Boardgameyogi

Alexandra "Alex" Lolies (born: ) is an Irish YouTuber and Twitch streamer best known for her role as part of the Dicebreaker video team since the channel's launch in 2019.
==Background==
Alex was born and grew up in Germany before her family moved to Ireland when she was ten years old, and Lolies has identified as Irish ever since.Boardgameyogi: My Journey into Board Games (as a Hobby & the Industry) When growing up she was an avid fan of playing board games such as backgammon, chess and Monopoly although when Alex was at university she learned about the wider world of board games which started with an all-night session of Munchkin. After uni, Alex upped sticks and moved to Paris and, while crashing on the sofa of her friend's Parisien flat, learned that her friend attended bi-weekly board game meetups and she joined the group for games of Libertalia, Letters from Whitechapel and Dixity - in spite French not being her first language.
Eventually returning to London via Dublin, an initial return to London, and three months working on a boat in Greece, Alex applied for a job as games Guru at Draughts Board Game Cafe where she was a regular visitor during her previous stint living in London, and received a call to come in for an interview while she was in Dublin after a trip to see her brother in the United States, and after an interview she was given the job.
Having enjoyed her time at Draughts, where she ran the cafe's Star Realms tournament, Alex applied for an Events manager job at Big Potato Games in 2016, where her role was travelling the south of the United Kingdom to pitch the companies various games to stores.
More recently, Alex started her Twitch channel in 2020 and soon gained Twitch partnership, with her personal YouTube channel also being created around the same time.
===Dicebreaker===
In 2019, Lolies joined the Dicebreaker team,YouTube: Meet Alex Lolies - Dicebreaker Video Producer being introduced soon after the channel's launch as one of the video team alongside Johnny Chiodini and Michael "Wheels" Whelan, even though she didn't have any on-camera experience like Johnny or Wheels did and was learning on the job.YouTube: How streaming on Twitch has affected my Mental Health! 
As well as playing and reviewing both the latest board games and old favourites, Alex also played Mist on the Mountain in the channel's Dungeons & Dragons campaign and Hel in the channel's crossover D&D campaign with Eurogamer. Outside of D&D campaigns, Alex has created a manner of different characters to flex her cosplaying muscles, such as Elf and Edna in Dicebreaker's two Blades in the Dark campaigns, Alex in the Cyberpunk Red campaign featuring Cody Pondsmith, Sim the android doctor in the channel's Lasers and Feelings crossover with Outsidexbox, Floyd in the World Wide Wrestling campaign, and many other characters.
On 8th November 2021, Dicebreaker announced that Alex would be leaving the channel at the end of the week.Twitter: @joindicebreaker We're absolutely gutted to announce that the ever fearless, and equally dangerous, board game afficionado @boardgameyogi is leaving us this week! Please join us in wishing her all the best in what's to come and for a special goodbye stream on Thursday https://dicebreaker.com/topics/dicebreaker/news/its-alex-lolies-last-week
===Personal Life===
Alex announced that she is twelve weeks pregnant on November 28th 2023.Instagram: 🔔 We’ve got news! 🔔 Coming Summer 2024 ☺️
==Trivia==
* Alex is a trained fencer, and she competed in various competitions when she was at university.DkITimes: The Vinny Duffy fencing competitionYouTube: South Of Ireland Open 2013, Women's Sabre Semi-Final1
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Irish YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2020