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Ludwig Ahgren
Ahgren in 2020
Personal information
Born (1995-07-06) July 6, 1995 (age 29)
Hollis, New Hampshire, U.S.
EducationArizona State University (BA)
Occupations
Twitch information
Channel
LocationLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active2018–present
GenreGaming
Games
Followers2,200,000+
Associated acts
YouTube information
Channels
Years active2015–present
Genre
  • Variety
Subscribers1.54 million (combined)
Total views311.9 million (combined)
100,000 subscribers2019
1,000,000 subscribers2020
Last updated: April 5, 2021

Ludwig Anders Ahgren (/ɑːɡrən/; born July 6, 1995) is an American Twitch streamer, YouTuber, and esports commentator and competitor.[1] Ahgren is best known for his livestreams on Twitch, where he broadcasts video game-related content as well as non-video game-related content such as game shows, contests, and gambling.[2] He is also known for his work as an esports commentator at various Super Smash Bros. Melee tournaments. Since beginning streaming full-time on February 16, 2019, Ahgren has become one of the largest streamers on Twitch.[3]

Early life

Ahgren grew up in a French American bilingual household in Hollis, New Hampshire, along with his mother and sister.

He attended Hollis/Brookline High School in New Hampshire, graduating in 2013.[4] In 2012, he participated in a school play of Legally Blonde in which he played Warner.[4] In this time, he discovered Call of Duty commentary channels like Hutch, SeaNanners and WoodysGamerTag, which had inspired him to make the channel "TheZanySidekick", which was his first foray into content creation.

Ahgren moved to Arizona for college, where he joined the comedy club "Tempe Late Night", and also discovered Super Smash Bros. Melee. Having taken an interest in the game, he went to local tournaments and enjoyed participating in the esport and its community. He graduated cum laude from Arizona State University with a dual degree in English Literature & Journalism and Mass Communication in 2017.[5]

Super Smash Bros. Melee career

As a Super Smash Bros. Melee competitor, Ahgren has seen limited but notable success. His most successful year came in 2017, where Ahgren won a set of games against each of two players ranked in the top 104 of Melee's community, Team Liquid's Chillindude[6] and Tempo Storm's Vro.[7] Ahgren also won a game against the then 12th ranked player in the world, Westballz,[8] later losing the set. Ahgren has achieved much more success as a Melee commentator, calling matches at many major Melee tournaments, including the GENESIS series.[9]

In 2019, Ahgren would later have a rematch with Chillindude at Mainstage, a Melee and Ultimate national tournament in Ontario, California, where Ahgren would lose to Chillindude 4–5 in a match in which each competitor wagered $100.[10]

Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series

In 2018, Ahgren organized a $1000 winner-take-all invitational Melee netplay tournament titled the Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series, which was won by Counter Logic Gaming's SFAT.[11] On April 13, 2020, Ahgren announced a successor to the first Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series titled, Worldwide Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series.[12] It was renamed Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 2 when Ahgren reannounced it on June 30, 2020. The tournament was held on June 25-26 and was won by Golden Guardian's Zain.[13]

In November 2020, after the The Big House 10 tournament received a cease and desist from Nintendo over the tournament's usage of the Slippi netplay build of Melee,[14] Ahgren announced the Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 3, an impromptu charity tournament. [15] LACS 3 took place on December 20-21, where Mang0 won 3-1 against Wizzrobe in the finals, and raised over $261,668 to Gamers for Love.[16] As of January 2021, the prize pool for Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 3 and 2 ranks as the 10th and 11th largest in Melee history respectively.[17]

Streaming career

Ahgren began streaming part-time on May 16, 2018.[18] On February 16, 2019 after disclosing to his live stream audience that he had quit his job as the marketing manager for iQ Vapes, (later admitting that he was actually fired), he dedicated himself to streaming full-time as a career.[19]

During 2018 and 2019, Ahgren's stream retained a reletively small audience, mostly streaming content based off of Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mario Party 2, and Dark Souls gameplay.[20] His streams progressively increased in viewership, along with his subscriber count. On March 22, 2021, Ahgren became the most subscribed to channel on all of Twitch, and subsequently surpassed Ranboo's all-time subsription count, awarding him the second highest all-time subscription record on Twitch. [21]

In January 2020, Ahgren, among other Melee competitors and personalities, such as Mew2King and Plup, competed in an invitational tournament for Pokémon Sword and Shield by 2016 Pokémon World Champion Wolfe Glick, where Ahgren finished first.[22][23] Ahgren also won an invitational tournament organized by Americas Cardroom to crown the 'King of Twitch Poker', defeating Mang0 and Destiny in the process.[24]

