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Tarik "tarik" Çelik (Born February 18, 1996) is a Turkish-American streamer and former professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player. While playing with Cloud9 in 2018, tarik and his teammates were able to win against FaZe to become North America's first team to win a major in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Early Life
Tarik was born on February 19, 1996 and is originally from Brooklyn, New York. When he was younger, his father introduced Tarik to the world of video games and technology, which sparked his interest in gaming. Seeing his older brother play first-person shooter games is what drove his passion for that genre of gaming and began his career in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Tarik struggled with wanting to become a pro gamer while his parents wanted him to pursue more safe career options. Over time, upon realizing the earnings gained from his professional career in CS:GO, his family embraced his career path and demonstrated their support.

Tarik began playing Counter-strike: Source, and eventually played CS:GO when it was released in 2012. One of his rises to internet fame was a viral clip of Tarik eating cereal and playing CS:GO that was uploaded in 2014. From there, he built his brand as not only a pro player, but a streamer with a fun personality.

Career
Tarik began his pro gaming career by joining a small group of friends that decided to give him a shot by bringing him into their team roster. The first notable roster he joined after that was under NetcodeGuides. Not long after, NetcodeGuides decided to disband their CS:GO division in 2014, but tarik and his teammates were picked up again by a new organization called MouseSpaz late 2014. After their good showing in the league, that same team was again picked up by a larger organization called Counter Logic Gaming (CLG) which represented them from there forward.

With a less successful run with the CLG team roster, Tarik returned to streaming and began to build an audience in 2016. His break from competitive play did not last long when he joined OpTic gaming's CS:GO team roster after an active player stepped down and opened up a position for tarik to play. After making a positive name for himself on OpTic gaming's team, he was noticed and picked up by Cloud9 in 2017 and took on the role of the team's In-Game Leader (IGL). This meant that he would take on more responsibility and call the shots for his new teammates. As the 2018 Boston Major tournament approached, Cloud9 was widely recognized as one of the best CS:GO teams, offering hope for North America to win an international event. Despite being down two games at the start of the match, Tarik and Cloud9 came back to win the tournament against FaZe, cementing their names as North America's first and only team to become international champions in CS:GO. Tarik was named Cloud9's Most valuable player (MVP) at the ELEAGUE Major Boston 2018 after being the teams top performer in the maps they won.

A few months after the major win in Boston, Tarik eventually stepped down from Cloud9 to join MIBR in August 2018. Again after a slow performance with the team, Tarik was let go from the main MIBR roster and focused again on content creation. In February 2019, he was announced to have joined NRG, although the team was quickly signed to Evil Geniuses after their first few matches. This was Tarik's final roster as a CS:GO pro-player before COVID-19 hit. He announced he was stepping from the active roster to focus on streaming and content creation in 2019.

It was announced that Tarik had joined Sentinels, an American eSports org, in the summer of 2022. Despite speculation he would be coming back from retirement as a pro-player and joining their active Valorant roster, he exclusively joined their content creation team.

Tarik has continued to stream and upload video game content, but has not returned to the pro-playing stage since 2019. He has become a well known streamer on the platform Twitch, and in 2023 he was named as one of the most watched streamers of the year. In 2023, he also grew his audience by around 29.6% since 2022. In this past year, tarik has averaged around 32,552 viewers per stream, with his peak viewership reaching over 290,000 on one of his streams.