After The Interantional 10 was delayed indefinitely due to coronavirus pandemic, another big esports tournament was cancelled. Epic Games have denied Fortnite World cup and other LAN-events planned for 2020.
The company have not announced when the tournaments will be back but have expressed their hope that they can hold events in 2021. Epic Games also stated that they are going to support tournament operators who will hold Fortnite online events.
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Right after the announcement by Epic Games, one of the world’s largest esports organization Team Secret disbanded their Fortnite roster. Team Secret is mostly known for their Dota 2 roster featuring The International 1 champion Clement “Puppey” Ivanov. The organization stated that “Fortnite is still a great content creator and player platform, unfortunately, it’s making less and less sense for competitive orgs to be involved”.
Team Secret created Fortnite roster in 2018 and they won about $280 000 prize money until now.
World Cup is the main tournament of Fortnite: Battle Royale esports. In 2019, Fortnite World Cup had the prize pool of $30 million dollars: 15 for Solo competition and 15 for duos. For a short period of time, until The International 9 overcame $30 million prize pool mark, Fortnite World Cup had the biggest prize money in history of esports.
