Fortnite stars Mongraal, Bugha top Twitter\u2019s 2021 esports player list Sentinels \/ FaZe ClanFortnite pros Kyle \u2018Mongraal\u2019 Jackson and Kyle \u2018Bugha\u2019 Giersdorf topped Twitter\u2019s 2021 list for most talked about esports players among gaming royalty like Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner and Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev. Gaming had a huge year on Twitter with esports figures getting a lot of chatter throughout 2021. Twitter\u2019s Global Head of Gaming Content Partnerships, Rishi Chadha, revealed which esports names were brought up more throughout last year. The list spans pros from titles from popular titles like League of Legends to CSGO to rising competitive scenes such as Valorant and Free Fire. Only one name from Call of Duty esports made the cut so take a look below at the complete list to see where who commanded the most attention. Fortnite\u2019s Mongraal, Bugha top Twitter esports list Over 2.4 billion tweets on gaming went out in 2021. Of those, FaZe Clan\u2019s Mongraal was the most talked about esports player in the world. He\u2019s followed by 2019 Fortnite World Cup winner and fellow Fortnite pro, Bugha. In fact, pros in Epic Games\u2019 battle royale took the top three spots since Benjy \u2018Benjyfishy\u2019 David Fish came in at third. Twitter\u2019s most talked about esports players in 2021: Mongraal – Bugha – Benjyfishy – Scump – Rekkles – Nobru – FalleN – Mixwell – TenZ – s1mple – Then we see the one and only CoD name on the list as Scump placed in the top-5 along with League of Legends pro Martin \u2018Rekkles\u2019 Larsson. Read more: Twitter\u2019s most-discussed esports in 2021 – The rest of the list is made up of tactical FPS players from different scenes which includes Bruno \u2018Nobru\u2019 Goes, Gabriel \u2018FalleN\u2019 Toledo, and Oscar \u2018mixwell\u2019 Ca\u00f1ellas Colocho. Rounding out the list are some of the most popular players in their respective scenes, Sentinels\u2019 Tyson \u2018TenZ\u2019 Ngo and NAVI\u2019s Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev. Read more: Twitter\u2019s most-discussed game in 2021 – Twitter\u2019s list is only an indicator of who was talked about the most on its platforms and the competition could get even stiffer in 2022\u2019s packed esports calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite stars Mongraal, Bugha top Twitter\u2019s 2021 esports player list Sentinels \/ FaZe ClanFortnite pros Kyle \u2018Mongraal\u2019 Jackson and Kyle \u2018Bugha\u2019 Giersdorf topped Twitter\u2019s 2021 list for most talked about esports players among gaming royalty like Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner and Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev. Gaming had a huge year on Twitter with esports figures getting a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}