World Championship fortnight: a Briton becomes a millionaire after winning second place with my husband

LONDON (Reuters) – A Briton has won more than a million dollars after finishing second in the world championship with a compatriot from the match of the World Cup final at Fortnight.

Jadine Ashman of Isques will share $ 2.25 million with his Dutch teammate.

The game is popular on the Internet, with 250 million users worldwide.

The total price of the tournament is $ 30 million, making it the largest online games to date.

Jadin told the BBC that he was "surprised" by his high score.

Your device does not support video playback

Jadin entered the doubles championship of the game under the name "Velvez" with teammate Dave Jong "Rogo" to reach second place in the tournament.

First-seeded Norwegian Emil Bergquist Pedersen and Austrian team-mate David Ww scored 51 points on 47 points for Ashman and Jung.

The singles tournament final will be held later on Sunday.

The World Cup finals will continue in a stadium in New York, where the winner will win more prizes than Simona Halib and Novak Djokovic, winner of the Wimbledon tennis championship.

More than 40 million players have tried to qualify for 10 weeks of internet competition, but only 100 have had the chance to compete and win a $ 3 million (£ 2.4 million) prize at Flushing Meadows.

All finalists will receive at least $ 50,000 and winners will be third and fourth millionaires.

In singles, Benji, 15, who uses the name "Bengevechi" in the game, reached the final with a small number of his compatriots.

He said in an interview that his finish was the culmination of eight hours of training a day in the last five months.

Benji plans to buy a house for his family when he wins, but admits that he is worried about clashes.

"It will be a little different when I'm on stage because I've never played on such a big platform," Benji said.

"I only played in my room, so it would be different, but now I am really confident because I have been training a lot, and over the past two weeks I have been training 12 hours a day."

Another 14-year-old, Kyle, who uses the name "Monster" in the game, arrived in the final and became a professional player at the age of 13.

"It's more serious than what people are waiting for," Kyle said.

"It took a lot of effort to qualify, so it's not just an entertainment game, I've played at least 8 to 10 hours a day for months to be here."

Source image
Getty Images

More than 30 countries are represented in the tournament, with 70 players from the United States, 14 from France and 11 from the United Kingdom.

He has set up two circular circuits and equipped with computers, so that each player can face in a specially designed environment, similar to the circumstances of his home game, using the mouse, keyboard and keyboard. usual control unit.

Tens of thousands of fans fill the Arthur Ashe stadium, which usually hosts the US tennis championships, as well as millions of others who should follow the tournament online to support the world's most popular shooter .

This event also marks the second anniversary of the launch of the title "Royal Battle".

Fifteen is the most popular game in the world and is based on the participation of 100 players who are placed on an island where they must find weapons, build monuments and eliminate until a player sits at the top .

The final of this tournament will be the first world champion, and the field is spectacularly open with thirty players in contention.

Turner Tiny, 22, will be one of the most prominent candidates: he is known on the Internet as Tivo and has more than 11 million followers on YouTube and 6.6 million on the live broadcast site of Twitch.

However, the competition to reach the final was fierce and a famous player named Ninja was unable to qualify.

In particular, there are no women in the final phase, the majority of boys under 16 years of age.

Over the weekend of two games, 50 teams from each of the teams competed for $ 3 million for the first place team.

Source image
LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP / Getty Images

Bengevic was one of 18 players to have taken part in individual and bilateral matches.

He will face his teammate Martin Vos Anderson, who plays under the name "Mstrasavej", for the title.

Martin, a 14 year old Norwegian, has a team of badistants consisting of a social media coordinator, a leader and trainers in physical and mental health.

Martin says he's not nervous because he's used to spread his games to the mbades.

"Having a world title will give me a great feeling, which is why I play competitively to win."

The tournament is part of a Fortinet company campaign, which aims to break into the booming gaming industry.

According to a recent badyst report published on Newsweek's website, 2019 represents a major milestone for the global e-sport market, whose revenues will for the first time exceed $ 1 billion, primarily through protection rights. and media rights.

Source image
Getty Images

The researchers predict that the number of online sports viewers will reach 453.8 million people worldwide this year.

EpicGames has created waves of change in e-sports when it announced in 2018 awarding $ 100 million in annual competitions, surpbading all other competition games.

The company did the same in 2019 and broke the price record in an event by offering a prize of $ 30 million.

In the field of electronic games, some think that Quinzaine reached its peak and reached the summit.

But though it's still very popular among players and viewers, other titles such as "Apex Legends" have attracted many players.

Fortnight is free, but sells products like leather and new characters, which are estimated to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in profits every month.

However, the status of the World Football Championship of the fortnight will not last longer.

The ninth edition of the DOTA 2 International Championship will be held in Shanghai next month and will offer prizes worth $ 30.2 million, while video game enthusiasts have begun a campaign to raise more funds .