Fortnite WC Champ Bugha explains how his dad helped kickstart his career Epic GamesWorld Cup Solos champion Kyle \u2018Bugha\u2018 Giersdorf is the best Fortnite player in his family, but he explains how it was his dad who got him to try the game in the first place. Bugha became a household name after the Fortnite World Cup, a competition where he flat out dominated the whole way and came away with $3 million as a result. Going into the final game of the tournament, it was pretty clear he was going to come away with the win, and his life was going to change forever. In a documentary released by Epic Games, he explained that it was his dad who first got him into Fortnite. \u201cMy dad played video games for like his entire life,\u201d he said. \u201cHe first introduced to the game because he played Save the World, but I kinda found the Battle Royale, so I started playing that with some of my friends and eventually got to competing.\u201d Save the World is the PvE portion of Fortnite and is completely separate from the Battle Royale mode. There was no way for his dad to know that by introducing Bugha to Fortnite, he would reach the pinnacle of the game just two years later. The World Cup was his first-ever local tournament, and his parents remained supportive of him all the way through. \u201cWe were so nervous that we wanted to just get straight to our seats,\u201d his mom said. \u201cSo, we just made a beeline. When we walked in, we were just like \u2018Wow.\u2019 You can\u2019t even like imagine your son would be part of this amazing production.\u201d Amusingly, his parents didn\u2019t even think him winning the whole thing would be a possibility, but they were quickly proven wrong. When the tournament was underway, he let his play do all of the talking for him. He went to his usual drop spot, Lucky Landing, and eventually finished that first match off with nine eliminations and a victory. He followed up the first-place finish in the initial match and laid an egg in the next, earning no points. His dad said he noticed that as a turning point. \u201cI was watching him and I know that he knew what he did was wrong and he just sat there at first, then I saw a seriousness get on his face,\u201d his dad said. \u201cAnd then I said \u2018I think he\u2019s going to be good now.’\u201d Through four games, he was still firmly in first place, despite a 90th place finish in the second game. Going into the final match, Bugha explained his mindset. \u201cThe sound around me kinda just evaporated and let me get into the zone,\u201d he said. Before the match began, his parents were moved closer to the Winner\u2019s Circle, indicating he was on the verge of coming out on top. When it was all said and done, Bugha was the champion, but who knows if we would be there at all if it weren\u2019t for his mom and dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite WC Champ Bugha explains how his dad helped kickstart his career Epic GamesWorld Cup Solos champion Kyle \u2018Bugha\u2018 Giersdorf is the best Fortnite player in his family, but he explains how it was his dad who got him to try the game in the first place. Bugha became a household name after the Fortnite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}