Related Video by MoneyA packed stadium of thousands of screaming fans isn’t what many people imagine when they think of computer game competitions. And yet this was the backdrop for the Fortnite World Cup last weekend, which saw the world’s best gamers compete for a share of $30m in New York — the largest prize pot in the history of e-sports.Sixteen-year-old Kyle Giersdorf —known as Bugha—bagged the $3m (£2.4m) main prize by beating 99 other players to win the Solo Cup. The payout is more than golfer Tiger Woods made for winning the 2019 Masters Tournament.Kyle Giersdorf wins the solo cup at the Fortnite World Cup. Image via Epic Games.London teenager Jaden Ashman, 15, got a cut of $2.25m (£1.8m) for coming second in the duos event with his playing partner. Jaden told the BBC he hopes to buy his mum a house, despite her once throwing away his X-box.The 15yr old millionaire Fortnite player Jaden Ashman and his mum Lisa Dallman. He came second with his teammate on the duos and will split $2.25m! His mum says accepting him as an e-sports player has been very hard and she’s even thrown out an X-Box in past!!
— Joe Tidy (@joetidy)© Provided by Oath Inc.Chart: @StatistaChartsAnd another Brit, 14-year-old Kyle 'Mongraal' Jackson from Sidcup, Kent, also walked away with prize money of $375,000 (£308,000).' Top 6 duos top 13 solos, taking home $375,000 total, wasnt a bad result but I wanted better but stayed consistent in both modes, congrats to the winners and I cant wait for future competitions ???— mongraal - 420k earnings (@Mongraal)Fortnite, created by US firm Epic Games in 2017, reportedly has around 250 million registered players — and a peak of 78 million monthly players was claimed in August 2018 for its most popular Battle Royale version. It is free to download, but users can spend money on in-app purchases.
We’re excited to announce the Fortnite Xbox Cup is kicking off Saturday, July 20 on Xbox One! Any Xbox Live Gold member can compete in this Solos tournament for a chance to win part of the $1 million prize pool. Read the official rules here. Drop into Fortnite Battle Royale from your Xbox One console to join our online qualifiers starting on Saturday, July 20.
The Fortnite finals saw forty million players whittled down over several weeks to 100 qualifiers who battled it out on giant screens at the Arthur Ashe stadium in New York.Gallery: $3 million Fortnite World Cup (Reuters). Around 1.3million people watched the finals action live at its peak on streaming service Twitch, the Dexerto esports blog reports. And, like many things teenagers do, it’s not without controversy. Prince Harry recently called for the game to be banned earlier this year as he blasted its apparently addictive nature.
Harry said: “It’s created to addict, an addiction to keep you in front of a computer for as long as possible”.But with e-sports now a billion-dollar industry and even bigger prize funds planned, expect to see a few more millionaires who can’t legally buy alcohol —or even energy drinks— as young gamers go professional.
Contents.Overview The Fortnite World Cup uses two of the game modes available to the video game, Fortnite. The main World Cup event as well as the Pro-Am use, a where up to 100 players airdrop onto an island without any weapons or armor, save for a pickaxe. Once on the ground, players must scavenge for weapons, armor, and healing items, as well as using their pickaxe to knock down existing features to gather wood, stone, and metal resources. This all must be done while avoiding attacks from other players, as well as staying within a shrinking circle on the map or risk taking fatal damage outside it.
Players can use gathered resources to build walls, floors, and stairs and ramps to use as cover from attacks. The last player or team left alive wins.
In, players can build unique courses at their own pace, which can be used to create competitive events that can then share with others.The Fortnite World Cup had online events over 10 weeks from April to June 2019 for people to place. The weeks alternated between solo players and duos teams. During the Saturday of each week, any player or duo could compete with others by geographic region, playing up to 10 matches to earn points through eliminations and victories. The top three thousand players/teams from each region then competed on the Sunday event, again playing up to ten matches to earn points. The top point-scorers in each region from the Sunday event then proceed through to the World Cup, a total of about twenty players/teams each week. An estimated 40 million players vied for spots in the solo and duos World Cup.
