Queen Arrow
Sylvia "QueenArrow" Gathoni (23 years old) is a Tekken player and content creator from Nairobi, Kenya.
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Queen Arrow began her competitive journey in 2017 when she placed 4th in the Mortal Kombat XL tournament held at the East African Gaming Convention. In 2018, she began her competitive Tekken journey and started competing in the Tekken 254 Circuits. In May of that year, she joined US-based team, XiT Woundz (now known as XiT Gaming), making her the first Kenyan and the first woman from East Africa to be signed by a professional esports team. In 2019, she won her first local tournament of the Blaze Esports Tour held in Nyeri County. In 2020, she made her first Top 8 placing in the fourth season of the Tekken 254 Circuit.
In 2021, QueenArrow was signed to UYU, another US- based team and represented Kenya at Red Bull Hit the Streets in Johannesburg, South Africa and Occitanie Esports Exhibition in Montpellier, France.
QueenArrow serves on the Athletes, Players and Communities Commission on the Global Esports Federation (G.E.F) and ensures that Africa's interests are represented on the Federation.
Represented
UYU: (2021- Present)
Photo Credits: Redbull Kenya/99th Sense
Brutal Democracy: (Jan 2020 - Aug 2020)
Photo Credits: Redbull Kenya/99th Sense
XiT Gaming: (May 2018 - Dec 2019)
Photo Credits: Redbull Kenya/99th Sense.
Panelist on esports at the Goethe Institute Jenga CCI - Global Project Culture and Creative Industries (2019).
Panelist at the Africa Comicade Gamathon (2020).
Worked with Safaricom on the Safaricom Mobiplay Challenge (2020).
Charity exhibition stream called Queen of the Hill for the BCRF with UYU and the Divine Muses (2020).
Panelist on the Melanin Gamers POC Panel (2020).
Charity stream with RED to raise funds for COVID relief (2021).
Inaugural recipient of the Twitch Student 1000 Dreams Fund (2021).
Contributed to the University of Michigan: Esports Leveling Up Teach Out Program and Course (2021)
Nominee for Rising Stars Streamer Category of thegamehers (2021).
Panelist on Road To Gamr X (2021).
Panelist at the Africa Comicade Gamathon (2021)
Notable Features
Malala Fund On Assembly Newsletter
Kenya’s gamer-slash-lawyer
Red Bull
Meet the Kenyan law student
QueenArrow is coming to South Africa
Red Bull Hit the Streets 2021
Quartz Africa
Putting Kenya on the global esports map
Citizen TV
Pro gamers earning money from video games
The Standard Kenya
Gamers setting pace in a brave new world
Arcade Press
In Conversation: Kenya's Queen Arrow
East Coast Radio
Sylvia Gathoni is a law student by day
Africa Uncensored
Paid to Play: The Rise of Professional
Safaricom Newsroom
Game On: The Steady Rise of Gaming
Social Gaming and Coconuts
Kenya’s first female pro esports player
Game One France
Les compétitions de Tekken
The Asahi Shimbun
Becoming famous, female professional gamer
The Star Kenya
Woman becomes first Kenyan pro-gamer
TMT Post
SHE IS THE "ESPORTS QUEEN"
Wikipedia
Queen Arrow
Radull Live
Radull Live With Kenya's First Female Pro Gamer
The Mob Story Offensive
Top Inspiring Esports Stories of 2019
Cheddar Esports
Sylvia Gathoni Is the First Kenyan
The gameHers #TGHSpotlight
Spotlight feature
Core Esports
Interview with kenya's esports queen
Johana Riquier
he Overlooked Audience | Sylvia Gathoni
