KHRattlehead

Carlos V., a.k.a. KHRattlehead, is a fully blind streamer, musician, and gaming accessibility consultant from Texas. He is the unofficial team leader of the Sento Showdown, acting as the face of the team, performing outreach with sponsorships, and co-hosting Sento Showdown events on his Twitch channel. He was introduced to gaming via the 90s arcade scene, quickly falling in love with the Mortal Kombat franchise. He moved on to compete at Evo 2013 in the Mortal Kombat (2011) tournament, and many blind gamers have cited him as part of the reason they got into gaming themselves. He has appeared in articles from websites like The Verge and represented blind gaming in a PBS documentary. In 2023, Carlos was invited to NetherRealm Studios in Chicago, consulting on their latest release Mortal Kombat 1 with the late blind gaming advocate Brandon Cole, a.k.a. SuperBlindMan. Mortal Kombat forever left its mark on Carlos, and he got to live out his dream of leaving a mark on Mortal Kombat. His favorite games include Mortal Kombat (2011)  Mortal Kombat 1,The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and both The Last of Us and God of War series. His favorite fighting game characters include Mortal Kombat’s Scorpion and Cyrax. When Carlos isn’t streaming, gaming, or spending time with family,  he practices, records, and performs music with his metal band, Distartica, fitting in as the drums and vocals. They released their debut record In Flames We Rise in 2017, with their sophomore album In Silence They Scream dropping in 2023.

Captain Earshot

Carlos M., a.k.a. Captain Earshot, is a fully blind university employee from California, and is also the four-time reigning champion of The Sento Showdown’s events. When it comes to being a tournament organizer, he is even more of a champion. Carlos wears many hats, splitting himself up to assist the other team members with their own work, from editing scripts, providing audio description lines for trailers, creating and filing forms, communicating with players and sponsors, providing feedback on others’ work, seeding tournament brackets, and essentially all of the small tasks and details that allow the tournament, and team, to function as well as they do. His teammates would agree that, with no Captain Earshot, there’d be no Sento Showdown. He discovered video games through his siblings, as it was a way for them to bond while growing up. He found his competitive success thanks to his devout study of his own gameplay, rewatching and learning to better understand his opponents’ play as well as his own. Carlos’s favorite games include Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 6, and multiple titles from the Mortal Kombat and Pokémon franchises. His favorite fighting game characters include Mortal Kombat’s Mileena and Jade. When Carlos isn’t competing in Blind FGC events, you can find him practicing on the keyboard and exploring his interest in audio engineering. 

BlindSightBlue

Gable M., a.k.a. BlindsightBlue, is a fully-blind writer and educational braillist from Denver. As a member of the Sento Showdown Team, he writes the scripts for all trailers, public announcements, and marketing materials, manages social media pages, creates accessible transcription and visual guides for games without screenreaders, and organizes contact with the Sento Showdown Volunteers. A fan of gaming all his life, Gable explored the fighting game genre once his vision began to deteriorate to total blindness in his early teens. Now, he keeps a finger on the pulse of upcoming advances in blind accessibility in gaming and artificial intelligence, and eagerly shares what he learns with both his students and the blind gaming community. Some of his favorite games, pre and post blindness, include Mortal Kombat X, Mortal Kombat 1, the Injustice franchise, Ultimate Spider-Man, The Last of Us series, and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. His favorite fighting game characters include Mortal Kombat’s Takeda, Smoke, and Kitana, and Injustice’s The Flash, Supergirl, and TMNT. He enjoys spending his free time watching horror movies, creating by writing, video editing, audio designing, and making accessibility guides, relaxing with his wife, Lilly, guide dog, Bowman, and two cats, Nelson and Murdock.

Your Sins

Dexter R., a.k.a. Your Sins, is a legally blind gamer and occasional streamer from the West Coast. His work on the Sento Showdown includes providing voiceover lines for event trailers, editing archived stream footage for YouTube, co-hosting and commentating for the Kahn of the Hill Series, and creating audio tracks, stream visuals, transitions, sounds, and other graphics for promotional materials and stream setups.  Growing up before home consoles were commonplace, he experienced gaming via his friends on their computers, and was hooked when he was able to game in his own home. His favorite game of all time, predating his vision loss, is SOCOM II: U.S. Navy Seals, and has since included the Mortal Kombat franchise as well. His favorite fighting game characters are Mortal Kombat’s Mileena, D’Vorah, and Kenshi. Dexter’s hobbies include creating, mixing, and experimenting with music and audio, playing single and multiplayer games, skateboarding, and being a proud father, grandfather, and cat granddad.

BarrenSun

Alex V., a.k.a. BarrenSun, is a fully-blind gamer that lives in California. He assists with various Sento Showdown duties, ranging from research, scheduling Kahn of the Hill participants, moderating the Blind Gamers Community Hub Discord Server, testing our forms and documents for accessibility,and providing commentary for various Sento Showdown events. Growing up visually impaired, he experienced most games vicariously through his brother, making it so that he was an avid gamer, even if he necessarily wasn’t the one pressing the buttons. He is an experienced fighting game player, often being the one on the team to be the first to try something new, whether that be a character or game. In a similar fashion, Alex has become a resource to the blind gaming community as a whole, always willing to try a new game with limited accessibility options and help others get started or navigate issues they encounter. His favorite games include Killer Instinct (2013) Mortal Kombat (2011), Mortal Kombat: Deception,and The King of Fighters XV. His favorite characters from various fighting games include Mortal Kombat’s Tanya, Ashrah, and Sektor, Killer Instinct’s Chief Thunder, Granblue Fantasy’s Vira, and Street Fighter’s Poison. When he isn’t playing the latest fighting game or accessible title, you can find Alex spending time with his family’s dog, Jade, or listening to all kinds of audiobooks, audio dramas, and audio described films and television.