by Samuel Benitez
Felix Lengyel is a famous streamer on Twitch.TV known as xQcOW. He was known for being The Famous Tank Player in the Esports Team: Dallas Fuel for Overwatch. Felix has dialed back on the competitive gameplay and Overwatch and has become a Daily Streamer, Streaming for 10 hours daily with an average of 50K - 100k viewers .He still plays many other video games, FPS games, or games that require massive amounts of knowledge to conquer the enemy or players like in Chess, Risk, and many different games, which these types of streamers are known as “Variety Streamers”. Streamers that just play whatever they want or what “Chat” wants to see. And he has his moments with chat when he gets emotional or sometimes makes others emotional with his “Pog” motivational speeches or his two famous phrases “We Go Agane” and “Get The Juice”.
Chat is the audience that watches the streamer they can type in emotes to express how they feel or to express what's happening in the stream, they can also donate or subscribe to support the streamer, in this case its xQcOW which they sometimes call Mr.Cow which comes from the last 3 letters of is username.
The Juice is whatever you want it to be. The Juice can be you finally reaching a certain rank in your favorite game, or maybe you balling out on clothes and stuff like that, The Juice can be a small goal or a long term goal, like getting a car or passing your classes in school. The Juice is is the feeling of you getting something you've been working hard for, it's that ecstatic feeling you get. for example: when you see your good grades live up to the work you've been working hard, or finishing your painting and it looks Pog. But for me The Juice is improving in certain ways like in video games, becoming better and looking back and knowing i became better through dedicated time and practicing and also in school i'm trying my best to make my mother happy and myself by getting PogU grades.
I started watching xqc last year and this man has brought nothing but happiness and joy in my life, his content has really helped me through tough situations that had me stressed out, For example when I used to end up in the hospital due to some kidney problems, his content made me happy and forget about the pain I was in and what I noticed about him is that he is unique from the other streamers he's the only one that grew on me, he doesn't care what people think of him he is just there to have a fun time and enjoy his experience with other streamers, friends, randoms, and chat.
Something that stuck out to me about Felix is that he's canadian, and for a second I paused, and I thought to myself, “How can a canadian be this toxic and ruthless to other people.” And when he plays games he just surprises me every time with his dumb plays because he gets out of that tough play and manages to regain control of the game in a matter of second with well thought out moves. 5Head.
The Fart Of Twitch, is what they refer him as when he blunders his chess matches, either when it's in tournaments against other Streamers, or just playing games with randoms or sometimes with chat; But when I see him play chess he's pulling moves I never seen before he surprises his chat and many other streamers.
And to add to that Hikaru Nakamura, One of the best chess players if not the #1 Chess Player on twitch, took xQc under his wing and enhanced xqc’s playstyle in chess and made him a warlord at the game. He may not be on par with Hikaru, but his skills and technique have improved tremendously. And because of xQc I started playing chess and found out my 7th period teacher last year played chess too and we always played games before we had to go home and I realised that other kids too used to come to his class after school to play chess with him, or other students would come to play against each other and the teacher, Mr.Toledo, he wanted to make a chess club; and he couldn't due to time and not enough people interested in chess and not enough space in the school,such as an extra classroom. It was still fun experiencing chess for the first time and somewhat getting good and I just beat Magnus Carlsen about 10 times. That's about it, nothing special to be honest.
What inspired me to write about xQc was everything. He pulled me out of a deep hole of pure darkness when i couldn't find a way out, his bright and radiant and joyful vibe is what made me realize that he was what God put in front of me to look up to, him and his thoughtful quotes to us, to keep our heads up and never give, to go beyond your limits to get the juice. It's the way he puts things to make something that may seem impossible, possible. His creativity and joy pours onto us and that's what makes him stand out from others, he is just different from everyone else. He understands what he is doing and it's the goal in his mind to keep on getting better than from who he was before is what makes him a role model to many including me. Felix is someone that saves you without him even knowing it, him just being himself is what makes him stand out from others, he doesn't put on an act in front of everyone; in every single one of his streams your seeing the real him just living his life enjoying what he does, your getting the real raw unedited version of a human that embodies that such thing called happiness and a strong will to acquire the juice . It's because of his nature to forgive and apologize for his wrong doings that makes him a respected streamer among all others.
I loved that he goes into detail to explain how this streamer has helped him solve his real life problems and I also like how detail his writing is, he explains that he is one of the best twitch streamers. I also can relate to this story because I also watch a YouTube streamer that helps me with problems, like when im felling down this streamer makes me happy and brightness my day. I always watch his live streams because it helps me be happy just like this twitch streamer helps Samuel.
--Angel Torres
I loved how Sam put his personal life into his essay explaining how the person he looks up to helped him out of a hard place. The word choice was fantastic and helped his explanation of certain things. This made me get a better view on xQcOW, and also helped me understand his character better.
--Amah'rion Poston