Tyler1

At 29 years old, Tyler1 has this physical status:

Tyler Steinkamp (born March 7, 1995), also known as tyler1, is an American streamer who appears on Twitch and internet star Tyler Steinkamp (born March 7, 1995).

With just over two million followers on Twitch, he is one of the most popular League of Legends online stars.

Steinkamp was banned from playing LoL from April 2016 to January 2018 for disruptive conduct against other players, earning him the nickname "The Most Toxic Player in North America."

Following restoration, his first League of Legends stream attracted over 386,000 viewers on Twitch, the website's highest non-tournament concurrent viewership at the time.

Personal life

Steinkamp studied computer science at Central Methodist University before deciding on his streaming work. He played for the university's football team while at Central Methodist University.

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Career

In 2014, Steinkamp ranked 14th on the North American League of Legends, but his stream had a modest following until 2016. Steinkamp first became known in the League of Legends community for his violent behavior on his website, which included physically attacking others and deliberately ending the game to the detriment of his teammates. Permanent bans on 22 unique accounts for many years followed, eventually.

Steinkamp's stream gained a following in April 2016, when he announced explicitly that he had "reformed." According to reports, his Twitch channel boosted from 5,700 followers before the announcement to over 92,000 followers by the end of the month. His improved behavior slowed quickly, but his fanbase grew, prompting several influential and professional players to condemn his conduct. Many who disagreed with Steinkamp's activities hoped that his popularity would increase and normalize player toxicity, as well as criticizing why Riot Games did not take steps to prevent this conduct.

Steinkamp will no longer be able to own a League of Legends account after "a well-documented history of verbal abuse" and player bullying, according to the Riot Games employee "Riot Socrates," and "we should all be concerned about finding your address." Accounts Steinkamp played on stream immediately banned under a Riot Games feature known as ID Banning, even though rules were not broken on the account. This sort of ban has only occurred a few times in League of Legends history.

Steinkamp was forced to branch out from playing League of Legends, and his fan base grew as his stream became more diverse. His channel attracted national attention when he acted out a 45-minute parody of his life in front of a green screen for April Fools' Day in 2018 titled "A Day in the Life of Tyler1." He also started to watch other games, such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

In October 2017, Riot Games employee Aaron "Sanjuro" Rutledge made derogatory remarks about Steinkamp on the official r/LeagueOfLegends Subscription server, indicating that he would die "from a coke overdose or testicular cancer from all the steroids." The company replied, "what was said is not okay, and we take it seriously," apologizing to Steinkamp and the League of Legends group. "It's sad that some people hold a grudge... and refuse to admit that I've changed," Steinkamp said in response to the event. Rutledge no longer worked at Riot Games, according to investigative esports journalist Richard Lewis a few days later.

Steinkamp revealed on stream that he had received an email from Riot Games that his ban would be lifted at the end of the year if the accounts he used in the last month were "clean" of abusive conduct. Steinkamp declared unbanned in January 2018, a move that was later confirmed by Kotaku with Riot Games. On Twitch, Tyler's first stream after he was banned in January 2018 reached over 382,000 viewers, smashing the previous record for an individual streamer on Twitch set by Faker in 2017. After recovering from a 2-month absence, Dr. Disrespect's first stream was broken a month later, but Twitch and competing media coverage contradicted the claim that the record was broken.

Steinkamp confessed to being addicted to League of Legends during an outraged discussion of recent gaming updates, causing several members of the community to share their addiction stories and advise Riot Game staff. Steinkamp was appointed as a content creator by the South Korean esports team T1 in October 2020.

Steinkamp had achieved the highest rank in 4 out of the five categories in League of Legends in late 2021. In 2022, he set a target to reach the top rank in all fields, which he attained as of February 19th, 2022. As a result of his participation, Riot Games themselves gave him 5 "Challenger" medals and tweeted acknowledging it on their official League of Legends website, which was announced on their official League of Legends Twitter page.

Steinkamp's Tyler1 Championship Series, which took place in November 2017, was held in a virtual League of Legends tournament (TCS). A parody of the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), Steinkampamp;s, to photos of LCS stadiums and a commentators' desk, which were displayed on a green screen. On Twitch, the tournament attracted over 200,000 concurrent viewers and was viewed by professional players and LCS casters. The winning team received $10,000 from Steinkamp directly and without any sponsors.

The Tyler1 Championship Series made its return in November 2018, this time with a larger prize pool of $50,000, which was also funded by Steinkamp. Rift Herald lauded the company's rise in quality in comparison to the previous tournament, saying, "What started off as a meme... has morphed into something resembling a real online third-party tournament." There are spectacular websites, sleek and seamless replays, as well as a parade of community talents who've been sent in to help with the production and casting of the event."

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