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As most people would say, Fortnite is in theory a top 3 esport due to how complex it is, but there’s just so many factors holding it back. For example, Fortnite is the only game I know where the casual player is negative about good players, where orgs come and go every 6 months, and where the game itself changes every few weeks.
The fact that we’re going to Saudi for EWC is really promising, yet in typical Fortnite fashion we haven’t accommodated more traditional esport practice like orgs owning lan spots or properly managing players, and have just treated it like any other tournament. There’s so much more I could go on about but I think you get the picture.

Peterbot and Pollo’s Chapter 5 run is the greatest this game has ever seen due to a combination of factors where the stars aligned for them, and they would have won everything if they were on EU because they were just so good. It was clear the Chapter 5 performance was not a replicable feat heading into Chapter 6 as soon as Pete dropped Pollo, but that’s besides the point. The point is that Peterbot became perceived as the best player in the world on the back of 2024 and once you have that perception it’s really hard to lose it - people will still say that he is the best player in the world today even when it’s clearly not true.

At about the same time, Clix actually starts having some success in competitions, which brought in a lot of new and returning fans of comp Fortnite, but also reignited the Clix fan club. EU players moving regions in Chapter 5 united North American Fortnite, and winning Globals further boosted NA.

At the same time as this is happening, Faxuty starts blowing up and becomes the biggest non-pro personality in Fortnite comp. Now I like Fax, but his entire personality is him glazing Peterbot, making silly mistakes in PGs, saying ‘On God’, and laughing at people calling him fat.

Then we arrive at Chapter 6, where NAW is reintroduced, which weakens what is already the weakest region in terms of player disparity. And shock, the Tier 2/3/4 scene on NA pretty much dies, and the Tier 1s just win every single tournament for a whole year. And more importantly, since pretty much every big team has a streamer in it, the Tier 1s don’t get conned because no player wants a streamer’s community spamming them with death threats when they can just land somewhere else. Yes, the grand finals were entertaining at the top of the leaderboard, but does anyone really care about the leaderboard beyond the top 10?

We arrive at the present day, where the Tier 1s have literally not changed in the last 2 years and there doesn’t look to be anyone really challenging to do so. And in grand finals, I’m sat watching and I’m thinking, do I really care who wins or who does well? Every good team will just qualify for globals at the end of the day. There’s no risk or real drama. And the content is dry too - the clip channels are posting clips of Peterbot saying why he doesn’t tweak his PC and Veno shooting a team in the back. And let’s not even talk about Userisstack or anyone in his twitter replies.

Also, don’t check twitter replies on any Moneymaker or Fnajen clip because it’s just kids saying they want to kill them for lurking on Peterbot.

I don’t know what players want or if they registered for the auction, but it seems silly to me that Irish and Scottish players count as overseas players and is probably costing them a fair bit of change since teams would rather import big names from the West Indies, South Africa and Australia than equally good players from Ireland and Scotland. Would it not make more sense to change the home criteria to be players from England, Scotland and Ireland? Maybe another solution is to have a maximum of 4 overseas players and 1 player from Europe who doesn’t qualify as a home player in order to bring the likes of the Netherlands and Italy in to the competition. Maybe I’m just overthinking it all

Looking at the World Cup, it seems silly to me that 3rd placed teams with a win and two losses can gain priority that those with 3 draws - for example, Scotland got a 1-0 win against one of the weaker nations at the tournament in Haiti through a deflection, decisively lost their other group games, and still have the same number of points as Iran and Cabo Verde who got 3 draws. I also don’t think that we talk about how difficult it can be to get a result against pot 1 teams.

It’s so surreal to me that after the autumn that he had with England, he cannot get a start in big games.
Litchfield has found a rich vein of form, Hutchinson has properly upped his game all season, and behind Dingwall, Toby Thame has grabbed his opportunities with both hands whenever he gets them. And frankly, Dingwall hasn’t been particularly outstanding, especially after the 6 Nations.
Do you suspect that this will continue further into next season, or will Dingwall reclaim his shirt over the summer?