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Hello everyone my name is Tom Poole and I am from Long Island, NY and I am a sophomore here at High Point University. I am currently majoring in Popular Culture and Media Production to one hopefully join the Esports industry. With my hopes to one day find a job in Esports I thought it would be best for me to join our schools Esports team to get my foot in the door. I am the captain for High Point University's Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege team. I am also our schools Apex Legends captain and I’m aspiring to get a managerial position in the club next semester. After school I hope to move to California where Esports are more prevalent. My ambition currently is to one day become the next “Nadeshot”, for those of you who don’t know who he is; Matthew ‘Nadeshot’ Haag was a firmer esports pro who, after retiring, went on to create one of the most successful Esports organizations, 100 Thieves. When I’m not playing video games in the HPU esports arena in the Nido Quebein School of Communication I’m usually watching Movies or binging a show that I’ve already six times. But I think that about wraps up my life currently in a few short sentences.

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