Andrea Botez
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| Full name | Andrea Cecilia Cristina Botez |
| Country | Canada, USA |
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| Years active | 2016–present |
| Genre | Gaming |
| Games | Chess |
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Andrea Cecilia Cristina Botez (born 6 April 2002) is a Romanian-Canadian chess player, Twitch streamer and Youtuber from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Background[edit]
On the BotezLive Twitch channel, Andrea's father, Andrei Botez, known as "Papa Botez" by the community, told the story of moving to Canada. He and his wife fled the Socialist Republic of Romania and moved to Canada, before Alexandra, Andrea's older sister, was born in Dallas. The Botez family relocated to Texas, where both sisters completed their schooling.[1] Their father introduced Alexandra and Andrea to chess at the age of six and he started training them. At the beginning of her chess training, Andrea tagged along her dad and her sister, who was already competing in major tournaments such as the World Youth Chess Championship, which motivated Andrea to start taking chess seriously. [2] [1]
Career[edit]
Chess[edit]
Andrea began playing chess at the age of six, following her sister's background. She started playing in the USChess tournaments at the age of seven. In 2010 she won the U8 Girls Canadian Youth Chess Championship[2] In 2015, at the age of thirteen she became the Women British Columbia Chess Champion.[3] In the same year, Andrea also won the Susan Polgar National Open.[4]
Botez reached her peak FIDE classical rating of 1773 in 2018 and her peak USChess rating of 1933 in 2019.[5] As of now, she is ranked 181318 in the world based on her rating [6]
Content creation[edit]
Alongside her sister, Botez runs the Twitch channel BotezLive, which, as of May 2022, has 1.1 million followers with more than 18.3 million views. She began assisting her sister in 2020 by playing chess and in other variety streams and the Youtube channel BotezLive which, as of May 2022, has over 800k subscribers and 140 million views.
Because of their popularity on various content platforms, the Botez sisters became some of the most known figures on the Chess.com platform, alongside GM Hikaru Nakamura and WGM Qiyu Zhou.
On her personal TikTok account where she posts highlights from her twitch streams, TikTok trends and short videos from her daily life, Andrea has garnered over 310K followers and 5.9M likes.[7]
Botez Travel Show[edit]
When Andrea and Alexandra do not stream from their regular set-up at home playing chess or doing various activities, the two sisters host a show on their Twitch channel where they travel to big cities from around the world and they stream their in-person matches in front of a live audience.
Other professional work[edit]
In 21 December, 2020, Andrea and Alexandra signed a contract with Envy Gaming[8] as content creators and moved to Austin, TX, where they would join other content creators such as Justaminx and CodeMiko in the Envy Content House[9] to inaugurate the organization's creator network and ambassador program.
Awards and nominations[edit]
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 2022 | The Streamer Awards | Best Chess Streamer | Won | [10] |
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Andrea Botez Biography - Net Worth, Career, Family, Chess, TikTok, Boyfriend, Birthday | eBiographyPost". Andrea Botez Biography - Net Worth, Career, Family, Chess, TikTok, Boyfriend, Birthday | eBiographyPost.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Botez sisters became superstars playing chess on Twitch". Amazon Ads.
- ↑ "British Columbia Chess Federation". www.chess.bc.ca.
- ↑ "2015 Susan Polgar Foundation's National Open for Girls and Boys: U14 Girls Results". Daily Chess Musings. March 28, 2015.
- ↑ "Andrea Botez | Chess Celebrities". Chess.com.
- ↑ "Botez, Andrea". ratings.fide.com.
- ↑ "TikTok". www.tiktok.com.
- ↑ "Envy". December 21, 2020.
- ↑ "ENVY CONTENT HOUSE TOUR! ft. Justaminx, CodeMiko & Botez Sisters" – via www.youtube.com.
- ↑ Miceli, Max (February 22, 2022). "All nominees for QTCinderella's Streamer Awards".
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