Fortnite Secret Skirmish $500,000 Tournament Announced

By Nicholas Barth ·

Epic Games has announced the first details of the Fortnite Secret Skirmish $500,000 tournament that will be taking place in February.

Fortnite Secret Skirmish $500,000 Tournament Announced

Competitive Fortnite players and fans are sure to be very excited right now, as Epic Games has announced the first details of the first developer supported competitive event for the year of 2019 in the Fortnite Secret Skirmish tournament. The Secret Skirmish tournament will see top players from all of the open competitive events that have been held so far compete over the span of two days for the lion's share of a $500,000 prize pool. However, not much more in terms of information regarding the Secret Skirmish tournament was provided by Epic Games. 

Fortnite Secret Skirmish

Epic Games has stated that the upcoming tournament will be held at a "classified, undisclosed testing facility" on Thursday, February 14th and Friday, February 15th. All of the action from the highly anticipated event will be broadcasted to the official channels for the popular battle royale title and will follow a similar style that the TwitchCon and PAX tournaments utilized. The developer of the battle royale game did state that they would also be exploring "additional operations" during the two day event. 

"This event will covertly be used to better prepare our broadcast team for the upcoming Fortnite World Cup later this year," said Epic Games. "We’re incredibly excited to share more details soon on how you can participate in the Fortnite World Cup."

Fortnite Secret Skirmish
The Fortnite Secret Skirmish will be the first official competitive event since the conclusion of the Winter Royale. (Source: Epic Games)

With the Fortnite Secret Skirmish tournament being a precursor to the 2019 World Cup for the battle royale title, players competing in the event will get a taste of what they can expect in the highly anticipated 2019 World Cup during the Secret Skirmish next month. 

The Fortnite Secret Skirmish $500,000 tournament will also be the first competitive event supported by Epic Games following the developer's announcement that it would no longer be deploying major gameplay changing updates right before official tournaments in order to allow players to have plenty of time to get used to gameplay changes. 

(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)