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Player Profiles

Berry Systems Team

Name/Job Title: Callum Westwood – Sales Estimator
Gamer Tag: Elvis Presley#9548031
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: Call of Duty MW2
Favourite Gaming Memory: Nukes on MW2
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Team bonding

Name/Job Title: Tom Picken – Quantity Surveyor
Gamer Tag: burger nips#1056975
First console: PS2
Favourite Game: FIFA. Until my controller gets put through a wall.
Favourite Gaming Memory: The first time I ever shot someone’s head off on GTA Vice City, as a kid, and their head would actually disappear… Dark but funny…
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Doing something I enjoy and raising money for good causes, following my 2 recent lockdown charity success of a 24hr gaming challenge back in lockdown and then a 500km running challenge from April to August!

Name/Job Title: Steve Dunn-Managing Director
Gamer Tag: MonkeyNuts7105#2421993
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: Callum sending me to clear a building when there was a squad in there + wat felt like an entire regiment leaving me running round the building screaming like a child being chased by Penny-wise the clown
Favourite Gaming Memory: Great idea for charity events and to take the humiliation experienced in the squad chat to a public domain, with a great bunch of guys.
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports:

Name/Job Title: James Fildes –Bid Manager
Gamer Tag:JJFildes1#9277545
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: Call of Duty 4 MW
Favourite Gaming Memory: Winning in the gulag
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Socialise with the work team away from the day to day projects and raise money for a very worthy cause.

Cegal

Name/Job Title: Adam Pospichal / Senior Systems Engineer
Gamer Tag:  iMbu#8988479
First console: Sega Megadrive
Favourite Game: Counter Strike: Counter Strike 1.5
Favourite Gaming Memory: Lan parties as a teenager where sleep/gaming ratio was 1/10
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Cannot fault playing FPS with friends for a good cause

Name/Job Title: Petr Vodvarka / Senior Systems Engineer
Gamer Tag: primiq#9984677
First console: Nintendo NES
Favourite Game: Counter-Strike
Favourite Gaming Memory: Got 5^th place in the Czech Counter-Strike Championship in the early 2000s 😊
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Hoping to support a local charity which has provided great services to few of my friends.

Name/Job Title: Scott Flippence/senior systems engineer
Gamer Tag: dustybin#4294967295
First console: Sega Megadrive
Favourite Game: Super Mario Odyssey
Favourite Gaming Memory: All 120 stars in Mario64
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Esports: to redeem myself and Cegal for the shocking performance at the 5s tournament and to raise money for our chosen charity while doing something I really enjoy!

Name/Job Title: Paddy Cairns/ Account Executive
Gamer Tag: Paddy#6911170
First console: PS4
Favourite Game: Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Favourite Gaming Memory:  Reaching 10 Prestige on MW2
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports:  To Have a Great time and raise money for a good cause!

Lindsays

Name/Job Title: Mark Ayton / Paralegal
Gamer Tag: markayton/Markayton87
First console: Sega Master System
Favourite Game: Cod MW2
Favourite Gaming Memory: 4 nukes in one day on MW2
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: An opportunity to support our chosen charity, Age UK

Name/Job Title: Ruairidh Wynne-McHardy, Senior Engineer
Gamer Tag: ruairidhwm
First console: Playstation One
Favourite Game: Half Life
Favourite Gaming Memory: Playing games with my brothers when I was younger, it was a great activity to have in common
Reason for getting involved in Busines Esports: Wanting to help out with some charity work!

Name/Job Title: Ruaridh Cornwell
Gamer Tag:  Ruaridhscott
First console: Atari 2600
Favourite Game: Pong
Favourite Gaming Memory: Completing Frogger
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Opportunity to shoot large guns in a consequence-free environment

Name/Job Title: Connor Taylor, IT Security Consultant
Gamer Tag: ConzoTee#7481633
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: COD4
Favourite Gaming Memory: Winning 4 in a row duos with my 9 year old nephew in Fortnite!
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: n opportunity to win hopefully win some money for charity!

GoalBall Uk

Name/Job Title: Stephen Newey/Children and Young People Officer.
Gamer Tag: IX_BiiG_Steve
First console: PlayStation 2
Favourite Game: Crash Bandicoot
Favourite Gaming Memory: Playing various games on stage at Insomnia Gaming Festival with some famous YouTubers
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Opportunity to represent Goalball UK in a completely different way

Name/Job Title: Niall Geddes/ Operations.
Gamer Tag: Niall-GB6
First console: Playstation One
Favourite Game: Black
Favourite Gaming Memory: Jamming FIFA at the Paralympics in 2012 with teammates
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: I want to show that visually impaired people can game as well

Name/Job Title: Daniel Beddis/ Roofer
Gamer Tag: DjTroller XD
First console: Original Xbox
Favourite Game: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Favourite Gaming Memory: Getting to play with syndicate
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: To game with new people, have fun and represent Goalball UK

