Parents are paying tutors to stop their kids getting owned at Fortnite - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/aug/02/fortnite-tutorial-how-to-be-better-shooting-classes-parents-paying-teachers Private tutoring and test preparation in the US has grown into a $7bn industry and is continuing to grow with a slew of educational startups, like Varsity Tutors, where students can pay for extra help online. Now, some parents are even shelling out for extracurricular lessons in the video game Fortnite, paying for online tutors to help their children perform to the best of their ability in the game’s survivalist Battle Royale function – where 100 online players compete in a fight to the death, with only one winner. The website Gamer Sensi has hundreds of coaches, many of whom specialise in Fortnite, and charge between $10 and $25 an hour, to offer their services over the internet and help improve gameplay. One tutor, for example, calls himself Convertible. He has played games for professional eSports teams in the US, Europe and Korea and says he was head coach for Samsung’s Fortnite team. “A typical session with me includes a self-analysis of one’s own errors, an individual analysis of statistics and VoD review,” he says on his profile. “I will provide you with tips and tricks for improved mechanics and communication.” While video games might not seem like the sort of endeavour parents would want their children spending more time on, there seems to be two main reasons why parents are investing in their children’s gaming ability. First, they’re worried about their kids’ social standing with their classmates. The Wall Street Journal spoke to parents that are worried that their children are being exorcised from social life because of they can barely last a minute of gameplay without getting shot from behind. “There’s pressure not to just play it but to be really good at it. You can imagine what that was like for him at school,” Ally Hicks, a project manager with a 10-year-old son told the paper. It’s not just social exclusion that is causing some parents to turn to tutors. An increasing number of colleges are offering scholarships for their eSports teams, including some for the best Fortnite players. eSports can be a lucrative career for both players and colleges. One collegiate eSports club called Tespa announced this year it would offer over $1m in scholarships and prizes to students competing in six different video games. Some of the coaches on Game Sensai are now being employed by colleges to help coach their teams. One coach on the site, Luke Keller, who specialises in Overwatch, a similar game to Fortnite, boasts a “20k scholarship and coaching salary to coach at university”. He’s apparently worth the money – his page is littered with five star reviews. One reads: “You want to know aspect of the game that you never thought of and he brings light into it!!” They also do LOL, Dota 2, Hearthstone, and Starcraft 2.

I wanna make fun of this but i woulda been the coolest kid on the block.

This is insanity. We are living in a simulation.

Holy heck a job I could actually exceed at

Can you teach me to fortnite so my parents will love me again?

id pay for a dwarf fortress tutor

This is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

Holy shit. Having flashbacks to that episode of South Park where that kid is making bank teaching parents how to minecraft.

selling my services as a Deus Ex tutor, i will show you how to throw maggie chow out of her apartment without setting off the alarms in addition to which kids are the best to ply with candy bars

fucknite (and BR in general?) is actually pretty shitty to play if it's one of your earlier multiplayer experiences. its a huge time investment, especially if you're grouping up. if you die you just fuckin sit til everyone else dies. give ur kids a game with deathmatch and let them git gud on their own, ez

Hey guys, I've actually been workshopping on an idea for a new program that I'd like to spearhead. It's still a work in progress, but I think it's worth revealing. I call it, "Shut the fuck up and actually raise your stupid fucking child for once as opposed to creating these absolutely asinine ~solutions~ instead. Like, holy shit lady, you're his fucking parent. If you honestly think the "pressure" your dumbass kid is under to perform well in a video game is worth necessitating the creation of a video game tutor, then you need to step the fuck back and take a long, deep look at yourself. Maybe this kind of addiction is actually harming your child and should be remedied by taking the game away from him/her. Maybe stop trying to allow this kind of behavior and, even fucking worse, try to come up with a monetization scheme to only worsen things while also coming off as a fucking failure of a mother. There's a difference between letting your kids play some video games and not acknowledging the fact that you're setting your child/children up for a rough time in their teens and early twenties because they weren't taught how to fucking function outside of an online environment. Fucking Christ." Like I said, it's a work in progress so I might need to work on making the name a bit shorter, I dunno.

To think if I'd been born a decade and a half later, I'd have been the right age to be popular because I was good at games I really don't think anyone expected video games to hit the popular mainstream culture that heavily, in that short a time span.

even god himself can't tutor you in dwarf fortress

Also maybe tell your kid to get some new friends if they come to you complaining about the "pressure of succeeding at Fortnite" causing them to be left out of social situations.

This is like something out of black mirror.

Dumbest but funniest. 'Hunny, our kid sucks at video games let alone fortnite. Better buy him some lessons so they dont know hes actually ours.'

I aint raisin' no scrub

Theres a guy that earns his living by coaching people on his twitch stream of CSGO. He's pretty cool and all, but if you're past MG and you don't know how to use your grenades, he will call you a moron. He will also call you a moron or a cancer if you send in demos of yourself cheating or smurfing or being boosted, and worst of all, doing "road to GE" kind of shit.

It's a social status thing clearly. Very keeping up with the Joneses, except with video games.

I can offer garry's mod tutoring, have been playing it for 12 years :vvvv

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Like 99% of random GE players have no idea how to throw set smokes outside of mirage top mid/stairs/ct.

Can tell when I'm becoming that old person I used to make fun of - I don't get the Fortnite craze and why it's so popular. Battle Royale is just so repetitive.

So is really any other shooter game, like CS:GO and COD, I think the main appeal of them is that you can just hit "Return to Lobby" after you're killed instead of waiting fifteen minutes for the next round or match.

This was a thing when I was still a teen >10 years ago, except it was Call of Duty 4 or whatever flavor of the month game kids were playing. I used to see flyers at the convenience store advertising that you could "up your game" and "dominate your friends" if you paid some guy $15 an hour to tutor you. I even considered becoming a tutor myself but I didn't feel comfortable enough to go to random people's houses and tutor their undoubtedly impatient kid.

Man, imagine how much of a loser your kid would be when the other kids at school find out they need a Fortnite tutor. It's one thing to be shit at a game but it's far worse to be so desperate to fit in that you're parents have to pay to try and make you popular.

i thought this was dumb at first but then i remembered the countless hours i've spent looking at nade tutorials demo reviews for csgo

This is absurd on such a scale I...I just don't get it.

I hope this becomes popular here because then I'd have a job I'm actually confident about!!

Do people not know coaching exist? I really don't find a problem with someone trying to get better at a game.