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Thanks to 15 year old
Jaden Ashman's dedication, he

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became the highest earning gamer
in UK history after finishing

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second place in the Fortnite
World Cup. His efforts earned

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him a Guinness World Record and
almost 1 million pounds.

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I'm really, like,
focused on, like, my gaming. I

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hopefully can make a decent
living out of it.

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Being in the public
spotlight at such a young age

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for anyone can be extremely
challenging. You have to know

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how to handle the fame and you
have to be able to keep a level

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head to not only make sure the
publicity isn't negatively

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affecting you...

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I play for like eight
hours a day sometimes.

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but also to make
sure that you're still able to

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compete at the highest level.

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For someone like
Wolfiez, he's already proven

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that he has that it factor. From
the Fortnite World Cup to all

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the recent online competitions.
It's only a matter of time

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before these LANs kick back up
and he's going to be there

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competing once again. He's been
qualifying for evergrande finals

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ever since. It doesn't look like
he's going to stop anytime soon.

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He's quite unique in
his character. One thing I love

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about Jaden - which I always
tell him - is I think he's true

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to himself.

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The best thing about it
is that I just have enough money

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to order UberEats when I want. I
don't know if I should say that.

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My name is Jayden
"Wolfiez" Ashman I was born in

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December, 2003. I got the gamer
tag Wolfiez from a game I used

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to play.

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My name is Lisa Dallman
and I'm Jayden Ashman, also

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known as "Wolfiez" Mom. This is
Jaden's younger brother. This is

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little Wolfiez. We call him -
his name's little Wolfiez,

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aren't ya? He plays Fortnite as
well.

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I'm playing Minecraft right
now!

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Yeah, his first console was
an Xbox. So he had that for many

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years. You know, he was playing
it from the age of six. But I

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think a big turning point for
Jaden was my younger brother. He

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had a very strong interest in
gaming.

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That's why I'm as,
like, competitive as I am now.

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Because I always wanted to be,
like, better than him. Even

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though he was 10 years older
than me it was, like, really

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hard. I first got into a game
that was, like, an indie game.

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It was like three pound on some
indie shop. And also this game

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called CastleMiner Z. After
that, when I grew a bit older, I

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gravitated towards, like,
shooters and stuff. Finally

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Fortnite came along and it
really got me hooked.

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[Game audio]

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Let's go bro!

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Fortnite is a 100 man
Battle Royale. And what made

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this game extremely popular and
successful - I would say with

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the masses... It's one of the
first games that appeal to

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everyone. Not only in the form
of the way players interact with

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one another, but it's just
multiplayer, right? The way it

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all works out in these Battle
Royale games is the last man

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standing is the one that takes
home the prize.

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So the thing about
Fortnite is that it was a

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shooter but you could also
build, so it was kind of

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creative, but also, like, a
shooter at the same time. It's

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like all like Minecraft and the
CastleMiner Z that I played. And

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then, like, Call of Duty. It
kind of felt like it was all

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synced into one. And all of this
stuff you could do in Fortnite

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you couldn't really do in other
games.

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Fortnite is still the
biggest game on the planet right

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now. It's the biggest single
game. According to the people

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who make the game at Epic, they
have 250 million people

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registered as Fortnite players,
so that is absolutely massive.

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You can expect at any single
time to be millions of people

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around the world playing
Fortnite.

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It's not even a video
game anymore. It is so much more

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than a game. And I think when
you see Steve Aoki and Diplo and

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Deadmau5 and Travis Scott - all
the concerts. You know,

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Fortnite's going to be a place
where kids hang out and adults

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are going to hang out there too.
So I see it as a place in the

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future where, yeah, I'm going to
play some Battle Royale games

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and have fun, but maybe I'll
watch a movie with my kids in

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Fortnite. Maybe I'm going to
catch a concert with some

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buddies in Fortnite, and they've
created this whole amazing

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virtual ecosystem for everyone.

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Me and my friends would
just play on school days and

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just... I didn't really like to
play on my own, like solos. So

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usually you would play with a
squad, at the start of the game

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where it was really fun. And I
got really addicted to it, so I

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just started playing more and
more and, like, the hours got

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longer. I also got really good
at it.

