Ganesh Gangadhar (Gamer)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ganesh Gangadhar

• Ganesh’s gaming journey started at the age of 16 when he got a desktop as a gift from his father after the board exams of class 10.

• Ganesh initially played games like Dota 2 and GunZ: The Duel Online.

• Ganesh’s competitive gaming career began with the game Point Blank in 2017.

• Ganesh, along with his team Wings, won the Piercing Blow National Championship (PBNC) thrice, which had a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakhs. They also won Rs. 1.65 lakhs as the cash reward for coming in the top 10 at the Piercing Blow International Championship (PBIC) held in Jakarta.

• After the Point Blank game was shut down in India, Ganesh shifted to another game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

• Ganesh and his team won the Cobx Masters tournament in 2018, India’s largest multi-title international e-sports tournament. They also won the Matka19 event hosted by BITS Pilani in Goa which had a cash prize of Rs 1.25 lakh.

• Ganesh and his team were indirectly sponsored by a local cafe owner named Raja in Bangalore, who himself was a CS player, by allowing them to play games at his cyber cafe, where the owner organised local tournaments every month, and Ganesh, along with his team, was expected to win those tournaments and repay the amount to the owner of the cyber cafe.

• In July 2019, Ganesh joined his first gaming organisation, BL4ZE Esports.

• In 2020, Ganesh switched to the newly launched game Valorant as it offered him a fresh start. He also started live-streaming the game on his YouTube channel.

• Ganesh became the second Indian Valorant player to attain the Radiant rank in the game.

• On 4 October 2020, Ganesh left BL4ZE Esports and officially joined a new organisation, Global Esports, one of India’s biggest Esports organisations.

• Ganesh was the star player for Global Esports and helped his team win multiple tournaments such as The Esports Club Invitational, The Esports Club Invitational – Season 2, and helped his team to qualify for the  VCT 2021: APAC Last Chance Qualifier.

• Ganesh has a pet cat named Swiggy.

  

• Ganesh is the first Indian player to participate in an official international LAN tournament for Valorant at VCT lock//IN.

• Ganesh left Global Esports in November 2023 and joined Revenant Esports in January 2024.

• Ganesh made headlines in April 2024 when he met the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with other gamers such as Tirth Mehta, Animesh Agarwal, Anshu Bisht, Payal Dhare, Naman Mathur, and Mithilesh Patankar.