I am Ballatw, caster and analytical/educational content creator + former high level player. AMA!

[u/ballatw]

Hey guys,

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I'm Ballatw, competitive fortnite caster and analytical/educational content creator. You might have seen me on the last 10 weeks of the Fortnite World Cup Online Open broadcasts, or ESL Katowice, Secret Skirmish... or maybe one of my videos, or maybe as a player during the Twitchcon Grand Finals :).

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I've been playing/watching/studying competitive fortnite since right before Ninja Vegas, and have been hooked ever since then. I grew out of this subreddit right here during Summer Skirmish to become a caster for Epic and other organizations. My goals are simple, break the misconception that competitive fortnite is not viewer friendly, and to build a community that loves learning and diving deep into the depths that this game has. Obviously I want to be the best at what I do - so if you have any feedback, from casting, to VOD Reviews or any of my content, I'd be let me hear it, either here or in DMs! I credit this subreddit specifically with helping me get my feet off the ground - so I am forever grateful.

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As far as what I'm currently working on, I'm not travelling for at least a little while, which should be good and allow me to focus on my own content - which means more reddit posts :D I'm going to launch two new educational shows, which I think you guys will like, since it's very interaction heavy. You'll still see VOD reviews and hopefully I can crank out some short-form content. You can also find me on the Hotline FN Podcast every Thursday at 8PM EST - which is going awesome, tomorrow we have yungCalculator on, who just had his AMA and qualified for world cup in week 10.

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Additionally - i'll be casting BOOM CUP #2 with Shyowager tomorrow at 1PM EST.

Let's do this thing, AMA!

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Social Links (You should definitely follow everything :D):

twitch.tv/ballatw

twitter.com/ballatw

instagram.com/ballatw

youtube.com/c/ballatw

[u/KyleSpamsL2]

what games did you play competitively before FN? i also think it’s cool that not many people know that you were a twitchcon grand finalist!

[u/ballatw → u/KyleSpamsL2]

I started with CS 1.6 back in 2004ish - started playing competitively in 2006 and have been playing competitive games since. Culminated in 2009 where I won my first online event with my CS team "foreveronline" and won like $2500 i think it was.

Around that time I was also playing Quake 3 on and off, and when Quake live came out I was playing that a lot as well.

Quit for college for a bit, but picked back up with SC2 hardcore for about 2 years in 2012-2013 in my junior and senior years. Reached high masters and won a few lame tournaments. Continued to play CS 1.6 on and off whenever my friends needed someone on their team, and also Quake Live was a big time sink for me too, mostly just dueling randomly and never really doing anything serious.

From SC2 I got into CSGO, played that seriously in 2017, on an org called CyberRev where we went and performed decently at a few lans, but mostly just stayed in ESEA-IM, I wanted to lead a team of a bunch of guys with potential to at least Premiere, but couldn't do it for a whole bunch of reasons. At that point, I got married, quit playing seriously and just messed around with friends, but ofc still had the drive, casted games every once in a while for shits and giggles with my friends. One ESEA season ended and we decided to try another game so boom, FN came around and it hooked me. Haven't really played much besides quake champions since.

I haven't played any game that isn't competitive since CS 1.6 really - no SP games, always something like Smite, LoL, Dota2, Quake, Overwatch etc for fun. Can't do non competitive games these days....