The Unexpected Failure of TSM’s Pro Fortnite Team

On February 20, 2018, approximately five months after the release of Fortnite Battle Royale, the YouTube channel TSM would upload a video to the platform titled Introducing TSM Fortnite. The video featured four professional

fortnite

players who had been chosen to represent the well-respected well-known esports organization. As

team

solo mid or tsm for short, the

team

's first player was known as soy myth who boasted of holding the number one spot on the solo playlist and was often argued to be the best player in the world along with the ninjas, I would say in your Peak, you were the number two ninja given your skill level and high status in the Fortnite scene.

He was tasked with finding three other players for the pro team and would initially pick a player named Hamlin who was ranked at the time. The number three on the solo playlist had a win rate of nearly 50 percent and a kill-to-kill rate of nearly 14. The next myth would pick a player named Daequan who shined as a standout solo player against squad and had placed first in many of Season 1's professional invitational matches, come on baby, come on, eventually the myth would choose a player named camille who had been part of a team that held the world record for most kills in a single team game, come on, comments in the introduction.

A video like this team is crazy, these four rolling together is a legit death squad and I can't wait to see these guys compete. It shows the high expectations that were placed on what seemed to be Fortnite's most unbreakable pro team. However, these expectations were not met. That would even be a monumental understatement, in fact, tsm's original

fortnite

pro team can only be described as a catastrophic

failure

on so many different levels, within months players were being kicked out for lack of performance, the team was being trolled to heights. unimaginable on reddit there. There were cases where half of the team decided not to show up for professional events and when they did, you never saw a tsm player place near the top of the rankings, some couldn't handle the pressure, others fell out of the center of attention and finally in February 2021. tsm would announce that they were abandoning the entire fortnight team and leaving the competitive scene with such a massive disconnect between expectations and reality that only one question remains: what could have gone wrong.

Well, let's start by looking at this comment in the introductory video. which said: imagine these four in a team that would be crazy, well the audience will enjoy that visual experience when, shortly after the team announcement, Myth will upload his first video of the team together on his personal channel under the title Introducing tsm fortnite fortnite. In the full match, the video featured the four players mentioned above, being Daquan and Camille from Myth Hamlin, and the most notable part of this indifferent game was that the morale among the four players was incredibly high, they joked and laughed for having joined to tsm tsm oh yo, yeah, yeah, buddy. wow showed their ability to work extremely well as a team and ultimately ended the video with their first win together.

These guys were obviously going to have no problem annihilating in a standard lobby as a full team, the game was still full of new players and, as before. I mentioned that these guys were basically the best of the best and had been playing since day one. The problem was that at first Fortnite had not started hosting any professional tournaments and therefore there was no way to pit them against other professional players there. It was Fortnite Friday hosted by keemstar and many of these new tsm members performed extremely well; However, there was no official Fortnite tournament where pros could play directly against other pro players, that would be until about two months after tsm was formed. team when ninja would announce that they would be hosting the first professional Fortnite event in Las Vegas on April 21, 2018.

There is an event taking place on April 21. Dad will be there live streaming this event right now. There was constant discussion about whether it was Myth or Ninja who held the crown of the best Fortnite player. No, he wants to kill me, wait, why, because we're the community rivalry, so it made sense for Myth to be invited to the event. where I would try to establish tsm's reputation in one of the first professional bi-weekly tournaments considering I have never been to a gaming event or a competitive gaming event like the one where I actually play in front of people or live stream while The Spirits of The young lady was high when she entered the doors of the e-sports arena.

The main thing we are going to do is eliminate a ninja. Okay, keep it low, but that's the plan that wasn't scheduled. I played through the 7th, 8th, and 9th game of the event, so I sat there watching the ninjas eliminate many other players as the pressure continued to build. It's time to reach out and do it personally. The ninja who seeks flight wins the first shot and hits the second. The challenge comes, can the ninja win his first game? The rockets are out. It's hard to say exactly what Myth had felt when he sat down to play the first of his three games, but unfortunately it would be excitement, adrenaline, or complete and utter anxiety.

Leading the myth to perform far below crowd expectations in the first game while he participated in a build battle. The myth would jump when another player would place a ramp on him, causing him to fall to his death, ranking him 13th out of 100 players in the second. In the game, he would be killed in a verse 1 assault rifle fight, which would rank him 48th out of 100 players. Oh, and the myth falls and in the last game there are no pictures or explanation of what happened to the myth, yet the commentators mentioned the death of him with 52 players left.

