When it comes to competitive Fortnite, one tournament is the height of play. The FNCS, or Fortnite Champion Series, is the premier event. It’s here where we see the very best players go head-to-head, each season. All to find a champion, that’s who all the past FNCS winners are. The players who have proven themselves the very best in the entire game.
The FNCS is held seasonally. Since the seasons and Chapters in Fortnite change the game pretty heavily, the best FN players change just as quickly. Often the list of all FNCS winners for a season are completely different from the season before. There are a few stand-out players though, Duos who have managed to win multiple FNCS events. Including our most recent Global Championship winners, who dominated an entire Chapter and have gone on to win an FNCS each since. These have definitely proven their worth as the all-time strongest players.
With more FNCS events on the horizon, who are all of our past winners? These are all the FNCS winners we’ve seen across the history of Fortnite up to the most recent FNCS Major 2 that closed out Chapter 6 Season 2 and the Pro-Am.
In 2025, we’ve kicked off a brand-new season of the FNCS. Now expanded, with players fighting through Divisional Cups and a wider qualification process. Although, even with a wider build up, it all comes down to that Grand Final still. Just 12 games to find our new FNCS winners.
We’re now about two-thirds of the way through Chapter 6’s tournaments, with most of the events completed! Since Major 1 and 2 are now completed, we’ve gotten a decent list of the winners in Chapter 6 Season 2. The players who will make it all the way to the FNCS Global Championship 2025.
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The initial tournaments have been pretty entertaining, with old Duos now divided in the new Trios format, and multiple Champions on different teams competing for the FNCS Winner’s crown. These are our winners for Chapter 6 so far:
The Fortnite Galactic Battle season decided to skip the FNCS Majors. We’re waiting until the next Fortnite season starts for that. However, we did still get a side event, the FNCS Pro-Am. This event had pros competing with a content creator on their team. It made the results and FNCS Winners a bit unpredictable.
It wasn’t enough or a pro to be one of the best players at this event. They had to carry a content creator too! As some players found out as their content creator was killed repeatedly from the rift in respawn process without touching the ground. It took a bit more teamwork, even if the end games did often come down to a bunch of pros playing as solos. The FNCS Winners for this event were Peterbot and Aussie Antics. Peterbot isn’t the biggest surprise, since the player has been dominating for about a year now. Pulling it off with a casual player on his side is still an achievement though.
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Another season, another batch of FNCS winners! It’ll be our only set of real winners for quite a while too. With the game having a mini-season next up, it’s going to be a few months before players get another shot at becoming FNCS Champions. This was reflected in the competition too! It’s been one of the most difficult years for competitors.
The most dramatic new FNCS winners are likely Peterbot, Cold, and Ritual. Undisputedly some of the best players in the game. They spent most of the tournament on level pegging with Clix’s trio, even being on identical points for a good part of it. They took the matter into their own hands, hunting the other trio down for a head-to-head in the early game multiple times.
It’s been an FNCS event which at times has resembled a 3-v-3 in a Creative map! Despite an early death in the final game though, Peterbot’s trio still took victory, adding another FNCS win to his accomplishments.
Elsewhere, we saw some competition was heightened across the entire game. Every region was a step up this year. The game’s meta is in a particularly strange place, with teams relying more and more on trading surge rather than actually pushing each other. But these new FNCS winners have shown themselves to be at the very top of the game, in a season where it’s harder than ever to progress in these events.
These are our FNCS winners for Chapter 6 Season 2:
There’s been some changes to the list of FNCS winners since the last Major wrapped up. Specifically in Oceania. It’s a smaller region, but the last major’s results have been changed retroactively. One player’s conduct has been called into question Since Epic’s discovered it, the LAN slots have been re-assigned.
A little after the event, Danath, Mace, and Skits were removed from the leaderboards. They had won two back-to-back, so this change shakes things up quite a bit. We’re now going to see extra slots at OCE Major 3 secure a slot, the top 2 this time. Since the change effected both Majors and teams contained the same players in different teams, this was the cleanest solution. It’s a shame for the legitimate players who competed in these events that the results are now a bit muddled, and that suspect players made it to the final lobbies.
Out of these winners of Major 1, it’s probably worth mentioning how close the FNCS Major 1 NAC leaderboard was. The team in second place were only 14 points behind, thanks to two insane Peterbot pop offs in the final games. They did come up short though, and it’s Pollo trio who are locked in as our new FNCS winners for C6 S1.
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The last Chapter for Fortnite was a fun one. Although, it did see one Duo rise to win the FNCS, and then keep on winning all the way through to the Global Championship. Each Major secures more players’ ticket to an end-of-year LAN, who are all of the FNCS winners who are dominating the game in the fifth Chapter?
The FNCS winners come from the international LAN, held among winners of each previous event. After a tense two days of competitions, Peterbot and Pollo took victory here. They’re the only winners for this tournament! Having triumphed over everyone from each different region.
