Mitch Robinson has signed with a new team. But don’t worry, Brisbane fans, he’ll still be playing for you next season.
The midfielder has signed with esports team Chiefs as a streamer playing Fortnite, the squad announced on Tuesday.
Here’s a quick guide for those who didn’t understand that previous sentence.
– Esports is professional video gaming;
– Chiefs, or The Chiefs Esports Club, is a team of professional gamers;
– Fortnite is a video game and global sensation, in which 100 players drop onto a map and try and shoot each other, with the last person or team earning a Victory Royale (winning).
Over 200 million people are registered players of Fortnite, which is free to play and available on almost every platform imaginable.
“I can’t wait to join The Chiefs and get started with my streaming set up, so I’m looking forward to 2019,” Robinson said in a video on the Chiefs website.
“I jumped on (playing Fortnite) on console and I was pretty bad with the remote, and I used to be a gamer back in the day, so my brother, who is a massive tech head, he set up a gaming PC for me.
“Sooner or later I got pretty good at it and I started to show some skills, so it’s been pretty fun.”
Robinson had a strong 2018 AFL season, being ranked by the AFL Player Ratings as Brisbane’s fourth-best player, behind only Dayne Zorko, Harris Andrews and Stefan Martin.
But he’s pretty solid at Fortnite as well. While it doesn’t appear Robinson will be playing in any upcoming tournaments as a Chiefs representative, he recently competed in a local event in Queensland, finishing fourth.
The Adelaide Crows and Essendon own their own esports teams – Legacy Esports and Bombers, respectively – but their AFL players do not play for their esports sides.
“No stranger to elite performance and competition, Mitch never shied away from competitive gaming having been a PC FPS player back in the day,” Chiefs creative director TJ Bird said.
“With the release of Fortnite, Mitch sought to test his skills and have been honing them ever since, streaming his journeys from the bus onto the island on Twitch.
“What drew us to Mitch was his dedication to…
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