I just got the news that the myth is dead. I just received the news that the myth has fallen. Oh my goodness, folks, another early departure showing that he had probably died in the spawn within minutes of landing. Placing 13th, 48th and 52nd was somewhat embarrassing for a guy who was widely discussed as one of the best players in the game and overall showed that while Myth was an incredibly good performer and public match player, perhaps himself and therefore possibly even the tsm team selected by him were going to need a lot more practice on the professional side to achieve this practice about a month after the Las Vegas ninja event, the team would announce that everyone would join.

They're moving to Los Angeles to live together in a streamer house and I'm ready to go. to the house and I'm super excited, literally, like I'm ready to see it, we're going to get that team symmetry synergy, we're going to create a brotherhood and get them lawyers, baby, that's what we do in the house, they'll do it . Start improving as a team by uploading Fortnite videos, random challenges, and even posting full documentary-style videos titled Meet Tsm Daquan or Meet Tsm Myth, delving into their entire history to the point of moving into Tsm's house together that the team apparently had. .

This strong, unbreakable bond that had not been seen with any other fortnight team. I met a big one yesterday and then I just met and just looking at the house is amazing yeah and it's no wonder people had high expectations for the group this house is aimed at. to be used to make a fortnight's wet content and dominate the composition scene, baby, in the whole comb scene, brother, however, while you might expect that moving in together would be the point at which things began to take off, the opposite actually happened and it would be At this point, before the team had really entered the professional scene, but signs began to appear here and there that their team was already starting to fall apart.

Hamlins and Daequan played together regularly after moving into the tsm house in preparation for the professional scene. which was still heating up, as stated by tsm founder and owner andy din, we also promote the esports season, but honestly it won't be out for another year, so for now it's just quiet, however, camille is the final player in The team perhaps took the reassurance message too seriously, as it would become evident that she had not been practicing and her skill level as a fortnight player was well behind the rest of the group. Camille moved into the tsm house at the end of May 2018. about a week after the other three members and we are waiting for the finale.

Remember to save the best last. Put it in a separate video, but less than two months later, in early July 2018, videos like this one titled Daquan and Hammond will appear on YouTube. React to Camille's horrible tournament play: Did he get kicked out of TSM, which got over 500,000 views? for tsm, her skill had drastically decreased in seasons 3 and 4, when the pro scene was starting to get serious. The aforementioned video showing camille's horrible play would get comments like no offense but kim illes is the weakest player in tsm and he should. be replaced with something like sneaky or high distortion.

Bean said this time that he benched camille for high distortion and that she shouldn't be on tsm while these were just the opinions of the audience. tsm actually seemed to have the same idea that just 13 days later, tsm's Twitter page would tweet changes to the tsm fortnite roster. tsm camille has been benched. We are looking for a more permanent room. We will be testing for the position only 56 days after moving into the tsm house. Camille would be removed from the professional team and it was forced. coming home, so as you guys heard, I'm officially put on the subteam, there's a lot of people next to me that don't work hard enough for me, you don't know, they put in enough hours, which essentially I guess is true, but it's more .

On top of that, the other players explained that they like Camille as a person; However, at the end of the day they tried to help him improve, but he just couldn't keep up with the other players on the tsm pro team, he just didn't. He doesn't play enough, his work ethic isn't really there, it's all he really is. We wanted him to improve so much and I told him like brother, I need you to improve, so we gave him a lot of time to let you know and To begin with, you know, it's like taking him more seriously exactly, this seemed to make a big dent in the spirit and the structure Considering that they no longer had a permanent fourth player to practice with or rely on for upcoming tournaments and, as a result, the goals of the three remaining players seemed to fall out of alignment, the myth continued to scrim and practice against other professional players, without However, Daquan and Hamlin took a different approach by focusing on improving their broadcasting and public match skills.

Now this is understandable as it is probably what would have brought in the most money for them at the time, however, as Fortnite became more serious about pro events, the decision to focus on content creation began. to damage their reputation as professional players, especially after a specific event in September 2018. It was the largest professional event to date. With Fortnite offering its biggest prize pool of $1.5 million to be divided among the 100 finalists, it was week 8 of the summer skirmish held at Pax West posted over a four-day period to qualify and reach the finals. having to place in the top 33 out of a total of 99 competitors in their qualification matches, the first player to arrive was a myth who, despite having spent hours practicing against other professional players, would perform poorly in the skirmish at failing to achieve a single point and therefore not qualifying for the finals or even being in the top 50.

