Youth lacrosse coach turns to Fortnite to inspire his players

Winning at Fortnite: Battle Royale apparently helps you succeed in the real world, too.

In West Chester, Pennsylvania middle-school lacrosse coach Brendan Gorman gave an impassioned speech to his team over the weekend. But rather than tired old war metaphors, Gorman likened his team’s upcoming matches to battle royale.

The speech was captured and posted to the team’s Instagram account.

“Twenty four teams came here, okay? This is just like Fortnite, just like Battle Royale,” Gorman said. “Twenty four teams, there’s four left. But you know what? There’s four left, we got Chug Jugs, we got the Golden SCAR. Let’s go. It’s no different than a Fortnite battle! Let’s go win this, baby!”

Gorman’s squad, the O2 Lacrosse Training Academy, had already blown past most of the teams in the NXT Meltdown tournament, but they just had a little bit still to go at the time of the speech. And it looks like it may have paid off: O2 won the tournament, coming back from a four-goal deficit in the finals.

Now that they’ve won in lacrosse, you better watch out for these O2 players on Fortnite’s servers.

H/T Deadspin