{"id":6570,"date":"2019-01-14T03:59:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T03:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2019-01-14T03:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T03:59:49","slug":"optic-gaming-pours-more-doubt-on-fortnite-future-lets-players-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/optic-gaming-pours-more-doubt-on-fortnite-future-lets-players-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Optic Gaming pours more doubt on Fortnite future, lets players go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death knell continues to ring for <a title=\"Success of Fortnite helps Epic Games investment deal\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/success-of-fortnite-helps-epic-games-finalise-1-25b-investment-deal\/\">Fortnite as a professional eSports game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Following months of public musings and various franchises dropping their dedicated Fortnite squads, one of the biggest eSports franchises in the USA, Optic Gaming, has joined the mass exodus.<\/p>\n<p>Optic Gaming officially released its two remaining Fortnite players last week, Kenneth \u201cBaldy\u201d Anderson and Stephen \u201cGunfly\u201d Brown.<\/p>\n<p>Optic Gaming, one of the biggest esports organizations in North America, has parted ways with its Fortnite: Battle Royale esports team by releasing its two remaining players,<\/p>\n<p>Both players went to Twitter to announce their free agency status.<\/p>\n<p>Optic Gaming has now officially withdrawn from competition in the two biggest PUBG tournaments, citing doubts over the game&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>Optic&#8217;s owner and CEO, Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2018 Rodriguez, <a title=\"H3CZ sees no future in esports\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/hector-h3cz-rodriguez-sees-no-esport-future-for-pubg\/\">has been very public about his lack of confidence in the title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kodiak, the eSports director at Infinite Esports, did not completely rule out any future in competing in Fortnite, but added, \u201cwe will continue to keep a watch on the scene and rising talent, but for the time being will not have players rostered on a competitive team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following months of public musings and various franchises dropping their dedicated Fortnite squads, one of the biggest eSports franchises in the USA, Optic Gaming, has joined the mass exodus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,87,151],"class_list":["post-6570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-fortnite","tag-optic-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}