At 15 he won 400,000 euros in Fortnite tournaments and his mother took him out of school. This has been since then

Fortnite catapulted the Fury for electronic sports to unimaginable levels, turning this discipline into a multi -million dollar industry that Drag masses in your events and delivers true fortunes to the winners of their tournaments.

In that situation, a 15 -year -old British boy was seen in 2019, when he won a Fortnite tournament, taking a whopping 11,300 euros in one afternoon. This achievement served to make the dream of many teenagers around the world come true: convince their mother of leave classes at school and professionally devote to Fortnite.

Five years later a doubt shakes us: will it have already become a millionaire based on harvesting victories in tournaments?

Benjyfishy, ​​the British who changed the school for Fortnite competitions

The eSports industrylike Hollywood’s, it is closely linked to the United States time strip. Therefore, the young Benjy soon had to choose between participating in the American tournaments late at dawn or following the schedule of his school. The solution was leave schoolopting for a personalized education from home that allowed him to continue gaining fame and experience in Fortnite while continued his training.

That same year he managed to accumulate 392,447 dollars to rise with the first positions in the different tournaments of the Epic Games titleusing alias Benjyfishy. A year later, he added $ 147,000 to his current account, although, being minor, the prize was in custody until his age.

In 2021, interest by Fortnite lowered its intensity, but the Twitch boom and other streaming platforms They facilitated that the Benjyfishy channel achieved large audience data. The average at that time was 24,000 spectators and almost 20 million hours seen, which allowed the adolescent to continue receiving a good amount of income.

Benjy’s career He took a radical turn in 2022. Seeing that the audience levels and the amount of the awards in the tournaments no longer did so profitable, he decided Change Fortnite by Valorant.

The change was an immediate fall in the traffic figures of Your Twitch Channelto date based on Fortnite content, but Valorant’s competitive was being created, so the young man considered that it was the right time to make the leap.

The beginnings were not simple and the figures of their channel were fallen with 53% falls in audiences and almost 70% in the metric views. However, Benjyfishy’s ability in the Riot Games Shooter soon had its reward.

In 2023, that ado Professional Valorant player. In the summer of 2023 he left the American NRG team to join the ranks of Spanish Team Heretics to play for the title of Riot Games.

At 19, the Young player has a contract until 2025 With one of the most prominent teams of the international competitive and, although its Twitch channel has not managed to match your stage with Fortnite, it is among the 150 most seen about Valorant.

Although he has managed to earn a lot of money with the competition, Benjy has not become a millionaire, but at least he has fulfilled his dream.

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Image | Benjyfishy

*An earlier version of this article was published in January 2024