Sumail Hassan – Pakistani Gamer

Syed Sumail Hassan goes by the in-game name Suma1L, which is his professional handle when playing games like Evil Geniuses or Dota 2. He is a part of the team that won The International 2015 and the Dota 2 Asia Championship in Shanghai.

Hassan was in love with games from a very young age and when he was seven sold his bike for change to play games at an Internet cafe. Just ten years later, he has become a phenomenon in the world of competitive video games. He is definitely one to watch out for in the rapidly growing world of “E-sports”.

He likes to play Dota 2, and experts in the field say he has skills that are similar to Michael Jordan in the game. However, he still values spending time with family and has even spent some of his winnings to buy a house for his parents and siblings.

In 2016, he was recognized as the youngest gamer to have won over $1 million USD in prize money from tournaments by Guinness Book of World Records. Not to mention the fact that TIME magazine named him one of the 30 most influential teens of 2016.

The name Syed is an honorific title that denotes people who are descendants of the prophet Muhammad of Islam. The masculine name Sumail has various meaning and might mean “small grain of wheat,” “water that remains in pools on rocks after it rains,” or “the best man in the tribe”.