Nadeshot

Matthew Haag (born August 3, 1992), better known as Nadeshot (formerly stylized as NaDeSHoT), is an American former professional Call of Duty player and the founder, co-owner and CEO of 100 Thieves.

Haag was born on August 3, 1992, to Jeff and Christina Haag.

He has a brother Kevin and sister Sarah.

He narrowly missed qualifying for MLG Chicago in Gears of War play by one slot in 2007.

He competed in his first professional online tournament in 2008 and at the age of 16 he made his professional debut on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

Haag attended Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in Palos Hills, Illinois and graduated in 2010.

He has also completed a two-year course in business studies at Moraine Valley Community College.

Prior to competing in competitive gaming, Haag worked at a McDonald's restaurant.

On July 21, 2023, Haag married long time girlfriend Haley Hey.

The Haag’s first child, a daughter, was born in December 2023.

Haag's gaming handle, "NaDeSHoT" originates from "grenade shot", a lethal move in the Halo series in which a grenade is followed by a gunshot Haag was a competitive amateur in the first-person shooter Halo 2, but switched to the third-person tactical shooter series, Gears of War after getting the game as a Christmas present.

Haag became a member of OpTic Gaming in June 2010, when he first joined the OpTic competitive team.

Haag was dropped from the team for the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2011 season which was the first season of Call of Duty on the Major League Gaming circuit since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

He briefly returned to the OpTic Competitive team, replacing a player who felt ill, at MLG Dallas where OpTic Gaming finished 3rd with virtually no practice as a squad.

Subsequently, after mentioning the possibility of replacing the teammate that had fallen sick he did not get picked up.

Haag played on several different teams in the professional scene and created his own OpTic Nation competitive team and started making videos and streaming footage.

As a professional Call of Duty player, Haag was a former captain of OpTic Gaming in the 2014 Call of Duty: Ghosts season and the 2014–2015 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare season, playing the objective support role.

Haag is a Major League Gaming (MLG) X Games 2014 gold medalist and 2011 Call of Duty XP World Champion, winning Best eSports player at The Game Awards 2014.

He is a former Red Bull esports athlete and participates in the Twitch streaming program.

Haag was previously sponsored by several gaming hardware companies, including Astro Gaming and Scuf Gaming.

He also runs a YouTube channel with over 3.2 million subscribers and over 270 hours of content.

In 2014, he became the captain of OpTic Gaming after Will "BigTymer" Johnson resigned.

Haag stepped down as OpTic Gaming's captain after a seventh-place finish at the 2015 Call of Duty Championship tournament.

For the next two events he played for Team EnVyUs finishing 8th at MLG Anaheim and then 3rd at MLG Raleigh before playing on Surreal Legacy for the final two events of the year placing 7th at MLG Orlando and then finishing 15th at the MLG Providence national championships to finish off the Call of Duty: Black Ops Major League Gaming season.

But later got beat by a team by the name of Inspire Gaming

With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 looming, Call of Duty announced Call of Duty XP where Activision hosted a $1 million tournament to showcase the newest edition of the franchise.

With 2 members of the OpTic Gaming team not being available to play, Haag was picked up again.

They made it to the Grand Final.

They took the series 3-1 and Haag pocketed $100,000 with his team winning $400,000 and the trophy.

Treyarch were to make Call of Duty: Black Ops II which was the third game in the Black Ops franchise.

The game was a success competitively and attracted a bigger audience through the season.

With Frag Cup 4, an annual online tournament at the start of a new Call of Duty title, coming up a member of the OpTic Gaming competitive team was unable to play due to gambling restrictions in his province, and after impressing early on in the game, OpTic Gaming picked up Haag, who rejoined the OpTic Gaming competitive team on a permanent basis.

They finished in the 7th/8th position in Frag Cup 4 before going to the first LAN event which was UMG Chicago.

OpTic Gaming started the tournament strong, making their way to the finals without losing.

The team then lost the first series in the final.

However, because they were the winners of the 'winners final' the match went into a final and decisive series, in which they were able to win 3-2 and become the first Call of Duty: Black Ops II champions.

The next tournament was MLG Dallas.

Here, the top 8 teams qualified to compete at that year's Call of Duty Championships, which was an annual $1,000,000 event.

Haag and OpTic Gaming went on to finish in the 5th/6th position.

Nadeshot then decided to leave OpTic in 2016.