{"id":152653,"date":"2019-07-30T02:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1797918\/"},"modified":"2019-08-13T03:13:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T19:13:31","slug":"first-fortnite-world-champion-teen-made-more-money-than-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/30\/first-fortnite-world-champion-teen-made-more-money-than-all-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"First \u2018Fortnite\u2019 World Champion Teen Made More Money Than All of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fortnite-world-champ-650x366.png?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>In yet another example of cyberpunk future becoming cyberpunk present, teen gamer Kyle \u201cBugha\u201d Giersdorf was recently <a href=\"https:\/\/clips.twitch.tv\/CoweringSmokyWolfPeteZaroll\"  rel=\"noopener\">swatted<\/a> during a livestream just weeks after becoming the first Fortnite World Champion. Swatting is the criminal attack where trolls mislead law enforcement into bursting in on a target while they are streaming.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Giersdorf wasn\u2019t hurt seeing as he was friendly with a local officer. Plus, he\u2019s still got all that <em>Fortnite<\/em> money. But other victims aren\u2019t so lucky when armed police come to their doors. Swatting has already led to at least one death and 20 years of jail time for the perpetrator. So don\u2019t do it!<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EXuqhgghPuA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The world of esports already has tons of shady money flowing around from suspicious sources. And with <em>Fortnite<\/em>, you already know that millions of players are constantly pumping in cash, enough money for Epic to woo more and more developers to its PC games store with generous profit-sharing. So it should come as no surprise that there was a substantial amount of dough on the line for the first ever Fortnite World Cup here in New York. And now that it\u2019s over, meet the teen who survived the battle royale and made way more money than all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Your first Fortnite World Cup Champion is 16-year-old Pennsylvania native and first-time tournament entrant Kyle \u201cBugha\u201d Giersdorf. He took home $3 million for winning the Solos championship pretty definitively with 59 points. With $30 million in a pool though, we\u2019re sure runner-up Harrison \u201cPsalm\u201d Chang didn\u2019t go empty-handed with his 33 points.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full final score and prize money payout.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1797922\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fortnite-cup-winners-inline-625x363.jpg?resize=625%2C363&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fortnite-cup-winners-inline-625x363.jpg?resize=625%2C363&#038;ssl=1 625w, https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fortnite-cup-winners-inline-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fortnite-cup-winners-inline-650x377.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fortnite-cup-winners-inline.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The real winner here though is Epic Games for cementing <em>Fortnite<\/em> even further into the pop culture consciousness. It\u2019s one thing to hear about millions of kids playing a game online and doing some dances. But packing them all into a stadium makes <em>Fortnite<\/em> feel on par with football and basketball and other sports that definitely aren\u2019t just fads. And like a real sports tournament, there was even some drama as a pair of known <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2019\/07\/28\/fortnite-cheaters-booed-by-world-cup-crowd-as-theyre-eliminated-from-tournament\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fortnite<\/em> cheaters<\/a>\u00a0were booed during the doubles competition. The crowd then cheered when they were eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the start. After the World Cup Epic Games revealed the Fortnite Championship Series offering millions more dollars to contenders. So we\u2019ll who\u2019s the next teen to build, shoot, and floss their way to financial independence. For more on video game tournaments get ready for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/watch-these-fighting-games-at-evo-2019-1776376\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">EVO 2019<\/a>\u00a0this weekend by refreshing yourself on its fighting game lineup. And start training for the next Fortnite World Cup by learning how to hire a coach from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/watch-gamer-sensei-coach-us-in-fortnite-1750440\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Gamer Sensei<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XMhS4_N1lFg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/fortnite-world-champ-650x366.png\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/figure>\n<p>In yet another example of cyberpunk future becoming cyberpunk present, teen gamer Kyle &ldquo;Bugha&rdquo; Giersdorf was recently swatted during a livestream just weeks after becoming the first Fortnite World Champion. Swatting is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/games\/fortnite-world-champion-teen-made-more-money-than-all-of-us-1797918\/\">First &lsquo;Fortnite&rsquo; World Champion Teen Made More Money Than All of Us<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/\">Geek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/30\/first-fortnite-world-champion-teen-made-more-money-than-all-of-us\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3293,3428,2711,2054,2,2047,16,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,478,481,482,480,479,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,477],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-DI9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155616,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152653\/revisions\/155616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}