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In the early days it
was a lot easier to limit the

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amount of time that he was on
it. From when he was about 14 to

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when he started planning a lot
later in the evening, into the

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early hours of the morning, when
I found it quite difficult to

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control because I would be
asleep in the evening and then

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Jaden would stay up. And I think
when you've got the schooling in

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Europe telling you that your
son's falling asleep in class -

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it's not really the conversation
you want to be having with the

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school, you know?

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At the start, we
clashed a lot. Like, she thought

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I was wasting my time not
putting in as much effort as I

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could at school. She used to
take my Xbox away from me.

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Unplugged the internet. Just all
that sort of stuff.

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Well, with me and
Jaden, we've gone through quite

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a lot of things where I would
actually contact the internet

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provider and then cancel it on
my laptop.

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She threw out one of my
Xboxes. She just threw it out

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with the rubbish men. So it
wasn't really that good.

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It's difficult because
Jaden really loved his game. And

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it's just - I more pushed him
towards schoolwork.

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So initially I was
playing Fortnite on a console

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with my friends. But as I got
better, I realized that the pro

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scene of Fortnite wasn't on
console and that it was all on

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PC. I was contemplating on
switching, but I knew I was a

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lot better on controller and it
would take, like, a lot of time

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to be able to get my skill back
on a - on a different input.

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There's this big
dilemma between console and PC

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players. Now console inherently
is - it's a piece of hardware,

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right? But it's not the best
hardware available. That's where

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the PC players come into place.
You'll find that a lot of these

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best of the best players
eventually want to transition to

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that overall, wholesome
experience that you'll get on a

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computer.

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So when Christmas came,
I asked my nan for a PC and I

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didn't even get it, so it was a
bit of a bummer. But then a few

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months after that, my nan saw,
like, how, like, good I was at

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the game. And she really, like,
it was like one of my dreams.

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And instantly I started placing
on PCs, so I was really happy

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with myself. And then that's
when I realized that I could

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actually have a career gaming.

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[Music]

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The Fortnite World Cup
was one of the biggest eSports

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events of all time. It had $100
million on the line over the

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course of the qualifiers and the
tournament itself. And the grand

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prize for both the singles and
doubles was $30 million, which

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is an unbelievable amount of
money.

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To give you guys an
idea of the scale at how players

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were going to be able to qualify
through to the Fortnite World

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Cup: it was ten grueling weeks
competition. You had these huge

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funnels of millions of players
trying to boil you down to the

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top five placement spots,
weekend after weekend. And only

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the best the best moved on over
those ten weeks of competition.

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It had three different events
happening simultaneously. You

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had the creative event, the
solos and then the duos. The

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duos competition was the one
that people were most excited

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for. It's the team based game
modes that really draw the

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attention of the community.

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Going into duos, I had
to find a teammate but nobody

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really knew who I was.

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My name is Dave Jong -
also known as "Rojo" in the

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Fortnite competitive community -
and I'm a professional Fortnite

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player.

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Rojo was a veteran
player. He was known in the

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community as someone who was
part of the star studded early

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ecosystem. The EU Fortnite
competition scene.

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I'm based in the Netherlands.

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In gaming, living in
the same place isn't really an

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issue. It doesn't really matter
where you're from, as long as

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you have a mutual language that
you can speak clearly. You can

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really get along with anyone.

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At the time, I didn't
have a duo partner and I was

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like, "I need a new duo
partner." I just went through

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the list. Jaden was one of the
players who did really well in

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"share the love" as a solo and
then contacted him and asked him

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if he wanted to
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Looking back, like, he
sent DMs to other people, like,

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saying that, "Oh, he's kind of -
he's controller, maybe he might

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be terrible." But I showed it
wrong. So...

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The first thing he asked me -
he was asking me about my

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achievements when I made around
30 grand at the time already.

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Every duo week we
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every week, we slowly started to
get better and better, like,

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actually, gradually, so... We
faced that top 1000 week two.

