KHRattlehead

Carlos V., a.k.a. Rattlehead, is a fully blind streamer and musician from Texas. He is the unofficial team leader of the Sento Showdown, acting as the face of the team and the one to do outreach with sponsorships and co-hosting the Sento Showdown events on his Twitch channel. He was introduced to gaming via the 90s arcade scene, quickly falling in love with the Mortal Kombat franchise. He moved on to compete at Evo 2013 in the Mortal Kombat (2011) tournament, and many blind gamers cited him as part of the reason they got into gaming themselves. He has appeared in articles from websites like The Verge and represented blind gaming in a PBS documentary. His favorite games include Mortal Kombat (2011) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and both The Last of Us and God of War series. His favorite fighting game characters include Mortal Kombat’s Scorpion and Cyrax. When Carlos isn’t streaming, gaming, or spending time with family,  he practices, records, and performs music with his metal band, Distartica, fitting in as the drums and vocals. They released their debut album In Flames We Rise in 2017, with a second album set to release in 2023.

Captain Earshot

Carlos M., a.k.a. Captain Earshot, is a fully blind university employee from California, and is also the three-time reigning Sento Showdown champion. When it comes to being a tournament organizer for the Sento Showdown, he is even more of a champion. Carlos wears many hats, splitting himself up to assist the other team members with their own work, from editing scripts, providing audio description lines for trailers, creating and filing forms, communicating with players and sponsors, providing feedback on others’ work, seeding tournament brackets, and essentially all of the small tasks and details that allow the tournament, and team, to function as well as they do. His teammates would agree that, with no Captain Earshot, there’d be no Sento Showdown. He discovered video games through his siblings, as it was a way for them to bond while growing up. He found his success in competition because of his devout study of his own gameplay, rewatching and learning to better understand his opponents’ play as well as his own. Carlos’s favorite games include Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 6 and multiple titles from the Mortal Kombat and Pokémon franchises. His favorite fighting game characters include Mortal Kombat’s Mileena and Jade. When Carlos isn’t winning Blind FGC events, you can find him practicing on the keyboard and exploring his interest in audio engineering. 

BlindSightBlue

Gable M., a.k.a. BlindsightBlue, is a fully-blind graduate student from the Midwest, studying to be a Creative Writing professor at the college level. As a member of the Sento Showdown Team, he drafts and creates the scripts for all trailers and public announcements, as well as managing social media pages, moderating the Blind Gamers Hub Discord server, and organizing contact with the Sento Showdown Volunteers. He’s been a fan of all things geek culture for his entire life, such as superheroes and video games, and spent a lot of his free time playing games of all genres when he was able to see in his early teen years. After his vision deteriorated  to near-total blindness, he turned to fighting games as his main source of gaming, but is now thrilled to witness the advances in gaming accessibility that allow him to play titles that he’d otherwise miss out on. To do his part in making games more accessible to the blind gaming community, he has created several transcription guides for games that otherwise don’t have in-depth menu narrators/screenreaders, including Mortal Kombat X and Mortal Kombat 11.  Some of his favorite games, pre and post blindness, include Mortal Kombat X, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Ultimate Spider-Man, The Last of Us Part I, and Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. His favorite fighting game characters include Mortal Kombat’s Takeda and Kitana, Injustice’s The Flash and Supergirl, and Street Fighter’s Chun Li. He enjoys spending his time playing games with his friends, watching horror movies, being creative with writing and video editing, and relaxing with his wife, Lilly, guide dog, Bowman, and two cats, Nelson and Murdock. 

Your Sins

Dexter R., a.k.a. Your Sins, is a legally blind gamer and occasional streamer from the West Coast. His work on the Sento Showdown includes providing voiceover lines for all Sento Showdown trailers, editing archived stream footage for YouTube, co-hosting and commentating for the Kahn of the Hill Series, and creating audio tracks, stream visuals, transitions, sounds, and other graphics for promotional materials.  Growing up before home consoles were commonplace, he experienced gaming via his friends on their computers, and was hooked when he was able to game in his own home. His favorite game of all time, predating his vision loss, is SOCOM II: U.S. Navy Seals, and has since included the Mortal Kombat franchise as well. His favorite fighting game characters are Mortal Kombat’s Mileena and D’Vorah. Dexter’s hobbies include creating, mixing, and experimenting with music and audio, playing single and multiplayer games, skateboarding, and being a proud father, grandfather, and cat dad. 

BarrenSun

Alex V., a.k.a. BarrenSun, is a fully-blind gamer that lives in California. He assists with various Sento Showdown duties, ranging from research, scheduling Kahn of the Hill participants, moderating the Blind Gamers Community Hub Discord Server, testing our forms and documents for accessibility,and providing commentary for various Sento Showdown events. Growing up visually impaired, he experienced most games vicariously through his brother, making it so that he was an avid gamer, even if he necessarily wasn’t the one pressing the buttons. He is an experienced fighting game player, often being the one on the team to be the first to try something new, while the others are primarily players of NetherRealm Studios titles. In a similar fashion, Alex has become a resource to the blind gaming community as a whole, always willing to try a new game with limited accessibility options and helping others get started or navigate issues they encounter. His favorite games include Killer Instinct (2013) Mortal Kombat (2011), Mortal Kombat: Deception,and The King of Fighters XV. His favorite characters from various fighting games include Mortal Kombat’s Tanya, Johnny Cage, and Spawn, Killer Instinct’s Chief Thunder, Granblue Fantasy’s Vira, and Street Fighter’s Poison. When he isn’t playing the latest fighting game or accessible title, you can find Alex spending time with his family’s dog, Jade, or listening to all kinds of audiobooks, audio dramas, and audio described films and television.