Blind streamer and ‘Street Fighter V’ champion Van de Wege hosts a live on his Twitch channel ‘BlindWarriorSven’ in his apartment in The Hague. — AFP
THE HAGUE: With a joystick in one hand, a Braille device under the other and a mask over his eyes, BlindWarriorSven efficiently disposes of yet another opponent.
“I put this mask on because sometimes people tell me I’m not really blind,” he says with a smile, in reference to the sore losers he has beaten on the video game streaming site Twitch.
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Blind streamer and ‘Street Fighter V’ champion Van de Wege hosts a live on his Twitch channel ‘BlindWarriorSven’ in his apartment in The Hague. — AFP
The 35-year-old Dutchman has beaten some of the world’s best players at tournaments around Europe, and claimed a champion’s title for playing the iconic Street Fighter series. — AFP
Van de Wege hosts a live stream on his Twitch channel ‘BlindWarriorSven’ in his apartment in The Hague. — AFP
Van de Wege navigates his way around Street Fighter V, a game with ‘a very detailed sound design’, using solely its sound effects. — AFP
Van de Wege, who joined Twitch in 2017, challenges subscribers to his channel every Sunday in furious combat. — AFP
Putting together a streaming studio adapted to van de Wege’s needs required specialist equipment as well as a fair amount of creativity from the gaming champion, who works by day as an IT engineer. — AFP
Van de Wege currently holds affiliate status on Twitch, where the size of his payouts is linked to the number of subscribers – he has 3,000 – and the amount they donate. — AFP
There’s no computer screen in front of him, just a wall. — AFP
The Street Fighter obsessive occasionally dips into other games, although he says too many titles lack the accessibility features needed for players with disabilities. — AFP
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