On the weekend, week 6 of the qualification for the World Championship in Fortnite took place. This time, it was played in Duos. The biggest streamer in the world, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, did not stream on Twitch this time, but it still wasn’t enough this weekend. But it was very close.
This is the situation: The streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has by far the largest Twitch channel in the world and is a strong shooter player. Although he was initially one of the best players in the world in Fortnite and won early tournaments, he has only focused on streaming in the months since and has not participated in any eSports tournaments.
However, now he desperately wants to qualify for the Fortnite World Championship. Because there are 30 million US dollars at stake, and it will likely be one of the biggest eSports events in the world.
But so far, Ninja has not passed the tough qualification. Sometimes he blamed stream snipers who were after him, sometimes he struggled with new changes in Fortnite.
Here’s how it went this time: On Saturday and Sunday, week 6 in the Fortnite WM Quali started. Ninja played with his partner Reverse2k. A year ago, he was considered an “unknown shooting star,” but he is now well-established.
Beforehand, Ninja had announced that he would refrain from streaming the matches on Twitch – he probably wanted to achieve it this time at all costs.
In the end, Ninja and Reverse scored exactly 86 points and placed 7th in NA East.
Bitter: He and Reverse2k were just 2 points short of 5th place, which would have qualified them. That means: If a single fight had gone a little differently, he would have made it.
He is frustrated that he and Reverse2k had 2 games where opponents were down but not eliminated.
Ninja and his partner take home $3500 after the weekend but are left empty-handed.
2 Austrians Dominating Europe
This is noticeable in the qualification: Those who think Fortnite is only about luck are proven wrong by the results.
In many regions, teams that have already qualified for the Fortnite WM in previous rounds win the qualifying rounds and the bonus money.
So in Europe, the team of E11 Tschinken and Stompy won with 105 points:
- They had already qualified for the WM with 3rd place in week 2, at the earliest possible time.
- In Duo week 4, they won the EU qualifier.
The two Austrians have thus completed two consecutive qualifiers in the EU division of Fortnite as the first and could go into the WM as favorites. However, a strong contender in Europe is also the young Fortnite player Mongraal with his partner Atlantis Mitr0.
Whether the strong Austrians will meet Ninja in the WM qualification seems uncertain at the moment. But maybe he will use one of his remaining chances.
