The tournament series “Love Each Other” has introduced a kind of ranking system in Fortnite. And professionals make use of the points system to their advantage.
Fortnite has recently implemented something like a ranked mode. A system that categorizes players into different leaderboards based on their performance. Such a leaderboard system has been desired for a long time.
Currently, the ranked play can be observed in the Love Each Other tournament. Players are complaining about a major issue with the points system.
What kind of tournament is this? The tournament is called “Love Each Other” and is active on several days in February. In the competitive sections, players must earn enough points to advance to the finals of the Champion Division.
There is a clear points system for this:
- 3 eliminations grant 1 point
- 5 eliminations grant 1 point
- 7 eliminations grant 1 point
- An Epic Victory grants 3 points
- Reaching the Top 3 grants 1 point
- Reaching the Top 10 grants 1 point
The issue with the tournament: Many players complain that participants are not penalized for leaving the game early. Players exploit this by simply leaving matches mid-way, preventing their opponent from receiving points. Because if one is no longer in the game, the opponent cannot earn points for your elimination.
This leads to players only participating in matches to “collect kills” and then quickly leaving once they have gathered a few points. This increases their own point total but does not help the opponent.
Player TSM Zexrow has faced criticism for leaving the match with only 2 HP left. An opponent was just on their way to him.
Zexrow’s opponent then tweeted at two Epic Games employees responsible for the eSports sector. He showed them the clip of Zexrow and also his own perspective of the situation. He demands that competitive matches should not be left easily. There should be a fix or a punishment for denying an opponent a point like that.
Other players are being accused in the comments on Twitter for leaving matches early to deny points to their opponents.
Others defend Zexrow with humor, saying: Who wouldn’t leave the game early when being shot down so harshly during landing?
That Zexrow can collect many kills has already been proven when he set a kill record in squads.
This is the change desired: Players are demanding that participants should lose their collected points of a match if they leave the match early on their own accord. Whether Epic Games will adjust the tournament in this area is unclear.
Elsewhere, you should be visiting waterfalls in Fortnite right now. That is much more peaceful:
