Shaquille Mclaughlin

Shaquille McLaughlin

Shaquille, better known around the internet as LordGrape, is currently the oldest member of the United Bowanka Whales Group. He has been known for funding and organizing many of the UBW services including a Minecraft server and a Counter Strike: Global Offensive server.

LordGrape has been in the UBW Group since the very first day of its founding alongside group owner, River Wirth. They met on a Classic Minecraft server and decided to put together a group of friends to play together after school nearly every day. This idea of creating a fun, friendly environment for which friends can find a sense of community. Since its founding, LordGrape has closely stuck by the group and Blastyfreak (River Wirth) to better the group and expand it as far as it can reach.

LordGrape plays many games across the Windows PC platform including but not limited to Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Minecraft, Tropico 5, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Seige, and Grand Theft Auto 5.

Counter Strike: Global Offensive

With well over 1,400 hours at the time of writing this article, LordGrape is still very much is bad at CS:GO. He focuses more on honing his game sense (sense of awareness) rather than training his aim. He’s been known to play many positions including lurk and support. On rare occasions, he’ll even opt to be an entry fragger. He’s more likely to be found drilling deathmatch than playing a game of matchmaking.

LordGrape began as a Silver 3 when he first got the game in Dec. 2014 (Pre rank update) and almost immediately deranked to Silver 2. Hurt but not broken, he fought for hours and hours until he made it to Gold Nova 1. Feeling having reached a major checkpoint, he played more and more competitive matchmaking games until he’d reached a roadblock at Gold Nova Master. It was here that LordGrape thought he’d reached his peak for a time and because of that, he suffered from low morale in thinking that he would never improve.

Once reaching Master Guardian I, LordGrape felt a huge sense of accomplishment and took a break from CS:GO (Shortly before the rank changes). Post rank change, LordGrape is now inbetween Silver Elite Master and Gold Nova 1.

LordGrape most recently has begun to attend a local college to better himself as a person.