Teen’s gaming gains eminence

His real name is Reef Galloway – but in the gaming world the Tauranga teen's referred to as Eminence.

Step into the 16-year-old's world of gaming and Reef is the champion.

Tauranga teen Reef Galloway and internet mogul Kim Dotcom. Photo: supplied.

He's proven this after winning his first AvT Auckland LAN 2014 game in the Digital Nationz Call of Duty Championship, just hours after his team left him to play on his own on September 27-28.

Call of Duty is a first-person and third-person shooter video game that includes Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2, 3 and 4. The game simulates the infantry and combined arms of World War 2.

'The story behind it, which makes it funny, is I'd been teaming with the AvT winners at the beginning of the year,” says Reef, who scored a $1000 sponsorship deal with Kim Dotcom in January after a close game with the internet mogul during the launch of ‘Call of Duty: Ghosts'.

'But a week before this [September] event, they decided to leave me and team with someone else.

'So, I created a new team of two ex-rivals of mine and a player who hasn't played in nine months – and we ended up winning.”

Reef's new teammates 18-year-old Matthew Dibley, Mason Stanners, 15, and Tyler McElwain, 20 – aka Bushy, Mase and Templix – are still coming to terms with the win.

As for Kim, Reef says he's 'over the moon”.

'I kept him up-to-date with how we were doing after he said he couldn't make it on Sunday.

'After we won the event you get up and go shake the enemy team's hands and I kind of sat there and had to process what just happened before going up and shaking their hands.

'It was a really great event. The gaming community has been really amazing, telling me I played really well.” The team is splitting the $440 prize between them, but will be enjoying a six-month supply of Red Bull and Big Pipe internet individually. Reef's now turning his focus towards swatting up on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, released next month. 'A lot of 18-plus players will be playing it at the world championships at the beginning of the year,” says Reef. 'I'm not old enough, but I'll be spending my time learning how the game works.”

His new team plan to stay together for the next world championships in about one year, when Reef turns 18.

Reef's also been talking with Dotcom about the future of the young gaming sensation…but that's top secret.

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