UMG Friday Fortnite #11 Canceled Due to Summer Skirmish 500K Solo Tournament

The competitive scene for Epic Games' successful battle royale title of Fortnite is currently in full swing with multiple individuals and organizations organizing and hosting tournaments worth tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, this array of events has led to major scheduling conflict that has led YouTuber Daniel "KEEMSTAR" Keem to announce that Week 11 of the UMG Friday Fortnite Tournament set to take place on July 20th has been canceled due to Epic Games scheduling a 500K Solo Tournament for its Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series on the same day. 

KEEMSTAR announced his decision to cancel the 11th edition of his highly successful UMG tournament in Friday Fortnite on July 19th on his personal Twitter account in response to the decision of Epic Games to host their 500K solo Fortnite Summer Skirmish Tournament at the same time. 

#FridayFortnite is canceled for tomorrow.@EpicGames is running their own event & told everyone last min. Yesterday they invited 5 of my players so I was still doing FF now they invited all.

They capped FF at $20k & are doing events for $500k. I’m not holding the players back.

— KEEM ? (@KEEMSTAR) July 20, 2018

In his announcement, KEEMSTAR states that late communication with Epic Games regarding their plans for Week 2 of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish, which included inviting all of the original competitors set to play in Week 11 of the UMG Friday Fortnite Tournament to its 500K solo tournament, the developer's capping of the prize pool for KEEMSTAR's event at $20,000 and his desire to not hold the players back from being able to compete for the 500K prize pool were the major factors in his decision. 

Friday, July 20th will mark the first Friday that KEEMSTAR and UMG will not see their popular competitive battle royale event take place since it began 11 weeks ago. Fans do not have to worry though, as the event is scheduled to make a return as the revamped Sunday Fortnite Tournament on July 29th in order to avoid scheduling issues with the eight week Summer Skirmish Series from Epic Games in the future.

Week 2 of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish will see two 500K tournaments take place with a group of competitors that is set to change for each event on Friday, July 20th and Saturday 21st. Epic Games will be looking to have a much more successful outing this week, as Week 1 of the Summer Skirmish was plagued by server issues and non-entertaining gameplay. 

(cover photo courtesy of KEEMSTAR and Epic Games)