Epic Games Excited to See Ninja Had More Viewers than Official Fortnite Summer Skirmish Stream

This past weekend saw the eight week and $8,000,000 Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series hosted by Epic Games end with a $1,500,000 tournament that took place at PAX West 2018. Featuring three days of qualifying play followed by intense Grand Finals that consisted of seven matches filled with professional players and those who made a name for themselves due to their exceptional play through qualifying play, the PAX West Fortnite Summer Skirmish $1,500,000 tournament drew in hundreds of thousands of viewers across multiple Twitch channels. 

One of these Twitch channels who brought in a couple hundred of thousands of viewers to the PAX West Summer Skirmish tournament was popular Fortnite Twitch streamer Tyler "Ninja" Belvins. Rebroadcasting the PAX West Fortnite Summer Skirmish tournament on his Twitch channel, Ninja and an audience that was consistently near or over 200,000 viewers watched all of the action of the Grand Finals for the PAX West Fortnite Summer Skirmish tournament. 

Throughout the seven matches for the finals of the event, Ninja at one point had more viewers watching the battle royale action on his stream than the official Twitch channel for the battle royale game.

Ninja has more viewers for #SummerSkimrish Grand Final restreaming it than the actual Fortnite channel

Imagine Bjergsen trying to restream the NA LCS final with his own commentary

Riot would probably ban his Twitch and fine him 5k

— The Esports Writer (@FionnOnFire) September 3, 2018

ESPN esports writer Tyler Erzberger posted a tweet stating this occurrence and explained how he believed that this would not be a likely scenario in the world of League of Legends esports. Erzberger pointed to how Riot Games would likely not allow Team SoloMid player Søren "Bjergsen" Bjerg to rebroadcast the North America League Championship Series on his personal Twitch channel. 

We love this!! Well done @Ninja and thanks for your support!!

— Mark Rein (@MarkRein) September 3, 2018

In response to the tweet Erzberger had posted, Epic Games Vice President and Co-Founder Mark Rein stated that the developer of the massively popular battle royale game of Fortnite loved to see the support of Ninja that consisted of him drawing a massive amount of viewers to the PAX West Fortnite Summer Skirmish tournament. 

epic is everything

— Ninja (@Ninja) September 3, 2018

Ninja responded to the supportive message by Rein and stated the simple message of "epic is everything". This statement further solidified the positive relationship that Epic Games and Fortnite's biggest star currently have with each other in what was another very successful event in the world of competitive Fortnite.

(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)