Name/Job Title: Dan Willoughby/ Marketing Assistant
Gamer Tag: LiiMiiTZ-HaLO
First console: PS2
Favourite Game: Modern Warfare 3
Favourite Gaming Memory: Playing CoD tournaments in Ghosts
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: An opportunity to have fun and represent Goalball UK in a new way

HighNet

Name/Job Title: Dean Coghill (Service Desk Analyst)
Gamer Tag: DeanCoghill#8982785
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: Halo 3
Favourite Gaming Memory: Getting Top 100 Ranked in the UK for Halo 5 FFA
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Very much enjoy the competitive aspect of gaming and the meeting of new people from it

Name/Job Title: Abe Bouliche, (Service Desk Analyst)
Gamer Tag: xSpiiraLv#1826994
First console: NES or PS1
Favourite Game: Got to be MW2
Favourite Gaming Memory: Having trials to join Optic (back in the day) or when I played FIFA against KSI
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: ALWAYS keen for playing COD, especially competitive.

Name/Job Title: Cody Leiper (Support Technician)
Gamer Tag: LeepaH#4191511
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: COD5 (World at War)
Favourite Gaming Memory: Competing in the Spanish pro league on Black Ops 2
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Played competitive COD since 2011 and enjoy competing

Name/Job Title: Craig Justice (Installation Engineer)
Gamer Tag: just1ce#21745 / just_1ce
First console: Atari
Favourite Game: Dying Light
Favourite Gaming Memory: Being ranked 3rd worldwide in Free for all in COD after a week
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Gets me out of baby duty for a few nights

BQI Insurance

Name/Job Title: Mark Hampton/Corporate Account Executive
Gamer Tag: LostGod#21328
First console: Amstrad CPC 464
Favourite Game: Sensible Soccer
Favourite Gaming Memory: Being in the top 10 for a year in Soldier of Fortune 2
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Started playing FPS again during lockdown

Name/Job Title: Rory Quinn/Renewals Manager
Gamer Tag:  Quincy1984#5915636
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: Pro Evo 5
Favourite Gaming Memory: Guiding St Johnstone to Champions League glory in a (very) old version of Championship Manager
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Lockdown

Name/Job Title: Kieran Starmer/Account Executive
Gamer Tag: KStaems98#2302028
First console:PS1
Favourite Game: Tekken 1
Favourite Gaming Memory: Last Night
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Lockdown

Name/Job Title: Simon Henry/New Business Sales Manager
Gamer Tag: Friendly#6454882
First console: Nintendo
Favourite Game: Goldeneye (N64)
Favourite Gaming Memory: #99 in the world on Kino Zombies out of 7.5m
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: For a bit of fun

KubeNet

Name/Job Title: Nathan Fagan – Service Desk Engineer
Gamer Tag: Eycd44#3412178
First console: PS3
Favourite Game: Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Favourite Gaming Memory: Reaching The Global Elite at a ripe age of 17
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Easy win

Name/Job Title: Ross Ferguson
Gamer Tag: Flair#5465398
First console: PS2
Favourite Game: Fifa07
Favourite Gaming Memory: Being told by my other half that I was allowed to practice COD for this tournament after being banned due to overplaying it at the start of lockdown
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Internal bragging rights

Name/Job Title: David Gray
Gamer Tag: GravieDay#3698549
First console: Sega Megadrive
Favourite Game: Red Faction
Favourite Gaming Memory: MW2 T-bagging & camping
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Bring some gaming experience to the team

Name/Job Title: Cameron Sharp (Kami)
Gamer Tag: Cambo#4543715
First console: PS4 Slim
Favourite Game: Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare
Favourite Gaming Memory: Unlocking all characters on Lego Marvel’s Avengers
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Team Banter

SliverChip

Name/Job Title: Liam Bateman / CTO
Gamer Tag: LazyReload#4913447
First console: NES
Favourite Game: Pokemon
Favourite Gaming Memory: Running around WoW in the early days
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Why Not?!

Name/Job Title: Jake Julich / Tech Lead
Gamer Tag: NoSkillieGhillie#5074658
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic
Favourite Gaming Memory: Installing RCT on any computer I came across, even at school, just to play it more.
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Fame and Fortune, of course!

Name/Job Title: Sam Ryan/Developer
Gamer Tag: Rhyndra#8398824
First console: N64
Favourite Game: Halo 3
Favourite Gaming Memory: Stepping into Virtual Reality
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Sweaty at Games, Looking for that Hype

Name/Job Title: Seb Smith / Developer
Gamer Tag: Sewb#6010317
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: The Witcher Wild Hunt 3
Favourite Gaming Memory: Completing the Witcher
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: To beat everyone

Rockstar North

Name/Job Title: Bradley Boorer/QA Tester
Gamer Tag: sdboorer#9883899
First console: Playstation 1
Favourite Game: Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Favourite Gaming Memory: 1v5 clutch on Search and Destroy Victory in a Call of Duty: Black Ops Tournament against the best team in the middle east.
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports:Great way of combining my passion for the genre with a charitable cause.

