Current team Team SoloMid 2014 Team Value Role Gamer Nationality American | Name Jeffrey Shih Nickname(s) TrumpTrumpSC 2014–present Team SoloMid Height 1.65 m | |
Games Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Profiles | ||
Jeffrey Shih (Chinese: 石謙和; pinyin: shí qiān hé; Wade–Giles: shih2 ch'ien he2) born June 28, 1987, also known by his username Trump or TrumpSC, is an American professional video game player who streams Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and previously Starcraft II. He currently plays for Tempo Storm. Prior to joining TSM, Shih grew his channel into one of the most popular Hearthstone streams on the game streaming website Twitch. He is one of the top Hearthstone competitors in North America. He formerly played Starcraft II for gaming groups Team Legion and Vega Squadron.
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Career
Shih graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in management and finance in 2009. Around that time he began working at a bank and streaming himself playing Starcraft II in his free time, averaging a few thousand concurrent viewers a stream. Shih chose the nickname Trump in part due to his admiration of Donald Trump's persona on the reality television show The Apprentice. Eventually Trump decided to quit his job and began streaming full-time, making a living from Twitch's partnership program by earning revenue from advertisements and subscriptions. He later began playing and streaming Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft starting in the game's beta phase. Trump has been described as "the world's most famous Hearthstone player", attracting over 20,000 concurrent viewers on his stream. Shih streams for seven hours per day. On October 13, 2013 he was signed by Team Razer as the world's first professional Hearthstone player.
In the Blizzard 2013 Stream Awards, Shih won the "Most Educational Stream" category with 43% of the vote, and came second in the "Favorite Hearthstone Stream" category. Shih's Hearthstone decks are often used as examples for new players. Blizzard Entertainment, creators of Hearthstone, cited streamers like Trump as reasons they were happy to continue with the game's monetization model after he reached the game's highest ranks without spending any money. In July 2014 Trump joined Team SoloMid.
He left Team SoloMid in March of 2017 and signed to Tempo Storm as a player and content creator for the team.
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Personal life
Shih was born on June 28, 1987 in South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. He is an only child. He attended New York University's Stern School of Business from 2005 to 2009. Trump lived in the San Francisco Bay Area until June 2016, when he moved to Austin, Texas.