Fortnite: €7,400 tournament escalated on LAN – pro smacks young player in the face
On June 3rd, a LAN event took place in Dallas, the DreamHackDallas: Fortnite was also played there in a solo tournament for $25,000 in prize money, with the winner getting around €7,400. But the match escalated: A Fortnite professional felt defeated by a youngster and allowed himself to be carried away by violence.
What was that tournament?
- Dreamhack is a brand of ESL and specializes in e-sports tournaments that take place on site. People meet and play against each other on PCs, in LANs. This takes place in various places around the world.
- The Dreamhack Dallas offered a $25,000 tournament in Fortnite “No Build”. The tournament was open to anyone who grabbed a ticket for $150 or more. You then had to be there between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. and could register for “Open Matches”.
- The 95 best players from the “open” went to the final, there were 6 games, the winner should get $8,000. The total prize money was $25,000.
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Pro Is 1st In Last Game – When A Boy “lands On Him”
What happened then? There is no recording of the stream, but from the accounts of the visitors and himself, apparently the player “DiegoPlayz” was ahead in the finals and went first into the last match. This is a North American professional player who competes for Team Moon Unit.
He played in a duo with the extremely strong player, Bizzle, in May. So he can really do something and was therefore able to dominate the “normal amateurs”.
But in the last game, when he was in first place, he was apparently deliberately “griefted”: A player who was already totally beaten and played no role in the ranking landed “on top of him”. So when he jumped on the map, he looked for a direct confrontation with him.
This is considered a breach of unwritten etiquette in Fortnite. According to DiegoPlayz, the boy was also supported by a “whole group of friends”.
After the match, DiegoPlayz reportedly went to the other’s PC and punched him in the face.
There is only a record of the seconds after the incident, when stewards cleared the situation with the announcement. “Don’t fight here, there’s expensive shit here.”
Ninja thinks “Loser” compromised the integrity of the competition, somehow deserved it
That’s how it’s seen: The over.ambitious streamer Ninja is on the side of Diegoplayz. When Ninja hears the story, he says: That sounds good to him. It’s not okay to resort to violence, but the boy kind of begged for it.
That’s just a “damn loser.” He sums it up with “You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes” – a loser shouldn’t endanger the integrity of the competition.
That’s how the professional sees it: DiegoPlay himself that is different. He says it felt awful to be slowed down so close to winning LAN after trying so hard.
But despite everything, he shouldn’t have reacted like that. He now wants to apologize to the boy and his family – including to the Dreamhack (via twitlonger).
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Again and again stress about Fortnite as an e-sport
That’s behind it: In such incidents you can see again and again that Fortnite is simply unsuitable as an e-sport. The concept simply bites:
- 100 people play against each other in “everyone against everyone”, you can fight from the first second
- But it’s actually better to avoid fair fights, to collect resources: either you only enter into “safe fights” or stay out of it if possible
- Because the game allows so much and there are only “unwritten rules”, manipulation is easily possible
Because there are so many ways to play “wrong” that the game allows, but somehow violate “unwritten competition rules”:
- The game allows you to “land on” someone straight away and try to kill them, even if it ruins your chances of winning.
- It is also possible for pros to coordinate their routes with each other and avoid the entire match in order to increase their chances of winning.
- Or players deliberately follow each other’s path, do not fight against each other, so as not to waste resources.
All of these are significant issues that a “proper esports title” simply doesn’t have. With LoL or CS:GO, such “Griefing” is simply not possible in e-sports.
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The cover picture shows Diegoplayz at Dreamhack. It’s from his Twitter channel.
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