Ninja Has Talked With Epic Games About Future of Fortnite Esports

The giants of the competitive based battle royale genre have begun to build esports scenes that look to overtake the industry from the likes of first person shooters, such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Overwatch, and MOBAs, such as League of Legends and DOTA 2. Player Unknowns Battlegrounds has had multiple large prize pool tournaments organized by the the likes of ESL and PGL, the H1Z1 Pro League is currently taking place and has implemented the first battle royale esports league in the industry and Fortnite recently saw its largest esports event take place in Ninja Vegas '18.

However, a major complaint of competitive battle royale events is that the massive amount of players competing at the same time on a large map can make the spectating experience not very pleasant at times, due to the challenge obeservers have of trying to show off multiple points of view, while capturing all of the action taking place.

With Tencent, the parent company of Epic Games, making a multi million dollar investment into developing Fortnite's esports scene, the future of the popular title's competitive scene is looking bright, and during a recent stream, Fortnite extraordinaire and former professional Halo player Tyler "Ninja" Belvins revealed that he has spoken with Epic Games about how Fortnite esports should be approached by the developer.

With 680,000 peak viewers at one point, Ninja Vegas '18 showed off the massive success that a competitive Fortnite event can have when it focuses on individual players instead of teams, and Epic Games most likely took notes on how they could implement a similiar system for the future of the game's competitive scene. With many organizations, such as FaZe Clan, Team SoloMid and Red Reserve, already having signed teams of four to compete as their competitive Fortnite teams, we may see a future where multiple players represent the same organization at events, while they compete as individual players.  

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