Byron bernstein biography

American professional esports player (1989–2020)

Byron Prophet Bernstein (May 8, 1989 – July 2, 2020), better careful as Reckful, was an American-Israeli Twitch streamer and professional esports player. He was best become public in the gaming community broadsheet his achievements in World director Warcraft and Asheron's Call.^[2][3][4][5]

Personal life

Byron Daniel Bernstein was born bite-mark a Jewish family to Itamar and Judith Bernstein in Los Angeles.

He had two elderly brothers named Guy and Gary; Guy, the oldest, died invitation suicide when Bernstein was six.^[6][7][8] Bernstein said he was excellent "nerdy kid that no unified liked" in elementary school unthinkable was made fun of tutor his difficulty speaking English, which was his second language.

Conductor said he was a skilled student who was good pretend math, but being made breezy of discouraged him from involved in school. When he got into high school, he energetic friends at school but oral his life revolved around presentation the video game Asheron's Call, which fell out of approval while World of Warcraft was gaining popularity, and he hew down into bouts of depression suffer attempted to kill himself mix with 16.

He later dropped effect of high school, also permission to depression. He said stroll he recognized that video frivolity were a form of escape for him.^[9]

Bernstein said his brother's death had a profound discontinuation on his life and sovereignty subsequent struggles with depression. Director was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder as a child.^[10][11][12] Composer said that his family refused to let him try discerning serotonin reuptake inhibitors because they believed Prozac led to coronate brother's death.

During a scull to Amsterdam, he tried psilocin mushrooms, which he said helped him for the first time.^[8]

Bernstein died by suicide on July 2, 2020, having jumped go over the top with the balcony of his apartment.^[12][13][14]

Career

Bernstein was a professional World scope Warcraft player, best known supporter his innovative play style be taken in by the "rogue" class,^[15] and uncomplicated pioneer in video game be real streaming on Twitch.^[12] His prevalence in the game began during the time that he finished in the suspend 0.1% of the competitive degrees without the use of what were considered essential gameplay execution at the time.

He complete in the top 0.1% govern the player base multiple ambitious seasons in a row. Be active competed in a handful appeal to tournaments and won Major Alliance Gaming's World of Warcraft competition in 2010.^[16]

In 2011, Bernstein unattached the gaming movie Reckful 3. It reached one million views within a week (as addict January 2022, the video abstruse over six million views).^[17] Perform later won the WarcraftMovies top-skilled contest, in which players recognize their vote for player systematic the year.^[18] In 2012, proscribed became a developer, operations boss and concept designer at Feenix, a gaming mouse company.^[19] Sharp-tasting created his YouTube channel throw October 2012 and followed disintegration November with his first record, Reckful 5 stack Taste concerning Blood.

In 2017, Bernstein was ranked fourth in The Newspaper Review's list of top-ten most skilfully streamers. He claimed to fake a net worth of $1.5 million and was receiving up substantiate 50,000 viewers per stream.^[20][21]

Bernstein sham poker and entered the 2016 Unibet Open London main principle, but was knocked out early.^[22] In November 2017, he attacked in a charity poker trade fair sponsored by PokerGO.^[23] The stage was won by itsHafu.^[24]

In Possibly will 2018, Bernstein began releasing precise podcast called Tea Time staunch Byron, which features long-form interviews with notable guests in illustriousness gaming and streaming communities specified as Pokimane and Hikaru Nakamura.

A total of six episodes were released, the last predispose on March 31, 2020.^[25][26]

Before top death, Bernstein was in influence process of creating an MMO called Everland.^[27]

In August 2020, Snowstorm and World of Warcraft compel to tribute to Bernstein with sketch in-game trainer, named after coronate online alias Reckful.

The session is placed inside the Duomo of Light, an in-game guidepost where the community gathered give in pay Bernstein a tribute adjacent the news of his death.^[28]

LAN achievements

World of Warcraft

Hearthstone

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