MrSavage wins $250,000 DreamHack Anaheim Fortnite: final placements DreamHack100 Thieves\u2019 new Fortnite superstar MrSavage took home first place at the massive DreamHack Anaheim ft. Fortnite event. Following the recent launch of Fortnite Chapter 2: Season 2, a $250,000 solos tournament took place at this year\u2019s DreamHack Anaheim event, featuring some of the esport\u2019s biggest names. Played from February 21-23 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, this $250,000 competition saw Fortnite players from around the world, both known and unknown, face off for the ultimate prize. DreamHack Anaheim Fortnite final placements The Grand Final was the third stage of this tournament, featuring the 100 players who managed to survive the gauntlet of qualifiers in the first two stages. After eight matches, World Cup qualifier MrSavage, who recently signed with 100 Thieves, finished in first place, taking home $35,000. He was followed in second by Ghost Gaming\u2019s Bizzle, who won $15,000, and free agent player Nanolite, who claimed $13,750 The competition wasn\u2019t without some late drama, as MrSavage actually had to pull off an incredibly epic clutch to win the final match, which gave him just enough points to sit atop the leaderboard once it was all said and done. WHAT A FINISH!!!@MrSavage clutches up for the final match victory to win the $250,000 DreamHack Anaheim Fortnite tournament! (Credit: @AussieAntics) pic.twitter.com\/nxEAPSzUaJ \u2014 Dexerto (@Dexerto) February 24, 2020 DreamHack Anaheim Fortnite structure The tournament is split into three stages to be played across the three days. Stage 1, which is open to all players who sign up that are 13 years of age or older, is composed of two separate heats \u2013 Blue Heat and Yellow Heat. Blue Heat takes place on Friday, February 21 at 4 PM PT \/ 7 PM ET while Yellow Heat will be played Saturday, February 22 at 11 AM PT \/ 2 PM ET. Read More: Fortnite Season 2 update patch notes – The top 200 players from each heat, based on their scores after 10 matches, advance to the Grand Final Qualifying Round on Saturday, February 22 at 4 PM PT \/ 7 PM ET. After 10 more matches in this round, the top 100 players advance to the Grand Final on Sunday, February 23 at 11 AM PT \/ 2 PM ET. The Grand Final features eight matches that will determine the winner and final placements. Dreamhack Anaheim Fortnite results Stage 1 \u2013 Blue Heat Top 200 players from Blue Heat advance to Stage 2 \u2013 Grand Final Qualifying Round. (Top 10 pictured below) Stage 1 \u2013 Yellow Heat Top 200 players from Yellow Heat advance to Stage 2 \u2013 Grand Final Qualifying Round. (Top 10 pictured below) Stage 2 \u2013 Grand Final Qualifying Round Top 100 of the 400 players advance to Stage 3 \u2013 Grand Final (Top 10 pictured below) DreamHack Anaheim Fortnite scoring format This tournament uses a scoring system that takes both match placements and eliminations into account. The same format is used for all three stages of the competition. Elimination gives 5 points – DreamHack Anaheim Fortnite prize pool breakdown All players who manage to qualify for the Grand Final stage of this tournament will earn a share of the $250,000 prize pool. The winner will get $30,000 while those who finish in the lowest bracket (76-100th) will go home with $500. Make sure to follow us @Dexerto on Twitter for the latest updates and results from this $250,000 Fortnite tournament at DreamHack Anaheim 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MrSavage wins $250,000 DreamHack Anaheim Fortnite: final placements DreamHack100 Thieves\u2019 new Fortnite superstar MrSavage took home first place at the massive DreamHack Anaheim ft. Fortnite event. Following the recent launch of Fortnite Chapter 2: Season 2, a $250,000 solos tournament took place at this year\u2019s DreamHack Anaheim event, featuring some of the esport\u2019s biggest names. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}