A disabled gamer who beats opponents with his mouth (week 14)

 In 2006 Rocky Stoutenburgh wrestled with his friends at the party and got severely injured after landing on his head. He tore his spinal cord and became a tetraplegic - meaning he lost use of all four limbs and a torso. Before that Rocky was a pretty active guy and he became so depressed that he was forced to eat through a feeding tube.

One day his younger brother who was into video games brought home an interesting device called QuadStick - it's an analog stick with 3 holes and a lip trigger that one can sip or puff into and it can be programmed to emulate any button of keyboard or game controller. Rocky got so good at playing games with his mouth that he started moving up ranks and winning rounds of quick-paced competitive games against people who played with their hands. He started going by the name "Rocky No Hands" and started streaming as well. He plays pretty competitive games like PUBG and Fortnite and now he is quite an established streamer and Guiness record holder (for achieving most wins and eliminations in Fortnite using QuadStick controller).

Rocky shows people whatever their challenge may be, anything is possible. Short video about him can be found here and his Twitch here.

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