Ninja fails to qualify for Fortnite World Cup

The sphere for the largest online game match of all time has been set, and the world’s most recognizable gamer, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, won’t be there — no less than as a competitor.

From July 26 to 28, the Fortnite World Cup will happen at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York Metropolis with $30 million on the road between its particular person and duos occasions. The champion of the solo competitors will stroll away with a life-changing grand prize of $three million.

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Ninja, who was formally eradicated from the solo competitors two weeks in the past when he didn’t qualify within the final particular person qualifier, had yet one more likelihood to achieve New York Metropolis in duos competitors. Alongside duos accomplice Malachi “Reverse2k” Greine (who certified for the solo division), Ninja took to the web qualifiers a closing time to see if he might advance to New York Metropolis.

Though he mentioned he was in poor health heading into the ultimate qualifying rounds, Ninja and Reverse2k handed by way of the preliminary rounds on Thursday to make the final word qualifier on Friday. Ninja did not stream his try and qualify for the World Cup, conserving his potential qualification a secret from the Fortnite group at-large.

After three hours of video games, Ninja and Reverse2k completed with 64 factors, 25 shy of what they wanted to make it to the World Cup finals. Following his staff’s failure to make it to New York, Ninja took to social media to tell his 4 million-plus followers on Twitter that though he did not qualify for the World Cup, he will likely be showing on the occasion in some capability.

Fortnite streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins didn’t qualify for the Fortnite World Cup solo competitors, and he additionally didn’t qualify as a duo alongside Malachi “Reverse2k” Greine. Picture by Ethan Miller/Getty Pictures

Whereas Ninja carried out his closing run in personal, the opposite greatest title in Fortnite, Turner “Tfue” Tenney, took a distinct method in streaming his complete last-chance qualifier expertise with none delay on Twitch. Coming off a third-place efficiency on the Fortnite Professional-Am in Los Angeles with celeb basketball teammate Josh Hart, Tfue teamed with accomplice Dennis “Cloak” Lepore in entrance of a gradual viewers of greater than 100,000 for the three-hour qualifier.

The champions of the Fortnite Fall Skirmish at TwitchCon final 12 months who received $510,000, the 2, like Ninja and Reverse2k, had been anticipated to be on the bubble all day Friday making an attempt to build up sufficient factors by way of their 10 matches to advance. Tfue and Cloak stumbled by way of the primary half of their video games earlier than placing on a present within the closing sport they might play within the three-hour qualifier window, their run coming to an anti-climactic finish on account of lengthy queue occasions that plagued numerous prime gamers all through the day.

One other standard staff that didn’t qualify Friday, the Crew Liquid facet of Thomas “72hrs” Mulligan and Noah “Vivid” Wright confronted comparable challenges with queue occasions. At 80 factors and inside placing distance of one of many closing tickets to the World Cup finals, the 2 confronted an excruciatingly lengthy queue to get into their closing sport, eliminating them from the match.

It is not the tip of the street, although, no less than for Tfue and Vivid, each of whom have certified for the solo competitors and a shot on the $three million grand prize. General, the sector for the Fortnite World Cup is plagued by relative unknowns, some as younger as 14 years previous, attempting to find a chunk of the prize pool that turned heads within the esports world when it was first introduced. Like Fortnite itself, the qualifiers for the World Cup had been unpredictable and typically too loopy for their very own good, leaving us with a match in New York lacking some names which have come to form the sport since its meteoric rise in the summertime of 2017.

Two years after its launch, the Fortnite World Cup will inform us what’s subsequent for the sport that has discovered a lot success within the gaming world and standard tradition however has had combined leads to establishing itself as an esport. With Ninja within the crowd and tens of millions of on the road, Epic Video games, the creators of Fortnite, will hope a brand new star or two are born in a metropolis that’s well-known for making them. The way forward for Fortnite as an esport would possibly depend upon it.