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Fortnite Could Learn a Lesson From the H1Z1 Pro League

On Monday, Epic Games announced that it would be putting up $100 million in prizes for the first year of competitive play of its game Fortnite. Besides that staggering number, Epic didn’t release any further information about the structure of that competition or how it would be scored. To put the money in perspective, in […]

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Why Fortnite Is Not An Esport Despite The Drake/Ninja Publicity

Last Wednesday, Drake joined popular Fortnite player Tyler “Ninja” Blevins on his Twitch stream to play a couple of Fortnite games. By the time the stream was over, Ninja had 50,000 new subscribers, had shattered the Twitch record for concurrent viewers on an individual stream with 635,000, and NFL player Juju Smith-Schuster and hip hop […]

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