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Description: ==Overwatch (2016–2018)== Lengyel aka xQC joined [[Companies/Dallas Fuel|Dallas Fuel]] in 2017 for the inaugural season of the Overwatch League.<ref>cite_note-1</ref> Before the season began, he already HAD two suspensions from [[Companies/Blizzard|Blizzard]] on his personal account, a 72-hour penalty for misusing the game's reporting system and a seven-day penalty for throwing ranked games.<ref>cite_note-2</ref> Overwatch League fined Lengyel 2,000 US dollars and suspended him four matches after he made a homophobic remark toward Houston Outlaws player Austin "Muma" Wilmot; Dallas Fuel added a team suspension for the rest of the stage.<ref>cite_note-3</ref> In 2018, the league suspended him another four matches for using the [[Companies/Twitch|Twitch]] emote "TriHard 7" in what it called a racially disparaging manner on the league's stream and on social media.<ref>cite_note-4</ref> Two days later, Dallas Fuel released him, with owner Mike Rufail saying the two sides had "mutually agreed" to part ways before his contract's expiration.<ref>cite_note-5</ref> Lengyel competed with [[Companies/Team Canada|Team Canada]] at the Overwatch World Cup in 2017, 2018 and 2019, finishing second and third respectively in 2017 and 2018.<ref>cite_note-6</ref> After his release from Dallas Fuel he continued to compete lesser, signing with [[Companies/Gladiators Legion|Gladiators Legion]] as a substitute tank under [[Companies/Sentinels|Sentinels]].<ref>cite_note-7</ref> ==Twitch streaming (2018–2023)== Following his career at Dallas Fuel, xQc shifted to full-time streaming on Twitch, building an audience through content, gameplay commentary and reaction streams. By 2019 he ranked seventh among the platform's most-watched streamers; in 2020 he took first place, with his channel amassing roughly 127 million watched hours that year, passing the likes of Alexandre "Gaules" Borba and Jaryd "Summit1g" Lazar.<ref>cite_note-8</ref> He remained the platform's most-watched streamer through 2021 and 2022, recording 274 million watched hours in 2021 and 224 million in 2022 while signed to [[Companies/Luminosity Gaming|Luminosity Gaming]].<ref>cite_note-9</ref> He won a Streamy Award for Just Chatting in 2022.<ref>cite_note-10</ref> ==Move to Kick (2023–present)== On 16 June 2023, Lengyel inked a non-exclusive streaming deal with [[Companies/KICK|Kick]], reports suggested the deal was for roughly 70 million US dollars over two years with bonuses that could raise its value to about 100 million.<ref>cite_note-11</ref> Reports described it as the largest streaming contract to that point.<ref>cite_note-12</ref> The deal did not require him to stop streaming on Twitch, though Twitch's policy against simulcasting limited how much he could continue to broadcast there.<ref>cite_note-13</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} Other content:
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