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"No-one took him seriously until he won the World Cup," says Deen, "and I feel the same, as no-one took me seriously until I was signed by Team 33."īack in 2019, a pro gamer called Patrick "H1ghsky1" Bragaru was banned from Twitch when people discovered that he was only 11.
Joseph Deen at his gaming station - Image: Team 33ĭeen looks up to fellow Fortnite players, naming Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf as his inspiration, who won $3 million (£2.2m) in the Fortnite World Cup back in 2019. "After a while my scout said 'you've got to sign this kid. "One of my scouts got in touch and said, 'I've got to know this kid called Joseph and he is insanely good'," Team 33's CEO Tyler Gallagher told the BBC. Deen has been playing Fortnite since he was four years old, and picked up the notice of one of Team 33's scouts a while back. The latest under-10 to make money out of his hobby is Joseph Deen, a Californian eight-year-old who just signed a contract with Team 33, a professional eSports team based in his home state, according to the BBC. Still, we're satisfied with our lives, right? We quite enjoy eating cold beans out of the tin and having to rinse out toilet paper so we can re-use it, right? (We are kidding about this one. There are kids out there making millions from their toy review YouTube channels, or from the sheer luck of being born into the right family.
Isn't it fun when you find out that there's some preteen out there who makes more money than you? Maybe "fun" isn't quite the word.
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