At Fortnite, the final of a tournament series for hundreds of thousands of US dollars is taking place this weekend. However, there are two complaints: One player was noted for racist comments. Players demand that Epic should exclude him from the FNCS Grand Finals. At the same time, it is considered unfair that another team could not qualify for the finals. Epic Games had cancelled the matches that would have qualified them.
Update May 29, 11:15 AM: The Grand Finals in Fortnite are currently underway. These are tournaments with several hundred thousand US dollars in prize money, totaling several million US dollars distributed to the e-sports players.
For a week now, players have been loudly demanding that a professional be banned from the tournament because he was noted for racist comments. The clip with these racist comments has now received more than 2 million views on Twitter. Additionally, other players who had won matches, which were later cancelled by Epic Games, should be allowed to enter the finals.
Epic Games has not yet responded to either point. There has been no statement on the matter. It is unclear whether the player who posted the racist video will be allowed to participate or not. Instead, Epic Games has now disabled the ability to comment on YouTube videos.
This is the original report from May 25:
What kind of tournament is this?
- This weekend, the FNCS Grand Finals are taking place in Fortnite. This is the grand finale of an online tournament, held in duos. Since May 2, duos have been competing in various rounds to qualify for the finals.
- Last weekend, the 50 final teams for each region were determined in the semifinals. However, there is some dispute over whether the qualified teams are indeed the right ones.
- In the North America East region, there is a total of $637,500 at stake, with the winner receiving $130,000. In NA West, there is a prize pool of $239,500.
Still considered a highlight in Fortnite, the issue with the black hole:
Fans demand: Kick the racist out of the tournament
Who should be banned? Epic Games wanted to promote the tournament on Twitter, but there were immediate calls to ban the player “Sin”. He was previously noted for a racist clip.
He had also made racist comments in several tweets. The player has since deleted his Twitter account.
Since e-sports journalist Jake Lucky shared the player’s video, the 12-second clip has received over 1 million views – the outrage over the comments in the video is significant.
Players are repeatedly calling for Sin to be excluded from the tournament. One says (via twitter):
Fortnite, I plead with you and urge you, do something about Sin. Ban him from the game. If players can be warned for talking trash on social media, what do you say about a boy who says: He has guns in case of an outburst with the “N-word”.
Your silence is deafening.
Many other users are also tweeting Epic with short phrases like “Ban Sin.”
3 teams lose their spot in the finals because Epic decides to repeat a session
Who must definitely get into the tournament? For another duo, things got really tough. Players 33 KADENOX and Nova 4DRStorm can hardly believe their bad luck.
They had qualified for the grand finals in a match with a strong placement, but then had to watch as Fortnite simply cancelled those games.
It was said by Fortnite that there was an error in the NA West region that prevented some teams from participating in the games. Therefore, the games were cancelled (via twitter).
It was stated that in order to maintain the integrity of e-sports, the entire session had to be repeated. The games that viewers had just watched should be simply forgotten. Everything will be played anew. The hosts cheerfully announced that time would simply be turned back.
4DR Storm was completely outraged about this injustice, as he had just qualified. In 4 years of e-sports, he had never experienced anything like this. And on his birthday too.
Many of his fans are now calling on Epic to make an exception and allow 4DR and his partner to compete in the finals, as they had qualified. Taking that away from them without any fault of their own is unfair. After the qualification and the setback of the cancellation of the matches, it is clear that it distorts the competition.
Another player, Zuko, is also being fought for: Apparently, he won his finals in a 1vs2 situation: Even his victory was annulled.
The integrity of e-sports is something that Fortnite will likely always struggle with. This weekend could be intense in Fortnite:
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