Name/Job Title: Tom Read/QA Tester
Gamer Tag: RobVanTam#2710459
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: Call of duty: Modern Warfare 2
Favourite Gaming Memory: Playing Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour with my brother on the PS1 a long time ag
Reason for getting involved in Busines Esports: Always enjoy gaming with a competitive edge

Name/Job Title: Mugisha Monga/Technical Content Artist
Gamer Tag: DarkHiddenLotus#4040196
First console: Game Cube
Favourite Game: Borderlands 2
Favourite Gaming Memory: After school MW2
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Thought it would be fun

Name/Job Title: Matt Twigg/QA Tester
Gamer Tag: SirShankie#7810896
First console: Gameboy Colour
Favourite Game: Halo 3
Favourite Gaming Memory: Playing first person shooter custom and ranked games with a group of friends as a young lad.
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Business Esports sounds like a great way to have a bit of fun while generating some money for a good cause and I wanted to take my chance to get involved.

AutoRek

Name/Job Title: Callum Macinnes – Digital Marketing Executive
Gamer Tag: CallumMacinnes#5080546
First console: PlayStation 1
Favourite Game: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (PS2)
Favourite Gaming Memory: Playing my Gameboy in the back of my parents car at night and having to wait for the streetlights so I could see the screen.
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: It’s a chance to have a bit of competition and raise so funds for charity during tough times.

Name/Job Title: Josh Madden, Technical Consultant
Gamer Tag: Nameless#1686558
First console: Gameboy Colour
Favourite Game: Cod – Modern Warfare 2
Favourite Gaming Memory:  Spray paint rooftop incident in Warzone…
Reason for getting involved in Busines Esports: A bit of competition in place of the usual Biz 5s while raising funds for charity.

Name/Job Title: Sean McCluskey, Customer Success Manager
Gamer Tag:  Seanmccluskey23#4294967295
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: Pokemon Yellow on gameboy
Favourite Gaming Memory: Playing Halo multiplayer for the first time with my friends growing up
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Not being able to play in the business fives

Name/Job Title: Graeme Clark, Senior Technical Consultant
Gamer Tag: Clarky#5775408
First console: Sega Mega Drive
Favourite Game: Metal Gear Solid 2
Favourite Gaming Memory: The first time I played my cousin’s Playstation 1
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Keeping up our usual participation in Business Fives and getting some friendly competition.

Angus Soft Fruits

Name/Job Title: David Hawkins – Warehouse Manager
Gamer Tag: daveisback1983#6205806
First console: Sega Mega Drive
Favourite Game: Final Fantasy 7 & World of Warcraft
Favourite Gaming Memory: Being top DPS whilst raiding with the number one raiding guild on our server in World of Warcraft.
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Charity is always a great reason to do anything, the fact we get to play COD is a bonus!

Name/Job Title: Steve Tinsley, Operations Manager
Gamer Tag: jordanjay49#7017766
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: Tiger Woods Golf
Favourite Gaming Memory:
Reason for getting involved in Busines Esports: Anything for Charity

Name/Job Title: Marius Dracea – Warehouse Supervisor
Gamer Tag:  M4ryo#9618260
First console: Sega
Favourite Game: Counter Strike
Favourite Gaming Memory: Mario
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: All for Charity and to show my skills

Name/Job Title: Kyle Lovegrove – Production Supervisor
Gamer Tag: Kyle26#5900525
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: COD World at War
Favourite Gaming Memory:
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Down for anything involving Charity

Lokring

Name/Job Title: Hugh Wilcox, Sales Engineer
Gamer Tag: SweatyBoaby#1232404
First console: GameBoy
Favourite Game: Halo
Favourite Gaming Memory: That one time I won a game
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: To follow my deep and intense passion for both business and e-sports and to represent my company at the highest level.

Name/Job Title: Amir Abadi
Gamer Tag: MoustacheMike420#8843745
First console: PS1
Favourite Game: Resistance: Fall of Man
Favourite Gaming Memory: ‘Completing’ Crash Team Racing
Reason for getting involved in Busines Esports: Networking and pWninG n00bS

Name/Job Title: Ross Morgan Smith, Technical Engineer
Gamer Tag:  rms0141
First console: Nintendo DS
Favourite Game: Halo 3
Favourite Gaming Memory: Getting a golden Henry in Fifa Ultimate team pack
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Networking

Name/Job Title: Ross Matthew – Technical Sales Engineer
Gamer Tag: xRM-9447933
First console: PlayStation one
Favourite Game: Crash Bandicoot
Favourite Gaming Memory: First Warzone win
Reason for getting involved in Business Esports: Passion and networking