![]() So, he doesn’t have a car, but he owns an electric scooter to go around and stuff. Speaking of his ride, he doesn’t really like to travel or drive on a car. ![]() Furthermore, he generates his income not only through stream donations and subscriptions, but he has been sponsored by a lot of big shot companies like HTC, Cloud9, Logitech, HyperX, Madrinas, and more. So, his estimated net worth is $4 million dollars. According to Socialblade, he earns around $50k to $70k per month from his YouTube channel.Īpart from competitive tournaments, he has competed in Twitch Rivals too where he won around $30,000 or more in total. His biggest money win would be at ESL Pro League Season 4 where be won $40,000. Here’s his stream from his Twitch Rival Tournaments.ĭuring his time as a competitive player, he played several tournaments and won almost $200,000 on average. Not long after that, Cloud9 signed him in August 2014 and he started competing on a broader level. However, he was acquired by compLexity Gaming (cloud9 back then) later on. Mike began his career with a few ESEA groups, especially Manajuma and Exertus. Also, it was his dad who introduced him to counter strike from a very early age, and he states that Michael picked the game really fast and soon started showing interest in it. Mike’s father was a huge computer geek and was fond of gaming as his son. How did it all Start? (His Career)įrom the point in time where he barely started walking, he was introduced to computers and cool gadgets by his dad. He furthermore said that it was depressing when he got rejected thrice and he almost quit at that point. But in the fourth try, he got in and got the subscribe button. In the same interview, he stated that he was rejected three times when he applied for the partnership with Twitch. That was the point in time when he thought he wanted to do exactly the same. In one of his interviews, he said that the reason he started streaming was because of ‘Summit1G’. Back then, Summit had around a couple of hundred subscribers and it was growing and just growing. From that point onwards, he gradually started getting attention from people. But he was consistent and he streamed for around 12 hours a day. He didn’t have any viewers back then, and he probably streamed for a year with only one viewer. However, that didn’t stop his parents from supporting their son and did everything they could to make Shroud achieve his goals. That way, he concentrated more on his study at the time to complete his high school. Hence, he moved to his mom’s place without his computers and all the other portable gaming gadgets. So, when Mike’s teachers complained a lot about how he wasn’t doing good, his parents had to take a step to make him focus more on his study as well. Moreover, one of his teachers hated him and thought that he’d be a failure with respect to his career. ![]() Also, in one of the interviews, his father said that Mike’s high school grades were extremely poor since he missed school way too much. Speaking of Shroud’s education, his schooling went alright. After the split, he lived with his father most of the times and spent time with him alongside all the cool gadgets and what not. ![]() The only point in time that Shroud struggled was the divorce of his parents when he was 12. As a matter of fact, his father would get him new PCs at regular interval and so forth. In one of his streams, he told his viewers that he didn’t really struggle much with money and computers or any other things from the very beginning. He states he had to drive 5 hours to the spot with his monitors and everything. The first tournament he did was BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) in Canada, Toronto. He started off by streaming Counter Stike: GO before engaging himself in the competitive world. Speaking of his interest, he doesn’t like traveling much and he would simply love to sit home and game all day. He was born in Toronto, Canada, but he resides in Orange County, California now. Mostly popular for the game PUBG, however, he didn’t start with that game initially. Who is Shroud “Michael Grzesiek”?īorn on June 2nd, 1994, Michael is a Canadian full-time video game streamer and a former e-sports player. But it didn’t happen all at once and he had to make tough decisions to reach where he is today. Prior to his success as a full-time streamer, he played CS: GO competitively and carried his teams to triumph several times. ![]()
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