He should be home studying, getting ready to apply to colleges. He could have had his college loans paid off by age 50 if he just buckled down and got an office job in 7 years.
$3 million at age 16, what a loser.
Yeesh. I’m 36. I grew up playing video games. Never was very good. In the early 2000s I was one of the batter Madden and Tiger Woods guys at a mid sized college, and that was the zenith.
I played I played Doom, Golden Eye, Halo, Counter Strike, and Call of Duty. But not a ton, I preferred sports games and my eyes had trouble tracking targets in the modern games. I stopped playing around 2010-12.
I have absolutely no idea what’s going on in that end part of the game I just watched. I understand the concept of 100 guys in a battle royale. Were they building walls and stuff around themselves, their opponents? Smashing them down with axes? Looked wild, and confusing.
There goes his NCAA scholly.
Seriously how sad is it that the Fortnite word cup winner made 3 million dollars today and our best runners make a small fraction of that in a several year period.
World cup wrote:
Seriously how sad is it that the Fortnite word cup winner made 3 million dollars today and our best runners make a small fraction of that in a several year period.
That's not completely true. Bolt made a fortune while he was running. I don't think it is sad at all. Lots of people love video games and tons of money has been pumped into the e-sport scene. The games are entertaining to watch and ones I have watched were free to view and I could easily watch from my house. No pay wall. No barriers.
It would be nice if runners could make more but its all about the money flowing into the sport. Running as a whole, especially track and field which feels built for it, has really failed at promoting itself and building an audience. Hiding events behind paywalls. Making it difficult to access. Poorly promoted or events that are not promoted at all.
Why can't the excitement of running events that gets generated during the Olympics be replicated every year?
World cup wrote:
Seriously how sad is it that the Fortnite word cup winner made 3 million dollars today and our best runners make a small fraction of that in a several year period.
With 40 million people signing up, its no different than winning a lottery - yes skill is involved but the chances of having the same winner if you replayed the game (many times) are very small.
Good for him - better to be lucky than good and even better if you are both.
I agree with this. As a recreational FortNite player, I had zero interest in this competition but EpicGames literally put the video stream in your face when you start FortNite. You had to go into a submenu to stop the video stream. It's actually a genius move IMO. Kids would get hooked into watching the best in the game play instead of playing. I actually watched one round myself and it was wildly entertaining.
Track and Field needs to make the meets more accessible. I always have wondered if a professional tour or league exclusive to the US is something that could happen. We have so much talent in the U.S. that each meet could produce great performances.
These are earnings that have been made in under 2 years, since the game is only that old. Not even considering sponsorship revenue and donations. A lot of these kids have made a lot of money.
BS wrote:
World cup wrote:
Seriously how sad is it that the Fortnite word cup winner made 3 million dollars today and our best runners make a small fraction of that in a several year period.
With 40 million people signing up, its no different than winning a lottery - yes skill is involved but the chances of having the same winner if you replayed the game (many times) are very small.
Good for him - better to be lucky than good and even better if you are both.
Yeah, that is not true at all. I can tell you don't play a lot of competitive video games. The best players are the best for a reason. There is a certain level of variability, like there would be in any sports event, but the top guys are always at the top. Its nowhere near as bad as the lottery.
The tough part about video games is the same as you see in things like short sprint events. It's a young man's game. Reflexes and reaction times don't age well. So the top players are generally only at the top for a few years.
Sorry. LOL for example is way more interesting than track. And i watched usatf 2019 as a european. So i am already a freak
Yeah AFAIK there's like a months long qualification process to get down to a final 100 players. They play offline in a stadium over several games. Not really random at all.
Still FPS is never a good spectator esport...
Starcraft II is still unmatched.
Lol meanwhile all of the athletes who won gold in the outdoor championships won a combined total of essentially nothing and on top of that they won’t make 3 million dlllars running, ever.
I could never get into watching video games. But playing them, yeah.
What's even crazier...one of the top streamer, Ninja, makes over $500k/month streaming on Twitch.
LOL. One kid--think about that, *one* single kid--wins a big fortnite tourney, and now everything kid in America thinks they can become a millionaire playing video games.
"But Dad, Booger made $3M playing Fortnite! I don't need to study and get a job!"
LOL.
Unfortunately it,is more than one kid. On ESPN radio this morning, they said the 500th ranked e-sports player makes $250k a year.
LOLer wrote:
LOL. One kid--think about that, *one* single kid--wins a big fortnite tourney, and now everything kid in America thinks they can become a millionaire playing video games.
"But Dad, Booger made $3M playing Fortnite! I don't need to study and get a job!"
LOL.
Yeah, its more than one kid. This just made the news because he's 16. There is a ton of money in video games including streamers who only need to be entertaining not necessarily the best. Would I roll my eyes if my kids told me they were going to play video games for a living? No more so than if they told me they would be in the NBA or going to be the next Taylor Swift.
I would say the prospects for becoming a millionaire playing video games are better than making millions running.
The fourth place finisher in solos still made over 1 million dollars in prize money. Fourth place.
Every single player in the 100 invited was paid 50K minimum just to show up and play.
But keep yapping, pup.
themostkettleofkettles wrote:
LOLer wrote:
LOL. One kid--think about that, *one* single kid--wins a big fortnite tourney, and now everything kid in America thinks they can become a millionaire playing video games.
"But Dad, Booger made $3M playing Fortnite! I don't need to study and get a job!"
LOL.
Yeah, its more than one kid. This just made the news because he's 16. There is a ton of money in video games including streamers who only need to be entertaining not necessarily the best. Would I roll my eyes if my kids told me they were going to play video games for a living? No more so than if they told me they would be in the NBA or going to be the next Taylor Swift.
I would say the prospects for becoming a millionaire playing video games are better than making millions running.
The prospects for becoming a millionaire gaming are better than the prospects for making 100,000 running.