Miss Miss' previous elimination is up to Jake and that is the end of the event. The event for TSM Myth, however, despite Myth's poor performance, was much better than the other two remaining members. daquan and hamlin who decided not to attend the event in the days after reddit will start clowning around on tsm in posts like this reading I'm disappointed in the tsm team fortnite the biggest event in competitive fortnite history happened this weekend just one TSM team myth member even bothered to attend and compete in the event. Myth has shown that he really cares about competing in live streaming lessons more to try to improve.

The same cannot be said for the other two main members of tsm daequan and hamlin. of them chose to stay home and stream rather than attend and compete in the event. Daequan said this was a business decision for him. He wouldn't blame him for wanting to take advantage of the higher numbers ofstreams when everyone else is on pax but he is a member of the tsm fortnight competitive team, in my opinion daquan and hamlin should either fully commit to being competitive fortnite players or should they just become content creators with tsm. Posts will receive comments such as, I'll be honest.

According to Myth, I think everyone is mediocre at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if Myth actually leaves for another team where he can find teammates who are just as motivated as him while Reddit clowned Daquan and Hamlin over his lack of drive. Myth was not blameless, articles like this would point out that Myth had not placed in the top 10 in any game in the eight weeks of summer skirmish tournaments without a fourth player, Daquan and Hamlin deciding not to attend the biggest professional event. in the history of fortnite and the myth of not placing in the top 10 even once we can start to get a pretty good idea of ​​why tsm as a fortnight pro team was a ridiculous thing, summed up in comments like this one i've lost interest in the tsm fortnite scene, which sucks because not long ago I was really excited to see the tsm guys play on friday.

The Fortnite myth has the competitive drive but has been failing week after week. Diane Hams doesn't even have it. There seems to be no push to play professionally anymore and I've seen numerous good players leave for other organizations instead of being tsm's fourth myth. She would later say that due to the decoration and Hamlet's lack of drive to improve as the professional players began to build resentment within the group. I was really driven to play competitively and they realized that they really weren't like that. It got to the point where we had to sit down and talk and I was a little upset about that.

A little, yes, the myth would have discussed to what extent. Fortunately though, it seemed to be at a low enough level for them to continue making videos around the house together, but with different goals and time against when it comes to maintaining friendships, the groups seem to slowly drift apart each month and with Unfortunately , the first game didn't go very well, but yeah, looking at the old standings of Daquan Hanlins and Myth, plus the first place of the Hamlin duo, the tournament standings were generally not impressive compared to Faze or Liquid Tsm. He had been recruiting other Fortnite players outside of the official pro team, such as Cowboy and Zex Row, which became somewhat comical after a Reddit user noted that Zexro had almost earned more than his entire pro roster combined;

However, at this time, his tournament winnings and his professional level performance were of little concern as his external battles would slowly turn into internal battles. On December 14, 2019, Hamlins would post a tweet stating that they once started crying but don't know why the current mood I love you guys and good night good morning while daquan will post a longer tweet in the same month stating I've been through a lot this year and learned a lot from it, but I hate how this year went. I'm disappointed in myself in terms of how much I passed on. I hate how much I haven't posted on youtube, twitter, instagram, etc.

With Camille completely removed from the team, Hamlin and Daquan fighting their own demons and losing popularity after a downward trend, they would announce that the TSM house would come to an end in early 2020. With each creator moving to their own place, I bought a house and bought my car, you know what I'm saying, so we are moving to a new place this week, in fact, we will have a lot of broadcasts, brother, however, even though Daquan said that. There will be a lot of broadcasts after moving. If you've seen our videos about Daquan and Hamlin's disappearance, you'll know that just one week after moving out of the TSM house they would go completely silent on all social media, at which point the pressure would be back on the only active member left. , the myth of Tsm.

Hey guys, I'm not 7fe News and I don't have the daily scoop on Daequan or Hamlin's, so stop asking me if Day or Hamz wanted you all to know. how they were doing, they would tell them those are the facts so leave it to Daquan and Hammonds would remain silent for 18 months and return in August 2021. We came back and took over, however they would simultaneously announce that they would not . I will be returning to tsm and joining the fortnite nrg group instead, while Myth was extremely excited to witness his return. I really just want to say how happy I am that they still have that energy, bro, you know what I mean, it didn't really matter.

Whether or not they returned to tsm, it was already too late because midway through their hiatus on February 2, 2021, tsm would announce that the organization was moving away from competitive fortnite, a sort of theatrical end to what started out as the most hopeful competitive fortnite . group in the game's story we're great, but we're not very close friends and we don't talk consistently anymore, which is unfortunate, but it's who you are.