Onboarding with the Tempo Storm Fortnite team

by   •   DougDoug, Photo Album, Tempo, Travel
 

Literally three days after moving from Southern California to Las Vegas, I got on a plane and went straight back to California to visit Hollywood and Burbank for Tempo Storm’s Fortnite team’s onboarding. (Yes, I could’ve just chosen to move after the onboarding, but then I would’ve had to miss the Esports Arena Las Vegas grand opening, so that posed another problem. On top of that, we ended up postponing this Fortnite event by a week, so I was actually originally under the impression that it would happen before I moved.)

The first day was mostly composed of video interviews and photo shoots – we wanted to get as much media footage of the players as possible so we had some stuff to work with when creating features and segments. Our executive producer Doug was the one who primarily ran most of the interviews, while our photographer Bills captured head shots:

Doug conducting interviews in the recording studio

VapeJesus and Payne setting up their computers

VapeJesus in a photo shoot with Bills

Later on in the day, Greg Grunberg stopped by to direct a pilot episode of a talk show with one of our players.

Payne being interviewed for a TV show pilot

Speaking with Director Greg Grunberg

To conclude the day, we went up to the Observatory to enjoy the view of Los Angeles.

Fortnite team looking down onto Los Angeles

Looking down on Los Angeles from the Griffith Observatory

Hollywood sign

The second day was show day. We had the players participate in a 10-in-5 challenge, where our team had to get 10 wins in 5 hours. We didn’t realize how easy it would end up being for them – they blasted through with 10 wins in a row in right around 3 hours, then spent the remainder of the time doing silly stuff to entertain the audience, like queuing up for 4-man squads the splitting up half-and-half to wipe out everyone else on the map and meet in the middle.

Doug introducing the broadcast audience to the 10-in-5 event

Doug and Carlos manning the studio control room during the 10-in-5 livestream event

The evening concluded with some group photos, followed by a trip to all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ and an escape room.

Fortnite team sitting on a red couch in the music room

KBBQ

The team recovered almost $1.1M worth of treasure while in the escape room

(Full album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/adamparkzer/sets/72157689199589840)

 

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