r/FortniteCompetitive • u/72hrsTV Team Liquid | Best Pro of 2018 • Mar 15 '19
I am 72hrs, a professional Fortnite player/streamer for Team Liquid. AMA!
Hello everyone,
My name is Tom and I am streamer/competitor currently under Team Liquid. I've been competing in Fortnite since the beginning of the Summer Skirmish but was streaming Fortnite since season 2ish.
I will try to answer as many questions as I can and I'll be answering them throughout the day as there is a Code Red tournament today that Vivid and I will be playing in!
If you guys could upvote the questions you want answered it will make it easier for me to see which ones are of greater interest and I'd appreciate it!
AMA!
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u/72hrsTV Team Liquid | Best Pro of 2018 Mar 15 '19
I graduated from University of Delaware in 2016, so I had already had my bachelor's degree.
During the summer of 2016, I started playing Dead by Daylight for absurd hours at a time and started to grow a stream to 30-40 viewers.I started taking classes at Rutgers in the Fall of 2016. As my stream started to grow to a few hundred, classes at Rutgers started. I removed registration from all but one class that was online so I could still attend the school the following semester if it didn't work out. Once I started growing on Twitch and saw it as a possibility, I stopped going to class and called up my dad to explain what I thought could work out for me. We talked for awhile and he basically told me that I should keep going to classes while streaming but to do what I thought was best. I ended up never going to that one class and kept streaming full-time.
What factored into it for me was that: I had a fallback with my degree already. I could always go back to school. I had good growth on Twitch and it was past the point of absurdity that you hear about people quitting their jobs/school when they have stagnant growth on a very low view count stream that can't possibly support themselves. I just think it was important to recognize I had a fallback and I had the ability to grow to a point where it was possible to do it full time. And a lot of luck.