Epic Games will be running custom lobbies for Fortnite pros \u2013 on one condition Fortnite – Epic Games \/ 72hrs – Team LiquidDuring a stream by team Liquid Fortnite pro Thomas \u201872hrs\u2019 Mulligan, it was revealed that Epic Games will be providing professional Fornite players with custom lobbies. Over the stream\u2019s voice chat, another player revealed that Epic Games would be running these lobbies for pros on Friday, September 14, at 5 PM EST. However, there was one condition \u2013 the players couldn\u2019t refer to the matches as \u2018scrims\u2019 while they streamed. The player stated: \u201cFriday, at 5 PM EST, customs, we cannot refer to them as scrims, and we\u2019re allowed to stream them.\u201d He wasn\u2019t the only one to confirm this development, either. Team Liquid\u2019s Poach likewise affirmed the lobbies in his own stream. \u201cLate night Friday, we\u2019re gonna do Duo Customs for Epic,\u201d he stated to his chat while detailing his upcoming stream schedule. As to why players can\u2019t refer to the matches as \u2018scrims,\u2019 one Reddit user by the name of Mlinki3636 had a possible explanation. In a thread discussing the development, the user stated that custom matches can\u2019t be used for competitive practice, hence Epic\u2019s re-branding of the lobby names. \u201cBecause custom games can\u2019t be used for competitive practice,\u201d they stated, \u201ceven though pro players mostly play them for practice.\u201d Read More: Complete all the Fortnite challenges for Week 10 of Season 5 using the full cheat sheet map with locations – Another comment revealed that information for the lobbies would be released via a private discord. A user with a verified email, named xil7, stated that Epic would be running the Customs in their Private Replay Discord channel, which some pros have access to. Additionally, the user stated that these lobbies won\u2019t be a regular occurrence \u2013 but confirmed that Epic would allow players to stream the matches. \u201cThese are customs run by Epic in their private Replay Test discord, that some of us have access to,\u201d the user commented in the thread. \u201cThese won\u2019t happen often, but at least we can stream them.\u201d Players and fans alike can look forward to some top competition on Friday via these custom lobbies \u2013 but you won\u2019t hear them referred to as \u2018scrims.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epic Games will be running custom lobbies for Fortnite pros \u2013 on one condition Fortnite – Epic Games \/ 72hrs – Team LiquidDuring a stream by team Liquid Fortnite pro Thomas \u201872hrs\u2019 Mulligan, it was revealed that Epic Games will be providing professional Fornite players with custom lobbies. Over the stream\u2019s voice chat, another player […]<\/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-72008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72008","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=72008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}