On November 10, 2019, Ahgren set the world record for the button mashing minigame Domination from Mario Party 4, going faster than a tool-assisted speedrun bot designed to be the fastest possible, setting a score of 201, higher than the limit of 160 which was possible due to a mod which increased the limit of points scored.[25][26] Polygon reporter Owen S. Good compared Ahgren's expression after completing the feat to NBA player Shaquille O'Neal's expression in the 2000 Western Conference Finals, saying, "If aliens landed and I had to explain what video games are and why they are fun, I'd show them this. Take a bow, Ludwig."[25]

In November 2019, Ahgren appeared in a Christmas-themed advertisement for Micro-Star International promoting the RTX 20 Series graphics card.[27] This was not the first advertisement that Ahgren had starred in, as he had previously portrayed himself in an advertisement for Hotels.com in 2018.[28]

In 2019, Ahgren launched the Mogul Moves line of clothing, which features sweatshirts and hoodies displaying the phrase "Mogul Moves" in varsity font. For the Melee tournament GENESIS 7, Ahgren successfully signed the future winner of the competition, Melee player Zain, who wore a Mogul Moves sweatshirt during the event.[29]

In June 2020, Ahgren was invited to compete against other popular Twitch streamers in the amateur chess tournament PogChamps of Chess.com, placing second in the consolation bracket. Ahgren subsequently made an appearance on the cover of the August 2020 edition of Chess Life.[30]

In October 2020, Ahgren was interviewed by The Washington Post to discuss the game Among Us, which he has played alongside Sodapoppin, Pokimane, and other popular Twitch streamers.[31]

On December 7, 2020, Ahgren released a Christmas-themed EP titled A Very Mogul Christmas.[32]

On March 1, 2021, Ahgren announced that he was taking a leave of absence from streaming to visit family and friends in New Hampshire. On March 4, 2021, Ahgren had emergency surgery to remove his appendix.[33]

Subathon

On March 14, 2021, Ahgren began a "subathon" stream, originally planning to add twenty seconds to the length of the stream for every new subscriber his Twitch channel received. When Ahgren woke up the following day, the timer on-screen indicated that there were 28 hours remaining in the stream. Ahgren then made the decision to decrease the time added per new subscriber from twenty seconds to ten seconds. He set a 31-day cap, so that no matter how many new subscribers the channel received, the length of the stream still could not exceed 31 days, meaning that the latest it could possibly end was on April 14. In order for the stream to last the entire 31 days, the channel will need to receive 267,840 subscribers, just shy of the record for most subscribers of all time, 269,154, set by Ninja during his Fortnite livestream with Drake.[34]

Upon waking up on March 18, after the stream had lasted for 92 hours, the amount of subscribers that the channel had received indicated that the stream still had 62 hours left to go.[35] As of April 4, 2021, the stream has lasted for 21 days, and with a subscriber count of over 180,000, Ahgren is now the most subscribed-to of any streamer on Twitch, holding this position since March 22nd.[36] He is the fourth person on the platform to surpass 100,000 subscribers, as well of having the second-highest subscriber record of any streamer on twitch, only beaten by Ninja's 2018 record.[37]

On April 3, Ahgren spoke about the possibility of keeping the stream going for the entirety of the 31-day length (i.e. until April 14), with the intention of seeing if he could surpass Ninja's record for most subscribers of all time.[38]

On the morning of April 4, while Ahgren was still in bed, and the on-screen timer showed just over 16 minutes remaining in the stream, Ahgren's girlfriend, another streamer who goes by the name of QTCinderella, entered Ahgren's room, awaking him, and shut the stream down. Within minutes, however, the stream was back on air, and QTCinderella claimed that she made a mistake by pressing the wrong button and did not intend for the stream to shut off.[39] In an article for Dexerto reporting on this development, journalist Calum Patterson predicted that "[a]t this point, it seems the only things that will end the stream is another accident like this, or Ludwig hitting the 31 day cap."[40]

Discography

Extended plays

Title EP details
A Very Mogul Christmas[32]
  • Released: December 6, 2020
  • Label: Mogul Records[41]
  • Formats: Digital download, streaming

