How much money did he leave for Thiaggo "k1nG" Lapp, the Argentinian who won $ 900,000 at the Fortnite World Cup?

The figure on the fantastic check is one of the major badets of a winner in a competition or competition: the largest, the best. After the first celebrations, the worst are the reductions for the forced payment of taxes.

This trajinar traveled Thiago "k1nG" Lapp, the Argentine just 13 years old that about a month ago won $ 900,000 at the Fortnite World Cup whose final instances were played in Queens in New York and where the young man finished fifth in the individual category. Although to be precise, he did not earn this sum of money.

Shortly after leaving the professional team he joined and declared himself a free agent, the young man player returned to his Twitter account to say How much money will you receive after tax cuts in the United States and Argentina?.

The amount remains large, although it is far from that of almost a million dollars in the list of competitions organized by Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite: Battle Royale.

Law void?

E-sport is booming, you are distributing millions and seduce players and spectators from all over the world. Fortnite World Cup 2019 is a clear example: it distributed $ 30 million in prizes, attracted a large audience through streaming channels and was performed at the Arthur Ashe stadium, the New York stadium that hosts every year the US Open of the tennis circuit.

Along with this meteoric growth, the millionaire machinery requires adjustments. Once again, the Fortnite World Cup appears as an emblem: tax experts have emphasized that the big checks made by the winners reveal a legal vacuum. It turns out that it is not an income although it can not be defined as a prize in the style of play.

Thiago Lapp was responsible for clarifying his personal situation. On the one hand, he told via Twitter that out of the 50,000 wins in the Fortnite World Cup, played alongside Tadeo "9zcOwN" Timmermann, he had 35,000,000 left.

What happened to the 900,000 mentioned? Of this amount, $ 270,000 was retained for taxes, depending on the player. To this must be added the action of the AFIP; thus, the number retained would be approximately 315,000 in US dollars.

As we mentioned, "k1nG" no longer plays for the 9zTeam Argentine professional team. A few days ago, he published a tweet proclaiming himself a free player and included an e-mail address awaiting offers.

Beyond the prize, the fifth place of the recognized contest is part of your program player this will surely appeal to many electronic sports teams.

In this line, the journalist specializing in Thu Augusto Finocchiaro Preci told TN Tecno: "Los Electronic sports take the model of traditional sports, where the dedications will become more and more important and the contracts will have to be more rigorous and more specific. "