KEEMSTAR Announces Changes to UMG Friday Fortnite and Realm Royale Tournaments

Popular YouTuber Daniel "KEEMSTAR" Keem has been at the forefront of helping to grow the competitive scenes of two of the biggest of the titles in the battle royale genre currently. 

The weekly UMG Friday Fortnite Tournament has become one of the most viewed and discussed events in the world of gaming in its first nine weeks of competition, while the recently announced KEEMSTAR $100,000,000 Realm Royale Tournament is looking to build even more upon the massive amount of success that KEEMSTAR's other battle royale event has seen. 

However, the mind behind the UMG Friday Fortnite and $100,000,000 Realm Royale Tournaments has taken to Twitter on Thursday, July 12th to announce major scheduling changes to both events in the coming weeks. These changes come in response to the announcement this past week of the Epic Games supported Fortnite esports event Summer Skirmish Series that will see players compete for a share of $8,000,000 over the next eight weeks that will be taking place on weekends. 

#FridayFortnite will move to #SundayFortnite starting July 29th#100kRealmRoyale will move to Thursday’s starting 19th#MinecraftMondays will stay the same.

Dates change but the goal remains the same, putting on an amazing show for the community.

Ps MCM is a joke.

— KEEM ? (@KEEMSTAR) July 12, 2018

Beginning on July 29th, the UMG Friday Fortnite Tournament will begin to be played on Sundays with the name of the event changing to Sunday Fortnite, while July 19th will see the previous Saturday Realm Royale Tournament begin to be played on Thursdays. 

Also when we make the move to #SundayFortnite on July 29th the event will start at

1pm EST - 10am PST - 6PM GMT https://t.co/iXQUwBUE5d

— KEEM ? (@KEEMSTAR) July 12, 2018

KEEMSTAR also announced changes to the starting times of the two events, as the Sunday event will be played at 1 PM EST in comparison to starting time of UMG Friday Fortnite that has been 4 PM EST. 

It remains to be seen if fans of the UMG Friday Fortnite Tournament will continue to come out to view what has been a major success in the world of Epic Games' popular battle royale game, as the scheduling change from its first nine weeks of competition and the possibility of many of the high profile players who have taken part in the event in the past seeing their time spent in the Summer Skirmish Series instead could negatively affect UMG Friday Fortnite.

The changes should not drastically affect the KEEMSTAR Realm Royale Tournament, as the event has not officially had its first iteration of competition yet. 

(cover photo courtesy of KEEMSTAR)