Fortnite pro faces backlash after winning $400,000 LAN with controller Australia OpenFortnite pro Breso is facing backlash after what should be one of the greatest moments of his career, after taking home the trophy at the Fortnite Australian Open LAN tournament. Breso is a player that, prior to the Australian Open, had not made many waves on an international scale, despite putting up some decent performances in regional tournaments online. However, when the Summer Smash event at the Australian Open rolled around, Breso was one of few controller players facing off against some of the international elite such as Benjy \u2018benjyfishy\u2019 Fish and TSM\u2019s Anthony \u2018ZexRow\u2019 Colandro. With a title-winning performance under his belt, though, some fans weren\u2019t too pleased to see a controller player come out on top. The controller versus mouse and keyboard debate has raged on in Fortnite since cross-platform play was made available, with many mouse and keyboard players believing that aim assist on controller is overpowered and thus rendering the competitive landscape less equal. However, you rarely see controller players winning tournaments, with Breso finally breaking the mold and beating his M&KB brethren to claim the top prize of $100,000. This, you would think, is cause for celebration, but it has turned into something much different for Breso. Throughout and immediately following the tournament, the Aussie player inspired a torrent of controller-bashing comments from the Fortnite community. Luminosity Gaming\u2019s Hampus \u2018beehive\u2019 Johnsson said that controller players \u201cbuild the same as PC but with 100% consistent aim and no bloom,\u201d saying that it\u2019s \u201cnot competitive.\u201d Ever since controller players got really good at building they have been winning everything. They build the same as PC but with 100% consistent aim and no bloom. Not competitive. \u2014 beehive (@beehhive) February 2, 2020 Possibly tongue-in-cheek, Jonathan \u2018yung calculator\u2019 Weber said that controller players \u201cshould be banned from pro-level practice.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/yungcalc\/status\/1224082220375314437?s=20 It wasn\u2019t only his fellow pros who took the opportunity to question the legitimacy of Breso\u2019s win, with StatsyFN saying that Breso is a \u201closer.\u201d Breso and his aim assist LOL kids a loser! Hate those controller scrimmas \u2014 statsy (@statsy281) February 2, 2020 Team Liquid\u2019s Evan \u2018Cented\u2019 Barron, though not throwing any shade Breso\u2019s way, did tweet longingly for the times when Nick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff and Aydan \u2018Aydan\u2019 Conrad fighting for control of Tilted Towers would be peak controller play. That said, he did later stick up for controller players, saying it must be hard having the top names in the community constantly bashing you. Can we just go back to watching nickmercs and aydan fight at tilted \u2014 Agent Cented \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 (@Cented7) February 2, 2020 Waking up and being a controller player must suck seeing all pros bash on you for what you play on, still gonna keep doing it though \u2014 Agent Cented \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 (@Cented7) February 3, 2020 Of course, on the other hand, Breso also got a lot of love, particularly from controller players who were happy to see one of their peers do it and overcome the odds, beating some of the greatest players in the world on what is largely considered the inferior input. While controller players will be delighted to see Breso taking gold, it\u2019s fair to say that it has not much helped settle the debate over aim assist \u2013 but, really, the debate may never be settled anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite pro faces backlash after winning $400,000 LAN with controller Australia OpenFortnite pro Breso is facing backlash after what should be one of the greatest moments of his career, after taking home the trophy at the Fortnite Australian Open LAN tournament. Breso is a player that, prior to the Australian Open, had not made many […]<\/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-74140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74140","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=74140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}