVE mode in Overwatch. Part of the – Season al event Halloween Horror.
• Justice rains from Above: Only Mercy and Pharah playable.
• Moba Watch: Only unique heroes per team. No hero switching allowed.
• Mystery Heroes: Upon death, you will be resurrected as a randomly selected Hero.
• Overly Defensive: Only defensive heroes. Limit is two of the same hero per team.
• Show Your Support: Support Heroes only. The limit is two of the same Hero per team.
• Super Shimada Bros: Welcome to Hanamura. Only Hanzo and Genji are playable. Shorter skill cooldowns, longer ultimate cooldowns.
• Tanks A Lot: Tank heroes only. Limit is two of the same hero per team.
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Only McCree, Reaper and Roadhog playable.
• We’re all Soldiers now: Only Soldier: 76 playable on control cards.
• Lucioball: Lucio only: Soccer mode, 3 vs 3.
• Yeti Hunt: Five meis against a yeti that has the characteristics of Winston.

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