$8 Million Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series Announced by Epic Games

Wednesday, July 11th saw Epic Games announce the first official Fortnite Battle Royale esports event to be hosted by the developer in the Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series. 

The Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series will see players compete for a prize pool of $8,000,000 over the next eight weeks in the the first set of competitions pulling from the $100,000,000 prize pool that Epic Games had announced that it will fund competitive events for its battle royale game through 2018-2019.

The event will begin this coming weekend of July 13-15 with a $250,000 duos competition and will be an invitational that will see Epic Games inviting "community creators and players who have demonstrated their competitive prowess." With this is mind, fans can expect to soon hear their favorite players and teams announcing their participation in the Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series duos competition. 

You can read the official description of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series below.

"We are excited to announce that this summer Epic Games will host the Summer Skirmish series. We’re kicking off an 8-week series of competitions where we’ll be awarding $8,000,000 in prize money. The events start this weekend with a $250,000 Duos competition.  Participants will be made up of community creators and Fortnite players who have demonstrated their competitive prowess. The format and competitors may change from week-to-week, so stay on your toes!

PLEASE NOTE: IN ORDER TO JUMPSTART THE COMPETITION, INVITATIONS FOR THE INAUGURAL SUMMER SKIRMISH MATCHES HAVE ALREADY BEEN SENT.  STAY TUNED FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW YOU CAN QUALIFY FOR AN EVENT."

Community members were expecting to hear news of an official Epic Games supported esports event in the form of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series soon, as FaZe Clan player Brendan "Joamock" O'Brien had been captured stating that Online Fortnite Tournaments hosted by Epic Games would soon begin happening.

However, he stated that FaZe Clan had not been invited with the duos competition for the Summer Skirmish Series possibly being the event he was referring too. 

Team SoloMid player Ali "Myth" Kabbani went on to post a tweet addressing the leakage of the developer supported esports tournaments by FaZe Joamock in a post on Twitter, which further pointed to an announcement in the form of the Summer Skirmish Series. Myth would later delete the tweet with the link to the clip of Jaomock. 

With the $8,000,000 Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series officially kicking off this coming weekend, the beginning of Epic Games' plan for the esports scene of its massively popular battle royale title looks to finally be underway. 

(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)