Benjy Fish, from Middlesex, is ranked among the best in the world at Fortnite
A 15-year-old boy has earned £25,000 playing Fortnite and is now chasing millions at the game's World Cup - which has a prize pool of £23million.
Benjy Fish, from Middlesex, is ranked among the best in the world at the popular online arena game - and has guaranteed himself another £50,000 by qualifying for this year's Fortnite World Cup, which boasts a prize pool of £23million.
Benjy will be competing at the event in New York this July - having been encouraged to drop school by his mother Anne, who acts as his manager, the Mirror reported.
The teenage gamer, who has more than 150,000 YouTube subscribers and nearly 120,000 followers on Twitch, told the paper when his mother suggested he quit school to focus on his eSports career, he didn't believe it - saying it had been his dream since he was 13.
'My mum didn't think I was all that good at it at first until I woke her up in the middle of the night to say I'd won £10,000 in an online competition against the top players in Europe,' he said.
'That's when things really started to take off and I was signed as a professional by the games computer NRG eSports - one of the top eSports teams around.
'Up until that point, I'd been (badly) juggling going to school with playing Fortnite into the early hours seven days a week.'
Pictured: Benjy's avatar 'Benjyfish' in Fortnite. He will be competing at the game's World Cup in New York this
