Only 8 years old, the boy was offered a 750 million reward to sign a professional gamer contract

While his peers are still crazy about homework, even eating and living depends on their parents, Joseph Deen – at the age of 8 – has become a professional Esports player. The youngest in the world when signing a contract with Team 33, one of the potential teams in the world, including Valorant and League of Legends. To get Joseph Deen’s autograph as a player FortniteTeam 33 strongly hung up to 33,000 USD (~759 million VND).
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A few years ago, we had Patrick Bagaru, known as “H1ghsky1“, also invited to join Faze Clan while still in adolescence. However, the contract of H1ghsky1 caused a lot of controversy regarding the false declaration of age 1 to participate in tournaments. Because Twitch’s policy is to only allow players over the age of 13 to create an account, at that time H1ghsky1 was said to be 12 years old but lied about his real age.

To avoid a similar incident, Team 33 this time made Deen’s real age public from the beginning. Due to his young age, Deen signed a contract with Team 33 with very special terms. For example, Deen will not participate in any Fortnite Cup tournaments until he is old enough, in addition, he will not participate in regular practice with his teammates, but will only play the game for about 2-3 hours a day.
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Tyler Gallagher, one of the founders of Team 33, insists this contract is completely legal because it is not an employment contract. Deen will be training to further develop his ability to play Fortnite and build his brand image now. Moreover, Deen’s mother can completely terminate the contract at any time if she feels that this job affects her child’s studies too much.

Despite being very young, Deen is clearly an excellent Fortnite player. According to Tyler Gallagher, the reason Deen was offered $33,000 to sign was because he beat another Team 33 member in a Fortnite match. Deen himself said that in the past he felt unappreciated but hopes this signing will be a turning point in his career.​