More Than 2.3 Million People Watched The Fortnite World Cup Finals

And I was not one of them.
I just can't feel anything but negativity when I think about Epic games.

My siblings like the game though so I try not to dis it too much.

Don't have much interest in Fortnite, but I think it's great that a young kid can make so much money winning a tournament, I really do. We accept huge remuneration for actors and sports people, I don't see why not for professional gamers.

I was living with an Italian family while teaching there last summer, and the 15 year old son tried to teach me how to play Fortnite.
His level of skill was just beyond anything I could comprehend.

Good luck to these people.

Sigh. If this is what people are having fun with, I say have fun.

But I don't enjoy the game. It makes me sad that this is the game design that people seem to love much more than deep story driven RPGs or creative platformers or almost any other genre. Even other shooters.

I just really don't like battle royales. Start the game, run around for 20 minutes looking for guns, get sniped from across the map, repeat. I much prefer the, I guess old school style of death match or team death match for shooting. Comes from playing Halo 1-3 and Reach and COD 4 back when I was in high school and college, or even further back, 007 Goldeneye in elementary school.

I bet that shut his parents up... won’t be making him get off the game now

Now we need a Minecraft World Cup to show Fortnite up.

I’ve been gaming for two decade already and i just love fortnite. It’s an awesome game and i can’t wait for season X to arrive.

Season 10...can't believe it.

I also don't have an interest in Fortnite, but I definitely don't have any problems with it, unlike all of the people who hate Fortnite because it's popular. It's great to see e-Sports become more mainstream and have large prize pools. Hopefully that can extend to other games.

Even though i’m not a fan of Fortnite, I gotta give that kid who won the championship some respect. Congratulations kid, you worked hard.

fortnite is not an original concept, for sure. but it requires skill, teamwork and cooperation to win the game. I think 16 years old winning million dollars is epic, just like in dota 2 when sumail wins The International when he was 16.

Keep up the good work

@DarthNocturnal There's a TDM mode now? I didn't hear about this. Perhaps I will have to give it another chance.

Reports say 98% of viewers were under the age of 12

I'm too old for esports/twitch/etc. I'm from the generation of playing games rather than watching them.

Can't help but see fortnite as a huge step down from Unreal Tournament. I'd watch a world cup of UT.

@Mamabear Too right, what could be more important that cash? Parenting is just about getting kids to the point where they have a bank account, yeah?

Sounds like more than watched the women’s World Cup...😚

I genuinely don't understand watching people play videogames... Maybe I'm just too old for this. As an aside, shouldn't their be equal pay for all participants, especially those underrepresented in this industry? 🤔

Will be playing Fortnite with my Nephew tonight from opposite ends of the world 🌎

So more people like Love Island than they do Fortnite. Damming!!!!

And yet, instead of hiring more staff, Epic gets reported for exploiting their workers... wow

2.3 million people watched that?

I'll just add that to my list of reasons to die.

@Fandabidozi I've played off and on, but keeping in touch with my nephews back home is the main reason I still play Fortnite. But they play way better than anything I could manage pulling off. Like @Franklin mentioned, the level of skill these kids have is beyond anything I was able to pull off at their age. Beating the first Super Mario in one life was about the most impressive stunt I could muster.

Over 2 billion gamers in the world and only 2 million watched this lame crap.