Fortnite had a tournament at the 2024 Esports World Cup, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between August 8 and 11, 2024. Sixteen teams took part in this tournament, six having qualified from a LAN tournament at DreamHack Dallas and ten qualifying from online qualifiers. Due to the tournament not being sponsored or sanctioned by Epic Games, the game's developer, the tournament is known as Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite. XSET won the tournament, beating Exceed in the Final.
This tournament utilized ESL Featuring Fortnite, a separate game made using Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) which operates like a team shooter in a manner similar to Call of Duty or Halo as opposed to Fortnite Battle Royale, which is used for the game's official esports circuit, the Fortnite Championship Series (FNCS).
Background Fortnite was officially announced as one of the games at the 2024 Esports World Cup on March 11, 2024. Epic Games, the game's developer, opted not to associate itself with the game's tournament, as they sanction the Fortnite Championship Series (FNCS), which is officially run by Blast ApS. As such, the tournament was to be known as Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite.
On April 11, 2024, ESL, which supervises the Esports World Cup tournament series and by extension the Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite tournament, announced ESL Featuring Fortnite, a separate game developed by 404 Creative using Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), an editor used to make custom games using the Fortnite engine. ESL Featuring Fortnite operates as a 4-on-4 team shooter, not unlike Call of Duty or Halo, and features familiar team shooter modes like Capture the Flag and Hardpoint. This contrasts to the FNCS, which is played on the Fortnite Battle Royale video game and utilizes two-player teams, known as Duos, who are often are paired from different organizations. On the same day, ESL announced that esports organizations Dignitas, Team Heretics, Karmine Corp and ZETA DIVISION had committed to fielding teams to compete in ESL Featuring Fortnite tournaments, which would also include qualifiers for Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite and the tournament itself, with a then-unnamed Brazilian organization later revealed to be LOUD. Additional teams that would participate in ESL Featuring Fortnite tournaments were announced in May 2024.
Fortnite was one of the games at the Gamers8 festival, which was the predecessor to the Esports World Cup, for both 2022 and 2023. The Gamers8 tournaments for both years used Fortnite Battle Royale Duos like the FNCS, albeit with 88-player (or 44-Duo) fields.
Format The 16 teams who qualified for the tournament were placed into 4 GSL-style groups of 4 teams, with each match being a best-of-5 map series. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to a single elimination playoff bracket; all matches in the playoffs were best-of-7 maps.
The top 8 teams at the tournament (those who qualified for the playoffs) gained Esports World Cup Club Championship points. Each organization had the possibility to qualify for the Club Championship itself if they placed in the top 8 in another EWC event, with the winning team's organization able to win the Club Championship as well if they also placed in the top 8 of another event.
Qualified teams Sixteen teams qualified for the Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite tournament: 6 teams qualified via an offline LAN tournament held at DreamHack Dallas in the United States, while 10 additional teams qualified via online qualifiers held on the FACEIT platform. DreamHack Dallas qualifiers BIG CLAN Exceed Fnatic Heroic Karmine Corp Team Falcons
Online qualifiers
Europe Gaimin Gladiators R8 Esports
North America Dignitas XSET
Latin America Dragons eSports w7m esports
Middle East and Africa Al-Ula FC KS7
Asia-Pacific ZETA DIVISION
Oceania PWR
Group stage This stage was held on August 8 and 9, 2024. All start times are listed in Arabia Standard Time (AST, UTC+03:00).
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Source: esports.gg
Playoffs All start times are listed in Arabia Standard Time (AST, UTC+03:00).
Source: esports.gg
Ranking
PlaceTeamGSQFSFFinalsPrize (%)Prize (USD)EWC Points1st XSET 2-0 4-0 4-1 4-240%$400,00010002nd Exceed 2-0 4-1 4-2 2-416%$160,0006003rd–4th Heroic 2-0 4-2 1-48%$80,000275 Karmine Corp 2-0 4-1 2-45th–8th Gaimin Gladiators 2-1 0-44%$40,00060 R8 Esports 2-1 2-4 Team Falcons 2-1 1-4 Dignitas 2-1 1-49th-12th Dragons eSports 1-22%$20,0000 PWR 1-2 KS7 1-2 BIG CLAN 1-213th-16th ZETA DIVISION 0-21%$10,000 Al-Ula FC 0-2 Fnatic 0-2 w7m esports 0-2 Sources:
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References
External links Esports World Cup official website ESL Featuring Fortnite official website