I've been involved in eSports one way or another for over 10 years. I started my competitive gaming in TF2, most known for my ESEA-Invite participation in the team "Running with Scizors", I then moved to Overwatch where I was top 100 from Seasons 2 through Season 5. Then I quit competitive gaming to focus on my studies as an English Major - but I still wanted to keep learning and improving. I picked up DotA 2 where I peaked at 6.5k MMR, which gave me the perfect mixture of FPS & MOBA knowledge to excel at Deadlock. My mission in Deadlock is to make competitive gaming more accessible to everyone, and to help educate the community about the game - all while staying positive and transparent to the community that allowed me to follow my passion.

Hey guys! REF here, I've been building communities for over 25 years. I grew a subreddit from ~3K to over 150K subs, founded one of the first ever collegiate SC2 teams and yes, I'm the commish of my fantasy football league. I've been playing FPS competitively since the early 2000s with a UT99 mod called Tactical Ops, where at one jucture, we were ranked the #1 team in NA. Professionally working in finance and huge stat lover. Happily married with two kiddos + doggie. Main Heros: Shiv, Warden, Bebop

Hi, my name is Daniel! I've been on TF2 Boomers doing software / data stuff since January. I started doing web stuff and programming when I was a kid (originally making pokemon websites). I worked at reddit back when it was very small (~70 people, I was third infrastructure engineer, ended up managing the team that built on their ML systems and did things like the front page of the site and recommendations) and then worked at Google after that on capacity planning and then TensorFlow. Been addicted to deadlock since I found it and haven't been able to stop!

Hey there, zephyr here! I've been involved with competitive, organized gaming for about 16 years now. Experience ranging from TF2, dota2 and overwatch predominantly. I've been out of the scene for a number of years now but discovering deadlock has reignited that interest and excitement for me. As for my role here, I will be helping REF with his workload in administration for DSL and DDS. I am a buddy of deathy and am really confident in him and the team here to do really awesome things. Feel free to @ me or dm me with any questions, I'll do my best to help out as I learn the processes.

Hey everyone! My name is Mason and I'm a recent college graduate from the University of Michigan. I participated in my university's collegiate esports program as a player, captain, coach, manager, and director for the Michigan Valorant teams. During my time with Michigan I got involved with organizing some very notable collegiate leagues and found I had both the passion and talent for it. Sometime in August I switched to playing deadlock and found my love for competing again. After taking a few months away from collegiate esports this past Winter to focus on getting my degree, I started looking to get back into esports as a passion project and decided to offer my assistance as an admin to Ref and Deathy for the DDS & DSL. Feel free to reach out to me regarding your administrative needs or to talk deadlock (ascendant viscous, talon, and sinclair bunny puncher).

I'm a psychology student & project manager. I run a small business with my friends where we help companies work more efficiently using tools like Notion. I'm into board games (Dune Imperium is my all-time favorite) and I'm a big fan of specialty coffee and matcha

Hello, my name is Will or Yep, I'm a student studying IT. Deadlock is my first MOBA, but I've played competitive FPS games since I was 11. My first was CSGO, and I played a lot of TF2. I've always enjoyed the competitive scene and thought Death Slam would be a great place to pursue my passion for esports. I'm really into fashion and always interested in talking about clothes. Feel free to ask any questions related to Death Slam or Deadlock.

Heyo Heyo, I'm Gryphon, a university student and caster for DDS & DSL. Unlike the other fossils here, Deadlock is the first game I've focused on competitively, reaching Eternus 6 in NA and competing in Fall 2024. However, I've always had a passion for casting (and maybe some talent for yapping); I aim to help navigate the chaos of competitive deadlock to keep spectators engaged and just enough flair to make them stay.

My name is Yoav, i've been involved in Esports since 2006~. Originally IT cable rat running in large sport hall lan events connecting hundreds of computers to shoddy home networking gear and making some great COD 4, CS, WC3 stuff happen. Fell in love with Esports- founded a production company, later on a Lan cafe with a studio, to founding and managing proper TV channel, and from there to Riot Games working on some of the largest Esports events worldwide as a production manager (Ironically with none of the Riot games being my favorite Esports). These days i'm taking a break going back to grassroots, shaking rust off my vmix skills, and trying to start again with what i'm passionate about. Massive snowboarding nerd, hypercaffeinated at all times to combat adhd, vaguely american sounding due to being born there but grew up in the middle east and based in Germany these days.

I'm Kris/Kashi (whichever you prefer), and am the lead producer behind most NA Deadlock broadcasts like Downtown Showdown, Deadlock CORE, Grit & Glory, College Deadlock, First Strike/New Blood Bash and a few others. Outside of Deadlock I'm the production manager for Esports Wales and do a bunch of other freelance esports work.

Hello! My name is Anderson, I was a part of the college esports scene for 7 years until I graduated from California State University, Northridge majoring in communications multimedia and production. Most of my experience is live broadcasting, technical directing and above all else being a play by play caster. I have worked with TSM, Redbull, Sentinels, and other orgs. Currently I am a Network Operator at iheartradio, I control what gets put out on the radio everyday! So the next time you're hearing music on the radio, that is me making sure your feed is nice and clean.

Hi Everyone! I'm HDPHILLYB a semi professional play-by-play caster, MC and host. I cast for games such as Predecessor, OW2, Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Marvel Rivals and of course Deadlock! I have casted for Deadlock Core, Collegiate Deadlock, and FirstStrike/New Blood Bash. I am also the Assistant Esports Coach at Wilmington University, Co-Founder of Delmarvel Gaming (an event and esport tournament group) and general esports fan! I am here to help with talent training for our casters so hit me up for VOD review sessions or if you just want to know about casting in general!

Software Developer for 8 years, I do everything from Industrial IoT to devops and web development I have 2 cute cats and 5 alpacs Pocket onetrick

Software at AWS, I'm in the business of transforming numbers into other numbers Unlike the rest of the staff, am a dog person - have a 14 y/o Westie Captain of WE BUY METAL SKIN Was briefly the 101st best Pocket in North America

Hey! I'm tumasov. I'm a software engineer with 12 years of experience, mostly client-side stuff as well as some UI & UX design experience. Started when I was 16, now I'm already 28. 9to5 job, an archon player. I developed the https://deathy-death-slam.vercel.app/ website and planning to continue working around that area. Thanks for having me!