Vince

Vince grew up playing video games and started playing fps games in the late 90s, with some titles including Call of Duty 1 & 2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Counter-Strike 1.6. CS: Source was the first title that he really got hooked on, followed by CS: Global Offensive (CS:GO,) which he started playing during its closed beta. He always dreamed of going into esports, but it wasn’t feasible when he was young.

He grew up doing odd jobs such as paper routes from when he was thirteen. After high school, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to go into, so he worked and office job, followed by various security positions. During that time, he started commentating at CoD events.

However, it was only around the time of CoD 4’s release that he started getting paid for his work under the alias Metuz. Even though the pay was very low, he decided to stick with it, as he saw that other games were also developing into esports and he felt that tit would be a good way to establish himself as a known caster and to further develop his casting skills.

But it was when his then-girlfriend introduced him to the League of Legends beta released and he started playing it, that he realized that there was potential for him to get somewhere if he got into it early. He therefore started casting small challenger events and even covered a DreamHack event for LoL. However, he felt that he wanted to stick with freelance work and so turned down the opportunity to cast for Riot themselves.

His mind changed with CS: Source. Even though he saw that it was smaller than LoL, he felt that he would prefer to follow it. His first big break came with a Gfinity event that he co-casted with Semmler. Semmler felt that he had potential and so got him into other events afterwards, which Vince attributes as being the main reason that he was able to turn casting into a career. In July 2017, he decided to rebrand as ‘Vince.’ He continued to cast until September 2018 when he felt that the lifestyle was causing problems with his health, as well as certain personal factors that he wanted to tend to. He therefore decided to retire to focus on his stream instead.

But he found that he missed it, so when things calmed down in his life and the opportunity presented itself to cast his first major, he returned in March 2019.

He started uploading Let’s Play content to his YouTube channel in September 2011, starting with Amnesia: The Dark Descent. His Twitch channel was created in April 2011.

His language isn’t clean.

According to his Twitch chat bot, he has around 335 subscribers. This would put his starting monthly income at around $835 USD per month, excluding revenue from tiered subscriptions, advertisements, merchandise sales, casting fees, sponsorships, Twitch cheer bit donations and tips.