Epic delays Fortnite tournaments until it fixes performance issues

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Epic Games announced today that it won't be hosting any Fortnite tournaments with greenbacks prizes until it addresses performance issues commiserable both players as well as the game's servers. "Our hots is to improve performance afore knifing off any greenbacks regarded competition," the visitor said in a statement.

For Coadjute 2 - Season 2, we're working to birdcage performance issues impacting both dependents as well as servers.. Our hots is to improve performance afore knifing off any greenbacks regarded competition. We'll alimony you acquaint with scorecard updates as anon as possible.

-- Fortnite Competitive (@FNCompetitive) March 2, 2020

Disappointingly, this twitter seems to thrive that we won't be hearing anything narrowly the abutting World Cup or any potential condoning contest in the present-day future. Last July, Heroic hosted the first Fortnite World Cup in New York City as well as offered players 10 online condoning tournaments over the normalcy of a few months to vie for their struggle at the trophy -- as well as $30 paleface in award-winning money.

Fortnite's latest season launched on February 20th, as well as there are a number of contempo changes to the game that could be commiserable performance. One is that multiple areas on the map are now meditative by armed as well as coordinated NPCs, as well as conceivably Heroic is seeing issues with how those notation accompany up boundlessness games. The game also moved over to the Upraised Engine's Entropy physics engine in early February, as well as back Heroic announced that change, it said it expected to levelheadedness some "bumps" with the transition.

Epic may also be movables circumspection in light of coronavirus

There's also the workableness that Heroic is movables circumspection narrowly hosting the World Cup in light of the spherical coronavirus outbreak, which has already led to the postponement of the Game Developers Conference, multitudinous exhibitors selling out of last week's PAX East, as well as the receipt of other overlying tech contest like Mobile World Congress as well as Facebook's F8 developer conference.

China's League of Legends Pro Marriage has vestigial its in-person matches as well as shifted to an online-only format for the time being. There's evermore a fortuity Heroic could booty a agnate channel for the abutting World Cup, hardened last year's World Cup qualifiers were all online as well as that the visitor has hosted online tournaments with greenbacks prizes in the past.

And although it seems like we'll be waiting to realize other narrowly Epic's preparations for tournaments, popular streamers as well as Fortnite competitors Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, Nick "NickMercs" Kolcheff, as well as World Cup solo five-star Kyle "Bugha" Giersdorf all reacted positively to today's agitprop on Twitter.

Smart ^_^ ty for the amend #

-- Ninja (@Ninja) March 2, 2020