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= William Shao =

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William "Shad" Shao is an Australian Twitch streamer who primarily creates content regarding the popular first-person-shooters (fps), Counter-Strike:Global-Offensive and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. He started his Video creation career on Twitch in October 2018, when he created short montage clips of his successful and interesting 'rounds' and 'plays' in Counter-Strike:Global-Offensive. He also enjoys playing other video games, especially games from first-person-shooter franchises such as: DOOM and Quake.

Video Gaming and Streaming Background
According to William, he began playing video games when he was merely 6 years old on a desktop computer, starting with first-person-shooters such as: Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike:Source and eventually moving onto the newer games such as Counter-Strike:Global-Offensive in the summer of 2015, Overwatch, and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege. His movement towards streaming the games he enjoyed playing was due to "seeing everyone else doing it" so he "decided to try it out."

The Alias "Shad"
William himself said: "My name came from a simple spelling error with my surname 'Shao' during a school camp. The name stuck." He has since used the name for his in-game alias on popular platforms such as Steam, Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and in the video games he plays such as Counter-Strike:Global-Offensive and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege.

Counter-Strike Career
William has played with several teams since his addition to the Counter-Strike:Global-Offensive competitive scene in Late 2016. He joined his first team, GC Esports, through an acquaintance developing a team of other likeminded, similarly skilled, Counter-Strike players, however after several months, William left the team due to deteriorating team chemistry and poor organisation. His next team CeaZe Esports was created in a very similar fashion, however with different team members. He again left due to internal issues. He is currently playing with Celestial Esports which he originally joined as a substitute in early 2019 and eventually moved into the main five players of the team as a rifler/sniper.

He is also currently working in an administrative role for an eSports association called MC ESPORTS.

William played in smaller, community LANs for Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike:Source, Counter-Strike:Global-Offensive, and Call of Duty. Online tournaments played in include: LetsPlayLive-O Season 6 with Celestial Esports and ESEA Open Season 30. He is currently playing in LetsPlayLive-O Season 7 with Celestial Esports and are in the top 15 teams this year. He is also about to enter ESEA Season 32 under the team Boomer Squad.

Major Competition Participation

 * LetsPlayLive Open Season 3 (12/12/18 - 15/07/19)
 * ESEA Open Season 30 (4/3/2019 - 8/4/2019)
 * LetsPlayLive Open Season 7 (Ongoing)

Computer and Peripherals
William plays and streams the majority of his games on his custom-built computer that he built himself. Here are its specifications along with the peripherals he currently uses.

Internal Computer Specifications
Central Processing Unit (CPU): AMD Ryzen 5 2600 @ 4.2 GHz

Water Cooling System: Corsair H55 Hydro

Motherboard: ASUS B450M Prime

Random Access Memory (RAM): GSkill Ripjaws V 2x8GB DDR4-2133

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU): Gigabyte Geforce GTX 1060 3GB Windforce

Startup Drive: Samsung 970 EVO 250GB m.2 SSD

Second Drive: Kingston A400 120GB SSD

Power Supply Unit (PSU): Corsair RM750X

Case: CoolerMaster Masterbox 3.1 Lite TG

Peripherals
Mouse: Logitech G304 Lightspeed

Keyboard: Logitech GPro TKL Keyboard

Headset: Kingston HyperX Cloud II

Microphone: MXL Tempo-KR

Monitor: BenQ XL2420TE 144Hz