Liquid Poach criticizes \u201cshocking\u201d Fortnite World Cup prize pool breakdown The Fortnite World Cup has finally arrived \u2013 with $30m on offer in prize money \u2013 but Team Liquid\u2019s Jake \u2018Poach\u2019 Brumleve is less than impressed with how the earnings are distributed. After ten weeks of intense online qualifiers all around the world, the best Fortnite players have travelled to New York City to compete for one of the largest prize pools in esports history. The winner of the solo event will guarantee themselves $3 million in earnings, meaning they could shoot straight to the top of the list of all-time highest Fortnite earners, but popular pro player Poach isn\u2019t pleased with how Epic Games are distributing the cash. Despite becoming a notable name to miss out on qualification, Poach travelled to New York to support his Liquid teammate Noah \u2018Vivid\u2019 Wright, but poked fun at the prize pool breakdown for the duo event. Poach took issue with the fact that the team who finishes in 11 place will earn the same amount of money ($50,000) as the team that finishes dead last. Whereas the team that finishes one place higher in 10, will win $225,000 \u2013 an increase of $125,000 for just one position in the standings. Imagine placing 11th today and getting the same prize money as dead last OMEGALUL \u2014 Jake @ NYC (@Poach) July 27, 2019 The 20-year-old said: \u201cImagine placing 11 today and getting the same prize pool as dead last OMEGALUL.\u201d He continued his complaint, stating that it was \u201cshocking\u201d that a player could not even participate during the event, yet still take home the same amount of money as someone who tried their very best to finish highly. \u201cAll I\u2019m saying is how shocking it is that someone could AFK (away from keyboard) all 6 games and they could take the same prize as a team that worked their ass off and placed right outside the top 10,\u201d he added. All I’m saying is how shocking it is that someone could AFK all 6 games and they could take the same prize as a team that worked their ass off and placed right outside the top 10 \u2014 Jake @ NYC (@Poach) July 27, 2019 Even with the prize pool breakdown criticism, some players at the Fortnite World Cup will still be earning more money than some pros who have competed in well established esports such as CS:GO or Dota2 for a number of years. With Epic Games pledging at least $100m to their competitive scene, only $40m of which was spent on the event in New York, expect to see even more huge prize pools on offer in future tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Liquid Poach criticizes \u201cshocking\u201d Fortnite World Cup prize pool breakdown The Fortnite World Cup has finally arrived \u2013 with $30m on offer in prize money \u2013 but Team Liquid\u2019s Jake \u2018Poach\u2019 Brumleve is less than impressed with how the earnings are distributed. After ten weeks of intense online qualifiers all around the world, the best […]<\/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-76351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76351","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=76351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}