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WSJ: Parents Enlist Fotnite Tutors for Their Kids

Harris Katz

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Did a search and couldn't find this article anywhere on the site. Super interesting article about parents hiring coaches for their kids to become better at Fortnite! And, reported in a conservative, mainstream media newspaper! (had to link a Bleacher Report article because the Wall Street Journal has a paywall.)

Are we looking at a future where Esports becomes like little league and you have overbearing parents yelling at their kids and forcing them to play video games? I cannot imagine my parents doing this for me when I was a kid!

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...oaches-to-improve-play-help-children-level-up


It wasn't the violence or the amount of time she was worried about. It was the result. He wasn't winning.

So she hired him a coach. For about $50, Ms. Hicks purchased four hours of online lessons from a player she found through a freelance labor website.
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Rob hopes his friends don't find out how he upped his game. "They'll probably think I'm cheating or something," he said. "That's how 10-year-old kids work."
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Hiring a "Fortnite" coach for a child is no different than enlisting an expert to help a child excel at basketball or chess, parents say. Some sit in on lessons to make sure coaches are professional and that their children, well, level up.
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neon_dream

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Rob hopes his friends don't find out how he upped his game. "They'll probably think I'm cheating or something," he said. "That's how 10-year-old kids work."
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This sounds like something I'd read in a gaming magazine back in the late 80s or early 90s.
 
Starlatine

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"i hope people never find out that my kid got a coach, thats why i'm giving an interview about it"

Great plan there.

Still, crazy that this is a thing, but the good kind of crazy i guess? Nothing wrong with people taking competitive games a bit more seriously to me. Its an entertainment/competitive niche as sports. As long as people are doing what they enjoy, more power to them.
 
Dust

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"So yeah bruh, just shoot it until it dies. That will be $50 plus tip, see ya next week. Don't forget to train your dabbing."
 
Starlatine

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Dust said:
"So yeah bruh, just shoot it until it dies. That will be $50 plus tip, see ya next week. Don't forget to train your dabbing."
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"so yeah bruh, just kick the ball into the goal/throw the ball into the hoop. you're the next ronaldo/lebron now, pay me up"
 
fieldafar

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danmaku

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The article isn't very clear, but hopefully she did it because the kid asked for help and not because she was worried about her kid not winning at something.
 
sibarraz

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I really want to know which is the training regime that the coaches give to the kids

And even though this is something that I would never do with my kids, at least is cool that parents want to help their kids get better at the hot game right now, unless they are doing it because they want to groom an e-sport competitor
 
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Harris Katz

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On top of everything, I am amazed at how much of a phenomenon Fortnite has become in such a short. Of time! How long does it last?

And at that point isn't all of the money to parents spent trying to get their kids to become good enough to be competencec gamers thrown away?
 

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sibarraz said:
I really want to know which is the training regime that the coaches give to the kids

And even though this is something that I would never do with my kids, at least is cool that parents want to help their kids get better at the hot game right now, unless they are doing it because they want to groom an e-sport competitor
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Nuts of destruction motherfucker
 
Chaos2Frozen

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I should think we're way passed the point where people still think you can't make money from playing video games.

Between Esports and Streaming, video gaming is now a viable career.
 
DrBo42

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Did South Korea ever reach this level when Starcraft or Starcraft II were at their height?
 
Starlatine

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maybe i can use my engineering major to be a minecraft coach too

"build stuff better, kids"
 
Bunga

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I remember this being a thing in Starcraft II - admittedly I don't think parents were the driving force but the players themselves wanting to pay to be coached. I would never do this for my kids and I love videogames and esports lol.
 
Akiller

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Thread title made me think it was about a tutor making sure the kid wasn't playing too many hours.
 
DR2K

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Kid was probably upset at dying so much so the parent spent a few measly bucks trying to improve her kids hobby.

I gave my brother $20 to help my little sister in Fortnite. Now she's able to win games and constantly places top 20.
 
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Harris Katz

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DrBo42 said:
Did South Korea ever reach this level when Starcraft or Starcraft II were at their height?
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Good point. But that is South Korea and a "classic" game.

Kids, nowadays, do not seem have much of an attention span. They generally move on to the next big thing as soon as the old thing becomes mainstream. (Yes, I am just generalizing)
 
Jessie

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These kids are going to be so fucked as adults. Helicopter parenting leads to therapy.
 
ShinobiBk

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We have Fotnite tutors now?
Do they teach kids how to spell Fortnite?
 
Cipher Peon

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Not strange at all.
I knew several people who were Minecraft tutors over the weekends.

I used to tutor someone in Torchlight 2 modding!
 
zeioIIDX

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It is not that damn serious :/ Apparently for some folks though, it is. These kids can't watch YouTube videos / tutorials for free like the rest of us?
 
Indy in the Fridge

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Welcome to the new age. Instead of sending your kid to baseball camp or getting them piano or guitar lessons, send them to Fortnite camp to boost their e-pro career.
 
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