Micheal Grzesiek it is a name that is hardly known to most people. The majority of the audience knows Grzesiek by his nickname: Shroud.
Who is it Shroud?
Shroud it is none other than the third most followed streamer of all Twitch and it is also a former professional playera of video games. Before breaking out as a superstar in the world of videogame steaming Shroud was a professional player for the American team Cloud 9, author of good placings in the leagues of CS: GO between 2014 and 2018; Since his retirement from sporting life, however, Shroud has made a lot more money than he ever did before.
Let's do two calculations together.
Shroud: the numbers that the star streamer makes are bloated wallets
According to the calculations made by the site clutch points the streamer at the end of 2020 can boast a net value of 16 million dollars. The majority of this money was not earned through his placements in the world of eSports but from his work as a streamer.
During his sports career the teams of Shroud they drove home approx $668.000, a figure that is difficult to connect directly to the individual player. it is more legitimate for players to have brought home something close to a ninth or a tenth of that figure, orndeggando therefore among the 50.000 and of $ 60.000.
They would go to that added the salaries obtained by the player and any bonuses but the figures relating to these values have never been made public.
The leap in quality Shroud it did so in October 2019 when, already strong of a certain popularity on the platform Twitch, managed to wrest an exclusivity contract from Mixer for 10 million dollars, following in the footsteps of the much better known Tyler Ninja Blevins.
The fun part comes now though: the June 22, 2020 Microsoft announces that it intends to stop the project Mixer, in favor of a new partnership stipulated with Facebook Gaming. This action made Shroud free from constraints again and, therefore, Twitch took advantage of it to obtain an exclusive contract whose figures are still mysterious.
What we do know is that the first broadcast on Shroud upon his return on Twitch it made him get well 516.000 spectators, an incredible figure. To October 2020 the streamer had already accumulated over 7900 hours of broadcasting, with almost 400.000.000 views and, according to data from January 2021almost 21.000 registrations; the latter alone earn a Shroud over $ 40.000 a month.
If these figures surprise you, hold on tight: the streamer before leaving Twitch for Mixer had reached the incredible figure of 87.154 registrations; enough money to buy a high-end supercar a month.
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