Jacob Curnow is a long time video gaming fan with 30 plus years of gaming experience handling over 45 different gaming platforms. Jacob has been competitively gaming at a local level with friends and family since child hood, and has been competing in online multiplayer through the PC well before it became widely known and available through current generation home consoles.
           S.O.C.O.M. U.S. Navy Seals was released in the United States on August 27th, 2002, and was one of the first mainstream online multiplayer titles for home consoles. Jacob pre-ordered, purchased, and played the online component of S.O.C.O.M. from it's inception, and has been competing in the console online gaming arena since then (for over 15 years). Several years following Jacob's introduction to competitive multiplayer on home-entertainment consoles, he was had a wide range of competitive success securing multiple online World Records, Number 1 Ranks, and other high ranking positions among a plethora of titles spanning a plethora of different consoles.

            Jacob plays, and competes in, just about every genre including: Japanese Role Playing Games (JRPGs), Western Role Playing Games (WRPGs), Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs), Platforming, Racing, Third-Person Shooters, First-Person Shooters, Strategy, Tower Defense, Adventure, Action-Adventure, 2D Fighting, 3D Fighting, Beat em' Up, Action, Suspense, Thriller, Horror, Classic Arcade, Simulation, Rail Shooters, Puzzle, Trivia, Music, Sports, Flying Simulation, Exploration, Fishing, and Stealth-Action titles.

            Although the online gaming environment offers direct access to some of the best players in the world, Jacob has spent thousands of hours studying offline tournament footage, and is constantly up to date on the current E-Sports scene. With that said: Jacob is a never ending student of the game and the evolution of competitive knowledge and skill. Academically speaking, Jacob is equally an excellent student, currently with a 4.0 GPA at the time of this writing.