Sven van de Wege, aka BlindWarriorSven, is a real sensation on Twitch. The player invites his subscribers to come and face him in Street Fighter V, despite a seemingly impossible handicap to overcome: Sven is blind. He lost his sight after cancer in his youth, but that didn't stop him from doing what he loves in life, which is playing video games.
Playing ear
The one who sometimes wears a blindfold to prove that he really plays without seeing anything has learned Street Fighter "by ear". Based on the sound effects of the Capcom game, he locates the characters on the screen and their actions. As a result, he can react to them and his way of fighting is really effective: he beats about 80% of his opponents! Better still, he has blown away the best players in the world in tournaments.
Sven organizes his Twitch streams on Sundays, but he trains all week long in order to have the sounds perfectly in his head. He can thus develop attack and defense techniques and thus shine against other highly visible players. He also sometimes tackles other games, but he regrets the few accessibility options that publishers offer in their titles.
Currently, Sven's channel records around fifty viewers per broadcast (his channel has just crossed the threshold of 3,000 subscribers). The 35-year-old computer scientist would now like to earn his living on Twitch by playing and beating other players, but the road will still be long to get there. His next goal is to become a partner of the platform to generate greater revenue.
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