The Twitch star Turner “Tfue” Tenney is number 1 on the streaming platform and a feared player in Fortnite: Battle Royale. But the ping in Florida drives him crazy. He dreams of moving to Virginia, where the land of glorious “0 Ping” is.
What’s wrong with Tfue? Currently, Tfue lives where he grew up, in a small town in Florida, in Indian Rocks Beach. He apparently prefers it there compared to Los Angeles, where he struggled with the life of a “star eSports player” and “influencer.”
But Florida is ultimately unbearable for him, as the ping is too poor.
Tfue is obsessed with 0 Ping
What’s up with “0 Ping”? The “ping” roughly refers to how long it takes for an input in the game to be actually processed by the servers. The higher the ping, the longer the delay. In the vernacular of Fortnite players, “0 ping” is equated with “no delay whatsoever.”
The Fortnite star Tfue has been obsessed with “0 Ping” for a long time. When he dies in Fortnite, he usually attributes it to 2 reasons:
- either the other player is using a controller with a “crazy strong” aim assist
- or the opponent simply has a better ping than he does
Tfue moved in June 2019 to qualify for the Fortnite World Cup in duos with his then-partner Cloakzy, but failed to do so.
Tfue believes his “high ping” in Florida holds him back from reaching the top of the world. Because for some maneuvers in Fortnite, like “taking over walls”, it’s essential for him to have super ping.
“You have to live where there is a damn low ping”
This is now his plan: Tfue raves about an area in Virginia, between Washington, D.C., and the place Ashburn, where there is a server farm. The area is about 1500 km away from his current residence, which is roughly the distance from Berlin to Moscow.
Tfue apparently seriously thinks about relocating:
- In a Twitch stream he raves about the area, saying they actually have “damn cool houses.”
- “You have to live where there is a damn low ping,” he says in conversation with other Twitch streamers.
- His dream is apparently to live in a “Zero Ping” house.
But Tfue believes: As soon as he has a Zero Ping house, Epic will decide to limit the ping in Fortnite to 30 so that no one has such an advantage. Somehow everyone always seems to have it in for him:
- Tfue is currently the streamer with the most followers on Twitch. He is likely already a millionaire, having never really attended school.
