All eyes of the Fortnite Battle Royale community are currently on the qualifiers for the $1,000,000 Fortnite Winter Royale tournament that is open for any player in North America and Europe to compete in. Among the many players who have been competing in the Fortnite Winter Royale Qualifiers on Saturday, November 24th and Sunday, November 25th are some of the most popular professional Fortnite players in the world. One of these popular and talented players is Turner "Tfue" Tenney of FaZe Clan who is looking to qualify for the finals of the Fortnite Winter Royale event.
However, the highest earning professional player for the popular game in Tfue met an unfortunate fate during one of his matches on the first day of qualifiers for the Fortnite Winter Royale.
Finding himself in a top 10 situation during one of his qualifier matches on Saturday, November 24th, Tfue of FaZe Clan was eliminated by a string of pinpoint shots through a cornfield that immediately had Tfue raise his concerns that he was just a target of a hacker in the Fortnite Winter Royale Qualifiers.
Heading into the replay system in order to view his elimination from the point of view of the enemy player, Tfue soon confirmed that the player who did eliminate him was in fact cheating by the use of an aimbot that allowed him to hit every shot he took in an unrealistic manner.
Visibly frustrated by the situation, as Tfue being eliminated by this hacker caused Tfue to miss out on qualifying for the finals of the Fortnite Winter Royale event on day one, the situation of Tfue being eliminated by a hacker is one of the major instances that has brought to light a concern many members of the community had about the qualifiers of the $1,000,000 tournament.
This concern being players cheating in order to gain an advantage over their opponents in order to collect a share of the $1,000,00 prize pool, as the completely open online format for the Winter Royale qualifiers opens the door for players to cheat to their hearts content.
While Tfue will have the majority of Sunday to qualify for the finals of the Fortnite Winter Royale tournament, instances like the FaZe Clan player being eliminated by a hacker has many players unhappy with the way Epic Games has managed this event that has opened the door for situations like the one above regarding Tfue to occur.
(cover photo courtesy of FaZe Clan)
