Fortnite's second summer skirmish was still some kind of mess

Update : Here is the complete list of winners. As of now, idropz_bodies is declared first, and has also been awarded a bonus prize for the most wins in a game (24). This will be controversial to say the least. His total prize pool between winnings and kill bonuses is $ 130,000, all from a player who did not even broadcast all the time. Even if he won just and square, that in itself is his own kind of event problem.

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Tonight was the first day of Fortnite second attempt of his own esports event, his summer skirmish that gives $ 8 million in prizes over the next two months or more. Last week, trying to bring all the guest players from around the world to a server for the last standing games resulted in A) very boring gameplay and B) so late the event had to be prematurely ended after four games.

week, things were wildly different. Instead of all the players playing together, Epic pulled out a page of the Friday Fortnite book (and their time slot) and invited all players to do their best in 10 public games, where Victory Royales and Kills gave them given points. a global ranking chart. The goal was to avoid the shift with public servers and increase the action by forcing the players to try to accumulate wins (five kills are worth a Royal Victory, and 20 kills in a game is a bonus of 10 points).

the result was … interesting, I guess, but still a little weird and overall bad.

Like last week, you could watch an official epic stream, or you could follow the streamers of your choice on their personal streams. This week, the legend Fortnite was actually playing, and its stream had more spectators than the Epic stream, but that was to be expected. Overall, I've seen over 800,000 viewers in Fortnite Twitch water courses tonight, well above average.

The experience was strange. The Epic stream had to constantly spend five minutes recording random streamers during games. There is always the problem that the team of commentators is not great and constantly talks about the players themselves. And these five minutes featured could be fun, or they could be boring, it was hard to say what you were going to get.

Instead, the best way to look was probably to choose one or two streamers and follow them. the duration of their games. The official stream was too chaotic to follow, trying to check with dozens of players, although focusing primarily on the top 10 to 20 best-known faces, of course.

This scoring system has created more action. These players were playing as they do in streaming or Friday Fortnite. You must be aggressive or you will be left in the dust by other players accumulating tons of victories. It's a delicate balance between aggression and not getting out early because you can land somewhere populated like Tilted, but if it can kill you tons, it could also kill you in the first minute of the game.

switched between Ninja, Lupo, Courage, Cloak and TimtheTatman, from time to time check with Tfue and Myth. Almost all were playing as well as I had ever seen them, which means that at least the "good entertainment" part of this event has increased significantly over last week.

But this configuration created a lot of other problems as well as. At the time of writing these lines, I am not even sure of the final list of winners. A player named idropz_bodies has been accused by viewers of using the mouse and keyboard on PS4 which would give him a significant advantage over there, and would allow him to accumulate huge totals of upgrade. death. He claims that this was not the case and that he was using a controller, but it can be assumed that this will be examined because he won by a significant margin on some of the best players of the world. It was not a great look for the event, and with a million dollars worth of prizes this weekend, it seems like there is better control to prevent cheating, the more it is happening. diet and any other form of potential cheating, no matter what happens with particular situation. And I think that a more general debate needs to be done on the console compared to PC gaming, as it seems that console players are usually more often at the advantage (in Summer Showdown, almost every best players in the world were playing on the console). At the time of writing these lines, regardless of these charges, idropz_bodies and NickMercs were # 1 and # 3, the two PS4 players. It also seems that everyone should be forced to broadcast their gameplay so that everyone can see exactly what their configuration and what their games look like.

So again, although overall this event has improved last week, it was still a chaotic and disjointed affair with dozens of streams to follow, a central stream a little useless, hard to keep track of scores and problems like possible cheating tainted with the procedure (even if it turns out that there was no cheating). I am not ideal.

I am curious to see the final ranking list, and the controversy that will result. There is a serious money on the line and Epic has to be very careful about how they handle that. Tomorrow is the second day of this solos event with a new group, and I hope that they will be able to sort out some problems. Next week will be yet another different format as Epic continues to experiment until something sticks. Until now, I do not think we can see anything that can work for the "Fortnite World Cup" or anything else. There is a long and long road in front of us, and a lot of work to do.