Kyle "Bugha" Geirsdorf
Kyle "Bugha" Geirsdorf
Bugha is a professional Fortnite player who plays on the ESports team, the Sentinels. He is a partnered Twitch.tv streamer and the first Fortnite player to take home the Fortnite World Cup and the $3,000,000 in prize money that came with it. He was relatively unknown to the Fortnite Community before the big showdown event in New York City but is now a famous face amongst Fortnite fans.
Kyle ‘Bugha’ Giersdorf talks about his $3M win at the Fortnite World Cup | Outside the Lines
Bugha has his own YouTube channel and regularly streams competitive Fortnite gameplay on his Twitch channel as well. He is signed to the competitive gaming team SEN.
Career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWnBPjCdOlM
Bugha’s started his own YouTube channel in June 2015. In 2018, he started sharing content on the channel. As of July 2020, the channel has about 3 million subscribers and more than 128 million views. In November 2016, Bugha joined Twitch but he didn't start really using it until March of 2019
Bugha joined the eSports team, No Clout, in April of 2018 and they competed in first season of the FN Pro League (North America).
He departed from No Clout in August 2018 and moved to the Sentinels (formerly Phoenix1) in March 2019.
He is currently teammates with Animal (Owen Wright), Carose (Cayden Bradford), and Aspect (Nick McGuire).
He also plays League of Legends (LoL), Overwatch and Hearthstone at a competitive level. The CEO of Sentinels is Rob Moore.
Bugha started attending Fortnite tournaments in 2018, competing in some of the higher profile ones such as Share The Love (NA), Scallywag Cup (NA), and the World Cup Warmup.
One of his early big wins was first in squad (w/ Aspect and Animal) at the Trio Cash Cup 2.
He also came in first in solo in week 1 of the WC 2019 NAE Qualifiers.
His biggest win was the Fortnite World Cup (Solo) on July 28, 2019.
The last battle was held at the Arthur Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York with DJ Marshmello. Bugha won with a sum of 59 points and earned $3 million.
Awards
Fortnite World Cup Champion
2019 PC Player of the Year