

After his lease was up in Arizona, Ahgren packed up and moved in a rented Toyota Camry for a job interview with Wine & Spirit magazine. Īfter graduating, Ahgren applied for jobs in New York and Los Angeles. He graduated cum laude from Arizona State University with a dual degree in English Literature & Journalism and Mass Communication in 2017. Having taken an interest in the game after watching The Smash Brothers and attending a tournament in New Hampshire, he went to local tournaments in Arizona and enjoyed participating in the esport and becoming involved in its community. Īhgren moved to Arizona for college, where he joined the comedy club "Tempe Late Night", and also discovered competitive Super Smash Bros. In this time, he discovered Call of Duty commentary channels like Hutch, SeaNanners and WoodysGamerTag, which had inspired him to make the YouTube channel "TheZanySidekick", his first foray into content creation. In 2012, he participated in his high school's production of Legally Blonde, starring as Warner. He attended Hollis/Brookline High School in New Hampshire, graduating in 2013. Īhgren grew up in a French American bilingual household in Hollis, New Hampshire alongside his mother and sister, his father having passed away when he was 10. During his 51-day reign, while holding a widely publicized "subathon" event, Ahgren became the most subscribed Twitch streamer of all time on April 13, eventually reaching 283,066 subscribers at its peak, beating fellow Twitch streamer Ninja for the record. įrom March 22, 2021, to May 12, 2021, Ahgren was the most subscribed streamer on Twitch. Since beginning streaming full-time on February 16, 2019, Ahgren has become one of the largest streamers on Twitch. He is also known for his work as an esports commentator at various Super Smash Bros. Ahgren is best known for his live streams on Twitch, where he formerly broadcast video game-related content as well as non-video game-related content such as game shows, contests, and gambling. This record stood for over 2200 days, making it the longest lasting Mario Kart Wii world record.Ludwig Ahgren ( / ˈ l ʌ d w ɪ ɡ ˈ ɑː ɡ r ən/ born July 6, 1995) is an American streamer on YouTube, game show host, podcaster, and esports commentator and competitor.

In 2017, while visiting Bean, Tom watched him beat his legendary 32.818 on Wario's Gold Mine glitch record from 2011. Tom is also friends with MrBean35000vr - one of the creators of CTGP Revolution and one of the earliest and most well-known modders of Mario Kart Wii. He resumed playing Mario Kart Wii actively after a while in around 2016, and has since appeared in multiple collaborations with Troy and NMeade.
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During this period of inactivity, he largely streamed speedruns of Crash Bandicoot 2 for the PlayStation 2 and various other PC games on his Twitch channel. In 2014, after the Nintendo WFC shutdown, Tom has been more inactive on his channel and on Mario Kart Wii, having uploaded only thirteen videos since the shutdown, most of which are videos of his records. He has also appeared in many collaborative videos with Troy. Occasionally, Tom uploads his own creative videos, which have made his channel grow in popularity.
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Since then, he has uploaded many videos of his and his friends' time trial records, which at times have been world records or have placed in regional or worldwide top tens. His first video was a recording of his second Coconut Mall world record which was a 2:01.604 set on April 25th, 2008. Tom created his YouTube channel on January 28th, 2008 and initially uploaded videos of himself playing Super Mario Galaxy. From early to mid-2011, Tom held five standing world records, the most he has held simultaneously. In terms of world record duration, Tom has achieved the longest world record reign on DS Delfino Sqaure having set fifteen records and GBA Shy Guy Beach with just five records. Some of his most notable records include his 1:21.764 on Mario Circuit that was infamously tied, his 1000+ day record of 1:21.924 on GBA Shy Guy Beach, and his 2:04.253 on N64 Sherbet Land. Tom has been a notable practitioner in the non-shortcut categories, and also on tracks in which the world record uses the Spear. Coincidentally, both players have achieved at least one new world record each year since the game was released except 2016. Since then, he has set a total of sixty-two world records on nine unique tracks, making him second to Cole Gilbert for the most world records achieved in MKW. Tom's first world record was a 2:02.532 on Coconut Mall set on April, 18th, 2008, less than a week since the game was first released. Tom has set more than sixty world records in Mario Kart Wii. Tom Norton, also known as Sword or Sword0fSeals, is a popular Mario Kart Wii YouTuber and player from the United Kingdom. You can help Troy's mario kart Wiki by expanding it.
