2024 Esports World Cup – Featuring Fortnite

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2024 Esports World Cup:
Featuring Fortnite
Tournament information
Sport Fortnite
(ESL Featuring Fortnite UEFN mode)
LocationSaudi Arabia
DatesAugust 8–August 11
AdministratorEsports World Cup Foundation
Supervised by ESL
Tournament
format(s)
16-team GSL-style group stage
8-team single elimination bracket
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Teams16

Fortnite is scheduled to have a tournament at the 2024 Esports World Cup, held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between August 8 and 11, 2024. Sixteen teams will take part in this tournament, six having qualified from a LAN tournament at DreamHack Dallas and ten qualifying from online qualifiers. Due to the tournament not being sponsored or sanctioned by Epic Games, the game's developer, the tournament is known as Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite.

Contents

This tournament will utilize ESL Featuring Fortnite, a separate game made using Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) which operates like a team shooter in a manner similar to Call of Duty or Halo as opposed to Fortnite Battle Royale , which is used for the game's official esports circuit, the Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS).

Background

Fortnite was officially announced as one of the games at the 2024 Esports World Cup on March 11, 2024. Epic Games, the game's developer, opted not to associate itself with the game's tournament, as they sanction the Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS), which is officially run by Blast ApS. As such, the tournament was to be known as Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite. [1]

On April 11, 2024, ESL, which supervises the Esports World Cup tournament series and by extension the Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite tournament, announced ESL Featuring Fortnite, a separate game developed by 404 Creative using Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), an editor used to make custom games using the Fortnite engine. ESL Featuring Fortnite operates as a 4-on-4 team shooter, not unlike Call of Duty or Halo , and features familiar team shooter modes like Capture the Flag and Hardpoint. This contrasts to the FNCS, which is played on the Fortnite Battle Royale video game and utilizes two-player teams, known as Duos, who are often are paired from different organizations. On the same day, ESL announced that esports organizations Dignitas, Team Heretics, Karmine Corp and ZETA DIVISION had committed to fielding teams to compete in ESL Featuring Fortnite tournaments, which would also include qualifiers for Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite and the tournament itself, with a then-unnamed Brazilian organization later revealed to be LOUD. [2] Additional teams that would participate in ESL Featuring Fortnite tournaments were announced in May 2024.

Fortnite was one of the games at the Gamers8 festival, which was the predecessor to the Esports World Cup, for both 2022 and 2023. The Gamers8 tournaments for both years used Fortnite Battle Royale Duos like the FNCS, albeit with 88-player (or 44-Duo) fields.

Format

The 16 teams who qualify for the tournament will be placed into 4 GSL-style groups of 4 teams, with each match being a best-of-5 map series. The winners and runners-up of each group will advance to a single elimination playoff bracket; all matches in the playoffs are best-of-7 maps.

The top 8 teams at the tournament (those who qualify for the playoffs) will gain Esports World Cup Club Championship points. Each organization will be able to qualify for the Club Championship itself if they place in the top 8 in another EWC event, with the winning team's organization able to win the Club Championship as well if they also place in the top 8 of another event. [3]

Qualified teams

Sixteen teams qualified for the Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite tournament: 6 teams qualified via an offline LAN tournament held at DreamHack Dallas in the United States, while 10 additional teams qualified via online qualifiers held on the FACEIT platform.

DreamHack Dallas qualifiers

Online qualifiers

Europe
North America
Latin America
Middle East and Africa
  • BEST TEAM
  • BMNF
Asia-Pacific
  • ZETA DIVISION
Oceania
  • PWR

Groups

Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D
Team Falcons
Team Randu
XSET
ZETA DIVISION		Agent Gaming
BEST TEAM
Gaimin Gladiators
PWR		BMNF
Fnatic
Karmine Corp
VBBX		BIG CLAN
Dignitas
Heroic
Team Frosty

Group stage

This stage will be held on August 7 and 8, 2024. All start times are listed in Arabia Standard Time (AST, UTC+03:00).

Group A
Opening MatchesWinner's MatchAdvance to Knockout stage
August 8, 3:00 p.m.
TBA
August 8, 3:00 p.m.A1
Elimination MatchDecider Match
August 9, 9:00 p.m.
TBA
A2
Group B
Opening MatchesWinner's MatchAdvance to Knockout stage
August 8, 4:30 p.m.
TBA
August 8, 4:30 p.m.B1
Elimination MatchDecider Match
August 9, 9:00 p.m.
TBA
B2
Group C
Opening MatchesWinner's MatchAdvance to Knockout stage
August 8, 6:00 p.m.
TBA
August 8, 6:00 p.m.C1
Elimination MatchDecider Match
August 9, 10:30 p.m.
TBA
C2
Group D
Opening MatchesWinner's MatchAdvance to Knockout stage
August 8, 7:30 p.m.
TBA
August 8, 7:30 p.m.D1
Elimination MatchDecider Match
August 9, 10:30 p.m.
TBA
D2

Playoffs

All start times are listed in Arabia Standard Time (AST, UTC+03:00).

QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinals
August 9, 6:00 p.m.
August 10, 6:00 p.m.
August 9, 7:30 p.m.
August 10, 10:30 p.m.
August 9, 9:00 p.m.
August 10, 7:30 p.m.
August 9, 10:30 p.m.

Ranking

PlaceTeamGSQFSFFinalsPrize (%)Prize (USD) EWC Points
1stWWWW40%$400,0001000
2ndWWWL16%$160,000600
3rd–4thWWL8%$80,000275
WWL
5th–8thWL4%$40,00060
WL
WL
WL
9th-12th1-22%$20,0000
1-2
1-2
1-2
13th-16th0-21%$10,0000
0-2
0-2
0-2
PlaceTeamGSQFSFFinalsPrize (%)Prize (USD) EWC Points

Notes

  1. ↑ Team qualified as Team Frostykz7.
  2. ↑ Team qualified as Team RomeroPDF.

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References

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  2. ↑ Fudge, James (April 11, 2024). "ESL FACEIT Group Reveals 'ESL Featuring Fortnite'". The Esports Advocate. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
  3. ↑ Zalamea, Nigel (May 16, 2024). "Esports World Cup prize pool: Club championship explained". One Esports. Retrieved May 16, 2024.

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