Fortnite Summer Skirmish 250K Tournament Results - Canceled due to Server Issues

The $8,000,000 Fortnite Summer Skirmish is the first official esports event hosted and organized by Epic Games and kicked off on Saturday, July 14th with a $250,000 duos tournament.

50 duos teams consisting of high profile Fortnite content creators, professional players, and competitive players who have proved their merit were invited to participate in the Fortnite Summer Skirmish 250K duos tournament. The format for the event saw the 50 duos play a standard match of Fortnite against one another with the winner of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish being decided by which team was able to be the first to secure two victory royales. 

A $6,500 was also up for grabs for the team that was able to secure the most eliminations in each match.

10 matches were scheduled to be played in the Summer Skirmish 250K duos Tournament. However, Epic Games announced that the tournament was going to end after the fourth match of the event due to the sever lag issues that were affecting all of the players during the Summer Skirmish 250K duos tournament. 

With the format for Week 1 of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish focusing on securing victory royales only for success, many of the 50 teams competing utilized passive play in order to play safely and not be eliminated. This looked to have caused the major server and lag issues, as the late game circles were playing host to player counts double of what they were intended to. 

You can find the winners and owners of the most eliminations for each of the three matches played for the Fortnite Summer Skirmish 250K duos Tournament below.

Match 1

Winners - Chap and Liquid72Hrs

Most Eliminations - Spacelyon and Tennp0 of FaZe Clan

Match 2 

Winners - Kevie1 and Notvivid

Most Eliminations - C9 Hysteria and Hootietang

Match 3

Winners - Bartonologist and Baysoldier

Most Eliminations - NICKMERCS and 100 Thieves Parallax

Match 4

Winners - YaBoyWildcat and ImMarksman

Most Eliminations - dakotaz and Yelo

Thanks to all the participants we had out in the first week of #SummerSkirmish! We'll be using different formats each week.

We're looking into improving server performance and ironing out issues as well. You can see the final results for Week 1 here: https://t.co/EGhCop4XGM

— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) July 14, 2018

While the first week of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series that consisted of a 250K duos tournament did not go extremely smoothly and the negative response from the community regarding the format, Epic Games looks to be ready to experiment with another format and improve their server issues to find the best possible environment for Fortnite esports. 

(Editor's note - The event was cancled after four matches and not three in which a previous version of this article stated. All changes made reflect this correction)

(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)