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The Game on Everyone’s Minds

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With 45 million players worldwide, “Fortnite” has become the most popular video game on the market. The online shooter was officially released on Sept. 26, 2017 in conjunction with the multiplayer mode “Battle Royale” which enables players on platforms such as Playstation, Xbox and PC to play with their friends. Astonishingly, “Fortnite” made its debut on the videogame world stage with a price of zero dollars, making its rise to global success even more seamless.

Now, six months after the games release, “Fortnite” has become the “talk of the town” in the Wesleyan community. With GPA’s dropping at a more rapid rate than ever before, as well as the large number of “Fortnite” players at Wesleyan, the standard of academic excellence at Wesleyan is only getting better.  Senior Drake Bursa said, “Fortnite” is the most fraternal game of our time and will go down in history as the GOAT.” [Editors note: GOAT is an acronym for “Greatest Of All Time”] As the excitement continues to build and the hype behind “Fortnite” grows, players continue to chase the ever illusive “Victory Royale”, or as many say, “Another day another dollar.”

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Senior Spotlights

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Tyler Sommer

  1. What colleges are you applying to? Clemson, UGA and University of Tennessee.
  2. Who was your first Wesleyan crush? Emma Watkins.
  3. What was your most embarrassing Wesleyan moment? A one-on-one freestyle race my freshman year against Abraaz Khan at a swim meet with a huge crowd.
  4. What will you miss most about Wesleyan? My friends.
  5. What is one thing you wished you had done in High School? Water Polo.
  6. What are three things you cannot live without? Food, water and functioning organs.
  7. What was your dream job when you were a little kid versus what is your dream job now? I plan on fulfilling my childhood dream of being in the Army.

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