XcaliburYe
Family
His parents own a sushi restaurant.
Name Origins
He couldn’t think of a username, so he just named himself after the sword.
Gaming Origins
Xcalibur’s first video game was MapleStory, which his cousin introduced him to. However, he didn’t really enjoy it, so he stopped playing it soon afterwards. A while later, his cousin encouraged him to play a mod-WarCraft 3 game called ‘Naruto: 3rd Shinobi Wars’ that featured playable Naruto characters instead of the regular WC heroes.
When that server stopped functioning when he was in the fourth grade, they moved on to DotA. He really enjoyed it and wound up maining it until he was in seventh grade. He then moved on to Heroes of Newerth before transitioning to StarCraft 2 for ten months. He then went on to play Dota 2 in 2012 as of the summer and has stuck with it has his main game ever since.
Professional Gaming
XcaliburYe got his first break into the pro-Dota 2 space when he was invited to act as a last-minute stand-in for Fnatic in the 2014 The International 4 tournament after Fly had noticed him on the leaderboards. He spoke to his parents, and his father encouraged him to go, as it was right before the summer holidays, and it wouldn’t affect his schooling in any way.
After playing with a few teams, he finally joined Team Singularity in February 2019.
Streaming Hours
Almost daily: ~10:00 – 21:00 UTC
Quotes
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So, to become a pro, first of all, you need to be good enough to be able to perform when playing with great teammates. After you got the skill covered you need to make sure people will notice you. In order to get noticed you have to play a lot of pubs and get a high MMR or some other really good quality, so people have a reason to pick you over other talented and established pros. (weplay.tv)
