The Twitch streamer Turner “Tfue” Tenney feels abandoned by his two trio partners in Fortnite and is now looking for new teammates. He seems quite disappointed with his Fortnite friends: They accepted a sponsor deal with EA for NFL Madden 20, which he passed on.
What’s going on with Tfue? Tfue tweeted on Saturday afternoon. He is now looking for new, permanent trio partners in Fortnite who take “Competitive” seriously.
This is surprising because he has been playing with his partner Cloak for over a year. Tfue even moved in with Cloak to New Jersey for a while, because he expected a “0 Ping” from it.
The trio is quite successful. They are currently in 10th place in the competitive NA East division.
However, Tfue appears to be bitterly disappointed with his current Fortnite partners, Dennis “Cloak” Lepora and Thomas “72hrs” Mulligan.
Tfue rejects EA sponsor deal over more than $140,000
What happened? Tfue explains in a Twitch stream that he had assumed he and his partners would play the “Trio Cash Cup” in Fortnite over the weekend and were training for it.
That’s why he rejected an offer from EA for more than $140,000 to promote the new game NFL Madden 20 on his Twitch stream.
However, he later learned that his two partners, Cloak and 72hrs, had accepted the EA deal at the last minute without telling him.
They would now rather do the Madden stream instead of playing Fortnite together with Tfue as agreed.
Tfue wants $140,000 – otherwise he’s out
As a result, Tfue is angry and says: He’s not playing with them anymore – unless they pay him the “more than $140,000”, then it would be okay.
At first, it was unclear whether Tfue meant it or if the anger would quickly subside, but it seems to be a serious matter.
I can’t help it if he’s stupid
How do the partners react? Meanwhile, both of Tfue’s partners have responded.
Cloak says: “I didn’t know he had been offered such a deal. What kind of idiot must he be to turn that down? It’s not my fault you’re a fool.”
72hrs says: “That has nothing to do with me.” He doesn’t know what kind of deal Tfue was offered. If Tfue was offered so much money for Madden, why didn’t he come to them?
The Twitch clip shows the combined stream of 72hrs and Cloak. This aired instead of Fortnite:
Money ruins friendships
This is what it’s about: The EA deal seems to have shattered the partnership of the three Fortnite players.
Apparently, EA contacted Cloak and 72hrs at the last minute after Tfue declined. They did not hesitate to accept the deal.Tfue is the biggest streamer on Twitch – he claims to have plenty of money anyway.
The problem seems to be that the three haven’t communicated with each other.
One must realize that Twitch streamers are still relatively young:
- Tfue is 21
- Cloak is 24
- 72hrs is 25 years old
There seems to be a lack of communication – however, with so much money involved, it also seems that the issue with friendship ends. In principle, Twitch streamers are self-employed businesses. Partnerships are only temporary.
Even the duo that won the Fortnite World Championship together split up immediately after the tournament, because one of the two felt he could get a better partner.
Tfue’s recent troubles with Twitch haven’t had any consequences yet:
