The Gaming Community Reacts to Fortnite: Battle Royale Receiving a $100 Million Prize Pool for Esports Between 2018 and 2019 \u2013 Nadeshot, H3CZ, KEEMSTAR, and More! The gaming community went into a frenzy following the announcement by Epic Games that Fortnite: Battle Royale will have a $100 million prize pool between 2018 and 2019 for esports competition. In a shocking reveal, Epic Games announced on May 21st that Fortnite: Battle Royale will receive a $100 million prize pool between 2018 and 2019 for various esports tournaments and competitions. A sanctioned tournament has still yet to be held for the Battle Royale game since its release in 2017, with the genre as a whole still being relatively new when it comes to esports due to the \u2018randomness\u2019 of loot and other in-game aspects. Although many thought that the announcement included some sort of typo, it later settled in that the title will actually include such a massive sum of money, leading to a number of different reactions from gaming community members across the board. Whether it is someone in complete and utter disbelief or a professional esports competitor joking about changing titles, some of the best community reactions can be viewed below. OpTic CouRage Epic Games just announced they will support competitive Fortnite with $100,000,000 in prize money\u2026 For the first year alone. I\u2019m throwing on my John Wick skin and dropping right into Tilted Towers for the next 6 months. I\u2019ll see you guys on the other side. \u2014 OpTic CouRage (@CouRageJD) May 21, 2018 FeLo Nadeshot SirScoots To put this in some perspective, in 2017, the top 10 games COMBINED gave out $91.2mm in prize money. @FortniteGame with the biggest HMB in esports history. \u2014 Scott Smith (@SirScoots) May 21, 2018 Crimsix Anyone else curious as to how this meeting went down? \u201cWhat\u2019s dota have? League? COMBINE THEM. Everything thing we do works anyways, $100 million sounds nice.\u201d *Everyone grabs their office beers and walks out of the meeting room collectively laughing* @EpicGames https:\/\/t.co\/Yleq6NxfnJ \u2014 Ian Porter (@OpTic_Crimsix) May 21, 2018 Adam Apicella $100mm for prizes put up by the publisher for esports tournaments!? Where was this 10 years ago when we were struggling to keep the electricity paid at the office ? What an awesome turn of events for this space. Stoked to see the continued evolution of esports support. \u2014 Adam Apicella (@MrAdamAp) May 21, 2018 KEEMSTAR $100,000,000 prize pool for fortnite e-sports.. @FortniteGame WOW!!!!!!!!! AWESOME! @EpicGames \u2014 KEEM :popcorn: (@KEEMSTAR) May 21, 2018 NBK FaZe Attach $100,000,000 in prizes for Fortnite. Interesting Very interesting.\u2014 FaZe Attach (@Attach) May 21, 2018 Brice With the announcement of 100 million for prize pool funding from epic games I expect every moron and their dog to appear in that scene now. Charlatans will be out in force, stay safe people \ud83d\ude42\u2014 Brice (@Bricetacular) May 21, 2018 OpTic Octane 100 MILLION dollars for one year and the game is still relatively new\u2026. \u2014 Sam Larew (@Octane_) May 21, 2018 ACHES Why would anyone play any BR other than Fortnite now? (That\u2019s trying to be competitive) That\u2019s ridiculously absurd. Must be nice not having a super greedy publisher. Happy for FN ppl tho. \u2014 Patrick Price (@ACHES) May 21, 2018 KOSDFF 6 years ago we were sending teams to 10ks in hotel rooms. Future looks much brighter \ud83d\ude42 https:\/\/t.co\/OWkpzcs4JY \u2014 Justin Chandler (@KOSDFF) May 21, 2018 H3CZ You either move when you need to, or you play catch-up. They\u2019re just having fun tho, this is going to be SICK!!! Can\u2019t wait to attend the first event. https:\/\/t.co\/Y4NPJNJmd0 \u2014 Hector Rodriguez (@OpTicH3CZ) May 21, 2018 NAMELESS 100 MILLY IN FORNITE? Hold up son, I\u2019m about to go pro. LMAO \u2014 Anthony Wheeler (@NAMELESS) May 21, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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