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Photo: Robert PaulRick Thiher has announced he will be joining Twitch in April 2017 in a position dedicated to helping competitive gaming "build toward its future."

Thiher will relocate to San Francisco as part of his new job. This will take him out of his old home in the Midwest but not, he said in tweet chain, remove him from his current actitivities in the fighting game community.

"Because Twitch gets it, I am still a FGC resource, @ComboBreakerFGC's Event Director, @CEOGaming's Creative Director, & a @EVO worker," he wrote.

Thiher's official job title is still not public, but he did add he will be "Project Manager on some FGC stuff & daily emptier of the in-office Starbursts jar."