Fortnite Announces First $ 8 Million Professional Tournament



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E-Sports

By: Luis Padilla | 11-07-18

Fortnite has just announced its first professional competition of esports. This is the Summer Skirmish Series a series of competitions that will last eight weeks. And the prize pool or the total amount that will be awarded in prize money is $ 8 million .

That same weekend will start competitions with a $ 250,000 prize duet competition, and then we will have new competitions every week. For the moment, this tournament is by invitation only, just like previous Fortnite events, and players and content creators have already been invited, says Epic Games.

However, the company says that later will open qualifiers for this tournament and others and that the details to participate will come "soon" because the participants will change every week.

In this way, Fortnite finally presents its first professional tournament, beyond the exhibition events that it had like the Pro-Am. And this will be part of a series of tournaments, which will have a huge total prize pool of $ 100 million during the season. This tournament is framed in the Fortnite World Cup, main event that will be composed of several leagues of this royal battle from around the world, mainly for the modalities Solo and Duo.

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