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Player | ChocoTaco |
Real Name | Jake Throop |
Country | United State |
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Game | PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds |
Age | 28 |
Birthday | September 22, 1988 |
Alternate Ids | NA |
Chocotaco uses the LOGITECH G703 gaming mouse which is ergonomically designed in a way to give long lasting comfort to your hand during gameplay he keeps polling arte of 1000Hz at 800 mouse DPI keeping general sensitivity of 25.
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Logitech Pro X Mechanical Keyboard is used by chocoTaco. This keyboard is tailored to ESports competitors’ rigorous standards for a competition-level blend of speed, precision, and quiet performance.
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Chocotaco uses the ACER PREDATOR XB2415H gaming monitor, with 1920X1080 resolutions at 80 brightness he keeps textures very high whereas effects, foliage, view distance at very low.
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ChocoTaco’s real name is Jake Throop. ChocoTaco is an American pro player who is currently part of Team SoloMid. Chocotaco is known for his incredible performances and high action gaming style on PUBG. Although he has also streamed other games, such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Apex Legends, Dota 2 and Diablo, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare remains his primary game. His Youtube channel has over 200,000 subscribers and more than 400,000 people follow his Twitch channel. His pseudonym refers to an ice-cream pastry. It is made from a waffle looking taco filled with vanilla ice cream, milk chocolate and peanuts.
ChocoTaco spent his childhood playing video games, including Sega Genesis and Nintendo 64 games. He played competitively with friends throughout high school and wanted to pursue a career in gaming at some point. In late 2017, ChocoTaco announced that he was leaving his position as an educator with a company that uses LEGOs to teach kids about engineering. He intended to make streaming a career, rather than using it as a hobby in his spare time.
So far, we have come to know a lot about ChocoTaco’s gaming process, now let us see some more information about his life.
FAMILY
He has a good relationship with his parents and has a girlfriend and three cats.
ORIGIN OF NAME
Due to ‘legal reasons’ he cannot reveal the origin of his user handle but he does not completely denies about the fact that it is related to the ice-cream.
PROFESSIONAL GAMING
Chocotaco stated that he started playing video games competitively when he was in 8th grade and started playing Counter-Strike. He always wanted to become a streamer but felt too difficult for him to succeed. After releasing of PUBG he stopped playing Dota 2. He was on first place on the leaderboard for few seasons. He signed on with TSM in March 2018 as a part of their Stream Team.
Income-
His base monthly income is around $41,800 USD per month according to Twitch overlay. His income increased from other sources like team salary, tiered subscribers, ads, sponsors, donations etc. From his top 20 donations he has received over $91,365 USD.
Streaming Hours-
He streams from Monday to Friday at 6:00 to 13:00 UTC and 14:00 to 19:00 UTC. On Saturdays the timings are 11:00 to 19:00 UTC.