KEEMSTAR Fortnite Tournament Won by NickMercs and SypherPK
By Nicholas Barth ·
The Champions of the $5,000 KEEMSTAR Fortnite Tournament have been crowned, as the duo of NickMercs and SypherPK were able to battle their way through the brutal Fortnite competition.
Popular Fortnite Twitch streamers NickMercs and SypherPK were able to battle through the loser's bracket of Daniel "KEEMSTAR" Keem's Fortnite Battle Royale Tournament to win the the $5,000 grand prize and title of KEEMSTAR Fortnite Tournament Champions. The duo of NickMercs and SypherPK defeated YouTUber NoahJ456 and Twitch streamer Avxry in the finals of the Fortnite event that saw high kill matches from all 32 high profile content creators from both Twitch and YouTube. The 32 competitors were split into 16 teams of two for the event.
The KEEMSTAR hosted tournament followed traditional UMG Fortnite rules, which consisted of the two opposing teams in each matchup playing a squads game together but going on their own to collect the most kills in two games. If the kill total between the two teams was tied after the two games, a third game was played to determine the winner.
$5,000 FORTNITE CHAMPS!@SypherPK - You’re the perfect teammate. @100Thieves #MFAM #SypherHood - thank ya’ll so much for supporting! @KEEMSTAR - don’t know ya well, but brotha, thanks for the opportunity!#ConsoleGang
— 100T Nickmercs (@NICKMERCS) May 12, 2018
NickMercs and SypherPK were able to make it to round four of the winners bracket of the KEEMSTAR Fortnite tournament before losing to the duo of Jelly and Svennoss. However, the championship team was able to make their way through their way the loser bracket with impressive play, especially from NickMercs as he was one of the few competitors in the KEEMSTAR hosted event who used a controller, as the majority of players were utilizing keyboards and mouses. SypherPK and NickMercs were able to exact revenge on Jelly and Svennoss in round eight of the losers bracket to punch a ticket to the finals against NoahJ456 and Avxry, where they were able to win four straight matches to collect the $5,000 grand prize and title of KEEMSTAR Tournament champions.
The KEEMSTAR Tournament was a very highly anticipated Fortnite competiitve event with the amount of star power from YouTube and Twitch taking part. This was evident by hundreds of thousands of viewers tuning in to their favorite content creators' streams to root them on in the battle royale action.
The full bracket results of the KEEMSTAR Fortnite Tournament can be found on UMG's website.