19-year-old Hugh Gilmour is considered one of the best Fortnite coaches in the world. He has helped make millionaires out of teenagers at the Fortnite World Cup and does so at quite a reasonable price.
Who is he? The 19-year-old top coach is named Hugh Gilmour. Online, he goes by “DestinysJesus”.
In an interview with the BBC, he reveals that he lives with his parents in Kent, England.
The idea of becoming a coach was born out of necessity. He couldn’t make it as a professional Fortnite player himself. Gilmour tried from March 2018 to July 2019 but failed to qualify for the World Cup. So he could just as well coach.
He says he worked for 3 years in a gym and discovered his passion for leading others to success.
Protégés earn $17 million at Fortnite World Cup
Whom has he coached? Among the players who Hugh helped to become millionaires are:
- 16-year-old Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf – he became the solo winner at the Fortnite World Championship and took home $3 million in prize money, although a lot of it will go to taxes.
- 15-year-old Jaden “Wolfiez” Ashman and his partner “Dave “Rojo” Jong, who together made $2.25 million. They became World Cup runners-up in duo.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
According to his own homepage, Gilmour’s protégés earned almost $17 million in prize money at the Fortnite World Cup alone (via destinyjesus).
This means players who took hours with him captured more than half of the total earnings available at the Fortnite World Cup:
- Among the solo players, he coached 4 in the top 5: Even 13-year-old K1nG, an Argentine, took hours with him.
- In duos, 4 of the top 5 duos utilized his help, as stated on his homepage.
How much does he charge? Hugh charges £120 per session, which is about €133, as reported by the BBC. He does not participate in the winnings of his protégés.
However, he knew it would be good for him when his protégés performed so well at the World Cup. It enhances his reputation in the scene.
Fortnite is not a children’s game
How does he help the players? Gilmour says most people look at Fortnite and think it’s a kids’ game because of the cartoon graphics. But Fortnite is complex and deep. It’s an intense game.
Players must invest a lot of work into mechanics, aiming, and looting.
Hugh spends a lot of his time on video analysis. He analyzes landing spots and routes, teaching players specific techniques on how to defend themselves. Coaching takes place via video chat on Discord.
What do the pros he helped say? Rojo, one of the new millionaires, says the coaching was extremely important. This way, they knew where other people landed and could refine their own landing and rotation.
He and Wolfiez made some mistakes as a duo that they could fix before the tournament, thanks to the help of the coach. Without those hours, they would probably have made the mistakes and would not have placed second.
Coaching is now a crucial part of esports.
He showed us so much crap we can’t do anymore
But it’s not just “guys” who benefit from the training. Experienced Twitch streamers and older players like Nickmercs and SypherPk now trust the coach.
The Twitch streamer Nicksmercs says he and SypherpK paid Hugh to watch over their videos (via dexerto):
He showed us a lot of crap we just can’t do anymore. We used impulse grenades incorrectly, rotated wrongly, built wrong. We did so many stupid things that we really can’t do anymore.