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Top 750 week three or week four,
like, top 500. And then we just

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slowly inched our way up until
we just came first. We qualled,

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it was like 8pm at night and
I just started screaming. And

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then...

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I knew Jaden was
playing in a competition, but I

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didn't know the seriousness of
it. And I didn't really take too

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much notice because I didn't
even know what it was.

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Their reaction was,
like, not what I expected. Like,

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I just - I went in there and I
was like, "I just won 50 grand

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and I just qualled for the World
Cup!" And they just went in

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there and they're just like,
"What're you talking about? I'm

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just watching TV..."

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Well they didn't really
believe me until, like, the guys

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from Epic Games emailed them and
sent them plane tickets and

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stuff and, like, hotel receipts
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The difficulty with it
was logistically, um, I'm a

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single parent and I've got three
children and I was working full

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time. I've got childcare to pay
and bills to pay. But we had

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problems because we had to apply
for an ESTA and Jaden ticked the

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wrong box on the actual
application and said that he was

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going there to work. Because
Jaden assumed because he's going

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there to play in a game and he's
getting paid. He ticked the box,

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which meant that it was
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And we ended up having
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London and apply for, like, an
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Which meant I had to
take time off of work to try and

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resolve it.

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We had to show my birth
certificate. And we left it on

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the side, and my dog gone up and
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It was many times when
we did feel like giving up. But

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it all worked out in the end. We
got an appointment, Jaden got

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his visa, we picked it up and we
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So going into the World
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My sister and brother stayed
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We had a lot of fun and
it was our first time in New

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York, so we really did
thoroughly enjoy it.

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It was really nice
going into New York because all

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the pro players got to stay in
the same hotel. I just knew

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everybody there, but I didn't
know them, you know? And, like,

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just really cool seeing
everyone.

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When we actually got to
the stadium - I think it was the

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day before - to sort of get a
feel for it. That's when we

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appreciated just how big this
event was and how much work had

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gone into organizing it.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
boys and girls, Jonesies,

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Bonesies and everyone in
between. Welcome back to the

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road to the Fortnite World Cup.
We're on one of the last stops.

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We saw creative and the pro-am
get off the track yesterday. And

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Balla, we're here today for the
duos competition.

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So first of all, we had
like a warm up. So, just a test

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if all the equipment's working.
I placed really, really well in

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the game. So I had like eight
kills and I came third place in

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the game. Like, I absolutely
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in the first warm-up game. We
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just buzzing, ready to get into
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On show day, the energy
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thousands of people flooding in,
taking their seats and ready for

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the big competition. Before the
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So that was like the small scale
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atmosphere change when the real
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through. And that was kicking
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We've got one final
group of duos to let on the

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floor. It's going to be Serpennt
and Hype, Wolfiez and Rojo,

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Skite and Vato, Vorwenn and
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then finally, Puzz and Ming.

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We knew that it was
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and lives were going to be
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Getting those couple
materials can be key. Wolfiez

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heard the snipe shot there. It
looks like nobody got connected

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with it.

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I just know that our
strategy was based around, at

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the time you had "Ballers." It
was basically hamster balls with

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an item on it that could grapple
onto buildings. So you could

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move really fast.

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As we look to crown our
champions. Eight players

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remaining. Seven different
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We abused those items
to rotate fast. People couldn't

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shoot you when you were in the
Ballers, so we didn't lose any

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HP, stuff like that. That was
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use those as long as we can.
Basically created for us a

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really consistent play style
where we would always end up

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amongst the last players.

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We have four players
remaining with Arkhram sitting

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at the highest [inaudible]. A
quick 180!

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We got to endgame. We
saw it on the board in our game

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that we'd came second but we
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it. So the only time we actually
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that - when it came up on, like,
the big screen.

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After the competition
was over and the winners were

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announced and all the placements
were being divvied out, it was

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clear that the EU scene was on
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Again, we're tallying
every little bit so we know

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exactly who won it. Ladies and
gentlemen, do you guys want to

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hear who will be the first ever
Fortnite world champions?

