After being one of the games that generate the most income today, having literally become a machine that prints money for Epic Games, Fortnite wants to get fully into esports. AND epic Games, those responsible, want the lFortnite's legacy to esports be through the big door.
However, a game does not become esport overnight and, above all, it is necessary that behind the support of the people and the video game itself there is an infrastructure focused on development as electronic sport, such as solid servers and, above all, spectator modes that facilitate the monitoring and retransmission of the games.
Before all that, Epic Games announced that they had 100 million to inject into esports in order to be, and create, the best esports competitions around Fortnite Battle Royale, but perhaps they wanted to run more than necessary.
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Yes, the public is with Fortnite, as has been demonstrated in events like the Pro Am of E3 or in Gamergy 2018, but there is still a long way to go, and the perfect example has been the first Summer Skirmish tournament that Epic announced a few years ago. days and where it has "placed" 8 million dollars in prizes.
The first weekend tournament of the Summer Skirmsh It was held last weekend with players chosen by Epic itself, such as Myth or Tfue, some of the best Fortnite players. And the result has been ... disastrous.
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A disaster, this is how some have called this first tournament `` seriously '' of Fortnite Battle Royale due, among other problems, to lag. You can't have lag in an electronic sports tournament, especially when you know that so many eyes are going to be on your game and the competition itself.
This was such a problem that six games could not be played and, in addition, the development of those that were played was tremendously slow and boring for the spectator.
However, perhaps the biggest problem was the number of viewers itself, well below expectations, but it was not the fault of the video game's own interest. People have been shown to want to see the pros playing Fortnite, but the tournament was announced late and with very little hype.
It is clear that everything has a solution, and Epic seems to be already looking for the rest of the tournaments, at least as far as connection is concerned, to work better. We will see what happens in the next Summer Skirmish.
