Fortnite & Twitch Rivals Team Up For $2 Million Summer Skirmish Tournament
By Ford James ·
Fortnite and Twitch have joined forces for the next two weekends of Summer Skirmish, putting together a $2 million prize pool.
We’re past the halfway point of the Fortnite Summer Skirmish series and aside from the terrible issues that plagued week one, it’s been smooth sailing and very entertaining. Various names have cemented themselves as the best players in the game such as Poach and Chap from Liquid, Tfue and Cloakzy from FaZe, NotVivid, Domentos and more.
Ahead of week six and seven, Twitch has announced they’ll be partnering up with Fortnite as part of their Twitch Rivals program. Not much will change at all with the actual event, but it will be streamed on the TwitchRivals channel and the prize pool will be increased to a whopping $2 million. It kicks off this Friday and a few of the participants have been announced already:
Ninja / Cloakzy
NICKMERCS / SypherPK
Gotaga / Mickalow
LPMassive / Thaaissa_
The format for this week hasn’t been announced yet but the eight players have been presented like you see above, so perhaps those are four duo pairs we could see playing together? Earlier this week, Ninja teased the idea of joining FaZe and this would lend some credence to the idea.
Each week, the North American tournaments take place on Friday starting at 2pm PDT/5pm EDT, while the European ones kick off on Saturday at 5pm BST/6pm CEST. All the action will be live on Twitch, from individual player streams to the official Fortnite stream. Keep your eyes peeled on Friday as we’ll have a full article with all the relevant streams before the tournaments get underway.
In other Fortnite news, check out all the information about the latest patch and the new Heavy Sniper Rifle.
(Header image courtesy of Twitch.)