New Fortnite esports circuit revealed and it\u2019s not the battle royale mode ESL \/ Helena KristianssonESL and FACEIT have announced a new esports circuit that was developed in the Unreal Editor for Fortnite called \u201cESL Featuring Fortnite\u201d that will feature game modes outside of Battle Royale. ESL is coming back to Fortnite esports in a new way by collaborating with UEFN developer 404 Creative and building competitive game modes like Capture the Flag and Hardpoint. The esports tournament organizer and 404 Creative will design team-based game modes across Fortnite\u2019s custom islands and feature popular esports organizations like Karmine Corp, Team Heretics, ZETA Division, Dignitas, and a \u201cmystery Brazilian team.\u201d The first map in the project, Capture the Flag, is already live and players can sign up to play it competitively in weekly events through FACEIT. \u201cESL ft. Fortnite is a fresh take on competitive Fortnite, with an unprecedented team-based format. Utilizing the UEFN creator, this 4v4 experience will feature multiple game modes: Capture the Flag, Hardpoint, and Shrinking Zone. Pick from 6 unique specialist roles (limit one per team) to fit your playstyle,\u201d it says on the Fortnite ESL website. How this will potentially overlap with the Esports World Cup remains to be seen. This new esports circuit is not endorsed by Epic Games, which chose BLAST over ESL and FACEIT to run its main competitive Rocket League and Fortnite circuits. Esports insider Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau claimed the ESL circuit launch was in response to Epic going with BLAST for its esports tournament needs instead of the Saudi-backed organization in a last-minute decision. Brian Kr\u00e4mer, Senior Director of Game Ecosystems and Growth Titles at ESL\/ FACEIT Group, explained that the organizer has had the project in the pipeline for a while. \u201cWe\u2019ve actually been looking at UEFN for a long time as we see its potential. We wanted to start with something that players love to compete in across various shooter titles to make it easier to access. All these modes can deliver hype comp matches, esp with team rivalries on top,\u201d Kr\u00e4mer said. Whether this new esports circuit inside of a popular title will take off is still up in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Fortnite esports circuit revealed and it\u2019s not the battle royale mode ESL \/ Helena KristianssonESL and FACEIT have announced a new esports circuit that was developed in the Unreal Editor for Fortnite called \u201cESL Featuring Fortnite\u201d that will feature game modes outside of Battle Royale. ESL is coming back to Fortnite esports in a […]<\/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-76510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76510","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=76510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}