USA: 18-year-old becomes professional Fortnite player after fleeing Syria

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18-year-old Syrian immigrant Mony, who has become a professional Fortnite player in the US after fleeing war in his home country, showed off his skills on Wednesday in Riverside, California.
Mony played several rounds of Fortnite on his computer, with one scoreboard showing him placed at number 6 in the weekly rankings.
Mony explained how the internet was ‘very slow’ in his hometown, which he left at the age of 12, enabling only simple games to be played.
“When I went to Turkey I saw people playing Minecraft online against other people and I was oh, this is cool. So I started watching videos but I still couldn’t play cause I didn’t have a computer. So when I came to the US I got a computer and I started playing Minecraft and then a year later, Fortnite came out, 2017 and that’s how I fell in love with the game,” said Mony.
In 2019, Mony signed professionally with Team 33, a high-ranking Fortnite esports team based on the West Coast.
Regarding how playing Fortnite professionally has changed his life, Mony said that he can do ‘whatever I want,’ including buying the car of his dreams at 18.​
Fortnite is an online video game that combines battle royale and survival game styles.

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SOT, Mony, Professional esports player: “I was born in Aleppo, 2003, and I lived there for twelve years, and then I moved to Turkey 2015-ish and I lived there for a year and a half, and five years ago exactly we moved to the US, California.”

SOT, Mony, Professional esports player: “It was just a normal country, we were living our normal life, but when the war started, that’s when the bombing started. We had a sniper on our street, so when we’d go to school we had to cross the street which has a sniper on it. So that’s a big memory and the day our house got bombed, that’s a memory that I have.”

SOT, Mony, Professional esports player: “In Syria the internet was vey slow, so we could only play simple games on Facebook, it was like a farm game, not that bad but not that complicated either. But when I went to Turkey I saw people playing Minecraft online against other people and I was oh, this is cool. So I started watching videos but I still couldn’t play cause I didn’t have a computer. So when I came to the US I got a computer and I started playing Minecraft and then a year later, Fortnite came out, 2017 and that’s how I fell in love with the game.”

SOT, Mony, Professional esports player: “I’ve been playing the game for four years and when the game first came out it was just interesting, I just wanted to learn the building mechanic and the game was just so fun so I played for like twelve hours a day. But now the game has been getting more stale and I just play it as a job. I just play when I need to practice, so I have been playing like three hours a day instead of twelve, which I’ve been playing [like] that for three years.”

SOT, Mony, Professional esports player: “I started playing Fortnite professionally 2019 after all of these years playing casually. Two years of just playing casually, putting a lot of time for no money and it finally paid off in 2019 when the world cup started and now, three months ago I joined Team 33, which is the best team on the West Coast. And they pay salaries, bonuses, all that stuff. And now I am going to college as an engineering major and I am playing Fortnite as a part time job.”

SOT, Mony, Professional esports player: “Fortnite has allowed me to do whatever I want basically. I can go out whenever I want, I have the car that I’ve wanted since I was young. I’ve wanted this car since I was little, I’ve always enjoyed cars, I’ve always been a car enthusiast, so it allowed me to get that at 18-years-old, which is crazy.”

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