But when he was diagnosed with the joint swelling condition Osgood-Schlatter disease when he was 11, he gave up physical sports and spent increasing amounts of time playing online. In real life, he was a keen bowler and competed in his first tournament at three years old. Mrs Fish, widowed at the age of 42, could not afford their rent and had to rely on handouts from her parents Benjy was just eight months old at the time. While his mother is a long way from matching his earning power, their fortunes are a marked contrast to Benjy's early years, when he and his family were made homeless after his father David died of esophageal cancer at the age of 57. While Charles only dabbled in online gaming and soon lost interest, Benjy became hooked from the age of eight, playing games such as League of Legends and Rocket League. Mrs Fish bought a secondhand laptop for her son Charles, now 24 and a jazz guitarist, when he was eight years old. It has been really nice to do something completely different. She said: 'I have always been focused on work and bringing up the children. While she is still living in a rented home – Benjy is still too young for a mortgage and most of their earnings are tied up in the family business – Mrs Fish said Benjy's father would have been 'exceptionally proud' of what they had achieved. Mrs Fish, widowed at the age of 42, could not afford their rent and had to rely on handouts from her parents. 'The building element of the game is pretty cool, although I can't do it and usually just hide or rotate to dead side, which means going to a part of the map where there are not many players.'įortnite involves 100 players being dropped onto an island, where they have to build defence forts, find weapons and kill one another until there is only one player standing.īenjy, who began playing at 13 and was signed up at 15 by esports company NRG, has made more than £500,000 from gaming professionally after qualifying for international tournaments, including the Fortnite World Cup in 2019. 'I have quite a competitive side and enjoy the challenge of learning a new skill. 'Since I've been doing it, I have had lots of feedback from other parents who are starting to have a go at playing it. 'Everything happens so fast in Fortnite that you don't always know what's going on when you're watching someone else playing but when you're playing yourself, you understand more about the end game and strategies.Īt the height of her gaming, Mrs Fish played for 18 hours straight, only taking short breaks to make cups of tea and use the bathroom 'I was already involved with that world because of Benjy but I did not understand too much about it. 'My computer had such dated graphics that it could not even run Fortnite. Mother-of-two Mrs Fish, who lives in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, said: 'I used to play a game called Banjo-Kazooie on the Nintendo 64 with the children when they were very young but I had not played games in years. She only took up the game herself in February this year, playing in the family living room while Benjy played in his bedroom, and admitted she was 'really bad' – but swiftly realised there was a market for streamers wanting to watch average players in action.
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She should know better than most: as the manager of 17-year-old Benjy Fish, a professional gamer, she saw him progress so quickly that she took him out of school at 15 to allow him to focus on the game.
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She is under paid contract to produce content around the game, which will include livestreaming videos of herself playing and teaching baffled parents about the battlefield that has their children on tenterhooks.īenjy gives his mother a few pointers at the PC screen
Now Mrs Fish is looking forward to being rewarded for her efforts with a slice of the pie after being signed up by the Dubai-based esports firm Galaxy Racer. Instead, she is locked into her computer screen for up to 13 hours a day playing Fortnite, the online video game that has hooked more than 350 million players worldwide – most of them teenagers – and amassed billions of dollars for its creators.Īt the height of her gaming, she played for 18 hours straight, only taking short breaks to make cups of tea and use the bathroom.īut then, as the mother of one of the world's best Fortnite players, it's perhaps little wonder that she became engrossed in the game herself. A month away from her 59th birthday, you'd expect Anne Fish to be looking forward to retirement and spending more time pottering around her scenic garden overlooking the river Thames.
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