Fortnite

Release Date:

2017

Prize Money Awarded:

$23,572,109.24 From 262 Tournaments

Recorded Date Range:

2018-02-17 to 2019-04-19

Fortnite is a third-person online action game launched as an early-access title, developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on July 25, 2017.

Fortnite was originally launched as "Fortnite: Save the World", a co-op sandbox survival game with four players working towards a common objective on various missions. On September 26, 2017, a separate stand-alone free-to-play version of the game called "Fortnite Battle Royale" was released. It moves away from the co-op elements of the game in favor of a battle royale game-mode for up to 100 players to fight in increasingly-smaller spaces to be the last person standing.

Fortnite Battle Royale is the game used in Fortnite esports, and is a direct competitor to PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG). Epic Games announced that they will be providing $100 million for Fortnite esports tournament prize pools in the first year of competitive play, and the Fortnite World Cup will be coming in 2019.

Largest Prize Pools

	Tournament Name	Prize Money
1.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Clubs Standings	$4,000,000.00
2.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Week 6 - Grand Finals	$1,942,500.00
3.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 8	$1,676,250.00
4.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Week 6 - Stream-Vitational	$730,000.00
5.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 2 EU	$540,000.00
6.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 2 NA	$530,000.00
7.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 4 EU	$500,000.00
8.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 4 NA	$500,000.00
9.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 5 EU	$500,000.00
10.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 5 NA	$500,000.00
11.	» Fortnite Winter Royale Series 2018 (EU)	$500,000.00
12.	» Fortnite Winter Royale Series 2018 (NA)	$500,000.00
13.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 3 NA	$465,000.00
14.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 3 EU	$458,500.00
15.	» ESL Katowice Royale 2019 - International Edition - Duo	$400,000.00
16.	» Fortnite Secret Skirmish Series 2019 (Solo)	$400,000.00
17.	» Fortnite World Cup 2019 - Week 1 - Europe	$400,000.00
18.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Week 1 EU	$300,000.00
19.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Week 1 NA	$300,000.00
20.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Week 3 EU	$300,000.00
21.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Week 3 NA	$300,000.00
22.	» Fortnite World Cup 2019 - Week 1 - NA East	$300,000.00
23.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 1	$290,000.00
24.	Australian Open 2019 (Fortnite)	$285,706.81
25.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Week 2 EU	$285,000.00

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Top Players

	Player ID	Player Name	Total (Game)
1.	Bizzle	Timothy Miller	$508,650.00
2.	Tfue	Turner Tenney	$492,600.00
3.	Cloak	Dennis Lepore	$417,875.00
4.	NateHill	Nate Hill	$341,825.00
5.	POACH	Jake Brumleve	$322,600.00
6.	72hrs	Thomas Mulligan	$313,200.00
7.	Vivid	Noah Wright	$283,375.00
8.	Mitr0	Dmitri Van de Vrie	$280,773.49
9.	Morgausse	Austin Etue	$269,000.00
10.	Chap	Ryan Chaplo	$239,825.00
11.	Kinstaar	Duong Huyh	$232,825.28
12.	Dmo	Dylan Moore	$228,275.00
13.	Saf	Rocco Morales	$220,875.00
14.	Zayt	Williams Aubin	$219,850.00
15.	ZexRow	Anthony Colandro	$195,625.00
16.	FunkBomb	Trevor Siegler	$179,450.00
17.	Tendons	Anthony Waller	$172,200.00
18.	Teeqzy	Klaivert Dervishi	$171,000.40
19.	Vinny	Vinny Gilgan	$168,125.00
20.	Kamo	Liam Fillery	$163,589.97
21.	Domentos	Domeniks Bunts	$161,552.70
22.	boyerxd	Adam Boyer-Dræby	$149,747.12
23.	Blind	Maurilio Gramajo	$148,750.00
24.	Reverse2k	Malachi Greiner	$141,900.00
25.	Skite	Clément Danglot	$136,148.92

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Online/LAN Breakdown

Location	Prize Money	% of Total
Online Only	$17,097,213.42	72.53%
Offline/LAN	$6,474,895.82	27.47%

Comparisons

» PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS	+$13,996,578.20
» H1Z1	+$21,504,987.24

Top Countries

	Country Name	Prize Money
1.	United States	$11,528,317.00
2.	France	$1,665,129.07
3.	Canada	$1,235,885.00
4.	Germany	$843,397.30
5.	Sweden	$795,818.48
6.	United Kingdom	$637,357.33
7.	Denmark	$594,806.08
8.	Poland	$584,882.45
9.	Netherlands	$565,293.44
10.	Switzerland	$455,215.80