Epic stunned observers if they declared they were going into esports in a big way, offering $100 million in Fortnite esports prize pools that this year alone, including $8 million committed to the next few months of a"Summer Skirmish" series, which pits streamers and top players against each other.
But last week, the first Summer Skirmish Fortnite Items occasion was a tragedy. With gamers pulled from all over the world, playing on NA servers, the games had been crippled by lag to the stage where Epic needed to really end the event after only four games, somehow announcing a winner despite the fact that nobody had won the requisite two triumph royales which was supposed to indicate the end of this duos competition.
What struck me about the buy fortnite materials games however was not always the lag, but how dull it was. What that means is a good deal of camping in towers or at elaborately constructed floor mazes, rather than a whole lot of action.
For the majority of the matches I saw Tfue's stream, a man who's supposed to be among the greatest players on earth, but probably 90% of his matches were simply him finding the best place to conceal on the map, before repositioning to do it again and again since the storm circles shrank. This is not to say he's a cowardly participant, however this is exactly what the game demands with higher level play in events like this.