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[Cheering]

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I think they do!

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The thing was, when
Jaden actually won, um, I wasn't

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with him, because we were
separated. So I was in the

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players lounge and I was waiting
for Jaden to come up. So all

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that part, I missed. So I
missed, you know, his initial

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reaction. It was-it wasn't
until after when I'm searching

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the players lounge for Jaden and
all the other players are like,

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"He's over there, he's over
there!" And luckily one of my

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friends captured the moment when
me-myself and Jaden see each

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other for the first time...

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I can honestly say - as much as
I think a lot of parents say you

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don't always feel appreciated by
your child. But in that moment

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right there. Never in my whole
life have I ever felt as

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appreciated as I did on that
day.

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It was like a really
good feeling for me because it

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felt like I'd proved everything
to her and all of my time

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playing Fortnite and my gaming
was all worth it in the end.

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And, like, the financial strain
that we had and all that stuff

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was just all gone. Me and Rojo
won 2... 2.25 million together,

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split.

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$1.125 million each,
they won.

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That's where Wolfiez
and Rojo really shined out. I

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mean we're talking $2.2 million
or so. Stepping on that stage

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and then winning and taking it
all home. All of a sudden - like

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a snap of the finger - fame
comes overnight.

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That was a whirlwind.

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So that night, me and
my mom got, like, a lot of calls

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from back home because we was in
a different time zone. So it was

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the daytime of there, back home
but it was night for us. And we

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stayed up pretty much all night
doing, like, radio calls, phone

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calls, and all that stuff. The
day after that we went to the

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Rockefeller building to do an
interview for Sky News.

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We all went out to celebrate and
went to this pizza place and,

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like, had a massive pizza with
all my friends and family.

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Soon as we came back
from New York, we were scheduled

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to do interviews literally
straight away.

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Turns out though, Jaden
wasn't wasting his time after

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all, because he's just won
nearly a million pounds playing

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the online video game Fortnite
at it's first ever World Cup.

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So the attention of all
the media was just different for

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me and... I kind of handled it
pretty well. I just - I knew

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what I wanted to do in the end,
though. I just wanted to go home

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and just keep playing and doing
what I'm doing. It wasn't really

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that hard to figure out what I
was going to do with the money.

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Just save the rest of it and
just buy the house out of the

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other half.

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It was a no-brainer. We
was gonna put the money into a

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property. It made sense because
we're paying rent, so, you know,

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we don't have to go no longer do
that. So it relieved the

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pressure from myself. And
anything that I do and earn, it

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now goes towards us. And we're
not gonna stop working and

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moving forward to create a
legacy - not just for Jaden, but

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for future generations. His
children and his children's

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children. So looking after
changing, you know, everybody.

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The direction that our family's
going. So that's - that's the

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plan.

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I now just have a
really, really nice house

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that I - I really like.

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So my mom had, like, definitely
has a new light on gaming and

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she - she also took a lot more
time to understand, like, how it

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works. So it's really cool.

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It wasn't too bad for a -
for a day's work.

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After becoming a free
agent, I had a lot of offers

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going, like, going in because of
what happened with the World

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Cup. So I had a long time to -
to think about and sum up the

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cons and pros of why I wanted to
sign. So it was really good.

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I got a really, really
good impression from EXCEL from

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the initial stage. Because it
wasn't just more about Jaden.

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Having an organization just to
have their name attached to

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Jaden. It was more about, you
know, what they can do for Jaden

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off of the game.

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It's extremely
important to pick the right

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organization. Because
unfortunately in eSports and

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gaming there have been a few
instances of players who have

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realized that their orgs do not
have their best interests at

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hand. And for Wolfiez to sign
with EXCEL, it's extremely

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valuable that he has signed on
with them.

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EXCEL is a leading UK
based gaming and eSports

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entertainment brand. I mean, the
first I heard of Wolfiez was

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probably similar to a lot of
people. It was him performing so

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well at the Fortnite World Cup.
It was an event that got a lot

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of traction online. It was one
that we paid quite close

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attention to as an Esports
organization, of course. We

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didn't have anyone competing in
that tournament. We were looking

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at Fortnite as a potential
expansion opportunity, and

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Wolfiez doing so well and being
a British talent obviously

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excited us a lot at that point.

