Blind video game champion takes on Twitch audience


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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