The streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins was long considered one of the best Fortnite players in the world. But even this week, he will not qualify for the Fortnite World Championship. The run of the world’s largest Twitch streamer started catastrophically this weekend and then amounted to nothing.
Here’s the situation: The streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is not really a big esports player in Fortnite; he is known for his streams on Twitch and earns a lot of money. On Twitch, he has the largest channel by far with 14.1 million followers. In second place is Shroud with 6.3 million.
However, Ninja wants to be part of the Fortnite World Championship. After all, it’s about 30 million US dollars, and the eyes of the world are on the event.
This weekend, week 5 of the qualification took place, and Ninja wanted to secure the solo spot. The spots are highly contested, and each week only a handful of experts manage to qualify for the World Championship. There are simply too many top players at the highest level for the few spots in the Fortnite World Cup.
To make matters worse, the conditions of Fortnite are constantly changing – especially this week after the start of the season, there were many new things.
But Ninja is trying bravely.
Such a catastrophic start: However, everything went against the streamer in the first minutes of the first match. Due to a bug, Ninja fell to his death before he had a chance to do anything.
Somehow, the game must have seen it as if he landed in a treetop – it was certainly a rare stupid death.
This is how Ninja finished his first qualification game in 99th place. He looked somewhat strangely into the camera, as if to say: “Okay, I guess it’s one of those days.”
How did it go from there? Also, the rest of the day was not successful. After Saturday, Ninja tweeted that he didn’t manage to be good enough to compete on the second day of qualifying, on Sunday.
Ninja says he played some of the worst Fortnite of his life. He feels completely out of line in late games now because the shotgun is missing.
The normal shotgun was removed with the big season patch on Thursday.
With the new combat shotgun, Ninja seems, like many other streamers, unable to cope.
Some players are complaining about this: The esports scene of Fortnite is actually permanently under criticism. The current hot topics are:
- The return of the drum gun, which is known as “spray and pray” meta, you just spray away – this weekend, it is for the first time again allowed in esports after players voted the Drum Gun back in
- The absence of the shotgun, which was seen as a “stylish melee weapon” that many used in the endgame
- And the new “combat shotgun,” which many consider buggy
So far, only a few well-known streamers have qualified for the Fortnite World Championship. However, one of Ninja’s major rivals has made it.
