Nationality American Other name MonteCristo | Other names MonteCristo | |
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Born October 19, 1986 (age 30) ( 1986-10-19 ) Occupation Commentator, eSports team owner and coach Notable work League of Legends Champions Korea English commentary, League of Legends Championship Series Nominations The Game Award for Trending Gamer Profiles | ||
Christopher Kjell Mykles (born October 19, 1986), better known by his nickname MonteCristo, is an American League of Legends color sports commentator, player and team owner. He currently an English-language commentator for OnGameNet. He has had one of the longest careers of professional game commentator and caster and has casted several major international tournaments. In 2013 and 2014 he was the coach for Counter Logic Gaming.
Career
Monte is from Fort Collins, Colorado and graduated from Poudre High School in 2005. attended Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland for a year before returning to the United States to continue his studies. He studied Literature. While working at a law firm in New York City, Monte began playing League of Legends in its beta phase and subsequently founded ggChronicle to provide a journalism outlet devoted to League eSports.
Monte was previously involved with eSports as a volunteer writer for WCReplays, a Warcraft 3 replays site. He began shoutcasting for WCReplays with Phreak and attests that casting came naturally due to his many years of stage performance. During his involvement with Warcraft 3 he managed a professional team with Verge Gaming and joined the Team Sportscast Network, a now defunct eSports shoutcasting organization.
Subsequently he accepted a full-time contract casting position at OnGameNet. On July 24, 2013 he became a coach for Counter Logic Gaming, as but still continued to cast for OnGameNet.
On September 5, 2014 MonteCristo left his coaching position at CLG. On June 22, 2015 MonteCristo became a co-owner of LA Renegades
On May 8, 2016 Riot Games announced that Team Impulse and Renegades were banned from the LCS. Additionally MonteCristo would be banned for all Riot sponsored activities as a team owner or manager for a year, although he could continue casting for those events. The punishment, the most severe in LCS history, stemmed from charges of not properly disclosing team ownership, misleading player trades, and player mistreatment. Renegades later sold their LoL team to Team EnVyUs.
MonteCristo, Erik "DoA" Lonnquist and Christopher "PapaSmithy" Smith declined to commentate at the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational in Shanghai because of a wage dispute with Riot.
Mykkles is represented by talent agency WME-IMG.
On July 29, 2016 MonteCristo uploaded an hour-long video responding to the Riot ban, and also released a number of documents including player contracts, for public viewing.
In August 2016, he sold Renegades to NBA player Jonas Jerebko.
MonteCristo was not invited to cast the 2016 League of Legends World Championship. Additionally, DoA declined Riot's invitation, citing other projects.