Highest Earning Professional Fortnite Battle Royale Players
By Nicholas Barth ·
Fortnite has become a very lucrative esports title, and we have the highest earning players in professional Fortnite covered for you.
Fortnite Battle Royale has skyrocketed in the past year to becoming one of the most popular video games in the world. This immense rise in popularity has also seen Fortnite become one of the most popular and lucrative esports titles with Epic Games having dedicated a prize pool of $100,000,000 to fund competitive events through 2018 to 2019. This enormous prize pool has led to many esports organizations doing their best to build the most talented Fortnite rosters as possible, while Fortnite players have gone into overdrive honing their skills in order to grab a share of the massive prize pool for the esports scene of the battle royale title and become one of the highest earning players.
With the $8,000,000 Summer Skirmish and the $10,000,000 Fall Skirmish events having been completed, many players have earned a great deal of money from their competitive Fortnite adventures and have become the highest earning competitors for the title. This has led to us compiling the highest earning players in the world together for you to view in one location.
Highest Earning Fortnite Players
1. Turner "Tfue" Tenney (FaZe Clan) - $465,425
2. Dennis "Cloak" Lepore (FaZe Clan) - $418,650
3. Timothy "Bizzle" Miller (Ghost Gaming) - $402,525
4. Nate Hill (FaZe Clan) - $340,825
5. Jake "POACH" Brumleve (Team Liquid) - $320,475
6. Austin "Morgausse" Etue - $265,000
7. Thomas "72Hrs" Mulligan (Team Liquid) - $242,450
8. Noah "Vivid" Wright (Team Liquid) - $232,350
9. Ryan "Chap" Chaplo (Team Liquid) - $231,950
10. Duong "Kinstaar" Huyh (Solary) - $212,940.28
11-500. Esports Earnings
FaZe Clan and Team Liquid have been the top two teams in the world of Fortnite esports with FaZe Clan having three of the top four highest earning players, while Team Liquid is the home to four of the top 10 highest earning Fortnite players in the world.
Tfue and Cloak of FaZe Clan were able to secure their spots as the top two highest earning competitors for the battle royale game with their victory at the final event of the Fall Skirmish that took place at TwitchCon 2018. Here Tfue and Cloak were able to secure over $500,000 worth of winnings between themselves throughout the final Fall Skirmish tournament.
With the esports scene for Epic Games' massively popular battle royale title of Fortnite looking to continue to grow into one of the largest games in the world of professional gaming, many other players will be looking to join the prestigious group of highest earning players.
(cover photo courtesy of FaZe Clan)