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Fortnight

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 7:13 pm
by christie1111
Anyone play? My Nephew is apparently in the top 100 GLOBALLY! He and his Dad (my brother) are being flown to NYC (Queens) to play in a tournament at the end of July. Since he qualified in 2 things (don't ask me, I don't know) he is basically guaranteed $100,000 for showing up. We are hoping to meet up with them while they are in the neighborhood.

Re: Fortnight

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 6:53 am
by littlebeast13
I'm still one of the youngest people on this Bored, so I can't imagine there'd be any gamers from this genre around here. I'm only familiar with this series (Which is cutely spelled "Fortnite") from all of the licensed crap we sell at work for it...

lb13

Re: Fortnight

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 7:27 am
by silverscreenselect
littlebeast13 wrote:I'm still one of the youngest people on this Bored,
That's a scary thought, not that we're older than you, but that we haven't (and aren't likely to) get much new blood to make up for the inevitable attrition. We need to get some second-generation BBers here.

Re: Fortnight

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 8:02 am
by Bob Juch
littlebeast13 wrote:I'm still one of the youngest people on this Bored, so I can't imagine there'd be any gamers from this genre around here. I'm only familiar with this series (Which is cutely spelled "Fortnite") from all of the licensed crap we sell at work for it...

lb13
My 14 year old stepdaughter spent a ton of money on FNAF licensed crap. I thought she got tired of it but see she spent some time in it last week. :roll:

Re: Fortnight

Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2019 8:05 am
by littlebeast13
silverscreenselect wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:I'm still one of the youngest people on this Bored,
That's a scary thought, not that we're older than you, but that we haven't (and aren't likely to) get much new blood to make up for the inevitable attrition. We need to get some second-generation BBers here.

We had a pretty good bunch join up and stick around the first couple years of this iteration of the Bored (2008-09), including a few who even I could call whippersnappers, but that wave has pretty much entirely moved on already and been gone for a while...

lb13

Re: Fortnight

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:50 am
by christie1111
Yeah, you can tell how much I know about it by the way I spelled it. :-)

But the amount of money that could be won is staggering. All expense paid trip for my nephew and brother and by showing up he gets $50K for each of the things he qualified for (single and doubles) with a chance for up to $3M for each competition.

I did mention he is 16 y.o. right?

Re: Fortnight

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:07 am
by tlynn78
Very cool. My grandson played it pretty heavily for awhile, but he seems to have moved on to something else - can't remember the name...

Re: Fortnight

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:07 am
by BackInTex
christie1111 wrote:Yeah, you can tell how much I know about it by the way I spelled it. :-)

But the amount of money that could be won is staggering. All expense paid trip for my nephew and brother and by showing up he gets $50K for each of the things he qualified for (single and doubles) with a chance for up to $3M for each competition.

I did mention he is 16 y.o. right?
Good for him. But personally I think that is crazy. My son-in-law plays a lot. I don't understand the attraction but then I preferred Centipede over Leisure Suit Larry.

Re: Fortnight

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:13 am
by Bob Juch
tlynn78 wrote:Very cool. My grandson played it pretty heavily for awhile, but he seems to have moved on to something else - can't remember the name...
Apex Legends?

Re: Fortnight

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:38 am
by Vandal
My son (24) is big into League of Legends. He watches the tournaments and even attended a live weekend event at the Boston Garden last year. I don't get the attraction, but hey, I'm older than LB.