Loltyler1

Tyler Steinkamp, better known as loltyler1 or simply tyler1, is an American League of Legends Twitch streamer with over two million followers.

Tyler is known in the League of Legends community for his semi-professional gameplay as an in solo queue, Draven being the champion which he is mostly recognized for. He is also known for his toxic behavior, which includes verbal abuse, intentional feeding, and player harassment.

In January 2018, Tyler1 broke a new Twitch record at that time by hitting 386,000 views on stream, breaking the previous 245,000 record set by Sang-hyeok "Faker" Lee. It was his first League of Legends stream, after being previously banned from the game for unsportsmanlike behavior. However, a month later, this record was broke by DrDisrespect.

He was voted as the runner-up under the category "Streamer of the Year" at the Esports Awards 2018.

Personal life
Tyler Steinkamp was born on March 7, 1995, in Missouri, United States. He was a Computer Science student at the Central Methodist University, but withdrew in order to focus on his streaming career. He currently lives with his girlfriend, Macaiyla, who is also a Twitch streamer.

Streaming career
Tyler created his Twitch account in 2013, but his channel gained popularity in 2016. He became known in the League of Legends community for his toxic behavior, including verbal abuse, insulting and threatening players, and intentionally losing the game for his team.

Permanent ban
On April 30, 2016, Riot Games announced tyler1's permanent ban from League of Legends for unsportsmanlike behavior and his long history with banned accounts, claiming that every account used by Tyler would be banned upon identification.

In October 2017, Riot Games employee Aaron "Sanjuro" Rutledge posted on the "r/leagueoflegends" Discord server about Tyler1, stating that he looks like a "damn humunculous" and that it would be fine because he would die "from a coke overdose or testicular cancer from all the steroids". These Discord statements were posted by an user on the League of Legends reddit. A few days after the incident, Sanjuro was fired from Riot Games with no official statements on why, implying that he was fired because of this.

Variety streams
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Unban and return
On January 4, 2018, Tyler made a tweet claiming that he was officially unbanned from League of Legends and stated that he would start streaming again on 8th January. On his first stream since his return, Tyler managed to break a new Twitch record at that time by hitting 386,000 views, breaking the previous 245,000 record set by professional League of Legends player, Sang-hyeok "Faker" Lee.

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