User:Tealsteam

Ryan "Tealsteam" Whitaker was born in Wythenshawe Hospital, in Manchester on the 6th July 1988. His parents are Lynne and Peter Whitaker. Ryan currently lives with his Mother and his Step Father Malcolm Anderson, in a terraced house in Northern Moor, Manchester where Ryan has lived since he was 6 years of age,

From the age of 6 Ryan got into his gaming because of his father, who bought him an amiga of which he couldn't use, then at the age of 7 Ryan received his first gaming console the Sega Mega Drive. after that Ryan had various consoles, PS, PS2, Xbox, Xbox360 and a PS3, however his gaming career was aimed at PC based first person shoots.

By age 13 Ryan has completed Doom and Duke Nukem 3D, which he recieved on the Bonzai Collection CD from A.P.C. Computer services in Sale, where he spent his weekends playing over the network with a member of thier Staff, Bonzai.

Age 16 and Ryan purchased his first computer with months savings from his first legal job, as a Front End Assistant at Tesco PLC. Along with this purchase Ryan bought a copy of Counter Strike Condition Zero. Which is still one of todays most popular FPS games available.

Ryan and friend/colleague Alan McGrath, formed Ryan's first CS team, CZ-FAL (Famous Axewound Lickers), which lead to a name change and a game change, so as a team we moved to Counter Strike: Source, and the name changed to CS-Suicidal. As a clan leader of his previous clan, and a Co-Leader in Suicidal, Ryan was booted out by a vote by the two other Co-Leaders.

Ryan then joined a team called The Xiled-Ones and soon befriended the staff and players there, shortly after joining Xiled Ones Ryan took command of the Counter Strike Source section after "Rocky" retired his position. During this time Ryan attended college at North Trafford College (now Trafford College) to complete with distinction a Electrical Installation course.

After completing the course Ryan left the Xiled Ones and pursued a career with AFC Group Security, at his local shopping centre, subsequently left Tesco. shortly after working with AFC Group, Ryan joined NuVue with the clan leader of Xiled Ones, and a relationship was never formed.

Eventually Ryan gave up on playing Counter Strike, and went with the moto "if you can't beat em, Join em" and thats exactly what he did, and on the 28th February 2006 Ryan joined "The Suicide Gaming League" thesgl.com as a member of staff and worked his way up though the ranks, and is now a respected Head Admin of all game tournaments aswell as Site and IRC staff.

In recent years Ryan has voluntarily worked on behalf of Game Frontier for TheCGS.com (Championship Gaming Series) Which was a TV based Gaming Show, Ryan put forth ideas towards the show, and the setting up and running of the machines. Ryan also participated in similar work for the more recent SGL Summer Slam.

Now aswell as Admin for thesgl.com Ryan now plays for reformed Counter Strike: Source team, Source Warriors, where he contributes much of his time to server/game management and also a much needed cannon fodder/protection for the rest of his team.