Fortnite

Release Date:

2017

Prize Money Awarded:

$111,159,316.05 From 748 Tournaments

Recorded Date Range:

2018-02-17 to 2021-10-31

Fortnite is a third-person online battle-royale 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 World Cup Finals 2019 - Solo	$15,287,500.00
2.	» Fortnite World Cup Finals 2019 - Duo	$15,100,000.00
3.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Clubs Standings	$4,000,000.00
4.	» Fortnite World Cup Finals 2019 - Creative	$3,250,000.00
5.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Week 6 - Grand Finals	$1,942,500.00
6.	» Fortnite Summer Skirmish Series - Week 8	$1,501,250.00
7.	» FNCS Chapter 2 Season 7 - Europe - Grand Finals	$1,351,200.00
8.	» FNCS Chapter 2 Season 8 - Europe - Grand Finals	$1,351,200.00
9.	» Winter Royale 2019 EU Day 1 PC	$1,350,000.00
10.	» Winter Royale 2019 EU Day 2 PC	$1,350,000.00
11.	» Winter Royale 2019 EU Day 3 PC	$1,350,000.00
12.	» FNCS Chapter 2 Season 5 Europe Grand Finals	$1,347,000.00
13.	» FNCS Chapter 2 Season 6 - Grand Finals: Europe	$1,344,000.00
14.	» Fortnite Champion Series - Season X - EU - Finals	$1,200,000.00
15.	» FNCS All-Star Showdown C2S7 - Solo Final - Europe	$1,137,500.00
16.	» TwitchCon 2019 - Fortnite - Finals	$1,002,000.00
17.	» Fortnite Champion Series - Chapter 2 - Season 1 - Grand Finals: Europe	$919,200.00
18.	» Winter Royale 2019 NAE Day 1 PC	$860,000.00
19.	» Fortnite World Cup 2019 - Week 10 - Europe	$800,000.00
20.	» Fortnite World Cup 2019 - Week 9 - Europe	$800,000.00
21.	» FNCS - Season X - NAE - Finals	$756,000.00
22.	» Fortnite Fall Skirmish Series - Week 6 - Stream-Vitational	$730,000.00
23.	» FNCS Chapter 2 Season 6 - Grand Finals: NA East	$693,600.00
24.	» FNCS Chapter 2 Season 5 NA East Grand Finals	$691,800.00
25.	» FNCS : C2S4 Grand Finals EU	$624,000.00

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Top Players

	Player ID	Player Name	Total (Game)
1.	Bugha	Kyle Giersdorf	$3,162,545.05
2.	Aqua	David Wang	$1,993,174.23
3.	psalm	Harrison Chang	$1,873,538.80
4.	Nyhrox	Emil Bergquist Pedersen	$1,538,395.69
5.	EpikWhale	Shane Cotton	$1,354,667.32
6.	Wolfiez	Jaden Ashman	$1,349,828.07
7.	Kreo	Nate Kou	$1,221,159.74
8.	Rojo	Dave Jong	$1,214,643.33
9.	Zayt	Williams Aubin	$1,200,806.42
10.	Saf	Rocco Morales	$1,166,312.02
11.	Ceice	Davis McClellan	$1,117,155.47
12.	k1nG	Thiago Lapp	$1,021,000.00
13.	Elevate	Hayden Krueger	$992,233.20
14.	Skite	Clément Danglot	$861,264.02
15.	Mitr0	Dmitri Van de Vrie	$797,124.81
16.	Crue	Theo Ferrer	$719,450.00
17.	Mongraal	Kyle Jackson	$691,204.23
18.	Bizzle	Timothy Miller	$635,226.39
19.	Arkhram	Diego Lima	$611,316.68
20.	Tfue	Turner Tenney	$597,100.00
21.	stompy	Klaus Konstanzer	$557,121.94
22.	BenjyFishy	Benjy David Fish	$550,806.29
23.	Nayte	Nathan Berquignol	$540,310.77
24.	ZexRow	Anthony Colandro	$507,949.73
25.	Dubs	Daniel Walsh	$483,924.99

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Online/LAN Breakdown

Location	Prize Money	% of Total
Online Only	$68,955,778.44	62.03%
Offline/LAN	$42,203,537.61	37.97%

Comparisons

» Dota 2	-$166,318,684.60
» Counter-Strike: Global Offensive	-$17,831,306.34
» League of Legends	+$21,118,043.07
» PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS	+$68,177,958.64
» H1Z1	+$109,092,194.05

Top Countries

	Country Name	Prize Money
1.	United States	$37,025,995.19
2.	France	$5,960,487.78
3.	United Kingdom	$5,233,935.12
4.	Canada	$4,087,774.46
5.	Denmark	$3,180,479.80
6.	Sweden	$3,077,570.14
7.	Netherlands	$2,965,812.87
8.	Austria	$2,938,014.34
9.	Germany	$2,929,607.49
10.	Norway	$2,825,592.54

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