OpTic Gaming Announces Competitive Fortnite Battle Royale Team
By Nicholas Barth ·
OpTic Gaming has announced its entry into Fortnite esports with the signing of a competitive Fortnite team to represent OpTic Gaming in the hunt for a share of the $100,000,000 prize pool from Epic Games.
Popular esports organization OpTic Gaming has become one of the latest teams to enter the Fortnite esports scene, as the organization has announced the signing of a competitive Fortnite Battle Royale team to represent the OpTic Gaming name.
The OpTic Gaming Fortnite team roster consists of Kenneth "BaldyKun" Anderson, Robert "WizKay" Simone, Marco "MarkyWap and Dade "Dramas" Lesch and it will be looking to have the same amount of success in Fortnite that the organization has seen in the likes of Call of Duty and Counter-Strike" Global Offensive.
Two members of the Fortnite team have already found success in a highlighted area of the competitive grassroots scene that the battle royale game currently has, as the duo of Baldykun and Dramas claimed the first ever KEEMSTAR Saturday Fortnite Tournament Championship. In addition to taking home the $5,000 grand prize, the duo of Dramas and Baldykun secured a spot in Week 5 of the highly popular KEEMSTAR Friday Fortnite Tournament today Friday, June 8th.
Dramas and Baldykun will now have the chance to show the rest of the community that OpTic Gaming can hang with the likes of the players from FaZe Clan and Team SoloMid, who have both had members of their competitive teams take home a KEEMSTAR Friday Fortnite Tournament Championship.
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“We haven’t told a ton of people; we’ve been trying to keep it a little low. Anybody that I’m friends with that games obviously knows who OpTic is." said Wizkay in the official announcement of the Fortnite team by OpTic Gaming. "They’re obviously really happy ‘cuz a lot of them, like me, come from a CoD background, and OpTic is obviously the org you want to be in no matter what. So when we told people that’s the tea we’re joining they kind of freaked out a little bit."
"I’ve just been dreaming of joining OpTic since I was a little kid, ad it’s unreal that I’m finally about to be a part of it. And I’m excited for the future," said Dramas.
With the announcement of Epic Games' planning to fund competitive events for the battle royale title in 2018-2019 with a $100,000,000 prize pool, many organizations, such as OpTic Gaming, have decided to begin building their competitive teams to compete for the unprecedented prize pool, even without an official professional format being announced for the esports scene of Fortnite at the time of this writing.
(cover photo courtesy of OpTic Gaming and Epic Games)