Top Fortnite streamers like Ninja, Tfue, and Nickmercs did not qualify on this weekend’s Open Qualifiers for regional berths in Fortnite’s World Cup Duos Finals.
Dot Esports has the full rundown on how the world’s hottest streamers fared this weekend, and it wasn’t fairly. Tfue and Dennis ‘Cloak’ Lepore fared one of the best out of the big-name streamers, ending 84th within the North America East area with 57 whole factors. That put them 30 factors shy of third place, which was the cutoff for qualifiers within the spherical. Nickmercs and NioRooch managed 18th place with 72 factors, nonetheless in need of what they might have wanted to advance in North America West.
Ninja and his duos associate Reverse2k scored 53 factors, placing them at 130th place North America East.
All in all, not a very auspicious weekend for Team Stream within the race for Fortnite’s World Cup championship, which be held July 26-28 at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. Qualifying groups can be competing for a prize pool of $30 million (about £23 million).
Fortunately for them, they’ve nonetheless obtained 4 extra alternatives to compete for slots within the event between every now and then.
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There’s little question that Ninja and Tfue are glorious Fortnite gamers, however the outcomes this weekend converse to the truth that constructing and entertaining an enormous viewers is a unique set of expertise than taking part in games on the professional stage is. For streamers, it issues extra that they’re attention-grabbing to observe and interesting than it does that they’re one of the best of one of the best.
You can take a look at Dot Esports’ record of all of the qualifying players and teams here.
Again, there’s no sense in counting Ninja and Tfue out of the Fortnite World Cup simply but. There’s nonetheless a pair months till the large occasion, and something can occur between every now and then.
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