Wintergaming

When he was in high school, he played WoW and eventually joined a WoW Arena team. In July 2010, his teammates started playing StarCraft, so he joined them. He fell in love with it and has been maining it since then.

Wintergaming began streaming in 2012 while he was studying Digital Marketing in university, on his first Twitch channel, zlfreebird, even though his username was WinterStarcraft at that time. For the first eight months, he only averaged 1- 5 viewers. He then began streaming every night for eight hours a night until he managed to maintain a viewership of 100. This lasted until 2014, when his viewership finally skyrocketed after he casted a DreamHack event, to the point that he was able to dedicate himself fully to streaming. At that stage, he dropped out of his Engineering course, that he had switched to at some point during those years. Since then, he has moved on to casting and coaching as well.

He has a long-term girlfriend.

• Saturday – Thursday: 02:00 UTC onwards for between 4 – 12 hours a session.
• Friday: No stream

I think the only reason I have seen success is actually because I'm NOT a pro player. There are dozens of mid-high GMs out there on twitch with "commentary" or something like it in the title, but very few of them follow through... I don't want to be just another foreign pro or "aspiring" pro, I'd rather do something unique that I excel at.