Team Liquid Announces Competitive Fortnite Battle Royale Team

Tuesday, June 5th Team Liquid announced that it had signed a competitive Fortnite Battle Royale roster to join its ranks. Team Liquid joins the likes of FaZe Clan, Team SoloMid, Red Reserve, Mindfreak and Lighting Pandaz as organizations who have been at the forefront of signing professional Fortnite rosters in anticipation of competing for the $100,000,000 prize pool that Epic Games has pledged to fund competitive events with in 2018-2019. 

The Team Liquid roster consists of Tom "72hrs" Mulligan, Adam "Strafesh0t" Crawford, Jake "POACH" Brumleve, and Ryan "Chap" Chaplo. Team Liquid announced the addition of the Fortnite roster on Twitter stating "We're dropping in." 

72hrs is no stranger to being a member of a competitive roster for a well known esports organization, as he was previously a member of the competitive roster for FaZe Clan before being dropped from the team in favor of current FaZe Clan player Tfue. 

The esports scene for Fortnite is still at a grassroots level, as the largest compeitive events that have been held have been ones organized and hosted by popular content creators, such as Tyler "Ninja" Belvins in Ninja Vegas '18 and Daniel "KEEMSTAR" Keem and the weekly KEEMSTAR Friday Fortnite UMG Tournament.

Even with lack of a true professional format for its esports scene, the competitive scene for the battle royale game currently has a massive audience, as millions of viewers tune in every week to watch the high profile content creators and professional players in the KEEMSTAR Friday Fortnite Tournament battle it our for thousands of dollars. 

With the interest in the competitive scene of Epic Games' popular battle royale title at an all time high, organizations like Team Liquid are looking to get ahead of their competitors and begin having their competitive Fortnite rosters build chemistry before an official professional scene is announced and established.