What are the Fortnite Solo Victory Cups? It’s a tournament format which at one point was held weekly in multiple modes. The game isn’t using them right now. However, there are still some Cash Cups out there for Solos. Why has the Victory Cup format slowed down in Fortnite lately?
Fortnite esports is a wide world, but the biggest and most accessible events are those run by Epic. Each season we get the FNCS, the biggest events in the competitive scene. However, we also get smaller tournaments weekly too.
This has included the Fortnite Solo Victory Cup, a format that rewards one thing and one thing only. Victory Royales. It plays quite differently to your standard Cash Cup, but it isn’t currently being used.
As a Solo event, these are some of the easiest to get involved with out of Fortnite esports tournaments. You can drop in without too much preparation or having to put a team together. For a lot of players, these are also where they get their very first earnings. How did the Fortnite Solo Victory Cup tournaments work and why aren’t they being run at the moment?
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The current Fortnite esports system runs pretty much all type of tournaments. That includes Solo events. However, the Solo Victory Cups aren’t being held at the moment. The change has come since Epic decided to re-do quite a lot of their competitive system to address a major problem.
This old Fortnite Victory Cup tournament had its peak when tournaments were being offered for multiple modes. We got these events for Builds and Zero. With their Solo set-up and Victory Royale only prizing, they were incredibly accessible. Unfortunately, what made them so appealing is also the biggest problem. They weren’t just accessible to upcoming Fortnite players looking to get involved competitively. They were also accessible to cheaters.
As a Solo tournament, these events had few barriers stopping Fortnite cheaters from jumping in. There were no teammates who had to risk their accounts to play with you. Having a simple prize structure also meant a cheater could very quickly run a cash prize with an unfair advantage.
As part of their simplifying of tournaments, the Fortnite Solo Victory Cups haven’t been run lately. The format likely hasn’t been retired forever. However, at the moment we’re seeing more of the traditional Cash Cups instead. As the crackdown on cheaters is having an effect, we could see the format return in the future though. Likely with more protections to stop players abusing its ease of access.
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The Fortnite Solo Victory Cup have been regular tournaments in past seasons, held all throughout the year. They are a Solos event which means you won’t be in teams. Instead, players have to drop in without anyone to help them. That’s a rare feature in Fortnite esports. At the moment we do have Solo Cash Cups, but they’re missing that important format change that puts the Victory in Victory Cup.
As a Victory Cup, it’s a single day event. Played casually in each session, not over weeks like for the FNCS. There’s only one way to win cash with the Victory Cups too. Players have to get a Victory Royale. There’s a Cash Prize for each win achieved in the game’s tournament playlist. Although, to make it to the round with cash available, you need to get through an initial session first.
It was a two-part tournament. The first part ran like your standard Cash Cup. You play and earn points for a leaderboard. However, at the end of that session there was a cut-off. The top-ranking players gained access to a second session. Where they’d compete in lobbies of the other high-placing players. It was this second session where prizes got handed out! Both sessions are important to win though, you needed consistency.
How could you score points to rise up the leaderboard and make that second session where we see cash prizes being handed out? These are ways you could get points in the tournament.
These scores only really matter in the first round, where you’re trying to get access to round 2. Once in the second session, it’s only Victory Royales that matter. You can get kills and they’re probably going to be helpful for making the last circle, but you’ll only really need that last one to clinch a cash prize. This led to a pretty different gameplay style in the second session compared to the first.
Players are focused on survival, to get a better go at placing first they had to make the end-game consistently. Expecting heal offs, camping, and players valuing med kits and floppers over the best Fortnite weapons this season! With the right strategy, players could get their first Fortnite earnings off the back of a single win though! It was definitely easier than the current Solo Cash Cups. Although, that qualification round did make things trickier.
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The structure for the Fortnite Victory Cup tournaments was simple. There’s a Round 1 where players try to qualify. Those who make the top part of the leaderboard move on to the second round where there’s a cash prize. It was a different number depending on the region you were playing in;
These roughly correspond to how big a lobby is and how competitive the region is. It’s also part of the reason some players try to compete in events across different regions to maximize their chance of winning. The Fortnite player count isn’t evenly spread, so esports prizes and sizes vary too.
There are a few different chances to jump into the Fortnite tournaments, however they aren’t being ran in Chapter 6. At least so far.
The Solo Victory Cup was held on a regular schedule over Fortnite Remix, on Wednesdays and Fridays. Being so regular the competition wasn’t always that intense. Some weeks it was the best Fortnite players in these lobbies, others it was simpler.
These cups were a great chance to get your first set of earnings in-game. Especially in competitive Zero Build which has its own bizarre meta of just trying to out-survive and heal other players.
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