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In the World Cup finals, the competitors played a total of six matches, with points earned for the highest finishers. The solo player or duo with the highest point total after six matches won the grand prize, with other players getting part of the prize pool available.
All solo players received a minimum of US$50,000 for reaching the finals, with the top prize being US$3 million. Similarly, each duo team in the final received a minimum of US$100,000 with the top team winning US$3 million.The Fortnite Creative Cup had a similar online process to select the players for the finals, taking place over five two-week periods from April to June 2019. Each active week, a new Creative challenge is available. Players, once completed with their Creative island, must submit video of that challenge to Epic in that period. For each period, Epic selected three of the best entries by a panel of judges. Each selected entry earns a cash prize of US$5,000 and a guaranteed spot in the Creative Cup finals.
From the fifteen winning entries, five were selected by Epic to be used in the Creative Cup finales. In the finales, eight teams of four, consisting of those that had their Creative island selected and other notable Fortnite players, complete in these five events to earn the best overall score.
The winners in the finale split a US$3 million prize pool.The teams for the Fortnite Pro-Am are selected by Epic Games, with each team made up from a Fortnite streamer and a celebrity. The teams each played five matches, with a scoring system for the winning teams. The team with the highest overall score after five matches won the Pro-Am.
Each team received a minimum of US$20,000 with the winning team receiving US$1 million.History had launched Fortnite in its original planned form, now known as, as an title in July 2017, around the same time that the first influential, was released. Inspired by this, Epic created a variation of Fortnite and released it as in September 2017. While, the game was supported. Fortnite Battle Royale rapidly became popular, and by June 2018, with the game ported to computer, consoles, and mobile devices, had reached 125 million players.
Total 2018 revenue for Fortnite Battle Royale was estimated at $2.4 billion by analysis firm SuperData Research. Epic designated US$100 million of these revenues to position Fortnite Battle Royale as an esport.The inaugural Fortnite World Cup was first announced in February 2019.
2019 events World Cup The World Cup is split into two different events, one for solo players, and a separate for two-player teams, or duos.The solo event finals were held on July 28, 2019. The event was won by 16-year-old Kyle Giersdorf, known online as Bugha, who took home the US$3 million grand prize.The duo event finals were held on July 27, 2019, with Emil Bergquist Pedersen ('Nyhrox') and David Wang ('Aqua') sharing its US$3 million grand prize. Creative Cup The creative cup involved 8 teams, each led by a popular Fortnite icon. The team leaders held qualifiers, in which they had those attempting to qualify participate in a challenge in creative mode. The top 3 performers on each challenge were recruited to their respective leader’s team.
The cup included three different creative game maps: a king of the hill map, a prop hunt map, and a death run map. Each map had one round with three matches dedicated to it, and the final round had one match on each map. In the end, the “Fish Fam” led by Faze Cizzorz won the creative World Cup.Pro-Am The 2019 Fortnite Pro-Am - teaming 50 popular Fortnite streamers with various celebrities, was held on July 26, 2019, for a US$1 million prize to be split between the winning pair to go to charities of their choice. Streamer Airwaks and music producer won the event, their second win after a similar Pro-Am event at, with their selected charities being the and the, respectively. Other teams split the remaining US$3 million prize pool for charity, with each team assured a minimum of US$20,000. Other activities In addition to the games in the stadium, the area around the stadium in was set up for a number of fan events, such as contests and games, and a concert. Viewership Epic reported that tickets for the 23,700 stadium venue were sold out.
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An estimated 2.3 concurrent million viewers on and streaming services watched the World Cup finales; additional viewers included those watching the final events from within Fortnite, and China viewership. Legacy Shortly after his win in the World Cup, Giersdorf had been while streaming from his home. However, one of the officers responding to the call had recognized Giersdorf from his win, and quickly calmed the situation down to determine that they were responding to a false call.
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