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SINGAPORE – Simone Lim had the easy air of a seasoned campaigner, and not that of a seven-year-old who had just snatched victory from the defending champion.
“All children like winning,” she said coolly on Saturday (Feb 29), when asked how it felt to emerge the winner at the Feb 21-23 Pokemon Oceania International Championships Junior Division in Melbourne.
In the next moment, however, Singapore’s youngest e-sports champion was a little girl again, offering a handshake from her stuffed toy.
This combination of precocity and adorableness propelled Simone to overnight Internet fame, after her unlikely triumph against Canadian defending champion Justin Miranda-Radbord, 10.
Simone, in winning the US$1,500 (S$2,089) prize money and qualification points for the world championships in August, became Singapore’s youngest e-sports champion.
Pokemon is a video game franchise centred on collecting and training the eponymous creatures, and has been popular since its 1996 launch.
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