Tiametmarduk

Tiametmarduk (real name Ben Daly) is a popular Youtuber from Australia, who does content on the f1 games, he also competes in the Twitch series called Creator League of which he is a constant title contender throughout it's first four seasons.
==Name pick==
Tiamat and Marduk are two gods of Babylon, the former is the mother of gods, and the goddess of the sea, while the latter is the national god of Babylon.
In more detail Tiamat is described in two parts, in the first, she is a creator goddess, through a sacred marriage between different waters, peacefully creating the cosmos through successive generations. In the second Chaoskampf Tiamat is considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos... She is later slain by Marduk, who is the storm god of Babylon.
Marduk is the Babylon equivalent of the Greek god Zeus, he is main Babylon god and is believed to lived from the 3rd Millennium BCE, to the 1st Millennium BCE, when it believed he was killed by Cyrus the Great in his invasion of Babylon.
==Career==
===Beginning===
In 2008 the Tiametmarduk channel was started and later that year, Tiametmarduk uploaded his first video, in 2011 he uploaded a video about he did a 1.48.764 in Bahrain which got his most views with just over 1k, his subscribers got up to 1k by 2013, that year he uploaded, a 100% Monaco challenge which has since got 3 million views, this he credits as the video that got his career kickstarted.
===Gaining Subscribers===
Due to the 100% Monaco Challenge video, Tiametmarduk's subcribesr reached around 50k by 2014, and in 2015 reached 100k when this happened he released a video called the origin of my name which explained the Tiamat and the Marduk,.
In 2016, he started creating Career Mode series, which became very popular, this was in possible co-ordination with the growing popularity or Career Mode in the f1 games. By 2017 his view ratings had grown to just under 1 million per video in a week
===Pandemic===
In 2020 the covid-19 pandemic stopped f1 for that season, but f1 creators kept going , this caused a massive upturn in views, and coupled with the new 'My Team' mode , launched in the f121 game while Australia was still in lockdown Tiametmarduk got to half a million subscribers.
===After-Pandemic, Youtube Subscriber Purge and Creator League Begins.===
In 2021 Tiametmarduk hit 600k but after Youtube did a so-called 'Subscriber Purge' lost over 50k, but luckily his channel got back over 600k early in 2022. in the middle of 2022, just as the f122 game came out, some of the creators, inculding tiametmarduk, came together and formed the creator league. Tiametmarduk won his first race in race 4, becoming the fourth different winner in four races after Bart De Castillo, Bushiantz, and Saffzo. During this period he started a two-player career mode with popular youtuber, and American Alex Gillon.
===Season 1 & 2 Title Contender===
After 6 races and 6 different race winners (Meraki, and Alex Gillon join the other four I've mentioned) Tiametmarduk, Meraki, and Saffzo were the 3 title contenders, with Bushiantz and outside chance, after crashing in qualifying Meraki started from the back, and after a safety car caused by 'MrDNF' DaleJE, Tiametmarduk was 2nd behind Aryan Sengha, Saffzo was 4th behind Bushiantz and Meraki 12th and out of the points. it was to be for tiametmarduk as Aryan won and Tom97 swept from 7th to 2nd, leaving Saffzo champion as he got 3rd.
Season 2 saw reserve Alex Gillon win the first 3 races, before Jamie Mels controversially cheated, spinning to give Tiametmarduk the win, after Gillon got suspended for show how to cheat, Tiametmarduk won 2 in a row, to draw ahead, after a Bushiantz win, 2 more for Gillon, another Bushiantz win, another for Gillon, JJ van Geffen, and Saffzo wins, the title fight look set in Gillons hands with Tiametmarduk an outside chance, Gillon took it and won.
===Season 3 disappointment, & Season 4 bottle.===
6 different winners in 6 races described the beginning of season 3 but after this a pattern of Rasin Chy, Meraki, THOMB, MSkyzii, and Alex Gillon emerged, despite this and only 1 win that season Tiametmarduk still but THOMB to the final race, but despite a storming drive THOMB took the title by 1 point, a point that as Tiametmarduk said in the first race of the next season, 'if this season points system was in that seasons' he would of won the title.
Tiametmarduk continued to fight for titles, and in season 4 took a massive lead, in the mist of Rasin Chy, Tom97, and Meraki, fighting for wins, after missing 1 race, Meraki took the lead into the final race, and after colliding as they tried to overtake THOMB, let the former win, Ben described it as a bottle, and that if he hadn't missed that race, who knows maybe he would of won.
During Season 2 F1 Driver Guanyu Zhou joined for 1 race but struggled, finishing out of the points after a battle with Saffzo 
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