Ninja on Fall Skirmish Player Selection: It's Like Elementary School Recess
By Nicholas Barth ·
Ninja recently gave his thoughts on the player selection process for Week 3 of the Fortnite Fall Skirmish.
Tyler "Ninja" Belvins is often regarded as the face of Fortnite, as the streamer has risen to become one of the most popular personalities on Twitch and YouTube due to the content he creates based on the popular battle royale title from Epic Games. While Ninja has competed in many of the large tournaments and other events that Epic Games has held for Fortnite, the popular Fortnite player was not invited immediately to compete in Week 3 of the Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series.
Week 3 of the $10,000,000 Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series consist of a duos tournament that will be utilizing the King Pin format. This format challenges competing duos to collect the most points through the span of six matches by earning high amounts of eliminations and high placements.
However, during a stream today Ninja explained the reasoning behind why he was not invited at first to compete in Week 3 of the Fall Skirmish and compared the player selection process to an age old elementary school recess sport.
"I did not get invited to the tournament tonight man. There were ten captains picked for the Bush Bandits. Those captains had the ability to pick 10 other players, I believe, because today is duos or something, and I was not picked. It's like elementary school recess all over again, lining up for kickball," said Ninja.
Even though Ninja was not selected at first to compete in the North American duos tournament taking place during Week 3 of the Fortnite Fall Skirmish, it looks as though some major changes have been applied to the roster for the Bush Bandits that opened a door for the streamer take part in the action.
Playing today in the #FallSkirmish w/ @Ninja
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Twitch Streamer KingRichard tweeted out before the NA section of Friday's event began and stated that he would be competing with Ninja in today's duos tournament. At the time of this writing, it is unclear to the exact reasoning behind Ninja being able to compete in Week 3 of the Fortnite Fall Skirmish after not being invited at first.
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