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Félix Lengyel (born November 12, 1995), better known by his online alias xQc or xQcOW, is a Canadian professional Overwatch player and Twitch streamer who played the main tank position for the Dallas Fuel in the Overwatch League for part of the inaugural season, before being released due to repeated controversy. He later joined Gladiators Legion, an Overwatch Contenders team affiliated with Overwatch League's Los Angeles Gladiators, as a substitute Main Tank. xQc has also played in the Overwatch World Cup as the main tank for Team Canada in 2017 and 2018. He now mostly plays a variety of games on Twitch.

Career

xQc began his career as a main tank player on the Overwatch team Q? which was later picked up by Denial eSports. After the team disbanded, xQc and the other members of the team played together under the name YIKES! which was later changed to Arc 6. After qualifying, they played in Season Zero of Overwatch Contenders but were ultimately eliminated in the group stage. Eventually, Arc 6 went their separate ways to focus on tryouts for Season 1 of the Overwatch League.

xQc also played for Team Canada in their 2017 Overwatch World Cup campaign. They qualified for the World Cup after beating the Netherlands by a score of 3-0. The team made it all the way to the finals of the tournament before being defeated by defending champions, South Korea. xQc won the MVP Fan Vote for the tournament.

On October 28, 2017, Overwatch League franchise Dallas Fuel announced xQc would be joining their roster as their 9th player. xQc played with the team for several matches before coming under fire due to homophobic remarks made on his Twitch stream directed against rival player Austin "Muma" Wilmot of the Houston Outlaws. Lengyel was suspended by the League for four matches and fined $2,000 for violating the Overwatch League Code of Conduct. The Dallas Fuel later extended the suspension to include the entirety of Stage 1. Lengyel made his return at the beginning of Stage 2, leading his team to victory against the Los Angeles Gladiators, and was chosen as Omen by HP's Player Of The Match. However, he only played for a little bit longer, before being suspended and fined again, and then finally released from the team, this time for posting a Twitch emote in the chat which was received by many in a racially disparaging manner and using disparaging language to Overwatch League casters.

xQc then said he was going to take a break from professional play, retiring to become a full time streamer. He continued full time streaming for several months, before making the decision to return to pro play, playing with the Contenders Trials NA team GOATS.

In the 2018 Overwatch World Cup, xQc played as a main tank on the starting roster for Team Canada. Several months prior to the world cup, the head coach of team Canada, Justin "Jayne" Conroy announced on his Twitch stream that xQc, along with players Lucas "NotE" Meissner, Brady "Agilities" Girardi, Lane "Surefour" Roberts and Liam "Mangachu" Campbell, would be welcome to join the Canadian national team without going through the regular trialing process. He played in the Los Angeles Group Stage, finishing second place to move on to the quarterfinals at BlizzCon.

In February 2019, it was announced that xQc joined Gladiators Legion, the academy team of the Los Angeles Gladiators competing in Overwatch Contenders, as a substitute main tank.

Controversy

Before joining Dallas Fuel

Prior to major incidents in the Overwatch League, there were known cases of controversial acts. His account was suspended twice for violating Blizzard's Terms of Use. The first incident occurred in November 2017, xQc was booted mid-match from a competitive Overwatch game with a suspension message. He was suspended for 72 hours for "misuse of the reporting system". xQc had used the in-game reporting system for reporting players for supposedly invalid reasons. He had reported a player for refusing to switch off of a hero, even after repeatedly dying.

While streaming in December 2017, xQc threw a competitive game. Blizzard responded with a seven-day suspension, and xQc posted a video to publicly apologize for his behavior.

Dallas Fuel

Over the course of his time with the Dallas Fuel, xQc was suspended twice. His first suspension came after Dallas Fuel's loss to the Houston Outlaws in Stage 1. xQc made homophobic remarks towards openly gay Houston Outlaws player Austin "Muma" Wilmot after Wilmot used xQc's own catch phrase against him after the match (xQc did not play in that match). The Overwatch League then fined xQc $2,000 and suspended him for 4 matches. Dallas Fuel later extended that suspension to the remainder of Stage 1.

xQc returned from his suspension in Stage 2 only to be fined and suspended again for using the Twitch emoticon TriHard in a "racially disparaging manner" in Twitch chat as African-American broadcaster Malik Forté appeared on stream and using disparaging language against Overwatch League casters and fellow players on social media and on his personal stream. This time, xQc received a $4,000 fine and was suspended for 4 matches. On March 11, 2018, Dallas Fuel announced that the team and xQc had mutually parted ways. In an interview, xQc said that although he likes to play at a professional level, he also enjoys creating content on Twitch. If he receives an offer to play in a professional team again, he said he'd have to think about it a while.

Overwatch World Cup 2018

On August 11, 2018, xQc's account was suspended once again for violating the Abusive Chat policy. He had apparently been reported by teammates several times for this offense. Overwatch World Cup issued an official warning for the suspension, but he was allowed to play.

References

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10. Abbas, Malcolm (February 12, 2019). "Popular Twitch streamer xQc joins Gladiators Legion as a substitute main-tank". Dot Esports. Retrieved February 13, 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
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14. Carpenter, Nicole (March 9, 2018). "Dallas Fuel player xQc suspended again from the Overwatch League, others fined". dotesports.com. dotesports.com. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
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External links

• XQc on Twitch

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