Ninja

 American streamer and professional eSports player Tyler Blevins, more commonly known by his online name "Ninja", was born in Grayslake, Illinois, to Chuck and Cynthia Blevins. He starred in the A Gamer's Life (2016) as himself.It was his father, Chuck Blevins who introduced him to video games. Ninja began playing Halo 3 professionally back in 2009. Ninja was a professional player for several teams that included Cloud9 and Renegades. He also was a player for Team Liquid, Team Liquid, Luminosity Gaming, and Justin.tv. In 2011, Ninja moved to Twitch.tv. He started playing H1Z1 around the start of the early access program in conjunction with Steam and then switched to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds after it joined Steam's early access program. He joined Luminosity Gaming in 2017 first as a Halo player, then H1Z1, and later shifting to PUBG and won the PUBG Gamescom Invitational in the 3rd-person Squads classification. He started streaming Fortnite regularly , and his followers increased and grew with the game's increasing popularity. By September of 2017 when he was averaging 500,000 followers; in the space of six months, this number grew by 250 perce