Nick Wiseman in a Team Canada jersey

Canada · tank · exercise science

Nick "False" Wiseman

I've spent close to ten years as a tank. Overwatch League with the Vancouver Titans, two World Cups for Canada, Contenders titles with American Tornado and Saints, and now Marvel Rivals with TSM. In between I'm finishing an Exercise Science degree at Maryville.

2Overwatch World Cups for Team Canada
4Contenders NA titles
$32kOverwatch prize money (Liquipedia)
1%better every day

The short version

I play tank. I've done it in Open Division, Contenders, the Overwatch League, the World Cup and the Overwatch Champions Series, and now as a Vanguard in Marvel Rivals. The philosophy I try to live by is improving just 1% every day. I'm in competition with myself, not with outside opinions, because the only people who really know what's going on are my teammates.

Outside the game I care a lot about health and wellness. Esports is a very sedentary job: countless hours sitting and practising every day. I'm studying Exercise Science at Maryville because I want to bridge the gap between esports and health and help future pros build more sustainable lifestyles. I also coach at the Maryville Esports Academy.

The long version

  1. 2017

    Watching Canada at the World Cup

    The 2017 Overwatch World Cup, where Canada made the final, was one of my first looks at Overwatch esports. I remember thinking how amazing it must be to compete for your whole country. Representing Canada became the dream.

  2. 2018 – 2020

    Community cups to Contenders

    My first results were in ZOTAC community cups and Open Division. In 2020 I won Open Division Season 1 NA with Karasuno and reached a Contenders weekly final. In May I joined Uprising Academy, the Boston Uprising's academy team, and we finished 4th at Contenders 2020: The Gauntlet NA.

  3. 2021

    American Tornado

    I joined American Tornado in February 2021, a team that dominated North American Contenders. We lost the March final 4–3, then won the April, June and July monthly titles. In the fall I started at Maryville University and played Contenders with Bobby Wasabi on the side.

  4. 2022

    Overwatch League with the Vancouver Titans

    The Titans signed me in November 2021 as their only tank for the 2022 season. The first two stages were rough, and from the outside they probably looked like a complete failure. I still learned more about how the game is played at the top level that year than any other, and I came out of it a better player and teammate. We made the Summer Showdown, and our win over the Washington Justice was the franchise's first ever against them.

  5. 2023

    Saints, and Canada at BlizzCon

    Back at Maryville, playing with the same roster semester after semester taught me how much you can bring to a team just by building each other up. As Saints we won the Overwatch League Pro-Am qualifier, went 14–2 to win Contenders Spring NA, and lost the Summer final 4–3. That fall I finally played for Team Canada at the World Cup at BlizzCon in Anaheim, finishing 5th–8th.

    False in a Saints jersey, arms crossed
    Saints / Maryville Esports
  6. 2024

    Luminosity x Maryville

    Luminosity Gaming picked up our entire Maryville roster for the first Overwatch Champions Series, the first partnership between a multi-game organization and a college program in Overwatch. We finished 4th in NA Stage 1. Back in the college circuit we took 2nd at the Overwatch Collegiate Championship.

  7. 2025

    Supernova, then a new game

    With Supernova I won FACEIT League Season 4 NA Master and the OWCS NA Stage 1 promotion/relegation, then finished 7th in Stage 2. Maryville shut down its Overwatch program that May. In September I switched to Marvel Rivals and joined Gen.G Esports, where we took 3rd at Ignite 2025 Stage 2: Asia.

  8. 2026

    Busan, and TSM

    I started coaching at the Maryville Esports Academy in January. Then Team Canada called again for the 2026 World Cup. We went 3–0 in the Americas qualifier, and in the group stage in Busan we beat Germany 3–2 and Thailand 3–1 before losing to Spain, which put us out of BlizzCon on map differential. In August I joined TSM in Marvel Rivals.

Team Canada, 2023 edition

Before the 2023 World Cup I gave each of my teammates a "most likely to" award:

In my own words

"It's always been a dream to represent Canada and I'm both excited and honoured to be able to do that this year at BlizzCon."

Esports Heaven, October 2023

"I believe heavily in the philosophy of improving just 1% every day, so I don't care much for outside judgement as the only people who really know what's going on are my teammates."

Esports Heaven, October 2023

"Competing against friends is always some of the best experiences I've had in Overwatch."

Esports Heaven, October 2023

Education

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Every team

S4 Esports · Karasuno · Uprising Academy · American Tornado · Maryville University · Bobby Wasabi · Vancouver Titans · Saints · Team Canada · Luminosity Gaming · O3 Splash · Supernova · Gen.G Esports · TSM

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