After winning two of our three majors, it’s not too big of a surprise. Their incredible performance in the finals has proven they’re on top of all these winners this year.
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Before the Global Championship, teams have to go through multiple majors to try and secure their spot. These are all of the Major winners from throughout Chapter 5:
Now, the FNCS Chapter 5 tournaments have wrapped up. Out of those added this year to our list of FNCS winners, there are some impressive duos. We’ve even had more that have managed back-to-back wins in North America Central.
The FNCS winners listed for Chapter 5 are still an impressive batch though. Each of these has won an entire region for one season of Fortnite.
Chapter 4 saw the switch to a Major format for the FNCS. Each seasonal tournament was building up to the LAN at the close of the Chapter. Each of these players reached the top spot for their individual region.
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One thing to keep in mind with this list is the change in regions. After Major 1, North America East and West were merged. These had separate tournaments up until then.
The Grand Final Winners are Acorn and Cold.
These are all the winners of the Fortnite Championship Series for Chapter 4:
In a lot of ways, C3 out of all Fortnite seasons, is where Epic locked down the current format. Bigger collabs, four seasons to a Chapter, and a briefer FNCS leading up to the end-of-year finale.
The 2022 Invitational Winners are Setty and Kami.
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These are all of our winners for this Chapter of the game.
The FNCS first launched in Chapter 2, a new format to formalize competitive Fortnite outside of the World Cup. It took place across different regions, like the future FNCS seasons. Interestingly, these early seasons had different formats from FNCS to FNCS. It was before we locked down a Duos format every time. These are all of our winners from Chapter 2:
Those are all FNCS winners we’ve had so far. We’re still going through the FNCS 2024 season though, so this list is only going to grow as more new players hit the top of the game!
In terms of who has won the most FNCS events, there’s some players who have been active and winning for so long they have a pretty long list. EpikWhale and Arkham. They’ve both won six overall.
One more feat worth mentioning is Pollo’s recent achievement. After winning Chapter 6 Season 1’s FNCS, he is now the only player to pull off what some are calling a 4-peat.
He’s won FNCS Major 2, 3, and Globals in 2024, and then FNCS Major 1 in 2025. 4 in a row. Which is a ridiculous accomplishment. Achieving this many wins back-to-back in the biggest events is pretty much unheard of. Both Pollo and his old duo Peterbot, look set to challenge the title of winning most FNCS very soon.
The most recent FNCS tournament was held for Chapter 6 Season 2, our first on a new map. There were some big FNCS winners at this event. The second event we’ve seen in the new Trios format. These are the winning teams for each region:
Out of these, the NAC Central Region probably saw the most drama. After last season saw former partners going head-to-head, the results went down to one game and a 14-point difference. This time, it was Peterbot v Clix, with a tiny margin deciding the winner once again. Across all the regions though there was great gameplay. Internationally, the skill level for Fortnite just goes higher and higher.
The first FNCS tournament was back in Season X! Or Chapter 1 Season 10, to use Fortnite’s more current branding for seasons. This event was a bit different, being the first time out. But its format would be polished over the years to become the FNCS we know. These were our winners for the inaugural event:
In recent Chapters, there has been an FNCS of some sorts in every season! Although, it isn’t always the open competition.
With the current format, FNCS Majors run for the first three seasons each year. However, the fourth one instead sees the finals happen. An international LAN. While it’s still under the FNCS name, it’s only open to those who won their slot at the last three tournaments. So, it’s a bit different than the normal FNCS.
The mini-seasons held for the last two years haven’t had an FNCS either. Both OG and Remix had no FNCS, since they were only a few weeks long. It’s debatable how much these count as full seasons.
Chapter 6 is also getting a mini season, this time dedicated to Star Wars. While we’re skipping the main FNCS tournaments, we are getting an FNCS Pro-Am. So it’s a form of FNCS still happening.
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Since its introduction in Chapter X, the FNCS has been the most stable Fortnite Esports events. We’ve seen them held most seasons for the last few years. Although, with quite a few changes here and there.
Season X through to the present have each had an FNCS event. Excluding the mini-seasons. So, in total that’s 23.
Chapter 6 has had 2 (with 2 more to come), Chapter 5 had 4, Chapter 4 had 4, Chapter 3 had 4, Chapter 2 had 8 (including the LAN), and Chapter 1 had 1. The big change in how many FNCS winners we saw was the switch to the yearly format with Majors. Although, Epic standardizing Chapter length has simplified things a bit too.
Across all those FNCS tournaments, we’ve clocked up quite a few winners. Although, more than one set of players have won multiple FNCS events. So, the list isn’t quite that long. To date, there have been 197 individual FNCS winners! Quite a bit down from the number of Majors when you take the regions into account. However, a lot of players have doubled up with more than one win.
These are all of the individuals if we remove those doubles:
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