Sc0utOP's rise to fame: From a naughty backbencher to India's top Esports player

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Apr, 21.2022

Tanmay Singh, better known to the Indian gaming community and the world as Sc0utOP, is one of India's leading Tier-1 Esports players as well as a very well-established gaming content creator. Tanmay was born on July 30th, 1996 in a middle-class family in Valsad, Gujarat, Tanmay is the son of a businessman and a housewife. 

From quite an early age in his childhood, Sc0ut was notoriously known to his parents as the class backbencher, with only two things he was passionate about: football and gaming. It is because of a fluke that Sc0ut is such an esteemed and renowned personality in the world of Esports today. If things had gone his way, Sc0ut today would have been famous as a famed footballer in India. But life had other plans for him.

Having kept up his passion for football, Sc0ut worked his way up to being a national-level football player and had a chance to represent his nation on the world stage. But while playing in the qualifiers, Sc0ut received an injury that made him adapt to a lifestyle of complete bed rest for the better half of the year. Left with no other option, he started building on his only other passion, gaming. 

Sc0ut could get his hands on the beta version of PUBG Mobile before the game's actual release in India. And from those days on, he started polishing the skills he already had in the newly released game of PUBG Mobile. He was so passionate about PUBG Mobile and gaming in general that he was one of the first individuals to build an Indian clan in-game by the name of RAW. Working his way through his commitment to the game, he opened his own YouTube gaming channel on August 26th, 2018. 

Sc0ut got his first break in the world of competitive gaming when his newly formed team of IND competed in the PUBG Mobile Star Challenge 2018. The team's brilliant performance gave the squad a chance to travel to Thailand where IND managed to acquire the 16th position globally. Unfortunately, even though this team had a lot of potentials, and showed a lot of promise, the squad broke up due to the players' issues. 

2019 was the year in Tanmay's Esports career that changed his life for the better. This year, Sc0ut got over his days of depression and once again formed a revamped Team IND, where he along with his squad mates rose to new heights after having acquired the 2nd position in PUBG Mobile Club Open Spring Split India. The team, all thanks to their incredible performance got a chance to represent the country at PMCO Globals, held in Berlin. 

On September 10th, 2019, Sc0ut, along with some of his closest friends from the Indian Esports community, formed his own Esports team, Team XSpark, consisting of renowned and established PUBG Mobile professionals - Ronak, Owais, Paritosh, and InYourDream). The team showed such promise and dedication to the game that they were acquired by the famed UK-based Esports organization, Fnatic. This big break in his professional career gave Sc0ut and his team the necessary boost of positivity that lead them to be crowned champions of PUBG Mobile All Stars 2019. 

Today, the fame that Sc0ut has, as an established professional Esports player knows no bounds. Other than being the proud owner of a Camaro GT, he recently made his parents proud by gifting them a brand new Audi A6. On the battlefields of BGMI, he is known for his sprays with M416 and SCAR-L, and even at this age, he is going strong as an Esports player.