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Fortnitewill be making its best actor moneyed in 2019 . Developer Epic Games announced the detail for its upcomingFortniteWorld Cup , uncover that the tournament serial will have $ 100 million put into its prize puddle for its 2019 season alone , spread across multiple tournament preferences .
TheFortniteWorld Cup has been an eagerly foresee declaration from Epic Games . Fortnitehas been so one by one successful that it has permit its developers to launch their own digital distribution service in theEpic Store , and that kind of speculation ask capital that most games can only daydream of return . That Epic Games can afford to support such a lucrative tourney series while simultaneously produce a fledgling raw statistical distribution project is yet another indicator of the berth of major power the developer is working from .
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TheFortniteWorld Cup , formally announced byEpic Gamesearlier today , will begin its sport in ten hebdomadary Online Open qualifiers that begin mid - April and end mid - June . Each of those hebdomadary tournament will have $ 1 million in their trophy pool , with a payout system that is draw by Epic Games as being " distributed broadly . " Then , the top 100 Solo player and the top 50 Duos squad from around the earth will be invited to theFortniteWorld Cup Finals in New York City in late July , with a staggering $ 30 million in prizes useable .
Every player who participates in theFortniteWorld Cup will be guaranteed at least $ 50,000 just for attending , while the Solo Champion is guarantee a nerveless $ 3 million . That immediately makesFortniteone of the most lucrative esports life history to quest for , rivalling game that have had to spend years build up themselves up to those form of loot . The airless point of comparison are MOBA giantsLeague of LegendsandDota 2 , though the latter ’s biggest tournament trust on fan reenforcement to generate a expectant glob of its prize pool .
TheFortniteWorld Cup announcement could n’t come at a good time for the game , either . Though it has persisted as the de facto unspoilt struggle royale experience for jolly well all of 2018 , an early contender to the stool arose this year in the form ofApex Legends . While that biz has generate significant sports fan stake and has gas a pace of growth thatsurpassed evenFortniteat the same point in time , it ’s unlikely thatApex Legendsdeveloper Respawn Entertainment has the capital to offer a tournament series of this order of magnitude .
Money talking , and if the attractor of one of the most mouth - watering prize puddle in esports history is enough to makeFortnitethe most popular among competitive players and streamers , then Epic Games will have pulled a major coup and possibly squashed any hope of real competition in the interim . We ’ll find out just how braggy a attraction a $ 100 million prize pool is when qualifiers begin on April 13 .
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