EpikWhale

Shane Cotton (born: ), better known online as EpikWhale, is an American professional gamer, YouTuber and Twitch Streamer who represents Team SoloMid. Shane has gained recognition for competing in various Fortnite tournaments. He has won six Fortnite Championship Series, and was third place at the Fortnite World Cup. Shane is the 65th highest paid gamer globally and 7th highest American as of December 2022, earning 1.7 million dollars. On YouTube, Shane has over 200,000 subscribers, 445,000 followers on Twitch, and 440,000 followers on Twitter.
On June 3, 2022, Shane became a member of Team SoloMid (TSM). After leaving NRG Gaming the previous day.
==YouTube==
Shane created his YouTube channel on February 13, 2016, but uploaded his first video on January 15, 2019, uploading highlights of his Fortnite gameplay. He started gaining recognition after qualifying for the Fortnite World Cup two times. After placing third in solos competition, Shane received exponential recognition, and was featured in Fortnite's "Stories From The Battle Bus". Shane's channel uploads highlights of a recent competition in Fortnite, and also does Fortnite montages and highlights with music playing over, which are his most popular type of videos. 
==History==
===Fortnite World Cup===
On week 1 in April of 2019, Shane qualified for the Fortnite World Cup solos competition after placing 4th. He would qualify again on week 10 for the duos competition, placing 2nd with 4DRStorm in June of 2019. Shane would then participate at the World Cup finals on July 27 and 28, 2019 respectively. During the duos competition on the 27th, he and 4DRStorm would place 12th, each earning $50,000. The next day, Shane competed in the solo finals, and was 3rd place, earning $1,200,000.
===Fortnite Championships Series===
Epic Games has started the Fortnite Champion Series (commonly known and abbreviated as FNCS) since Chapter 1, Season X (10), following the success of the World Cup. Shane has taken part in thirteen championship series in the North American West (NA West) region. He has won six championships.
==Entrepreneurship==
In November of 2019, Shane and his brother started a business called 'The Mousepad Company', creating various mousepad designs. 
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2016