Notable highlight: Tfue and Cloakzy's epic Friday Fortnite tournament (opens in new tab) Victory RoyaleįaZe Clan (opens in new tab) is another streaming team that has soared to the top of the competitive Fortnite scene, picking up a star studded roster fairly early in the game’s lifespan.
He’s got an addiction to using Impulse Grenades and on top of everything else, he came second in the E3 2018 Fortnite Pro-Am tournament (opens in new tab) with his partner Kenneth Faried (opens in new tab), only losing to Ninja and DJ Marshmello (opens in new tab). It’s endearing, cute, and he regularly carries them to victory. CouRage has also got his own personal ‘10-year-old army’, a group of three 10-year-old kids he plays with after meeting them in random Fortnite games.
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He recently broke 10,000 subscribers on Twitch, which is impressive to say he’s been full time for less than a year. He’s become good friends with players like Ninja, Myth, DrLupo (opens in new tab) and more as he proves every single stream that his talents don’t just lie in casting.
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He doesn't call himself a Fortnite pro player since he’s considered a streamer for OpTic Gaming (opens in new tab) and not on its Fortnite roster but CouRage has proved time and time again that he can hang with the very best Fortnite streamers. He got his break casting Call of Duty for MLG (opens in new tab) but since quitting at the end of the Infinite Warfare season to focus full time on Twitch, Jack ‘CouRage’ Dunlop has gone from strength to strength. Only time will tell if EG’s gamble pays off, but it is definitely refreshing to see a rookie who is this aggressively confident, both on stage and on Twitter.Follow him on: Twitch (opens in new tab) | YouTube (opens in new tab)
“The plan for Jojo was to send him to ERL for a year if he wasn’t ready… but because of the improvements he made, we thought he was ready for the step up.” Screenshot by Jonathan Yee/ONE Esports “That was when we sat up and took notice,” Peter continued. “We sent to Europe to bootcamp to see if his base level was high enough… Asian teams were offering EG scrims because they thought we sent our entire team there, were so impressed by in solo queue,” according to Peter. Some may ask if this is too much pressure to heap on a 17-year-old, but Peter and the rest of EG’s management are confident that he is ready. Inspired had previously mentioned in an interview with The Click that he “was looking into a team that will either import a mid laner or have someone like Jojo who they believe will be very good.”ĭespite jojopyun’s inexperience, EG are still aiming to qualify for Worlds, for they expect their prodigy to be a top three mid laner in North America, according to Peter. However, his teammates, notably star jungler Kacper “Inspired” Słoma, still believed in his ability. He shared an anecdote about when the team was reviewing their LCS Lock In 2022 final against Team Liquid, and the mid laner blurted, “Wait, Gangplank’s barrels can crit?” Peter is only slightly exaggerating when he says this. “He’s new to League of Legends, but he is this good despite not knowing anything.” “The thing that stands out is how aggressive he plays the game,” he said.
This was when Peter Dun first noticed him. This brashness would take him right to the top of the NA solo queue ladder, which he achieved 18 months ago. In 2019, when jojopyun was only 14 years old, he made a name for himself for not only stream-sniping known Fortnite players like Turner “Tfue” Tenney, but also challenging them to 1v1s and beating them.īack then, you could already tell that he was brash, yet confident, with skills to back up his talk as well. Watch Evil Geniuses Danny’s Zeri zap everyone in electrifying pentakillĮvil Geniuses’ jojopyun gained fame stream-sniping and beating Fornite streamer Tfue 1v1.How Peter Dun became a renowned coach even though he was never a pro player.On Summoning Insight, a talk show hosted by Christopher “Montecristo” Mykles and Duncan “Thorin” Shields, Evil Geniuses’ head of coaching staff Peter Dun revealed the reasons behind why the org promoted the rookie and why he’s expected to be a “top three LCS mid, assuming Jensen and Jiizuke were in teams”. “Meteoric rise” doesn’t even begin to describe his trajectory, but who is jojopyun and why did Evil Geniuses take such a huge risk on him over established LCS mids like Nicolaj “Jensen” Jensen and Daniele “Jiizuke” di Mauro? Here is a kid who used to play Fortnite professionally, quit that to play League of Legends seriously, reached rank 1 on the NA ladder, and is now a starter in the LCS. When Evil Geniuses promoted 17-year-old Joseph “jojopyun” Joon Pyun to the LCS starting roster, fans were both confused and hyped.
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