Joel McHale at Pro Am: If My Kids Play Fortnite Like Ninja Or Myth, No College
By Jesse Collins ·
During the Pro-Am, actor Joel McHale considers his options for his kids if they wanted to be pro gamers like Ninja or Myth when they grow up in a TMZ interview. Especially with $100 million on the line.
Joel McHale, famous for being on the show Community, recently took to Los Angeles and E3 to attend the Fortnite Pro-Am Tournament charity event. There, he watched from the sidelines after he and his partner Markiplier were taken down as famed streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins took the crown alongsider his mute DJ friend, Marshmello. Now, McHale has a different idea for his children.
In a TMZ interview during the Pro-Am event, McHale talked about his love of first and third person shooting games, including Fortnite (which has taken over his house) and Call of Duty. Additionally, when asked, he said that his kids can skip college on one condition: Play Fortnite as well as Ninja or Myth.
“If they’re like Ninja or Myth then, yeah, don’t go to college,” he said. “If you got a business going, then yeah.”
With $100 Million on the line this year alone, everyone is happy to try to get a little bit of the pot during the first year of the Fortnite World Cup. But, Joel has stipulations for his kids, and it makes it a tad more difficult for them to be as good as Ninja.
The catch is that they can’t just get practice “whenever they want”, after talking about the recent nine year old that was addicted to Fortnite. He believed that was a parenting issue over anything. But, if his kids show a lot of potential, then he’d be totally down to help them build off their success and talent.
For more details about what went down during the Fortnite Pro-Am Tournament, check it out here. To see when interviews get awkward, check out what Dillon Francis & IIJERiCHOII had to say. Also, did you know that Ninja lost 40,000 subscribers by attending the Pro-Am and taking a mere two days off?