Fortnite star mitr0 joins Team Liquid following 2019 contract drama Team Atlantis \/ Team LiquidFortnite pro player Dmitri \u2018Mitr0\u2019 Van de Vrie is taking a big step forward in his young competitive career, signing with Team Liquid for 2020. The Dutch 17-year-old had a tumultuous, drama-filled end to his 2019, but has set high expectations for himself going into the new year. For the best Fortnite player to come out of the Netherlands, the long free agency period is over. On January 22, Team Liquid announced that they had signed Mitr0 to their European Fortnite roster. In the announcement, Liquid\u2019s Fortnite manager Kory Arruda said that he had to reach out \u201cthe second [they] heard [Mitro] became a free agent.\u201d There\u2019s good reason for the team to be excited, as Mitr0 has established himself as an excellent player, having won multiple events over the past year and a half as a solo, duos, and squads player. Please welcome, @mitr0 \ud83d\udca5 Read more: https:\/\/t.co\/hmGIL28q5L pic.twitter.com\/P9Dh4lNIew \u2014 Team Liquid (@TeamLiquid) January 22, 2020 The Dutch native said in the announcement that \u201cit was always a dream\u201d to be in Liquid, but despite arriving at his dream destination, his journey to Liquid was closer to a nightmare. Back in September, #FreeMitr0 started trending after YouTuber \u2018TheFortniteGuy\u2019 and Twitch streamer THump alleged that the player was stuck in a bad contract with Team Atlantis. According to them, he was being \u201cgrossly underpaid\u201d and was \u201ctrapped in a 2-3 year deal with terrible benefits.\u201d Other pros such as Turner \u2018Tfue\u2018 Tenney and Mitr0\u2019s trios teammates in FaZe Clan\u2019s Kyle \u2018Mongraal\u2018 Jackson and NRG\u2019s benjyfishy tweeted out in support of the young pro, and after Team Atlantis released a statement regarding his contract, the two agreed to mutually part ways. With one of the largest brands in esports now supporting him, Mitr0 has set his expectations high for the 2020 campaign, saying his goal is a \u201ctop 3 power rankings spot\u201d and to play well across multiple game modes. As for the future of the Fortnite game itself, he hopes that he might see the minigun return, calling it \u201clegit the most fun weapon to use.\u201d During 2019, Mitr0 won several different events even during his very public departure from Team Atlantis. This included victories in Solos Cash Cup, Trios Cash Cup and Trios Champion Series with Mongraal and benjyfishy, and a handful of different Squads events to close out the year. He also finished sixth in Duos at the Fortnite World Cup. Not bad for someone who played his first game and \u201cthought it was a sh*t game\u201d that he didn\u2019t play for a month after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite star mitr0 joins Team Liquid following 2019 contract drama Team Atlantis \/ Team LiquidFortnite pro player Dmitri \u2018Mitr0\u2019 Van de Vrie is taking a big step forward in his young competitive career, signing with Team Liquid for 2020. The Dutch 17-year-old had a tumultuous, drama-filled end to his 2019, but has set high expectations […]<\/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-76406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76406","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=76406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}