{"id":11984,"date":"2018-07-20T21:28:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T04:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/friday-fortnite-canceled-summer-skirmish-500000-solo-tournament-comes-out-on-top\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:24:10","slug":"friday-fortnite-canceled-summer-skirmish-500000-solo-tournament-comes-out-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/friday-fortnite-canceled-summer-skirmish-500000-solo-tournament-comes-out-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fortnite Canceled  \u2014 Summer Skirmish $500,000 Solo Tournament Comes Out on Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/metrouk2.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/06\/nswitchds_fortnite_06.jpg?w=748&amp;h=420&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Image result for fortnite battle royale\" \/><\/p>\n<pre>                                       Photo Credit: Epic Games<\/pre>\n<p>Just yesterday, it was announced by esports insider\u00a0Rod &#8220;Slasher&#8221; Breslau that Epic Games were planning to host a $500,000 solo tournament as the second component in their Summer Skirmish Series. While this was exciting news, what made it so significant was that it conflicted with Fortnite Friday, a popular weekly tournament hosted by YouTuber Daniel &#8220;KEEMSTAR&#8221; Keem and UMG Gaming.<\/p>\n<p>However, today KEEMSTAR announced that this today&#8217;s Fortnite Friday would be canceled, explaining that while they only invited 5 of his players yesterday, they ended up inviting everyone originally participating in Fortnite Friday to the $500,000 tournament. Given such a bigger prize pool, players went with the Summer Skirmish tournament. Below is KEEMSTAR&#8217;s official tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FridayFortnite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FridayFortnite<\/a> is canceled for tomorrow.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EpicGames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@EpicGames<\/a> is running their own event &amp; told everyone last min. Yesterday they invited 5 of my players so I was still doing FF now they invited all. <\/p>\n<p>They capped FF at $20k &amp; are doing events for $500k. I\u2019m not holding the players back.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KEEM \ud83c\udf7f (@KEEMSTAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KEEMSTAR\/status\/1020127418848165888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>UMG Events also tweeted yesterday that it would no longer host Friday Fortnite tournaments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Millions of you tuned in weekly, over $170,000 was awarded and thousands donated. Thank you to the viewers, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KEEMSTAR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@KEEMSTAR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GFuelEnergy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GFuelEnergy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialEGL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@OfficialEGL<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteelSeries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SteelSeries<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FortniteGame?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FortniteGame<\/a> and all of the players for making it special. (2\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Ia4Pu4Fko\">pic.twitter.com\/1Ia4Pu4Fko<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UMG Gaming (@UMGGaming) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UMGGaming\/status\/1020136056371458048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With Fortnite Friday canceled, all eyes turn to the $500,00 solo tournament. Given week one&#8217;s disastrous start, Epic made some changes this tournament to incentivize players to get kills. A scoring system is now in place: victory royales = 5 points, each kill = 1 point, and if you&#8217;re able to get 20+ kills in a game, you get 10 points and an additional $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>After the 10 games, the player with the most amount of points is the winner, and with such a kill-heavy scoring system in place, this tournament is sure to be more action-packed than the first. Watch it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/fortnite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitch<\/a>, matches start at 5 PM ET!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Epic Games Just yesterday, it was announced by esports insider\u00a0Rod &#8220;Slasher&#8221; Breslau that Epic Games were planning to host a $500,000 solo tournament as the second component in their Summer Skirmish Series. While this was exciting news, what made it so significant was that it conflicted with Fortnite Friday, a popular weekly tournament&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/friday-fortnite-canceled-summer-skirmish-500000-solo-tournament-comes-out-on-top\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Fortnite Canceled  \u2014 Summer Skirmish $500,000 Solo Tournament Comes Out on Top<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":11985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16716,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions\/16716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberpowergaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}