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benjipwns

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Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« on: July 31, 2018, 10:59:23 PM »
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ready-aim-hire-a-fortnite-coach-parents-enlist-videogame-tutors-for-their-children-1533046708
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Ally Hicks fretted over her 10-year-old son playing the hugely popular shoot-em-up videogame “Fortnite.”

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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Nick Mennen was happy to pay $20 an hour for his 12-year-old son, Noble, to take “Fortnite” lessons. The dad is already dreaming of a scholarship—or at least some tournament money.”
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Re: Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2018, 12:04:35 AM »
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Re: Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2018, 12:14:37 AM »
I mean cool that schools are offering scholarships for it. But... yeah. :doge

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Re: Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2018, 12:46:04 AM »
You guys are just so cynical and negative.

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Re: Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2018, 03:09:59 AM »
I'm with Benji on this one

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Re: Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2018, 04:07:07 AM »
reminds me of the quaint days of halo 2. the first article on 'ecoaching' i ever read was a far too charitable peice in wired or some shit about a bunch of 20-30 somethings paying like twenty bucks an hour for time on xbox live with a 12 year old kid who's advice was basically "you're bad at at aiming. get better at shooting people"

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Re: Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2018, 04:15:25 AM »
Sounds like a plan Seagrams
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Re: Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2018, 08:24:45 AM »
From what I've seen of Dunkey playing Fortnite with kiddo's this money is well spent.
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Re: Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2018, 10:54:50 AM »
I’m not a gamer, mom, I’m a freelance laborer
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Re: Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2018, 11:54:36 AM »
From what I've seen of Dunkey playing Fortnite with kiddo's this money is well spent.

I'd pay $20 an hour to have Dunkey be my Fortnite coach.
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Re: Parents Are Hiring Fortnite Coaches For Their Children
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2018, 12:42:28 PM »
Dunno why, but this is what immediately came to mind.

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