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I had a few concerns,
like in regards to sleeping, his

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eating, because we know - now
know that Jaden, you know, he is

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a professional athlete and this
is something that he's going to

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be doing for the foreseeable.
And EXCEL were the ones that

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demonstrated that they were the
best fit.

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EXCEL's a very young,
but they're also a preeminent

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eSports organization. They made
a lot of noise this year with

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how they competed in the LEC.
And I'm really excited for what

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they're building in the future.
But something that I really love

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about them now is really their
focus that they place on player

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development. They're one of the
few eSports organizations that

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really prioritize things like
nutrition, exercise,

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psychology... All these things
that any kind of young eSports

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player would want.

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At the moment I've been
dealing with repetitive strain

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on my thumb, which was caused by
me playing too much. At the

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moment, I've just been
stretching, makin sure that I'm

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keeping my hand moving in good
ways.

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So Wolfiez' had some
problems with his hand as he

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kind of came on board in our
organization. I think that

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opened his eyes up to how
fragile his career is in a way.

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He is competing at the absolute
highest level that he can

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compete at. And in order to
continue to do that for many,

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many years, he needs to keep his
body healthy and he needs to

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keep his muscles in order. He
needs to make sure he's not

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getting repetitive strain
injuries or anything, so he

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needs to be doing the right
stretches, etcetera. These are

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all things that he might not
really have thought about until

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we provided that education for
him, which we think is super

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vital to help him understand
what he needs to be doing on a

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day-to-day basis to prolong his
career.

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Not playing is kind of
hard because seeing everyone

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else keep playing and getting
better is just really annoying

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because I just want to be in a
position where I can just play

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and be back to how I was. But
obviously it's not gonna happen

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unless I take my break, so it's
more of just an investment and

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just getting better as quick as
I can so I can be back on top

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again.

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When it comes to
Wolfiez, competitiveness is just

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in his nature. I mean, he's an
absolute world beater. In

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everything he does, he's so
competitive and he's so hard on

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himself to get better, that I
think that is really the

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mentality you need to be the
best and consistently stay the

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best. Now there are certain
things around his game that we

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can help him with and to allow
that to be a bit more

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consistent, but the mentality
that he's got on that raw drive

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is exactly what he needs. And
yeah, he's going to be an

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absolute superstar.

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So the biggest hurdle I
think Wolfiez is going to face

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in his very young career is
really the fact that he's going

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to be pulled in so many
different directions. So it's

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really hard for a young
professional to stay focused and

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stay determined and just keep
chugging along.

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And for someone like
Wolfiez, he's already proven

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that he has that it factor. From
the Fortnite World Cup to all

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the recent online competitions,
it's only a matter of time

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before these LANs kick back up,
and he's going to be there

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competing once again. It doesn't
look like he's going to stop

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anytime soon.

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Oh yeah, I would
definitely think that's the

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hardest part for him right now.
Keeping up with how well he's

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been doing and with how much
attention there is around him

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right now. I think I saw a
statistic the other day. He's

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been like one of the top five
players of Europe over all the

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recent events.

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He's shown that he can
show up on that big stage and he

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just needs to go that one step
further this time. And I think

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if we can work with him over the
next year or so, before that

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event, he'll be in a great
position to go win the whole

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thing.

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Jaden is a young man
now and it's the point where I

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need to let him get on with it.
But at the same point, Jaden is

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going to make his own choices
and create the path that he

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wants to follow now. I'm very
confident that Jaden has got a

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very steady and long career
ahead of him.

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So the goal is to me is
to be healthy and be a bit more

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active physically and just feel
happy - just in myself. So the

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goals to me in the future are
just to create a solid brand for

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me and EXCEL together. After
eSports, I want to kind of

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create games and help game
development maybe. Create

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content for a while. Not too
competitive and just have fun

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with it.

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