Rise Nation Announces First Professional Fortnite Player

With the 2019 Fortnite World Cup and its $100,000,000 prize pool drawing a substantial amount of interest from various esports organizations, many of the leading teams in the esports industry have begun to assemble their competitive Fortnite rosters to compete for the massive prize pool for the 2019 Fortnite World Cup. 

One of the latest to do so was North American esports organization Rise Nation, as the professional Call of Duty powerhouse announced on Twitter on Tuesday, July 2nd that the organization had signed former professional Call of Duty player Jamal "Whea7s" Lee to its professional Fortnite roster. 

According to the announcement by Rise Nation, Whea7s will compete as a solo competitive Fortnite player for Rise Nation. With the 2019 Fortnite World Cup having a strong focus on solo and duo competitions, many organizations and players have begun to focus on gathering talent for these specific competitive events. 

The role of professional battle royale player for Rise Nation is not the first time that Whea7s has been a member of the organization, as he was a member of the team's Call of Duty esports roster in 2014 and 2015. Whea7s also competed for the likes of Team SoloMid and eUnited in a five year career that lasted from 2013 to 2018 and saw the newly announced Rise Nation Fortnite player compete for 17 other teams. 

With the organization seeing great success in the 2018 Call of Duty World League season with 3 three major tournament championships under their belt for Call of Duty: WWII, Rise Nation will be looking for Whea7s to have the same level of success in the upcoming competitive season for the popular battle royale title from Epic Games.

At the time of this writing, it remains to be seen if Rise Nation will add any more players to its professional Fortnite roster or if Whea7s will be the sole representative of the organization for the foreseeable future.

(cover photo courtesy of Rise Toxin)