Tyler Blevins

American streamer and professional eSports player Tyler Blevins, more commonly known by his online alias "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 in 2009. He played for various teams including Cloud9, Renegades, Team Liquid and Luminosity Gaming. Ninja became a streamer in 2011 first with Justin.tv, then moved to Twitch.tv. He began playing H1Z1 at the start of its early access program with Steam, then moved to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds when it also entered Steam's early access program. He joined Luminosity Gaming in 2017 first as a Halo player, then to H1Z1, later moving to PUBG, where he won the PUBG Gamescom Invitational in the 3rd Person Squads classification. He began streaming Fortnite regularly and his viewership began to grow, which coincided with the game's growth in popularity in