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    FORTNITE FRENZY

    Apr 01, 2019 5 minutes
    by Kathryn Hulick

    A hot air balloon carries the Battle Bus over the map. One hundred players drop from the sky onto a brightly colored landscape. Nosefacekiller6 is one of them. He dashes toward a small building, hoping to find some loot. It’s his lucky day. He gets a pump shotgun. Quickly, he harvests some wood and builds a tower. From the top, he picks off another player. He does the Zany dance to celebrate. Then the storm approaches and he has to move. As he hurries toward a nearby city, another player nabs him. Nosefacekiller6 is out of the game. But he’ll try again.

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    This is Fortnite. It’s a video game craze that has spilled over into popular culture. Josh Hart of the LA Lakers basketball team wears Fortnite-themed shoes. In magazine. Chemistry students at Tippecanoe High School in Ohio tweeted that they wanted to make Fortnite the topic of their final exam. Their teacher had agreed to do it if they managed to get more than 6,700 retweets. They got around 30,000!

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