References

  1. ^ "Watch this professional gamer compete at Evo 2018". August 24, 2018. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  2. ^ theScore esports (December 5, 2020). "Ludwig is Taking Over Twitch With Gambling". theScore esports. Score Media Ventures Inc. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  3. ^ Whateley, Dan (June 23, 2020). "Twitch will make 80% of its 2020 revenue from subscriptions, according to a Wall Street analyst. Here's how much money 8 of its top streamers make every month from subscribers". Business Insider. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Hollis Brookline High performs 'Legally Blond'". The Cabinet Press. March 23, 2012. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  5. ^ "Arizona State University Commencement and Convocation Program" (PDF). Arizona State University Graduation. Arizona Board of Regents. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  6. ^ "Winners Quarter-Final". Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  7. ^ "STR 2017 SSBM - Tempo Vro (Fox) Vs. HypedForSlicedBread (Jigglypuff) - Melee - LQ". Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  8. ^ "Elysium #2 - Ludwig (Puff) VS G2 Westballz (Fox) - Round Robin - Pool 8". Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  9. ^ "GENESIS on Twitter: "Proud to present this years commentary line up for Super Smash Bros. Melee!"". Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  10. ^ "SSBMRank: Ludwig vs Chillindude - BEST OF 9!! Match #3: Beef Battle - Mainstage Puff vs Mario". Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  11. ^ "Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series". Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  12. ^ "IF I LAUGH I SHAVE MY HEAD !YLYL • last month". Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  13. ^ Tate, Dylan (June 26, 2020). "Zain wins Super Smash Bros. Melee Singles at LACS 2". DailyEsports. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  14. ^ Good, Owen S. (November 19, 2020). "Smash Bros. tournament The Big House 10 canceled over netcode". Polygon. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  15. ^ Donaldson, Alex (November 24, 2020). "As Nintendo shuts down a tournament, Smash fans unite under the #FreeMelee hashtag in futility". VG247. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  16. ^ Michael, Cale (December 20, 2020). "Mang0 wins Ludwig Ahgren Championship Series 3, Melee community raises more than $300,000 for charity". DotEsports. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  17. ^ "Largest Prize Pools For Super Smash Bros. Melee". Esports Earnings. Esports Earnings. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  18. ^ "STREAM ON MAY 17, 2018 KATAMARI NO JOB". Retrieved May 17, 2020.
  19. ^ "I've decided to go full-time with twitch streaming thank you everyone for the support <3".
  20. ^ Hope, Henrik (May 4, 2019). ""Hello [Streamer] PogChamp": The Language Variety on Twitch" (PDF). University of Stavanger, Norway Master's Theses (HF-IKS). 335: 31. Retrieved December 19, 2020.
  21. ^ "TWITCH SUBS COUNT & STATS Top streamers by number of subscribers as of May 2020". Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  22. ^ Bartlett, Eric (January 14, 2020). "Eight Professional Super Smash Bros. Players and Personalities Give Pokemon VGC a Try in Wolfe Glick's Invitational Tournament". The Game Haus. The Game Haus. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  23. ^ Tate, Dylan (January 14, 2020). "Ludwig wins Wolfe Glick's Pokémon Sword & Shield Super Smash Brothers Invitational". Daily Esports. Enthusiast Gaming. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  24. ^ Devries, Steve (November 19, 2019). "Poker Meets Super Smash Bros.™ in Next "King of Twitch Poker"™ Qualifier". Business Wire A Birkshire Hathaway Company. Business Wire. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  25. ^ a b Good, Owen S. (November 10, 2019). "World's fastest button-masher breaks 200 in Mario Party 4 Domination". Polygon. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  26. ^ Rosenberg, Adam (November 10, 2019). "You've never seen button-mashing like this before". Mashable. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
  27. ^ "Best Gift Ever". November 18, 2020. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  28. ^ "Watch this professional gamer compete at Evo 2018". SB Nation. Vox Creative. August 24, 2018. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  29. ^ Tate, Dylan (January 27, 2020). "Zain wins Super Smash Bros. Melee Singles at Genesis 7". Daily Esports. Enthusiast Gaming. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  30. ^ Chess, US (August 1, 2020). "A Streamers Convention On The August Chess Life Front Cover". US Chess Federation. United States Chess Federation. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  31. ^ Garst, Aron (October 8, 2020). "Playing "Among Us?" Here are some tips and alternate rules to up the ante". The Washington Post. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  32. ^ a b Galloway, Ryan (December 7, 2020). "Ludwig releases surprise Christmas album". Dot Esports. Dot Esports. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  33. ^ Smith, Georgina (March 5, 2021). "Twitch streamer Ludwig gives health update after emergency surgery". Dexerto. Dexerto Ltd. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  34. ^ "Twitch All-time Streamers With Most Active Subscribers". TwitchTracker. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  35. ^ https://kotaku.com/twitch-stars-never-ending-stream-shows-no-signs-of-stop-1846488273
  36. ^ "Twitch Subs Count Statistics · TwitchTracker". twitchtracker.com. March 22, 2021. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  37. ^ "Twitch All-time Streamers With Most Active Subscribers". TwitchTracker. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  38. ^ Calum Patterson (April 4, 2021). "Ludwig's Twitch Subathon accidentally shut down early". Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  39. ^ Calum Patterson (April 4, 2021). "Ludwig's Twitch Subathon accidentally shut down early". Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  40. ^ Calum Patterson (April 4, 2021). "Ludwig's Twitch Subathon accidentally shut down early". Retrieved April 4, 2021.
  41. ^ Ahgren, Ludwig. "A Very Mogul Christmas". Spotify. Retrieved January 24, 2021.
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